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“‘Fourteen million and fifteen percent of the gross?’”

Agent to the Stars by John Scalzi

January 2, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This is a kind of good, kind of bad, and very ridiculous take on first encounters with an alien species. It’s also very clearly a younger John Scalzi getting ahead of himself in terms of talent, and trying something that can only really work as a farce, and offers some deeply disturbing questions that aren’t really answered in the book and a lot of casual misogyny that I bet he felt perfectly fine with at the time. Anyway, our narrator is a 30ish agent for […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: Agent to the Stars, john scalzi

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:3 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: Agent to the Stars, john scalzi ·
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“Uh….weren’t we having a mutiny?”, and other tales…

May 21, 2017 by ingres77 2 Comments

Well, one other tale, really. After reading Fuzzy Nation on narfna’s suggestion, I quickly delved into the other Scalzi books that I had access to. The first, The Collapsing Empire, was just recently released and is the first in a trilogy (and his first book under a 10 year, 13 book contract that includes a sequel to Lock In and a new book in the Old Man’s War series). The second, Agent to the Stars, is his first novel, self published on his website in […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: Agent to the Stars, Christopher Moore, David Wong, john scalzi, the collapsing empire

ingres77's CBR9 Review No:41 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: Agent to the Stars, Christopher Moore, David Wong, john scalzi, the collapsing empire ·
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