Agent to the Stars: Library Edition

from fyrefly98

Summary: Tom Stein, a young Hollywood agent, thinks he's just closed the biggest deal of his career for one of his starlet clients. And then he meets his new client... a member of the alien race called the Yherajk who goes by the name of Joshua. The Yherajk have been monitoring Earth for a while,...

from stefferoo

3.5 stars. Another fun read from John Scalzi, and even more impressive since this was his "practice novel" which he wrote in 1997 just to see if he could write a novel. Indeed he could. It's classic Scalzi, light and funny with just a dash of crazy. Agent to the Stars is about Tom Stein, a young ...

from bigorangemichael

In the preface, Scalzi talks about his being his "tester" novel--the one he wrote to see if he could do it. It's the story of an alien race that decides to come to Earth after intercepting our broadcast signals. They've decided not to invade but instead hire a Hollywood talent agent to help them ...

from JGolomb

It's hard to imagine that this book started as an experiment by John Scalzi to see if he could write a novel. He ended up creating a wonderful story of alien first contact built upon the base of all of Scalzi's novels - creative plot and story-telling mixed with amazing dialogue. "Agent to the St...

from jmchshannon

In Agent to the Stars, John Scalzi and Wil Wheaton team up again. In this madcap adventure, Mr. Scalzi explores how humans might react if aliens were not humanoid but rather odorous, unpleasant blobs. What follows is zany, difficult to describe with a straight face, yet quite pointed in its depic...