year zero
this is a really fun little book. it mostly pokes fun at the ridiculousness of our copyright laws. and the system that produced them. and the sluttyness of alien females. the basic premise is the universe is full of aliens. and they all love our music. like they could literally drop dead from euphoria upon hearing a real life human performing a real life human song. and so all trillions of beings have every single song ever recorded or broadcast. it all fits on their alien ipods. so like, why not? turns out, they have to obey the local laws of the civilization that produced it. no matter how stupid. so they owe us a whole lot of money for illegally copying copyrighted material. like trillions of brazillions of times. so they owe us a *LOT* of money. all of it, in fact. some powerful aliens really kinda don't want to be bankrupt to a primitive backwater planet. so the only rational thing to do is to destroy it. or more specifically, to help us destroy ourselves. all in the guise of helping us. like what friendly alien neighbors would do. anywho. it's an entertaining read. highly recommendable.