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First contact
First contact is a common science fiction theme about the first meeting between humans and extraterrestrial life, or of any sentient race's first encounter with another one.
The theme allows authors to explore such topics such as xenophobia, transcendentalism, and basic linguistics by adapting the...
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Rendezvous with Rama
Rendezvous with Rama is a novel by Arthur C. Clarke first published in 1972. Set in the 22nd century, the story involves a fifty-kilometer-long cylindrical alien starship that enters Earth's solar system. The story is told from the point of view of...
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- 1973
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- 1319
The Forge of God
The Forge of God is a 1987 science fiction novel by Greg Bear. Earth faces destruction when an inscrutable and overwhelming alien form of life attacks.
The Forge of God was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1987, and was also...
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- Sep 1987
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- 1987
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- 1910
Solaris
Solaris (1961), by Stanisław Lem, is a Polish science fiction novel about the ultimate inadequacy of communication, between human and non-human species. In probing and examining the oceanic surface of the planet Solaris, from a hovering research...
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- 1961
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- 1961
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- 1176
Contact
Contact is a science fiction novel written by Carl Sagan and published in 1985.
A film adaptation of the novel starring Jodie Foster was released in 1997.
Eleanor "Ellie" Arroway is the director of "Project Argus," in which scores of radio...
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- 1985
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- Sep 1985
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- 2199
The Gods Themselves
The Gods Themselves is a 1972 science fiction novel written by Isaac Asimov. It won the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1972, and the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1973.
The book is divided into three main parts, originally published in magazine form...
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- 1972
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- 1861
Fiasco
Fiasco (Polish: Fiasko) is a science fiction novel from 1987 by Stanisław Lem that deals with clashes of cultures. The book is a further elaboration of Lem's scepticism: in Lem's opinion, the difficulty in communication with alien civilizations is...
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- 1987
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- 1986
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- 1958
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The Mote in God's Eye
The Mote in God's Eye, by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, is a science fiction novel that was first published in 1974. The story is set in the distant future of Pournelle's CoDominium universe, and charts the first contact between humankind and an...
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- Nov 1974
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- 1974
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- 1495
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Schismatrix
Schismatrix (pronounced /skɪˈzmætrɪks/) is a science fiction novel by Bruce Sterling, originally published in 1985. The story was Sterling's only novel-length treatment of the Shaper/Mechanist universe. Five short stories preceded the novel....
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- 1985
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- Jun 1985
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- 1261
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Anvil of Stars
Anvil of Stars (1992) is a book by Greg Bear and a sequel to The Forge of God. In the novel, volunteers from among the children saved from the recently destroyed Earth are sent on a quest by a galactic faction called "The Benefactors" to find and...
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- 1992
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- 1993
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- 2418
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The First Men in the Moon
The First Men in the Moon is a 1901 scientific romance novel by the British author H. G. Wells. The novel tells the story of a journey to the moon undertaken by the two protagonists, the impoverished businessman Mr Bedford and the brilliant but...
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- 1901
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- 1937
The War of the Worlds
The War of the Worlds (1898) is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells describing an invasion of late Victorian England by Martians equipped with advanced weaponry. It is a seminal depiction of an alien invasion of Earth.
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The Jupiter Theft
The Jupiter Theft is a 1977 novel by science fiction writer Donald Moffitt, re-printed in 2003 with a new afterword. The initial part of the novel mixes near-future thriller and disaster novel scenarios, focussing on the discovery of a moving gamma...
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- 1977
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Blindsight
Blindsight is a science fiction novel by Peter Watts, published in 2006. On 29 March 2007, it was nominated for the Hugo Award in the Best Novel category.
Eighty years in the future, Earth becomes aware of an alien presence when hundreds of micro...
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- 2006 ,
- Oct 17, 2006
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- Oct 3, 2006
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- 186521
