Agent to the Stars

Listened to this rather than read it, and Will Wheaton did a fine job. Plot, characterization... fun. And funny. Listened on a car ride, and and it turns out to be harder than you might think not laugh really loudly of a sudden. Thank goodness for sane drivers and insane authors.

Great fun. This is Scalzi's first novel, and wasn't actually published until after other books. That would usually be a very bad sign, but in this case, the book is still very much worth reading. A highly unattractive (by our standards) alien race studies our radio and TV broadcasts, and concludes that showing up at the UN is a bad idea. Instead, they hire a Hollywood agent handle their introduction to humans.