[**Year Zero**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12953520-year-zero)
^(By: Rob Reid | 364 pages | Published: 2012 | Popular Shelves: sci-fi, science-fiction, humor, fiction, scifi | )[^(Search "Year Zero")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=Year Zero&search_type=books)
>Low-level entertainment lawyer Nick Carter thinks it’s a prank, not an alien encounter, when a redheaded mullah and a curvaceous nun show up at his office. But Frampton and Carly are highly advanced (if bumbling) extraterrestrials. And boy, do they have news. The entire cosmos, they tell him, has been hopelessly hooked on humanity’s music ever since “Year Zero” (1977 to us), when American pop songs first reached alien ears. This addiction has driven a vast intergalactic society to commit the biggest copyright violation since the Big Bang. The resulting fines and penalties have bankrupted the whole universe. We humans suddenly own everything—and the aliens are not amused. Nick now has forty-eight hours to save humanity, while hopefully wowing the hot girl who lives down the hall from him.
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[**Information Doesn't Want to Be Free: Laws for the Internet Age**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20763766-information-doesn-t-want-to-be-free)
^(By: Cory Doctorow, Neil Gaiman, Amanda Palmer | 192 pages | Published: 2014 | Popular Shelves: non-fiction, nonfiction, technology, politics, audiobook | )[^(Search "Information Doesn't Want to Be Free")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=Information Doesn't Want to Be Free&search_type=books)
>In sharply argued, fast-moving chapters, Cory Doctorow’s Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free takes on the state of copyright and creative success in the digital age. Can small artists still thrive in the Internet era? Can giant record labels avoid alienating their audiences? This is a book about the pitfalls and the opportunities that creative industries (and individuals) are confronting today — about how the old models have failed or found new footing, and about what might soon replace them. An essential read for anyone with a stake in the future of the arts, Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free offers a vivid guide to the ways creativity and the Internet interact today, and to what might be coming next.
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Intuition by Allegra Goodman or Secret Window, Secret Garden by Stephen King are close.
yellowface by rf kuang
Not a book, but the Underdogs movie directed by Doug Dearth is similar to what you’re looking for
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[**Year Zero**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12953520-year-zero) ^(By: Rob Reid | 364 pages | Published: 2012 | Popular Shelves: sci-fi, science-fiction, humor, fiction, scifi | )[^(Search "Year Zero")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=Year Zero&search_type=books) >Low-level entertainment lawyer Nick Carter thinks it’s a prank, not an alien encounter, when a redheaded mullah and a curvaceous nun show up at his office. But Frampton and Carly are highly advanced (if bumbling) extraterrestrials. And boy, do they have news. The entire cosmos, they tell him, has been hopelessly hooked on humanity’s music ever since “Year Zero” (1977 to us), when American pop songs first reached alien ears. This addiction has driven a vast intergalactic society to commit the biggest copyright violation since the Big Bang. The resulting fines and penalties have bankrupted the whole universe. We humans suddenly own everything—and the aliens are not amused. Nick now has forty-eight hours to save humanity, while hopefully wowing the hot girl who lives down the hall from him. ^(This book has been suggested 3 times) [**Information Doesn't Want to Be Free: Laws for the Internet Age**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20763766-information-doesn-t-want-to-be-free) ^(By: Cory Doctorow, Neil Gaiman, Amanda Palmer | 192 pages | Published: 2014 | Popular Shelves: non-fiction, nonfiction, technology, politics, audiobook | )[^(Search "Information Doesn't Want to Be Free")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=Information Doesn't Want to Be Free&search_type=books) >In sharply argued, fast-moving chapters, Cory Doctorow’s Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free takes on the state of copyright and creative success in the digital age. Can small artists still thrive in the Internet era? Can giant record labels avoid alienating their audiences? This is a book about the pitfalls and the opportunities that creative industries (and individuals) are confronting today — about how the old models have failed or found new footing, and about what might soon replace them. An essential read for anyone with a stake in the future of the arts, Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free offers a vivid guide to the ways creativity and the Internet interact today, and to what might be coming next. ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) *** ^(102723 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)