It's a whole new look at alien encounters - and a view of Tinseltown you've never seen before. Audible lists the production copyright as ' (p) 2010 ', so that's coherent. Inciting Event: Rising young Hollywood agent Tom Stein is given the assignment of representing the Yherajk, a friendly, stinky. This seems to reference Heath Ledger's death in 2008. Stein's going to need all his smarts, all his skills, and all his wits to earn his percentage - and his place in history.Īgent to the Stars is a gleeful mash-up of science fiction and Hollywood satire from acclaimed novelist John Scalzi (Old Man's War), a film critic since 1991 and author of The Rough Guide to Science Fiction Film. Viewed 395 times 7 Chapter 15 of the audiobook of John Scalzi's Agent to the Stars references ' the most talked about young filmstar death since Heath Ledger sleeped himself out of this world '. It's another thing entirely when your client is an entire alien species, depending on you to pull off the greatest introduction in this history of man. But it's one thing to sell your client when she's a hot young starlet.

Thomas Stein knows all about closing deals - he's one of Hollywood's hottest young agents who’s just closed the biggest deal of his career. The Yherajk need someone who can help them close the deal. Gaining humanity's trust isn't easy when you look like a B-movie terror. There's just one problem: They're hideously ugly and they smell like rotting fish. The space-faring Yherajk people have come to Earth to meet us and to begin humanity's first interstellar friendship. Subterranean, 30 (280pp) ISBN 978-1-59606-020-3 More By and About this Authorchevronright Featured Fiction Reviews.

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