If you’re a comedian and the world’s fate is in your hands, it’s no laughing matter. Die Laughing, a humorously dark science-fiction novel, is set in the 1950s of flying saucers, communist paranoia, and live television.
Beamed aboard an alien spaceship, Las Vegas funny man Sam E. Lakeside is forced to participate in a plan to rob the earth of its oil. When the shape-shifting aliens and their leader – a power-hungry mobster – murder Sam’s best friend and manager, Sam vows revenge.
He recruits a blacklisted comic book writer and the mobster’s girlfriend, and drags them cross-country to thwart the aliens. Their journey takes them to New York City and The Steve Allen Show, where the key to the alien’s conquest lies. Sam, embroiled in an escalating tangle of violence, love, and lies, is forced to choose between what he wants most in the world – to be a star – or the planet’s survival.
- Die Laughing
- Author: Louis K Lowy
- ISBN: 978-1925148466
- RRP: $15.99 US
- Publisher: IFWG Publishing International
- Science Fiction (1950s USA)
- Adult
- 244 pages – paperback English
- Binding: Perfect bound
- Dimensions: 6″ x 9″
- eBook Formats: Amazon, NookBook, Kobo, iBook, EPUB via distributor
- Key Words: Science Fiction, Mob, Alien Invasion, 1950s US, Organised Crime, Nostalgia, Humor
- Publication Date: 2011
- Distribution: World-wide through IPG (IPG specific in North America, New South Books (partner) in Australia/New Zealand, and UID(Marsden/Eurospan) in UK/Europe)
IFWG Publishing 
