by John Scalzi
published 2005
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From New York Times bestseller and Hugo Award-winner, John Scalzi, a gleeful mash-up of science fiction and Hollywood satire.
Tom Stein is a Hollywood agent. He represents one super-hot actress. The rest of his clients are a collection of has-beens, near-misses, never-weres, and not-there-yets, the sort of people that fill out the bottom half of every junior agent’s dance card. He sets it quite philosophically when he declares that someone has to play the second spear-carrier on the left, and someone has to represent them.
That all changes the day Tom’s boss asks him to a clandestine meeting.
The space-faring Yherajk have come to Earth to meet us and to begin humanity’s first interstellar friendship. There’s just one problem: They’re hideously ugly and they smell like rotting fish.
So getting humanity’s trust is a challenge. The Yherajk need someone who can help them close the deal.
Enter Thomas Stein, who knows something about closing deals. He’s one of Hollywood’s hottest young agents. But although Stein may have just concluded the biggest deal of his career, it’s quite another thing to negotiate for an entire alien race. To earn his percentage this time, he’s going to need all the smarts, skills, and wits he can muster.
I thought this book always wonderful. The characters were extremely interesting. Situation is how I would have and do imagine it would be if it was to happen with friendly aliens I.e
Those not wanting to make dinner of us.