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Extractions: Earth is contacted by vastly superior aliens, who by dint of better technology render almost all human business enterprise obsolete. This book follows the story of Johnson Mukerjii, a bright but ethically challenged high-tech tycoon who decides, in his own way, to start over: by catering to the intergalactic need for nice trinkets to buy in airports. He's written a couple of fantasy novels, but is probably better known as a game designer; he has also published many articles about the game industry. His home page is here (This link will open a new browser window.) There aren't a lot of science fiction books that have capitalism as a theme. Certainly plenty of SF has incredibly wealthy, usually sinister, multinationals or multiplanetaries (e. g., Joshua Mertz ), but how many of them have an IPO as an essential plot device? The acknowledged classic of business-SF is Pohl and Kornbluth's The Space Merchants , which this book in no way resembles.
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Extractions: Agony Column Home Agony Column Review Archive REFERENCES COLUMNS Science Fiction Summer 2000. The girls were good looking and the stock market was high. High tech was still high profit. We were all going to retire early, live the good life. And then the aliens came, and ruined it all. As 'First Contract' begins, life is sweet for Johnson Mukerjii. He's a go-getter jet setter of the Internet startup generation, and he just about has a hot piece of technology that could make him a bundle. He has all the good things that go with the job a wonderful house, a hot wife and a couple of fast cars. But when those pesky aliens arrive, they bring more than gifts and greetings. They bring ultra-cheap technology. Suddenly, we're the Aztecs and the aliens are the Spaniards. We don't have a hope of competing with them. Mukerjii finds his life going down the toilet at an alarming rate. Costikyan's scenario isn't all doom and gloom, however. Capitalism is a two-edged sword that can be turned against the aliens just as well as it can be used by them. Mukerjii hasn't forgotten how to cut fiscal throats even though he himself has been under the knife. There's more than a bit of a Douglas Adams vibe at work in this novel, and the satire is relieved by some sunnier thoughts. My only regret is that the novel, even in the title, suggests that there would be a follow up. It hasn't come out as yet, which probably means that Costikyan is doing fine in the game business. But if he ever needs a fallback plan, that novelist gig worked out well in 'First Contract'.
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