Agent to the Stars 
by John Scalzi (2009)
read: 2 December 2008
rating: [+]
category: scifi & fantasy
So you are an intelligent, peaceful race of aliens that wants to make contact with the humans on earth. Unfortunately, you smell bad, and in your natural state you are essentially an intelligent blob of jello. What do you do? You hire an agent, of course! The Yherajk, highly intelligent, and mostly hip to earth culture after monitoring our TV signals for years, hire a hot shot Hollywood agent to do for them what he has done for the careers of marginally talented actors and actresses. Because this is a Scalzi novel, pop culture references abound, and the LOL moments are plentiful. Interestingly, this is actually Scalzi’s first book, which he released as shareware back in the olden days of the Internets. The original version is still online if you want to read it for free. The republished version was edited to bring the pop culture references up to date, and I imagine just generally improved all around since Scalzi now has multiple novels under his belt and is (one would assume) a better writer than he was when 1997. Like all Scalzi novels, Agent to the Stars is highly recommended.
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