Short Reviews: Jonathan Lethem

"Ninety Percent of Everything" [permanent link]. An interesting story (co-authored by James Patrick Kelly, John Kessel and Jonathan Lethem that pays homage to the saying that "Ninety percent of everything is rubbish." In this story, an alien species known as 'shit dogs' have landed on various locations on Earth and are eating they way into it, occasionally 'excreting' fabulous crystals in exteremely smelly 'dung heaps'. A wealthy man and his team attempt to access the crystals. But will the attempt cause repurcussions among the aliens; or are they even paying attention to the correct alien items?
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