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

Authors: Mandery, Evan
Publisher: HarperCollins e-books
BISAC/Subject: FIC000000, FIC028090, FIC028010, FIC055000
ISBN: 9780061966187, Related ISBNs: 0061966185, 9780061749773, 9780061966187
Classification: Non-Fiction
Number of pages: 272,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis:

“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.”

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