Agent to the Stars
Tor/Forge · Print & ebook · May 28, 2019
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- Who it’s for
- Alien diplomacy meets Hollywood dealmaking in a playful collision of interstellar stakes and show-business savvy.
- Themes
- Humanity’s first interstellar friendship, Earning trust across species, Negotiating for an alien race
- Genres
- Funny Sci-Fi, Alien Contact, Space Opera
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From New York Times bestseller and Hugo Award-winner, John Scalzi, a trade paperback repackage of his gleeful mash-up of science fiction and Hollywood satire—now with a new cover! 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 smell like rotting fish. So getting humanity's trust is a challenge. The Yherajk need someone who can help them close the deal.
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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. Other Tor Books The Android’s Dream Agent to the Stars Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded Fuzzy Nation Redshirts 1. Lock In 2. Head On The Interdepency Sequence 1. The Collapsing Empire 2. The Consuming Fire Old Man's War Series 1. Old Man’s War 2. The Ghost Brigades 3. The Last Colony 4. Zoe’s Tale 5. The Human Division 6. The End of All Things
First Contact, Negotiated
Alien diplomacy meets Hollywood dealmaking in a playful collision of interstellar stakes and show-business savvy.
Come here for
- First-contact science fiction with a comic, Hollywood-satire edge
- A dealmaker tasked with winning trust for an alien race
Expect
- An ugly, fish-smelling alien delegation with a friendship to pitch
- Negotiation skills stretched well beyond the usual contract
Where it sits
| Funny Sci-Fi | 92% |
|---|---|
| Alien Contact | 89% |
| Space Opera | 55% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Space Opera
- Alien Contact
- Funny Sci-Fi
- Authors
- John Scalzi
- Publisher
- Tor/Forge
- Published
- May 28, 2019
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Humanity’s first interstellar friendship · Earning trust across species · Negotiating for an alien race
- Reading lane
- Space Opera