Synopses & Reviews
The market is up. The product is selling. The company (and the CEO) are about to make even more money. Unttil the aliens land.
Review
"One of the year's ten best"--
The San Francisco Chronicle"Targets the global economy and the world's infatuation with high-tech gadgets in a free-wheeling science fiction comedy."--Library Journal
"Since the pioneering efforts of H.G. Wells and Jules Verne, science fiction has provided a universe of ideas about what out neighbors in space might be like...First Contract offers a new hypothesis--its aliens are strikingly similar to, well, used care salesmen....Lampoons everything from man's search for life in the distant corners of the universe to venture capitalist and the volatile nature of the stock-market."--Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Synopsis
When aliens land on earth, the perfect life of CEO Johnson Murkerjii falls apart as his company folds and his wife is now his ex who took every penny of their assets with her. Johnson's only hope to reclaim his life is to rebuild his connections with a strange science fiction writer the aliens seem to like--and to find a product the aliens will buy.
About the Author
Greg Costikyan is a professional game designer who has won the Origins Awards, the most prestigious English-language award for non-digital games, five times. His novels for Tor include the comic
First Contract, two books in a light series of fantasy adventure, and
By The Sword, a heroic fantasy.
He was born and brought up in in New York City, and his passionate love for New York is reflected in both his fiction and his nonfiction.