First Contract

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Summary: I really WANTED to like this book
Review: Why did I really want to like it? I liked Greg Costikyan's earlier works ("Another Day, Another Dungeon"; "One Quest, Hold the Dragons"). They were wacky and funny and Terry Pratchett-esque in the best possible way.

"First Contract," on the other hand... isn't. It's not wacky, it's only occasionally funny, and the business stuff just doesn't work real well for me. Plot in a nutshell: Aliens come to Earth, wreck the economy, take Jupiter and make the world into a quaint little resort. Johnson Mukherjii's tech business is one of the casualties, so he has to... Well, I'll stop there. Suffice it to say that there's a lot of business stuff involved that the MBA-types might find somewhat more gripping than I did.

Props to Mr. Costikyan for finding a fresh angle to the old first contact story, as well as for writing about something that isn't often written about. But there's probably a reason that it isn't.