Teresa 👩🏼‍🦯Dec 9, 2022
Favorite first-contact books and media? You can mention more than one; I definitely have several: Contact, by Carl sagan; The Lovers, by philip Jose Farmer; the Foreigner series, by CJ Cherryh; the Star Trek ToS episode "Devil In The Dark". GO! #ScienceFiction #FirstContact #StarTrek
Claire McCagueJan 4, 2023
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@pipistrelle
Oh my. There are so many.

*The Rosetta Man by @clairemccague

*Space Opera by @catvalente

*Pride of Chanur by CJ Cherryh

*Blindsight by Peter Watt

*Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge

*Dawn (the whole Xenogenesis series really) by Octavia Butler

*The Sparrow by Mary Doris Russell

*Stardance & Starmind by Spider & Jeanne Robinson

#ScienceFiction #BookRecs

Jan 3, 2023 at 9:04amWeb
Show threadTeresa 👩🏼‍🦯Jan 3, 2023
@cautionwip @clairemccague @catvalente Oh, yes, that's a small treasure trove there. I think I read about half of those. 😀
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@pipistrelle
I sort of wanted to include Fred Pool’s Gateway, but the first couple of books in the series is just first contact with alien tech. The aliens themselves don’t show up until book 3 (IIRC).
Also, none of us thought to include a 1st contact with AI like Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Heinlein or Two Faces of Tomorrow by James Hogan.