First Contact

In the bestselling and rightfully cult-inspiring tradition of Kurt Vonnegut and Douglas Adams comes *First Contact—* an hysterically funny satire about Presidential politics and intergalactic misunderstanding. This smart and biting novel by Evan Mandery—an author equally well-versed in the lives of the U.S. presidents, existential philosophy, and the Simpsons—offers much food for intellectual thought along with an all-you-can-eat buffet of laughs, as it chronicles the first close encounters between earthlings and a *vastly* superior extraterrestrial race from Rigel-Rigel. As the subtitle of *First Contact* so presciently informs us, “It’s Later than You Think.”