What are the best first contact novels

I'm afraid there is.
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I've tried to get it from the USA Amazon, and it says: The Kindle title is not currently available for purchase...
 
pyan said:
I'm afraid there is.

I've tried to get it from the USA Amazon, and it says: The Kindle title is not currently available for purchase...
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welll there are other sites for getting it, i just can't talk about them here :)
 
tobl said:
have spacesuit will travel ;)
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senlac said:
The Heinlein juvenile, yes? Early Heinlein was good if sometimes cringeworthy
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pogopossum said:
I would go with Mote In God's Eye as it performs the difficult task of making the aliens inhuman but also
understandable. For sheer altrnate perspective, perhaps Roadside Picnic? You don't see em, but it's definately a unique contact.
I am old. Read Heinlein when he was about the only quality juv. SF. (Well there was Andre Norton - but read her later)
Heinlein, somewhat cringeworthy in retrospect. But Have Space Suit - Will Travel and other of his juv. stuff introduced otherness to a lot of kids
(I am 72) of that era.
And I would re-read them before giving them to impressionable grandkids, but only because I would hope that they would speak to them too.
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pogopossum said:
I would go with Mote In God's Eye as it performs the difficult task of making the aliens inhuman but also
understandable. For sheer altrnate perspective, perhaps Roadside Picnic? You don't see em, but it's definately a unique contact.
I am old. Read Heinlein when he was about the only quality juv. SF. (Well there was Andre Norton - but read her later)
Heinlein, somewhat cringeworthy in retrospect. But Have Space Suit - Will Travel and other of his juv. stuff introduced otherness to a lot of kids
(I am 72) of that era.
And I would re-read them before giving them to impressionable grandkids, but only because I would hope that they would speak to them too.
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I totally agree - I am 78 and when reading the Heinlein juves in the 1950s I could not really relate to the juveniles at all - too squeaky clean.
 
The Gibraltar Earth trilogy by Michael McCollum

This might be regarded as military SF but it is not the usual nasty aliens invade Earth drivel.

This is McCollum's second first contact trilogy. The first is Antares Dawn. It is much more militaristic, GE is far more sneaky.

McCollum is an aeronautical engineer and these stories qualify as Hard SF.
 
psikeyhackr said:
The Gibraltar Earth trilogy by Michael McCollum

This might be regarded as military SF but it is not the usual nasty aliens invade Earth drivel.

This is McCollum's second first contact trilogy. The first is Antares Dawn. It is much more militaristic, GE is far more sneaky.

McCollum is an aeronautical engineer and these stories qualify as Hard SF.
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like those books a lot
 
I agree with The Mote in God's Eye
and The God's themselves, both for some truly alien aliens
and would add The Left hand of Darkness for some very different humans.
 
Actually a short story Story of Your Life and an excellent movie Arrival. This struck me as fairly plausible.
The Listeners by James E. Gunn. Interesting in that I remember being mesmerized by it when I read it, but can remember very little about it now.

*Trying to get these names right I came across The Hercules Text by Jack McDevitt --- His first novel which he recently substantially revised. It's in the queue.
 
Parson said:
an excellent movie Arrival.
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I almost didn't watch it because of the promo picture of her with a white board and human wrote on it. While it made a good visual it just seemed silly to me. Glad I overcame by initial reaction and watched it. was a good movie for sure.
 
Does Pohl's Gateway count? I can't actually remember if any aliens turn up or whether it's just (just?!) leftover tech.

The Heinlein Juvies were my intro into SF. I read Starbeast recently and thought it was dreadfully dull. And then went on to The Number of the Beast and couldn't stop laughing. I was half-convinced Harry Harrison wrote it as a piss-take of Heinlein. I kept expecting Bill the Galactic Hero to turn up.
 
JunkMonkey said:
Does Pohl's Gateway count? I can't actually remember if any aliens turn up or whether it's just (just?!) leftover tech.
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There are definitely live aliens in book three Heechee Rendezvous. ---- Much to my surprise I discovered that there are three more that I haven't read. I have to wonder if they are worth it. The main story arc seemed entirely closed at the end of Heechee Rendezvous.

---- Anyone read the three other books in this series?
 
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