Agent to the Stars
- 346
- Pages
- about 6 h
- Reading time
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Our view
A good comic premise powers “Agent to the Stars”: a young Hollywood agent must work out how to introduce an alien race to humanity. The comedy is at its best early on, while he flounders; later the tone turns darker. Some readers find the characters stock and the science fiction thin, light entertainment and little else. Others consider it an easy place to begin with Scalzi.
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About the book
Agent to the Stars is a science fiction novel by American writer John Scalzi. It tells the story of Tom Stein, a young Hollywood agent who is hired by an alien race to handle the revelation of their presence to humanity.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.8 across 277 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 65% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Science fiction average of 7.8. That is how 7.8 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.9 | 18 | 7% |
| Google Books | 8.0 | 9 | 3% |
| Hardcover | 7.8 | 250 | 90% |
Frequently asked
How long is Agent to the Stars?
It has 346 pages — shorter than 72% of the ranked books in Science fiction.
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