Imagine... You're a regular guy with restless feet. You make your way from job to job, never settling anywhere. When you learn that your grandfather has died, you make your way to his funeral. And then things get weird. A random accident between your car and a stray deer leads to an invitation to join an ecosystem preservation squad of beings from the UAIB (United Alliance of Intelligent Beings). What follows is craziness of the best sort. Robots. Alien lifeforms. Unethical business rivals. Transportation systems that zap you from one part of the galaxy to another. Really cool holographic systems. Nanobots.
Along the way to a surprising conclusion, the protagonist Russ makes friends with another resident of his grandparents' town. Nina has taken a gap year from studying electrical engineering to help her mother while her father is ill. Her family needs money for his medical treatments. Russ needs money to save his grandmother's store from foreclosure. Maybe a job with the Exterminators isn't such a bad idea for either of them?
This story has a lot of appeal. There are advanced civilizations out in the galaxy and the chance for some humans to leave Earth and see the amazing technology. There is the family-loyalty subplot with both Russ and Nina stubbornly trying to save their loved ones. At least one character has issues with self-determination. And I appreciated how many of the characters struggled with doing the right thing and figuring out what the right thing was.
If you enjoy Sci-Fi with aliens, distant planets, robots, cool technology, and humans in the midst of it all, then pick up Intergalactic Exterminators, Inc. when it comes out. (And if we're lucky, maybe there will be another adventure to follow this one.)
I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.
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