| 2006-09-28 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Intruder |
Lisa Smedman |
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alien point of view (1), SF (1), first contact (1)
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| 2005-08-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Learning the World |
Ken MacLeod |
|
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space opera (1), science fiction (1), first contact (1), generation starship (1)
|
| 2005-11-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Pushing Ice |
Alastair Reynolds |
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space opera (3), nanotechnology (2), science fiction (2), first contact (1), AI personalities (1), reanimation (1), rejuvenation (1), alien conflict (1), human conflict (1), frame shift near-lightspeed travel (1), alien structures (1), alien species (1), far future (1), strong female characters (1), Spica (1), hard sf (1), near future (1)
|
| 2005-06-28 |
NOVEL |
English |
Scardown |
Elizabeth Bear |
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Hartford, CT (1), science fiction (1), military (1), first contact (1), asteroid strike (1), female protagonist (1), strong female characters (1), first person point of view (1), multiple points of view (1), alien technology (1), Canada (1), family (1), faster than light travel (1), generation ships (1), China (1), nanobots (1), artificial personalities (1), enhanced biology (1), post atomic war (1), ecological collapse (1), near future (1)
|
| 2004-04-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Ocean of the Blind |
James L. Cambias |
|
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science fiction (1), hard sf (1), aliens (1), aquatic aliens (1), aquatic expedition (1), underwater (1), scientists (1), alien contact (1), contact with aliens (1), first contact (1), undersea (1)
|
| 2003-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Looking Through Lace |
Ruth Nestvold |
|
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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 |
|
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population control (1), religion (1), surgery (1), language (1), magnetic pole reversal (1), intelligence (1), wolves (1), surveillance (1), eugenics (1), Utopia (1), reproduction (1), hominins (1), pheromones (1), smell (1), LGBTQ+ (1), rape (1), physicists (1), parallel world (1), Neanderthals (1), first contact (1), Ontario (1), science fiction (1)
|
| 2001-10-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
A Paradigm of Earth |
Candas Jane Dorsey |
|
|
science fiction (1), first contact (1)
|
| 2001-01-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Ship of Fools |
Richard Paul Russo |
|
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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)
|
| 2000-03-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Revelation Space |
Alastair Reynolds |
|
|
space opera (1), nanotechnology (1), war with machines (1), science fiction (1), far future (1), hard sf (1), first contact (1), archaeology (1)
|
| 2000-01-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Quiet Invasion |
Sarah Zettel |
|
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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 |
|
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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 (2), hard sf (2), far future (1), first contact (1), hostile environment (1), trade with aliens (1), mysterious aliens (1), earthquakes (1), organic technology (1), high gravity (1)
|
| 1998-05-00 |
NONFICTION |
English |
Alien Nation: The Unofficial Companion |
Edward Gross |
|
|
first contact (1)
|
| 1998-03-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Dark Water's Embrace |
Stephen Leigh |
|
|
first contact (1), science fiction (1)
|
| 1998-05-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Signal to Noise |
Eric S. Nylund |
|
|
science fiction (1), first contact (1), aliens (1), diplomacy (1), Earth (1)
|
| 1998-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Story of Your Life |
Ted Chiang |
|
|
linguistics (2), physics (2), first contact (1), into-movie (1), communication (1), first person point of view (1), prognostication (1), free will (1), philosophy (1)
|
| 1997-10-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Illegal Alien |
Robert J. Sawyer |
|
|
first contact (1), courtroom drama (1), Earth (1), murder (1), aliens (1), eclipse (1), science fiction (1), set in 1990s (1), genocide (1)
|
| 1997-04-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Invasion |
Robin Cook |
|
|
virology (1), first contact (1), contemporary (1), alien invasion (1), mutation (1), biological warfare (1), resident virus (1), wormholes (1)
|
| 1996-06-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Encounter with Tiber |
Buzz Aldrin and John Barnes |
|
|
first contact (1), science fiction (1), alien artifacts (1), Alpha Centauri (1), Earth (1), set in 2000s (1), historians (1)
|
| 1996-04-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Inheritor |
C. J. Cherryh |
|
|
science fiction (1), first contact (1)
|
| 1996-05-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Remnant Population |
Elizabeth Moon |
|
|
first contact (2), linguistics (1), science fiction (1), hard sf (1)
|
| 1996-06-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Starborne |
Robert Silverberg |
|
|
science fiction (1), Utopia (1), telepathy (1), first contact (1), philosophy (1)
|
| 1996-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Night the Heads Came |
William Sleator |
|
|
young-adult sf (1), first contact (1), alien invasion (1), alien abduction (1), young-adult (1), young adult thriller (1)
|
| 1996-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Sparrow |
Mary Doria Russell |
|
|
science fiction (1), first contact (1), religion (1), 3-award-winner (1), Kurd Laßwitz Award: Best Foreign Novel (1), The Sparrow (1), Vatican City (1)
|
| 1995-11-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Chaga |
Ian McDonald |
|
|
first contact (1), africa (1), strange vegetation (1)
|
| 1995-08-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Fortune's Wheel |
Lisanne Norman |
|
|
first contact (1)
|
| 1995-08-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Planetfall |
Scott G. Gier |
|
|
first contact (1)
|
| 1995-11-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Color of Distance |
Amy Thomson |
|
|
first contact (1), alien culture (1), aliens (1), science fiction (1), hard sf (1)
|
| 1995-03-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Nano Flower |
Peter F. Hamilton |
|
|
first contact (1), science fiction (1)
|
| 1995-03-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Tilting the Balance |
Harry Turtledove |
|
|
first contact (1), military sf (1), alien invasion (1), war with aliens (1), world war ii (1), alternate history (1)
|
| 1995-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Valhalla |
Lawrence Watt-Evans |
|
|
science fiction (1), first contact (1), computers (1), action-adventure (1)
|
| 1994-09-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Conquerors' Pride |
Timothy Zahn |
|
|
first contact (1), science fiction (1)
|
| 1994-08-00 |
OMNIBUS |
English |
Dragon's Egg/Starquake |
Robert L. Forward |
|
|
first contact (1)
|
| 1994-02-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
First Contact |
Timothy Zahn |
|
|
first contact (1)
|
| 1994-02-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Foreigner |
C. J. Cherryh |
|
|
first contact (2), science fiction (1), alien culture (1), hard sf (1)
|
| 1994-01-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
In the Balance |
Harry Turtledove |
|
|
first contact (3), military sf (2), alien invasion (2), war with aliens (2), world war ii (1), alternate history (1)
|
| 1994-11-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Midshipman's Hope |
David Feintuch |
|
|
first contact (1), science fiction (1)
|
| 1994-10-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Engines of God |
Jack McDevitt |
|
|
space opera (2), alien artifact (1), archeology (1), first contact (1)
|
| 1994-02-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Treaty at Doona |
Anne McCaffrey and Jody Lynn Nye |
|
|
first contact (1)
|
| 1993-02-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Assemblers of Infinity |
Kevin J. Anderson and Doug Beason |
|
|
nanotechnology (2), first contact (1), moon (1)
|
| 1993-12-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Turning Point |
Lisanne Norman |
|
|
first contact (1)
|
| 1992-02-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Anvil of Stars |
Greg Bear |
|
|
nanotechnology (1), space opera (1), first contact (1), science fiction (1), war with machines (1), alien artifacts (1), interstellar war (1), guilt (1), revenge (1), aliens (1), interstellar travel (1), ethics (1)
|
| 1992-09-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Kingdoms of the Wall |
Robert Silverberg |
|
|
pilgrimage (1), binary star system (1), shapechangers (1), first contact (1), alien perspective (1), aliens (1), first person point of view (1), science fiction (1), fountain of youth (1)
|
| 1992-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The First Contact with the Gorgonids |
Ursula K. Le Guin |
|
|
science fiction (1), aliens (1), first contact (1), Australia (1)
|
| 1991-04-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
A Call to Arms |
Alan Dean Foster |
|
|
science fiction (1), first contact (1)
|
| 1991-04-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
A Woman of the Iron People |
Eleanor Arnason |
|
|
Sigma Draconis (1), science fiction (1), first contact (1)
|
| 1991-08-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Alien Tongue |
Stephen Leigh |
|
|
first contact (1)
|
| 1991-10-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Sarah Canary |
Karen Joy Fowler |
|
|
first contact (1), science fiction (1), American West (1), Washington (1)
|
| 1991-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
There Will Be No War After This One |
Robert Sheckley |
|
|
first contact (1), aliens (1), global government (1), satire (1), military junta (1), galactic government (1), interstellar warfare (1)
|
| 1990-05-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
A World of Difference |
Harry Turtledove |
|
|
first contact (1)
|
| 1990-08-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Rowan |
Anne McCaffrey |
|
|
first contact (1), science fiction (1)
|
| 1989-07-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Angel Station |
Walter Jon Williams |
|
|
science fiction (1), cyberpunk (1), faster than light travel (1), first contact (1), paranormal powers (1)
|
| 1989-05-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Quozl |
Alan Dean Foster |
|
|
first contact (1), science fiction (1)
|
| 1989-06-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Abyss |
Orson Scott Card |
|
|
novelization (1), deep ocean (1), underwater (1), first contact (1)
|
| 1988-06-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Cradle |
Arthur C. Clarke and Gentry Lee |
|
|
science fiction (1), Florida (1), robots (1), first contact (1), alien artifacts (1), genetic engineering (1)
|
| 1988-01-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Noninterference |
Harry Turtledove |
|
|
first contact (1)
|
| 1988-11-00 |
COLLECTION |
English |
The Day the Martians Came |
Frederik Pohl |
|
|
first contact (1)
|
| 1987-05-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Dawn |
Octavia E. Butler |
|
|
science fiction (2), Grey alien (1), first contact (1), Last survivors (1), tentacles (1), suspended animation (1), jungle (1), genetic modification (1), captives (1), post-apocalypse (1), Non-binary gender (1), Living spaceship (1), alien spaceship (1), post apocalypse (1), aliens (1), human-alien hybrids (1), hard sf (1)
|
| 1987-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Forest of the Night |
Marti Steussy |
|
|
first contact (1)
|
| 1987-07-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Strangers from the Sky |
Margaret Wander Bonanno |
|
|
science fiction (1), first contact (1)
|
| 1987-09-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Forge of God |
Greg Bear |
|
|
aliens (1), Seattle (1), robots (1), Geology (1), geologists (1), mind control (1), Fermi paradox (1), terraforming (1), alien invasion (1), San Francisco (1), end of the world (1), Earth (1), plate tectonics (1), neutronium (1), antimatter (1), Australia (1), california (1), first contact (1), earthquake (1), tsunami (1), nuclear weapons (1), von Neumann probes (1), Pacific Ocean (1), space war (1), set in 1990s (1), Washington, DC (1), politicians (1), loss (1), science fiction (1), war with machines (1), mars (1), nanotechnology (1), space opera (1)
|
| 1987-10-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Toolmaker Koan |
John C. McLoughlin |
|
|
post apocalypse (1), dinosaurs (1), technological crisis (1), first contact (1)
|
| 1986-06-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Aliens |
Alan Dean Foster |
|
|
movie novelization (1), novelization (1), science fiction (1), horror (1), android (1), strong female characters (1), female main character (1), first contact (1), military sf (1), aliens (1)
|
| 1986-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Second Genesis |
Donald Moffitt |
|
|
music (1), rats (1), Greater Magellanic Cloud (1), Geology (1), first contact (1), interstellar travel (1), black hole (1), Delta Pavonis (1), Earth (1), dyson sphere (1), evolution (1), space travel (1), mega-engineering (1), nanotechnology (1), insects (1), far future (1), genetic engineering (1), mega-flora (1), rejuvenation (1), immortality (1), intergalactic travel (1), archaeology (1), primates (1), aliens (1), time dilation (1)
|
| 1986-02-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Sentience |
Terry A. Adams |
|
|
first contact (1), aliens (1), telepathy (1), science fiction (1)
|
| 1986-11-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Hercules Text |
Jack McDevitt |
|
|
space opera (1), first contact (1), science fiction (1)
|
| 1985-10-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Contact |
Carl Sagan |
|
|
first contact (1), science fiction (1), into-movie (1), hard sf (1), strong female character (1), higher intelligence (1), interstellar travel (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1)
|
| 1985-01-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Ender's Game |
Orson Scott Card |
|
|
space opera (3), science fiction (3), military sf (2), into-movie (2), first contact (1), from-short (1), child protagonist (1), 3-award-winner (1), aliens (1), asteroids (1), antigravity (1), genocide (1), ansible (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), games (1)
|
| 1985-08-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Eon |
Greg Bear |
|
|
time travel (2), space opera (2), genetic engineering (1), mind augmentation (1), asteroid (1), terraforming (1), generation ship (1), nuclear warfare (1), exploration (1), aliens (1), alien invasion (1), religion (1), hard sf (1), parallel universe (1), science fiction (1), near future (1), artifact (1), first contact (1), transdimensional (1)
|
| 1985-05-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Footfall |
Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle |
|
|
generation ship (2), military (1), kinetic weapons (1), nuclear war (1), suspended animation (1), Kansas (1), Alpha Centauri (1), lasers (1), Kremlin (1), alien psychology (1), contemporary (1), war in space (1), White House (1), first contact (1), Project Orion (1), Bussard ramjet (1), alien point of view (1), survivalists (1), SF fandom (1), SF authors (1), United States (1), africa (1), killer asteroid (1), alien invasion (1), science fiction (1)
|
| 1985-07-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Tom O'Bedlam |
Robert Silverberg |
|
|
science fiction (1), first contact (1), telepathy (1), post apocalypse (1)
|
| 1984-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Pied Piper |
Ann Ruffell |
|
|
juvenile sf (1), first contact (1), post apocalypse (1)
|
| 1984-05-05 |
SHORTFICTION |
Croatian |
Plakon |
|
|
|
first contact (1)
|
| 1984-07-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Planet of Whispers |
James Patrick Kelly |
|
|
first contact (1)
|
| 1984-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Urn Burial |
Robert Westall |
|
|
juvenile sf (1), first contact (1)
|
| 1984-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Zone of Silence |
Monica Hughes |
|
|
first contact (1)
|
| 1983-05-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Amanda and the Alien |
Robert Silverberg |
|
|
into-movie (1), adolescent girls (1), horror (1), humor (1), contemporary (1), first contact (1), shapeshifting alien (1)
|
| 1983-11-22 |
SHORTFICTION |
German |
Begegnung |
Peter Schattschneider |
|
|
alien perspective (1), first contact (1), science fiction (1)
|
| 1983-06-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Code of the Lifemaker |
James P. Hogan |
|
|
lost colony (1), evolution (1), artificial intelligence (1), von neuman replication (1), hard sf (1), saturn-titan (1), first contact (1), science fiction (1)
|
| 1983-05-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Day of the Dragonstar |
David Bischoff and Thomas F. Monteleone |
|
|
first contact (1)
|
| 1983-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Second Coming |
Frederik Pohl |
|
|
first person point of view (1), aliens (1), jesus (1), first contact (1), contemporary (1), humor (1)
|
| 1982-10-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
2010: Odyssey Two |
Arthur C. Clarke |
|
|
science fiction (3), artificial intelligence (3), into-movie (3), first contact (1), aerobraking (1), incorporeal beings (1), Europa (1), Jupiter (1), Von Neumann replication (1)
|
| 1982-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
German |
Die Heldentat des Luke Smith |
Uwe Anton |
|
|
everyday life (1), first contact (1)
|
| 1982-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
Croatian |
Dosadan let |
|
|
|
first contact (1)
|
| 1982-09-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Nor Crystal Tears |
Alan Dean Foster |
|
|
first contact (1), science fiction (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1)
|
| 1982-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
Croatian |
Odgovor |
|
|
|
first contact (1)
|
| 1982-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
Croatian |
Odluka Velikog Koordinatora |
|
|
|
first contact (1)
|
| 1982-05-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Playing for Keeps |
Jack C. Haldeman, II |
|
|
first contact (1), eight year old (1), Play (1), alien invasion (1), contemporary (1)
|
| 1981-07-06 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Exposures |
Gregory Benford |
|
|
first contact (1), astronomy (1), religion (1), science fiction (1), hard sf (1)
|
| 1981-08-03 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Slac// |
Michael P. Kube-McDowell |
|
|
first contact (1), alien planet (1), alien psychology (1), alien language (1)
|
| 1981-08-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Voyagers |
Ben Bova |
|
|
first contact (1), science fiction (1)
|
| 1980-06-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Alien Lover |
Ted Reynolds and William F. Wu |
|
|
only Earth (1), college (1), interspecies romance (1), humanoid alien (1), roommates (1), contemporary (1), female protagonist (1), first person point of view (1), intergalactic travel (1), first contact (1)
|
| 1980-05-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Dragon's Egg |
Robert L. Forward |
|
|
first contact (2), hard sf (1), alien perspective (1), high gravity (1), science fiction (1), neutron star (1)
|
| 1980-06-05 |
SHORTFICTION |
Croatian |
Gruda |
|
|
|
first contact (1)
|
| 1980-09-05 |
SHORTFICTION |
Serbian |
Klateri |
Vladimir Ivkov |
|
|
first contact (1)
|