
By John Scalzi
A human diplomat kills his alien counterpart. Earth is at the verge of battle with a drastically more suitable alien race. A lone guy races opposed to time and a bunch of enemies to discover the only item which may shop our planet and our humans from alien enslavement...
A sheep.
That's correct, a sheep. And in case you imagine that's the main incredible factor approximately this ebook, wait till you learn bankruptcy One. Welcome to The Android's Dream.
For Harry Creek, it's speedy changing into a nightmare. All he desires is to do his easy mid-level diplomatic task with Earth's nation division. yet his prior education and abilities get him tapped to save lots of the planet—and to guard puppy shop proprietor Robin Baker, whose personal previous holds the most important to the whereabouts of that misplaced sheep. Doing either will take him from lava-strewn battlefields to alien halls of energy. All in a day's paintings. possibly it's time for a raise.
Throw in two-timing freelance mercenaries, political lobbyists with megalomaniac traits, extraterrestrial beings on a non secular quest, and a man-made intelligence with strange backstory, and you've received greater than simply your traditional technology fiction event tale. You've acquired The Android's Dream.