An alien race of lizard-people has become obsessed with human popular culture through listening to our radio (&etc) transmissions… Filled with enthusiasm, they send an interstellar mission to greet humanity – but by the time they arrive, humanity has self-destructed, and the only humans left alive are the crew of a space mission. The lizards bring the survivors back to their own planet, where they are feted as celebrities… but this does not save the survivors from depression and insanity… Meanwhile, the lizards’ culture, taken over my their love of all things human, seems to be going the same way as humanity’s has… Told from the perspective of one of the survivors, a none-too-stable individual who clings to the classical music of Earth as his touchstone. ( )