An Alien, a Time Machine, and a Loser (An Alien and a Time Machine) (Volume 1)

The end of humanity is imminent. Alfred, an extraterrestrial, has spent the last 50,000 years observing Earth for his employer, the Intergalactic Corp—they run the local galactic cluster. Alfred’s monitoring equipment has predicted that all human life will end in thirty days, along with his current assignment. Tragic as that is, he is more concerned about starting over on a new planet and waiting millennia for things to become entertaining again. The Corp strictly forbids its observers from interfering with their assignments—but there’s a loophole. Alfred just needs to convince the world’s biggest loser to single-handedly save the world. Skylar Holden is the world’s biggest loser—at least one of them. He has received the short end of the stick his entire life in everything he has ever done. Even though he’s genuinely talented, he can never get a break and has dropped out of life. Then he’s abducted by an alien, and humanity’s continued existence rests entirely on the shoulders of a loser who has never succeeded at anything.