An alien advance party was suddenly nosing around my planet. Worse, they
were lawyering up…. In the hilarious tradition of The Hitchhiker’s Guide
to the Galaxy, Rob Reid takes you on a headlong journey through the
outer reaches of the universe – and the inner workings of our absurdly
dysfunctional music industry. Low-level entertainment lawyer Nick Carter
thinks it’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. The entire cosmos, they tell him, has been hopelessly hooked on
humanity’s music ever since “Year Zero” (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 everything – and the aliens are
not amused.
Unabridged.
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