Associate Professor of English John Yu Branscum’s and former instructor Yi Izzy Yu’s new book releases October: 15 Stars That Pause: 2,000 Years of Asian UFO Encounters & Lore.

Lee Murray, five-time Bram Stoker Award winner and recipient of New Zealand’s Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement in Fiction, hails it as “luminous, fascinating, enigmatic, and utterly absorbing.” Speculative fiction writer Vanessa Fogg, author of The House of Illusionists, calls it, "An extraordinary, genre-slipping, genre-defying work that is tantalizingly strange, erudite, eclectic, whimsical, and enthralling." And Bil Brown, editor of Black and Grey magazine, describes it as “a masterwork of comparative mythology and post-disclosure humanities that, like the best art, makes you see differently.”