Space Opera

This was sold to me as “Eurovision in space”, but really it's more like “Eurovision in space by way of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy with Hedwig and the Angry Inch for a soundtrack”, which is infinitely better. Valente takes a fairly standard sci-fi premise (aliens considering the destruction of Earth), fills it with an intergalactic singing competition, characters that are endearingly over-the-top, and aliens that are completely bizarre and beyond the imagination of most.

I thoroughly enjoyed this!

“Life is beautiful and life is stupid. This is, in fact, widely regarded as a universal rule not less inviolable than the Second Law of Thermodynamics, the Uncertainty Principle, and No Post on Sundays”