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Date Type Language Title Authors Parent Title Parent Authors Tags
unpublished SHORTFICTION Chinese
地球的翅膀?Dìqiú de Chìbǎng
 Jiang Bo     aliens (1), science fiction (1), first contact (1)
2021-05-04 NOVEL English Project Hail Mary Andy Weir     science fiction (2), ammonia (1), amnesia (1), first person point of view (1), hard sf (1), Epsilon Eridani (1), Tau Ceti (1), Earth (1), interstellar travel (1), aluminum (1), xenon (1), xenobiology (1), first contact (1), bacteria (1), education (1), Kazakhstan (1), antarctica (1), Pacific Ocean (1), cowardice (1), Bravery (1), climate change (1), aliens (1), scientist (1), engineer (1), Coma (1)
2021-03-00 SHORTFICTION German
Rückzieher?Rueckzieher
 Jens Lubbadeh     alien visitation (1), first contact (1), politics (1)
2021-09-01 NOVEL English The Titan Find Christian Francis     novelization (1), science fiction (1), first contact (1), horror (1), action-adventure (1), planetary adventure (1), zombies (1)
2020-07-21 NOVEL English Axiom's End Lindsay Ellis     alternate history (1), science fiction (1), first contact (1)
2020-10-27 NOVEL English Harbinger Olan Thorensen     science fiction (1), first contact (1)
2020-02-17 NOVEL English Recycled by Aliens Trisha McNary     science fiction (1), female protagonist (1), female main character (1), planetary adventure (1), first contact (1)
2020-09-15 NOVEL English To Sleep in a Sea of Stars Christopher Paolini     science fiction (1), Sigma Draconis (1), first contact (1)
2020-09-26 ANTHOLOGY German
Unsere Freunde von ε Eridani: Erstkontakt-Storys?Unsere Freunde von e Eridani: Erstkontakt-Storys
 Sylvana Freiberg and Ralf Zacharias     original anthology (1), first contact (1)
2019-10-00 SHORTFICTION English An Arc of Lightning Across the Eye of God P. H. Lee     magistrates (1), first contact (1), aliens (1), space opera (1)
2019-08-00 NOVEL English Bright Morning Star Simon Morden     science fiction (1), first contact (1), artificial intelligence (1)
2019-03-09 CHAPBOOK English Closer Than Earth Trisha McNary     postapocalyptic (1), sf romance (1), romance (1), science fiction (1), first contact (1)
2019-08-13 NOVEL English Dahlia Black Keith Thomas     science fiction (1), aliens (1), first contact (1)
2019-03-00 SHORTFICTION German Der Nautilus-Faktor
Martin Mächler?Martin Maechler
     first contact (1), moving planets (1)
2019-04-00 SHORTFICTION German Die zweite Generation Victor Boden     first contact (1), genetics (1)
2019-04-16 ANTHOLOGY English First Contact: A Science Fiction Anthology Roy C. Booth and Jorge Salgado-Reyes     first contact (1)
2019-10-22 NOVEL English Interference Sue Burke     science fiction (1), aliens (1), first contact (1), Sentient plants (1)
2019-03-00 SHORTFICTION English Tea Time with Aliens Jack McDevitt     first contact (1), alien spacecraft (1)
2019-09-00 SHORTFICTION English The Gorilla in a Tutu Principle or, Pecan Pie at Minnie and Earl's Adam-Troy Castro     science fiction (1), moon (1), first contact (1), alien contact (1)
2019-07-23 NOVEL English The Last Astronaut David Wellington     horror (2), science fiction (2), first contact (1), privately funded spaceflight (1), Big Dumb Object (1), astronomer (1), astronaut (1), NASA (1), near future (1), Oumuamua (1), first Mars voyage (1), mars (1)
2018-06-00 SHORTFICTION German Die Geschlechter der Leonen Bernhard Kempen     first contact (1), gender (1)
2018-11-15 NOVEL English Earth Quarantined D. L. Richardson     science fiction (1), first contact (1)
2018-02-00 SHORTFICTION English Four-Point Affective Calibration Bogi Takács     science fiction (1), first contact (1), Alien Communication (1)
2018-06-26 NOVEL English Gate Crashers Patrick S. Tomlinson     first contact (1), aliens (1), science fiction (1)
2018-03-00 NOVEL English If Tomorrow Comes Nancy Kress     science fiction (1), aliens (1), first contact (1)
2018-06-00 SHORTFICTION German Kurznachricht Jens Lubbadeh     first contact (1), punch-line (1)
2018-04-22 NOVEL English Last Man Out Elliott Kay     science fiction (1), aliens (1), military sf (1), archeology (1), first contact (1)
2018-09-04 SHORTFICTION English Lost Arrow Marshall Ross     young-adult sf (1), first contact (1), thriller (1), female protagonist (1), female main character (1)
2018-10-16 NOVEL English Rejoice Steven Erikson     science fiction (1), aliens (1), artificial intelligence (1), first contact (1)
2018-02-06 NOVEL English Semiosis Sue Burke     science fiction (1), first contact (1), aliens (1), Sentient plants (1)
2018-04-10 NOVEL English Space Opera Catherynne M. Valente     first contact (1), aliens (1), science fiction (1), sentience (1), near future (1), interspecies mating (1), devious plots (1), cats (1), england (1), second chances (1), lost love (1), proving humanity shouldn’t be destroyed (1), winning admission to the galactic species club (1), Multiple Alien Species (1), tongue in cheek (1), irony (1), satire (1), Glam Rock (1), Eurovision Contest (1), immigrants (1), minorities (1), into-movie (1)
2018-11-13 NOVEL English Terran Tomorrow Nancy Kress     science fiction (1), aliens (1), first contact (1)
2018-07-00 ANTHOLOGY English The Final Frontier Neil Clarke     science fiction (1), first contact (1), HumbleBundle (1)
2018-06-05 NOVEL English The Singularity Trap Dennis E. Taylor     science fiction (1), first contact (1)
2017-05-04 SHORTFICTION English A Trip to Central Park Michael Adam Robson     alien visitation (1), first contact (1), disaster (1)
2017-07-01 SHORTFICTION English First Contact Dean M. Cole     science fiction (1), first contact (1), flying saucer (1)
2017-03-01 NOVEL English From the Wreck Jane Rawson     aliens (1), first contact (1)
2017-02-23 NOVEL English Shiplord Felix R. Savage     first contact (1), science fiction (1)
2017-12-08 SHORTFICTION German Station Null – Quader Arno Endler     artificial intelligence (1), first contact (1)
2017-05-16 NOVEL English Substrate Phantoms Jessica Reisman     first contact (1)
2017-07-30 NOVEL English The Jupiter Game Todd McCaffrey     aliens (1), science fiction (1), first contact (1)
2017-11-29 NOVEL English The Time of the Stripes Amanda Bridgeman     aliens (1), first contact (1), science fiction (1)
2017-07-11 NOVEL English Tomorrow's Kin Nancy Kress     aliens (1), science fiction (1), first contact (1), virus (1), space virus (1)
2016-01-13 SHORTFICTION English Battlefield Mars David Robbins     military sf (1), science fiction (1), mars (1), aliens (1), first contact (1), action (1)
2016-06-14 ANTHOLOGY English First Contact Cafe Irene Radford     aliens (1), first contact (1)
2016-09-06 NOVEL English Invasion Luke Rhinehart     first contact (1), aliens (1)
2016-11-15 NOVEL English Rosewater Tade Thompson     Nigeria (1), African speculative fiction (1), science fiction (1), first contact (1)
2016-07-18 NOVEL English The Book of Ralph Christopher Steinsvold     aliens (1), first contact (1), humorous (1), absurdist sf (1)
2016-07-05 SHORTFICTION English The Folk and the Shellmen Caldon Mull     science fiction (1), first contact (1), African speculative fiction (1), adventure (1), hard sf (1)
2016-03-29 SHORTFICTION English The Hunter Captain David John Baker     torture (1), sentience (1), first contact (1), science fiction (1), sex (1)
2015-06-04 NOVEL English Children of Time Adrian Tchaikovsky     science fiction (1), space opera (1), generation ship (1), uplift (1), spiders (1), alternating chapter structure (1), first contact (1)
2015-11-16 NOVEL English First Contact T. Jackson King     science fiction (1), first contact (1), greed (1)
2015-03-26 NOVEL English Sightings Mark Lukens     first contact (1), horror (1)
2015-11-00 NOVEL English Solar Express L. E. Modesitt, Jr.     aliens (1), near future (1), first contact (1), science fiction (1)
2015-10-21 SHORTFICTION English Tear Tracks Malka Older     Alien Communication (1), aliens (1), first contact (1), Growth (1), science fiction (1), diplomacy (1), grief (1)
2015-10-11 SHORTFICTION English The Garden Sea Caldon Mull     alternate history (1), retold fairy tales (1), African speculative fiction (1), adventure (1), first contact (1), prehistoric (1)
2015-06-06 CHAPBOOK English The Librarian M. N. Arzú     first contact (1)
2015-10-11 SHORTFICTION English The Tale of Arc1 and Core3 Caldon Mull     science fiction (1), alternate history (1), parallel universe (1), African speculative fiction (1), first contact (1)
2015-12-07 NOVEL English The Terran Consensus Scott Washburn     near future (1), first contact (1), alien invasion (1)
2014-09-08 NOVEL English Ambush Dean M. Cole     military sf (1), first contact (1), alien invasion (1)
2014-07-15 NOVEL English Trial by Fire Charles E. Gannon     science fiction (1), aliens (1), first contact (1)
2013-05-29 NOVEL English Collaborators Deborah J. Ross     science fiction (1), first contact (1)
2013-05-28 NOVEL English Damocles S. G. Redling     science fiction (1), aliens (1), first contact (1)
2013-04-02 NOVEL English Fire with Fire Charles E. Gannon     science fiction (1), aliens (1), first contact (1), StoryBundle (1)
2013-08-20 NOVEL English Right to Know Edward Willett     space opera (1), first contact (1), StoryBundle (1)
2013-07-02 OMNIBUS English The D'neeran Factor Terry A. Adams     science fiction (1), aliens (1), telepathy (1), first contact (1)
2013-08-29 NOVEL English The Pericles Conspiracy Michael Kingswood     science fiction (1), first contact (1)
2012-01-00 NOVEL English Outpost Allan Baillie     juvenile sf (1), teen science fiction (1), first contact (1), aliens (1)
2011-03-30 NOVEL English Outies J. R. Pournelle     science fiction (1), aliens (1), first contact (1), ecology (1), religion (1), biology (1), gender (1)
2011-10-00 SHORTFICTION English The Bullfrog Radio Astronomy Project Brad R. Torgersen     first contact (1)
2010-08-11 SHORTFICTION English The Fermi Paradox Is Our Business Model Charlie Jane Anders     science fiction (1), first contact (1), alien perspective (1), postapocalyptic (1), Australia (1)
2009-00-00 SHORTFICTION English First Contact Candas Jane Dorsey     first contact (1), alien sex (1), science fiction (1)
2009-08-03 NOVEL English Galileo's Dream Kim Stanley Robinson     historical characters (1), historical (1), Jupiter (1), Renaissance (1), science fiction (1), time travel (1), planetary sentience (1), religion (1), italy (1), science (1), scientists (1), Jovians (1), Io (1), Ganymede (1), Callisto (1), Europa (1), entanglement (1), first contact (1)
2009-10-01 NOVEL English Siege at Gazbriz Richard Fawconer     science fiction (1), first contact (1), lost colony (1), catowl (1), space pirates (1), mind control (1)
2009-07-01 SHORTFICTION English The Island Peter Watts     space opera (1), artificial intelligence (1), suspended animation (1), first contact (1), science fiction (1), evolution (1), far future (1), dyson sphere (1), higher intelligence (1), interstellar travel (1)
2008-09-00 NOVEL English Crossing Point Terry Kepner     science fiction (1), aliens (1), first contact (1)
2008-05-00 COLLECTION English Kéthani Eric Brown     science fiction (1), first contact (1)
2008-05-00 NOVEL English Omega Sol Scott Mackay     science fiction (1), first contact (1)
2008-10-00 SHORTFICTION English Turing's Apples Stephen Baxter     near future (1), science fiction (1), first contact (1), moon (1)
2007-12-00 SHORTFICTION English All Seated on the Ground Connie Willis     first contact (1), Colorado (1), Denver (1), Newspaper reporter (1), science fiction (1), Christmas (1)
2007-04-00 NOVEL English Rollback Robert J. Sawyer     science fiction (1), astronomers (1), rejuvenation (1), first contact (1), Sigma Draconis (1)
2007-06-01 SHORTFICTION English The Worm Turns Gregory Benford     first contact (1), female main character (1)
2006-00-00 NOVEL Chinese
三体?Sān tǐ
 Cixin Liu     science fiction (1), into-movie (1), China (1), femtotechnology (1), Earth (1), virtual reality (1), alien perspective (1), first contact (1), quantum physics (1), despair (1), Alpha Centauri (1)
2006-10-00 NOVEL English Blindsight Peter Watts     science fiction (1), aliens (1), first contact (1), hard sf (1), mind uploading (1), mind upload (1)
2006-10-00 NOVEL English Eifelheim Michael F. Flynn     science fiction (1), first contact (1)
2006-09-28 SHORTFICTION English The Intruder Lisa Smedman     alien point of view (1), SF (1), first contact (1)
2005-08-00 NOVEL English Learning the World Ken MacLeod     space opera (1), science fiction (1), first contact (1), generation starship (1)
2005-11-00 NOVEL English Pushing Ice Alastair Reynolds     space opera (3), nanotechnology (2), science fiction (2), near future (1), hard sf (1), Spica (1), strong female characters (1), far future (1), alien species (1), alien structures (1), frame shift near-lightspeed travel (1), human conflict (1), alien conflict (1), rejuvenation (1), reanimation (1), AI personalities (1), first contact (1)
2005-06-28 NOVEL English Scardown Elizabeth Bear     family (1), near future (1), ecological collapse (1), post atomic war (1), enhanced biology (1), artificial personalities (1), nanobots (1), China (1), generation ships (1), faster than light travel (1), Hartford, CT (1), Canada (1), alien technology (1), multiple points of view (1), first person point of view (1), strong female characters (1), female protagonist (1), asteroid strike (1), first contact (1), military (1), science fiction (1)
2003-09-00 SHORTFICTION English Looking Through Lace Ruth Nestvold     science fiction (1), aliens (1), first contact (1)
2002-11-00 NOVEL English Explorer C. J. Cherryh     science fiction (1), first contact (1)
2002-05-00 NOVEL English Hominids Robert J. Sawyer     hominins (1), science fiction (1), Ontario (1), first contact (1), Neanderthals (1), parallel world (1), physicists (1), rape (1), LGBTQ+ (1), smell (1), pheromones (1), population control (1), reproduction (1), Utopia (1), eugenics (1), surveillance (1), wolves (1), intelligence (1), magnetic pole reversal (1), language (1), surgery (1), religion (1)
2001-01-00 NOVEL English Ship of Fools Richard Paul Russo     horror (2), science fiction (1), generation ship (1), exoskeleton (1), birth defect (1), alien ship (1), first contact (1), first person point of view (1), Catholicism (1), love (1)
2000-06-00 NOVEL English Calculating God Robert J. Sawyer     science fiction (1), alien contact (1), uploaded personalities (1), Betelgeuse (1), supernova (1), virtual reality (1), mass extinction (1), paleontologists (1), Fermi paradox (1), aliens (1), first contact (1), Beta Hydri (1), genocide (1), genetic engineering (1), higher intelligence (1)
2000-02-00 NOVEL English Infinity Beach Jack McDevitt     science fiction (1), first contact (1)
2000-01-00 NOVEL English The Quiet Invasion Sarah Zettel     science fiction (1), venus (1), terraforming Venus (1), aliens (1), first contact (1), slavery (1)
1999-03-00 NOVEL English A Deepness in the Sky Vernor Vinge     space opera (2), nanotechnology (2), alien perspective (1), transhuman (1), first contact (1), 3-award-winner (1), Kurd Laßwitz Award: Best Foreign Novel (1), science fiction (1), hard sf (1)
1999-09-00 NOVEL English A Signal Shattered Eric S. Nylund     science fiction (1), aliens (1), first contact (1), Clones (1), interstellar travel (1)
1999-00-00 SHORTFICTION English Exchange Rate Hal Clement     science fiction (1), far future (1), first contact (1), hard sf (1)
1998-05-00 NONFICTION English Alien Nation: The Unofficial Companion Edward Gross     first contact (1)
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