Check out an single first look at the al-Qur’an laggard forRob Reid ’s Year Zero , a “ Swiftian Satire ” about aliens who screw our music a piffling too much . This is the clownish book trailer we ’ve seen in quite some time , and it showcases what an unusual , offbeat premise this book really has .
Here ’s the book ’s synopsis , fromAmazon :
An alien advance party was on the spur of the moment nosing around my planet .
Worse , they were lawyering up . . . .
In the hilarious custom of The Hitchhiker ’s Guide to the Galaxy , Rob Reid takes you on a headlong journey through the out reaches of the universe of discourse - and the intimate workings of our absurdly nonadaptive music diligence .
Low - tier amusement lawyer Nick Carter recollect it ’s a frivolity , not an alien encounter , when a redheaded Mulla and a bosomy nun show up at his part . But Frampton and Carly are extremely ripe ( if bumbling ) extraterrestrials . And male child , do they have tidings .
The full cosmos , they tell him , has been dispiritedly hooked on humanness ’s music ever since “ Year Zero ” ( 1977 to us ) , when American pop songs first reached alien capitulum . This dependency has force back a vast intergalactic society to send the biggest right of first publication rape since the Big Bang . The resulting mulct and penalties have bankrupted the whole universe . We humans suddenly own everything - and the extraterrestrial being are not amused .
Nick Carter has just been beg to clean house up this mess before things get ugly , and he ’s an unlikely galaxy - hopping hero : He ’s frightened of heights . He ’s also about to be fired . And he pass to have the same name as a Backstreet Boy . But he does know a affair or two about copyright law . And he ’s packing a match of other pencil - tug power that could come in handy .
before long he ’s on the run from a sinister parrot and a highly combustible vacuum cleaner . With Carly and Frampton as his templet , Nick now has forty - eight hours to save humanity , while hopefully wowing the hot girl who lives down the hall from him .
And you’re able to readReid being interviewed by John Hodgman here .
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