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An alien advance party was abruptly nosing around my world. Worse, these were lawyering up.... In the amusing traditions of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Rob Reid takes you on the headlong trip through the outer gets to of the universe - and the interior workings of our absurdly dysfunctional music industry. Low-level entertainment attorney Nick Carter thinks from the prank, no alien encounter, whenever a redheaded mullah and a curvaceous nun show up at his office. But Frampton and Carly are highly advanced (if bumbling) extraterrestrials. And youngster, do they have news. The complete cosmos, they simply tell him, has been hopelessly hooked on humanity's music ever since "Year No" (1977 to us), when American pop songs first reached alien ears. This habit has driven a vast intergalactic society to commit the biggest copyright violation because the Big Bang. The producing fines and penalties have bankrupted the whole universe. We humans abruptly own everything - and the aliens aren't amused. Nick Carter has just been tapped to clean up this mess before things get unpleasant, and he's an unlikely galaxy-hopping hero: He's scared of levels. He's also going to be fired. And he happens to have the same name as a Backstreet Son. But he does know a thing or two about copyright regulation. And he's packing several other pencil-pushing superpowers that could come in helpful. Soon he's away from home from a sinister parrot and an extremely combustible vacuum. With Carly and Frampton as his courses, Nick now has 48 time to save mankind, while hopefully wowing the hot lady who lives down the hall from him.
