Macaulay Culkin Awards and Young Artist Awards. At the height of his fame, he was regarded as the most successful child actor since Shirley Temple. Culkin ranked at number two on VH1's list of the "100 Greatest Kid-Stars" and E!'s list of the "50 Greatest Child Stars". He stopped acting in 1994, making his return in 2003 with a role on the television show "Will and Grace" and in the film "Party Monster" (2003). He wrote an autobiographical book, "Junior", which was published in 2006. In 2013, Culkin co-founded the New York-based, pizza-themed comedy rock band the Pizza Underground, of which he
City at the End of Time while others felt that the characters were underdeveloped and the story was difficult to follow. "New Scientist" described the first half of the book as "a gripping, original tale", but complained that in the second half Bear over-complicates the story with "too many ideas, images, mythologies and distractions". "City at the End of Time" was nominated for the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award in 2009. "City at the End of Time" is about the Kalpa, the last city on Earth, one hundred trillion years in the future. The novel's backstory describes