First Contact
Or, It's Later Than You Think
“What a hilarious ride—the übersurreal meets The Daily Show.” — Tim Dorsey, author of Nuclear JellyfishIn the bestselling and rightfully cult-inspiring tradition of Kurt Vonnegut and Douglas Adams comes First Contact —an hysterically funny satire about Presidential politics and intergalactic misunderstanding. This smart and biting novel by Evan Mandery—an author equally well-versed in the lives of the U.S. presidents, existential philosophy, and the Simpsons—offers much food for intellectual thought along with an all-you-can-eat buffet of laughs, as it chronicles the first close encounters between earthlings and a vastly superior extraterrestrial race from Rigel-Rigel. As the subtitle of First Contact so presciently informs us, “It’s Later than You Think.”
A satirical joyride in the tradition of Kurt Vonnegut and Douglas Adams, First Contact introduces us to the hyper-intelligent Rigelians, who admire Woody Allen movies and Bundt cake, and who urge the people of Earth to mend their ways to avoid destruction of their planet. But the president of the United States, a God-fearing, science-doubting fitness fanatic, is skeptical of the evidence presented to him and sets in motion a chain of events that will change the lives of his young attaché, an alien scam artist, several raccoons, and a scientist who has predicted the end of the universe. Parrot sketch excluded.
| Autor: | Mandery, Evan |
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| ISBN: | 9780061749773 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Produktart: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Verlag: | Harper Collins (US) |
| Veröffentlicht: | 26.01.2010 |
| Untertitel: | Or, It's Later Than You Think |
| Schlagworte: | FICTION: Dystopian FICTION: Fantasy / Action & Adventure FICTION: Romance / Action & Adventure FICTION: Satire FICTION: Science Fiction / Action & Adventure FICTION: Science Fiction / Alien Contact FICTION: Science Fiction / Space Exploration FICTION: Science Fiction / Space Opera FICTION: Science Fiction / Time Travel FICTION: Sea Stories |
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