| 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)
|
| 2006-10-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Eifelheim |
Michael F. Flynn |
|
|
science fiction (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)
|
| 2002-11-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Explorer |
C. J. Cherryh |
|
|
science fiction (1), first contact (1)
|
| 2000-02-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Infinity Beach |
Jack McDevitt |
|
|
science fiction (1), first contact (1)
|
| 1998-03-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Dark Water's Embrace |
Stephen Leigh |
|
|
first contact (1), science fiction (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)
|
| 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)
|
| 1996-00-00 |
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)
|
| 1995-03-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Nano Flower |
Peter F. Hamilton |
|
|
first contact (1), science fiction (1)
|
| 1994-09-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Conquerors' Pride |
Timothy Zahn |
|
|
first contact (1), science fiction (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)
|
| 1994-02-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Treaty at Doona |
Anne McCaffrey and Jody Lynn Nye |
|
|
first contact (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)
|
| 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)
|
| 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)
|
| 1989-05-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Quozl |
Alan Dean Foster |
|
|
first contact (1), science fiction (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)
|
| 1987-09-00 |
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)
|
| 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)
|
| 1985-05-00 |
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)
|
| 1983-05-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Day of the Dragonstar |
David Bischoff and Thomas F. Monteleone |
|
|
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)
|
| 1981-08-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Voyagers |
Ben Bova |
|
|
first contact (1), science fiction (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)
|
| 1978-00-00 |
COLLECTION |
English |
Mission of Gravity (with Lecture Demonstration) |
Hal Clement |
|
|
first contact (1)
|
| 1977-05-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Inherit the Stars |
James P. Hogan |
|
|
first contact (2), lost heritage (1), hard sf (1), archeology (1), intellectual thriller (1), science fiction (1)
|
| 1977-12-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Jupiter Theft |
Donald Moffitt |
|
|
first contact (2), gas giant planet (1), mega-engineering (1), Jupiter (1), aliens (1)
|
| 1974-11-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Mote in God's Eye |
Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle |
|
|
first contact (2), space opera (2), lost colony (1), science fiction (1), concentration camp (1), rebellion (1), art (1), museum (1), aliens (1), zoo (1), scientists (1), religion (1), interstellar travel (1), lasers (1), force fields (1), coffee (1), collapse of civilization (1), asteroids (1), life cycle (1), military sf (1)
|
| 1973-06-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Rendezvous with Rama |
Arthur C. Clarke |
|
|
first contact (3), science fiction (3), Big Dumb Object (1), into-video game (1), into-radio (1), exploration (1), robots (1), space travel (1), genetic engineering (1), hard sf (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), 5-award-winner (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), hard science fiction (1), sub-light speed (1), mega-starship (1), alien artifact (1), near future (1)
|
| 1972-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Gods Themselves |
Isaac Asimov |
|
|
science fiction (2), food (1), argon (1), tourism (1), power source (1), pions (1), gymnastics (1), nudity (1), immigration (1), plutonium (1), tungsten (1), global Earth government (1), genetic engineering (1), water (1), quasars (1), moon (1), aliens (1), alien perspective (1), sex (1), alternative energy (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), parallel universe (1), translation (1), Moon colony (1), Solar apocalypse (1), advanced aliens (1), academia (1), rivalry (1), first contact (1), Etruscan (1), journalist (1), radioactivity (1), set in 22nd century (1), set in 2070s (1), intuition (1), lunar city (1)
|
| 1971-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
First Contact? |
Hugh Walters |
|
|
first contact (1)
|
| 1970-10-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Tower of Glass |
Robert Silverberg |
|
|
first contact (1), artificial intelligence (1), interstellar travel (1), Canada (1), science fiction (1), androids (1), telepathy (1), religion (1), teleportation (1), hibernation (1), revolution (1), aliens (1), communication (1)
|
| 1969-04-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Decision at Doona |
Anne McCaffrey |
|
|
first contact (1), science fiction (1)
|
| 1968-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
2001: A Space Odyssey |
Arthur C. Clarke |
|
|
artificial intelligence (4), ship AI (2), near future (2), into-movie (2), science fiction (2), HAL-9000 (1), saturn (1), alien artifact (1), 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1), interstellar travel (1), interplanetary travel (1), Earth (1), moon (1), Iapetus (1), hard sf (1), computer (1), first contact (1)
|
| 1965-02-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Alien Way |
Gordon R. Dickson |
|
|
first contact (1)
|
| 1964-00-00 |
NOVEL |
Polish |
|
|
|
|
science fiction (1), first contact (1), nanotechnology (1), war with machines (1)
|
| 1964-12-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Greks Bring Gifts |
Murray Leinster |
|
|
first contact (1)
|
| 1964-02-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Wanderer |
Fritz Leiber |
|
|
first contact (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), science fiction (1), moon (1), extrasolar planet (1), aliens (1), tsunami (1), england (1), Florida (1), New York City (1), Atlantic Ocean (1)
|
| 1963-03-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Outpost of Jupiter |
Lester del Rey |
|
|
first contact (1)
|
| 1963-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Way Station |
Clifford D. Simak |
|
|
first contact (2), solitude (1), muteness (1), longevity (1), grave desecration (1), alien autopsy (1), contemporary (1), Civil War veteran (1), Wisconsin (1), rural (1), interstellar travel (1), love (1), life extension (1), US government surveillance (1), interstellar politics (1), deafness (1), butterflies (1), science fiction (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), alien artifact (1), aliens (1)
|
| 1962-07-05 |
NOVEL |
English |
A for Andromeda |
John Elliot and Fred Hoyle |
|
|
science fiction (1), first contact (1), alien invasion (1), into-tv (1), computers (1), communication (1), radio astronomy (1), astronomers (1), artificial life (1), mind control (1)
|
| 1961-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Collision Course |
Robert Silverberg |
|
|
first contact (2), science fiction (1), distant future (1), interstellar travel (1), teleportation (1), faster than light travel (1), slower than light travel (1), aliens (1), interstellar empire (1)
|
| 1960-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The High Crusade |
Poul Anderson |
|
|
science fiction (2), war between humans and aliens (1), set in 1300s (1), diplomacy (1), religion (1), trickery (1), interstellar travel (1), ray guns (1), cognitive dissonance (1), treachery (1), bluff (1), feudalism (1), feudal culture (1), feudal society (1), feudal lord (1), war with aliens (1), first contact (1), alien allies (1), alien invasion (1), deception (1), england (1), Lincolnshire (1), medieval society (1), medieval (1), military sf (1), Les 100 principaux titres de la science-fiction (1), Appendix N (1), humorous (1), into-movie (1)
|
| 1958-04-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
A Case of Conscience |
James Blish |
|
|
first contact (1), religion (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), science fiction (1)
|
| 1958-09-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Have Space Suit - Will Travel |
Robert A. Heinlein |
|
|
first contact (1), science fiction (1), action-adventure (1), young-adult sf (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), juvenile sf (1), aliens (1), kidnapping (1), moon (1), suspended animation (1), courtroom drama (1), interstellar travel (1)
|
| 1958-08-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Enemy Stars |
Poul Anderson |
|
|
first contact (1), hard sf (1), science fiction (1)
|
| 1957-04-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Cycle of Fire |
Hal Clement |
|
|
first contact (1), science fiction (1)
|
| 1953-08-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Childhood's End |
Arthur C. Clarke |
|
|
peace (1), into-radio (1), alien invasion (1), Earth (1), higher intelligence (1), telepathy (1), end of the world (1), last man on Earth (1), incorporeal beings (1), aliens (1), deepsea environment (1), submarine (1), squid (1), whales (1), time viewer (1), hibernation (1), Australia (1), telekinesis (1), Utopia (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), science fiction (1), into-tv (1), cosy catastrophe (1), museum (1), virtual reality (1), first contact (1), tsunami (1), winged flight (1), creativity (1), antigravity (1), music (1), art (1), interstellar travel (1)
|
| 1950-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Needle |
Hal Clement |
|
|
first contact (2), science fiction (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), aliens (1), symbionts (1), Earth (1), Pacific Ocean (1), alien perspective (1), 1950 (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1)
|
| 1938-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Out of the Silent Planet |
C. S. Lewis |
|
|
science fiction (2), first contact (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), linguistics (1), religion (1), kidnapping (1), interplanetary travel (1), aliens (1), mars (1), Martians (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1)
|
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