![]() ![]() Turns out, human/Martin was an arrogant jerk, while alien/Martin falls hard for our little blue planet, for our contradictions and our mortality, our joys and our follies, for the Beach Boys and Emily Dickinson. ![]() Haig goes all-in on the alien-goes-native humor, and then he goes further. He falls away from the rational principles of his distant world, develops a taste for crunchy whole-nut peanut butter and Australian wine, admiration for "his" dog, Newton, love for "his" wife, Isobel, and Gulliver, "his" angst-y teen son. And in spite of extraordinary Vonnadorian technology, he is, to quote Foghorn Leghorn, about as sharp as a bag of wet mice, and a softie to boot. Our alien assassin is narrator and protagonist. Alien/Martin assumes the shape and identity of human/Martin to insinuate himself into the world. They are so concerned, in fact, they kidnap Professor Martin, of Cambridge University, and send a Vonnadorian to destroy the proof and kill everyone Martin informed. The Vonnadorians, in their wisdom, believe we humans are unprepared for this breakthrough. This is big news in a galaxy far, far away. A mathematical problem of fiendish difficulty, it explains the distribution of prime numbers. Professor Andrew Martin has solved the Riemann hypothesis. ![]() A fish-out-of water mashup where the water is Earth, and the fish is an extraterrestrial. ![]()
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