Alex collided and stuck in a Mexican docudrama about UFOs; they were known as los OVNIS in Spanish, and on 9 de mayo, 2031, a large fraction of the Latin American populace seemed afflicted with spectacular attacks of ovnimanía. Long minutes of Alex’s life seeped idly away as the screen pumped images at him: monster fireballs by night, puffball-headed dwarfs in jumpsuits of silver lamé, and a video prophecy from some interstellar Virgen de Guadalupe with her own Internet address and a toll-free phone number....