First Contact - Or, It's Later Than You Think

Zusatztext “Mandery’s sharp sense of humor and habit of addressing the reader make for a stimulating and intelligent read that’s never short on laughs.” Informationen zum Autor Evan Mandery is a graduate of Harvard Law School, a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City, and the author of Dreaming of Gwen Stefani , First Contact , Q: A Novel , and two works of non-fiction. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung “What a hilarious ride—the übersurreal meets The Daily Show .” — Tim Dorsey, author of Nuclear Jellyfish In 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.”

Product details

• Authors: Evan Mandery, Evan J. Mandery
• Publisher: Harper Collins Usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 26.01.2010
• EAN: 9780061749773
• ISBN: 978-0-06-174977-3
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 134 mm x 203 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Romance, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Science fiction: Space opera, Sea stories, Satirical fiction and parodies, Science fiction: aliens / UFOs, Dystopian and utopian fiction, Science fiction: time travel, FICTION: Science Fiction / Space Opera, FICTION: Sea Stories, FICTION: Science Fiction / Action & Adventure, FICTION: Science Fiction / Alien Contact, FICTION: Satire, FICTION: Science Fiction / Time Travel, FICTION: Romance / Action & Adventure, FICTION: Fantasy / Action & Adventure, FICTION: Dystopian, FICTION: Science Fiction / Space Exploration