He’ll need every ounce of his charm, wit and wiles. Yet it’s one thing to land a client’s blockbuster film role – and quite another to negotiate for an entire alien race. One problem: they’re also hideous, and smell like rotting fish.įor Stein, it’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to become the hottest name in Hollywood. The space-faring Yherajk have come to Earth to talk interstellar peace. Theres just one problem: Theyre hideously.

Like his other works Agent to the Stars has a sci-fi bent, but is a very different beast to the books that would follow it. The space-faring Yherajk have come to Earth to meet us and to begin humanitys first interstellar friendship.

But he’s about to receive some out-of-this-world clients – literally. Agent to the Stars was the unpublished debut novel of John Scalzi, author of the great Old Man's War, Ghost Brigades and Androids Dream. From New York Times bestseller and Hugo Award-winner John Scalzi, Agent to the Stars is a brilliantly witty first-contact story unlike any other.Īs an ambitious young agent, Thomas Stein knows all about the art of the deal, even if his actors aren’t quite A-list material.

Agent to the Stars by John Scalzi