Narabedla Ltd.

Narabedla Ltd. is a science fiction novel by American writer Frederik Pohl, published by Ballantine Books in 1988.

The main character is an accountant who specializes in doing the tax returns of singers, dancers, and other performers.

They confide in the main character that they have signed mysterious contracts for a long, lucrative tour of private gigs.

He gets knocked out and wakes up on an alien planet dozens of light years away from Earth.

There is a small community of Earth artists, some of whom are perfectly happy spending the rest of their lives performing before appreciative alien audiences.

First edition (publ. Ballantine Books )
Cover art by Barclay Shaw