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 (1956), and Hodgson's "The House on the Borderland" (1908) and "The Night Land" (1912), all speculate on the evolution of humankind in the deep future. Bear said that these works, and their author's imagination, were a big influence on "City at the End of Time". Science fiction critic John Clute said ""City at the End of Time" is an example of a novel in dialogue with past works of SF." He said that Bear pays homage to William Hope Hodgson's 1912 novel, "The Night Land", with which "City at the End of Time" shares a number of plot elements. Both