Dimensions
139 x 208 x 21mm
An alien advance party was suddenly nosing around my planet. Worse, they were lawyering up. . . . andamp;#160; In the hilarious tradition of The Hitchhikerandamp;rsquo;s Guide to the Galaxy, Rob Reid takes you on a headlong journey through the outer reaches of the universeandamp;mdash;and the inner workings of our absurdly dysfunctional music industry. andamp;#160; Low-level entertainment lawyer Nick Carter thinks itandamp;rsquo;s a prank, not an alien encounter, when a redheaded mullah and a curvaceous nun show up at his office. But Frampton and Carly are highly advanced (if bumbling) extraterrestrials. And boy, do they have news. andamp;#160; The entire cosmos, they tell him, has been hopelessly hooked on humanityandamp;rsquo;s music ever since andamp;ldquo;Year Zeroandamp;rdquo; (1977 to us), when American pop songs first reached alien ears. This addiction has driven a vast intergalactic society to commit the biggest copyright violation since the Big Bang. The resulting fines and penalties have bankrupted the whole universe. We humans suddenly own everythingandamp;mdash;and the aliens are not amused. andamp;#160; Nick Carter has just been tapped to clean up this mess before things get ugly, and heandamp;rsquo;s an unlikely galaxy-hopping hero: Heandamp;rsquo;s scared of heights. Heandamp;rsquo;s also about to be fired. And he happens to have the same name as a Backstreet Boy. But he does know a thing or two about copyright law. And heandamp;rsquo;s packing a couple of other pencil-pushing superpowers that could come in handy. andamp;#160; Soon heandamp;rsquo;s on the run from a sinister parrot and a highly combustible vacuum cleaner. With Carly and Frampton as his guides, Nick now has forty-eight hours to save humanity, while hopefully wowing the hot girl who lives down the hall from him. andamp;ldquo;Hilarious, provocative, and supersmart,andamp;#160;Year Zeroandamp;#160;is aandamp;#160;brilliant novel to be enjoyed in perpetuity in the known universe and in all unknown universes yet to be discovered.andamp;rdquo;andamp;mdash;John Hodgman, resident expert, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
