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John O. Banion is convinced that he was abducted from his exclusive golf club by aliens. When he is kidnapped a second time, he realizes he has been chosen to spearhead a vital crusade - to persuade the White House to take alien abduction seriously. But were his abductors really aliens?
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This is the best book of Christopher Buckley's career.
This is the fourth book by Christopher Buckley I've had the privilege of editing. I think it's his best -- his most hilarious and also his truest. How, you might wonder, could a book about a pundit being abducted by aliens be true? Well, I guess you'll have to add this novel to your virtual shopping cart to find out, but let me suggest that the aliens in this book could just as easily be holy men, mystics, gurus, or other repositories of faith. Ultimately, LITTLE GREEN MEN is about what happens when people are compelled to express unfashionable beliefs. While this book was still in galleys, a Silicon Valley multimillionaire whiz kid, 28-year-old Joe Firmage, quit his high-profile executive position at USWeb to pursue his true passion -- spreading word that extraterrestrials are among us. Like the protagonist in Buckley's novel, this polite and respectable fellow believes he has been contacted by aliens. For stating these beliefs, he received a great deal of bemused national attention. (Time magazine's headline of 2/1/99: "From IPOs to UFOs") The truth is out there. That's what we want to believe. Even the current President of the United States, upon assuming office in 1992, sought answers to the unknowable: He asked a trusted adviser to find out two things: 1) Who killed JFK and 2) Are there UFOs? LITTLE GREEN MEN is satire, brilliantly realized. But beneath Buckley's sparkling wit, a deeper theme resonates, one that has stayed with me and continues to beguile and stir me. I hope you are as entertained and provoked by this novel as I am.
John O. Banion is convinced that he was abducted from his exclusive golf club by aliens. When he is kidnapped a second time, he realizes he has been chosen to spearhead a vital crusade - to persuade the White House to take alien abduction seriously. But were his abductors really aliens?
From the Publisher
This is the best book of Christopher Buckley's career.
This is the fourth book by Christopher Buckley I've had the privilege of editing. I think it's his best -- his most hilarious and also his truest. How, you might wonder, could a book about a pundit being abducted by aliens be true? Well, I guess you'll have to add this novel to your virtual shopping cart to find out, but let me suggest that the aliens in this book could just as easily be holy men, mystics, gurus, or other repositories of faith. Ultimately, LITTLE GREEN MEN is about what happens when people are compelled to express unfashionable beliefs. While this book was still in galleys, a Silicon Valley multimillionaire whiz kid, 28-year-old Joe Firmage, quit his high-profile executive position at USWeb to pursue his true passion -- spreading word that extraterrestrials are among us. Like the protagonist in Buckley's novel, this polite and respectable fellow believes he has been contacted by aliens. For stating these beliefs, he received a great deal of bemused national attention. (Time magazine's headline of 2/1/99: "From IPOs to UFOs") The truth is out there. That's what we want to believe. Even the current President of the United States, upon assuming office in 1992, sought answers to the unknowable: He asked a trusted adviser to find out two things: 1) Who killed JFK and 2) Are there UFOs? LITTLE GREEN MEN is satire, brilliantly realized. But beneath Buckley's sparkling wit, a deeper theme resonates, one that has stayed with me and continues to beguile and stir me. I hope you are as entertained and provoked by this novel as I am.
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