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“With a plot that starts out as the rough life of a young agent in Hollywood and rapidly metamorphoses into B-movie territory as a remarkably intelligent first-contact yarn, this book is absurd, funny, and satirically perceptive.”
--Booklist on Agent to the Stars
“If Stephen King were to try his hand at science fiction, he’d be lucky to be half as entertaining as John Scalzi.”
--Dallas Morning News on The Ghost Brigades
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The space-faring Yherajk have come to Earth to meet us and to begin humanity’s first interstellar friendship. There’s just one problem: They’re hideously ugly and they smell like rotting fish.
So getting humanity’s trust is a challenge. The Yherajk need someone who can help them close the deal.
Enter Thomas Stein, who knows something about closing deals. He’s one of Hollywood’s hottest young agents. But although Stein may have just concluded the biggest deal of his career, it’s quite another thing to negotiate for an entire alien race. To earn his percentage this time, he’s going to need all the smarts, skills, and wits he can muster.
So getting humanity’s trust is a challenge. The Yherajk need someone who can help them close the deal.
Enter Thomas Stein, who knows something about closing deals. He’s one of Hollywood’s hottest young agents. But although Stein may have just concluded the biggest deal of his career, it’s quite another thing to negotiate for an entire alien race. To earn his percentage this time, he’s going to need all the smarts, skills, and wits he can muster.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Aliens should all have good senses of humor,
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This review is from: Agent to the Stars (Paperback)
This is an enjoyable novel of alien encounter of the fun kind when aliens decide to get a hollywood agent to help introduce them to humanity. I really enjoy Joe Scalzi's writing style which uses first person to bring the reader into the protaganist's head. It is quirky and still brings a serious message of tolerance and understanding for all people, regardless of race, religion or smell. It is light without being vapid. I strongly recommend it.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Pleasant surprise,
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This review is from: Agent to the Stars (Paperback)
Given this gift as a gift, I expected little more than cheap thrills and plot devices.It was a pleasant surprise to become genuinely invested in the characters. A rather decent book.
5.0 out of 5 stars
If you like your aliens witty, intelligent and friendly you'll like this book,
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This review is from: Agent to the Stars (Paperback)
In the Author's Note at the beginning of the book, John Scalzi calls Agent to the Stars, his practice novel. The novel he wrote just to see if he could write. He can.The premise of the book is that an alien race wants to make first contact with earth. They've been hovering over the planet for years observing life on the planet through the TV shows beamed into outer space. The Yherajk (for that is their name) have an image problem. They are smart and funny but ugly. Fearing that their outer appearance will make them unwelcome they have decided that the best way to introduce themselves to the human race is to hire a Hollywood agent. This book is funny. The premise is fun, the banter is witty and the story is both heart-warming and silly. The only thing I didn't really care for was the way the ending was presented. The actual conclusion is brilliant but it's almost as if the writer decided it was time to shorten the story and he uses newspaper headliners to make the leap over the concluding months. I could have easily read the extra 100-150 pages it would have taken to flesh out the rest of the conclusion. And I sincerely hope there is a sequel in the works. If you are a science-fiction fan and you like your aliens witty, intelligent and friendly then you will like this book.
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