Good News From Outer Space
John Kessel
Tor Books
<p>As the calendar counts down the months to the year 2000, millennial fever takes hold in the United States. George Eberhart, reporter for the biggest tabloid in the world, is on the track of what might be the story of the century--he has evidence that there really are aliens on planet Earth.</p>From Publishers Weekly<p>Kessel's ( Freedom Beach ) latest novel, a black comedy of pre-millenial hysteria set a decade in the future, is an outstandingly original work. George Eberhart, recently resuscitated from a "successful" suicide attempt by the newly perfected Han process--a scientific advance widely regarded as blasphemous--finds himself even more alienated from his trashy journalism job and his wife than he was before his "death." George becomes fascinated by a pattern of events that suggests a protean alien is traveling around the country playing sadistic games with unsuspecting earthlings, and he sets off to find the creature. While the novel is instantly enthralling and remains so for the first half, the focus then softens and the pace slackens. Writing in a intelligent, witty voice, Kessel creates full-fleshed adult characters in a somewhat uneven but still impressive achievement. <br>Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. </p>From Library Journal<p>While televangelist Jimmy-Don Gilray mobilizes the state of North Carolina to await an alien-assisted Millennium, tabloid reporter George Eberhart uncovers an awful truth--the aliens are ahead of schedule. This clever story of cosmic (and comic) catastrophe by the co-author of Freedom Beach (with James P. Kelly, LJ 12/1/85) is recommended for both sf and general fiction collections.<br>Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. </p>