Y = Year Zero by Rob Reid
“And even if I turned out to be entirely sane—well then, great, it meant that an alien advance party was suddenly nosing around my planet. Worse, they were lawyering up.” ― Rob Reid, Year Zero
Nick Carter--not that Nick Carter--has 48 hours to save the world. Aliens owe Earth all the money in the universe because they've been stealing our music. And rather than go universally broke on music pirating fines, they want to help us self-destruct.
This book was funny, but you probably won't find the meaning to life inside of it, if that's what you're looking for. It does make a few cold jabs at the digital generation; media piracy is at an all-time high because everybody's doing it, simply because everybody else is doing it.
And if you like lots of science in your science fiction, this probably isn't the book for you either. There's plenty of gadgets, intergalactic travel, aliens, and fantastic alien planets, but very little logic as to how any of this is possible. This is the kind of science fiction you weren't meant to overthink. The emphasis is on the humor and the adventure... both of which were enjoyable, but the adventure was more impressive than the humor. Some of the jokes were hysterical, while others took too long to get to the punchline.
Overall, I thought it was a fun read but definitely lacks groundbreaking material.
That DOES look like a fun read!
ReplyDeletei don't read much humor, but it was fun to read.
DeleteSounds like a tongue in cheek book for a fun read.
ReplyDeletehe definitely sets the tone when he introduced his main character
DeleteSounds like my kind of sci-fi :-)
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if you ever have time to read it, i hope you like it
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