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Date	Type	Language	Title	Authors	Parent Title	Parent Authors	Tags
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)
2016-12-20	NOVEL	English	First Contact	Dawn Chapman			science fiction (2), first contact (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)
2016-11-27	SHORTFICTION	English	The Jungle Between	Holly Schofield			science fiction (1), first contact (1), dinosaurs (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)
2015-12-19	NOVEL	English	Not Alone	Craig A. Falconer			first contact (1), science fiction (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)
2014-09-29	NOVEL	English	My Sweet Satan	Peter Cawdron			first contact (1)
2014-04-05	NOVEL	English	Predator X	C. J. Waller			adventure (1), Lovecraftian (1), horror (1), science fiction (1), first contact (1), alien contact (1), monster (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)
2013-04-00	SHORTFICTION	English	Deep Blood Kettle	Hugh Howey			Extortion (1), aliens (1), asteroid impact (1), alien invasion (1), first contact (1), science fiction (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)
2013-06-22	NOVEL	English	Xenophobia	Peter Cawdron			first contact (1)
2012-06-19	NOVEL	English	Existence	David Brin			science fiction (1), first contact (1), global warming (1), cyborg (1), artificial intelligence (1), polyamory (1), intelligent dolphins (1)
2012-01-00	NOVEL	English	Outpost	Allan Baillie			juvenile sf (1), teen science fiction (1), first contact (1), aliens (1)
2011-09-01	NOVEL	English	Anomaly	Peter Cawdron			first contact (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)
2011-10-06	SHORTFICTION	English	The Belonging	Eric Del Carlo			first contact (1)
2011-10-00	SHORTFICTION	English	The Bullfrog Radio Astronomy Project	Brad R. Torgersen			first contact (1)
2011-03-16	NOVEL	English	Triptych	J. M. Frey			first contact (1), time travel (1), LGBTQ+ (1), gender identity (1), family (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			science (1), first contact (1), entanglement (1), Europa (1), Callisto (1), Ganymede (1), Io (1), Jovians (1), scientists (1), historical characters (1), italy (1), religion (1), planetary sentience (1), time travel (1), science fiction (1), Renaissance (1), Jupiter (1), historical (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), space-based life (1)
2009-08-00	SHORTFICTION	English	Under the Shouting Sky	Karl Bunker			survival (1), accident (1), sacrifice (1), saturn (1), first contact (1), aliens (1), science fiction (1), Enceladus (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 (2), Colorado (1), Denver (1), Newspaper reporter (1), science fiction (1), Christmas (1), aliens (1), humor (1), music (1), choirs (1)
2007-10-30	NOVEL	English	Contact Harvest	Joseph Staten			space opera (1), science fiction (1), first contact (1), forerunner artifacts (1), military sf (1), aliens (1), rebellion (1)
2007-07-01	ESSAY	English	Droppin' Science Fiction: Signification and Singularity in the Metapocalypse of Du Bois, Baraka, and Bell	Darryl A. Smith			first contact (1), genocide (1), science fiction (1), singularity (1), music (1), racism (1), sovereignty (1), non-Euclidean geometry (1)
2007-06-00	SHORTFICTION	English	Glory	Greg Egan			mathematics (1), archeology (1), space opera (1), female main character (1), extinct alien race (1), alien (1), far future (1), nanotechnology (1), uploaded consciousness (1), personality backup (1), suicide (1), first contact (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-tv (1), China (1), femtotechnology (1), Earth (1), virtual reality (1), alien perspective (1), first contact (1), quantum physics (1), despair (1), Alpha Centauri (1), research (1), into-movie (1), into-comics (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), medieval (1), Black Death (1), alien (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), exploration (1), fusion power (1)
2005-11-00	NOVEL	English	Pushing Ice	Alastair Reynolds			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			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)
2004-07-00	SHORTFICTION	English	Clay's Pride	Bud Sparhawk			science fiction (1), space war (1), space navy (1), aliens (1), first contact (1), political intrigue (1), double-cross (1), mustache-twirling villain (1)
2004-07-00	SHORTFICTION	English	The Clapping Hands of God	Michael F. Flynn			sympathy (1), war between alien species (1), travel through hyperspace (1), first contact (1), interstellar travel (1), Muslim protagonist (1), weight of leadership (1)
2004-04-00	SHORTFICTION	English	The Ocean of the Blind	James L. Cambias			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), echolocation (1), horror (1), stealth diving suit (1), interstellar travel (1)
2004-08-00	SHORTFICTION	English	The Tribes of Bela	Albert E. Cowdrey			mining colony (1), alien religion (1), alien ecology (1), gone native (1), war with aliens (1), murder mystery (1), interstellar travel (1), first contact (1), epistolary structure (1), strong female characters (1), first person point of view (1), serial killer (1), planet with extreme climate (1)
2003-09-00	SHORTFICTION	English	Looking Through Lace	Ruth Nestvold			science fiction (1), aliens (1), first contact (1)
2003-00-00	NOVEL	English	Stranger Inside	S. Andrew Swann			science fiction (1), first contact (1), possession (1), young adult thriller (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			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)
2002-07-00	SHORTFICTION	English	Lambing Season	Molly Gloss			science fiction (1), sheep (1), shepherds (1), aliens (1), first contact (1), plotless (1), character study (1)
2001-10-00	NOVEL	English	A Paradigm of Earth	Candas Jane Dorsey			science fiction (1), first contact (1)
2001-00-00	SHORTFICTION	English	Nothing Ever Happens in Rock City	Jack McDevitt			aliens (1), first contact (1), short short (1), astronomy (1), astronomers (1), SETI (1)
2001-12-00	SHORTFICTION	English	On K2 with Kanakaredes	Dan Simmons			near future (1), science fiction (1), aliens (1), mountaineering (1), himalayas (1), first contact (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)
2000-03-00	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)
2000-06-00	SHORTFICTION	English	The Birthday of the World	Ursula K. Le Guin			science fiction (1), cultural dominance (1), aliens (1), theocracy (1), anthropology (1), incest (1), first contact (1), societal collapse (1), primitive society (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 (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)
1999-09-00	SHORTFICTION	English	Ninety Percent of Everything	James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel and Jonathan Lethem			academia (1), billionaires (1), odor (1), humor (1), first contact (1), aliens (1), science fiction (1), avatars (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), nonbinary gender (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			first contact (2), linguistics (2), physics (2), into-movie (1), communication (1), first person point of view (1), prognostication (1), free will (1), philosophy (1), science fiction (1), Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis (1), determinism (1), aliens (1), precognition (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), into-movie (1)
1997-00-00	SHORTFICTION	English	The Dance of the Hunting Sun	Barry B. Longyear			first person point of view (1), alien point of view (1), first contact (1), greed versus conscience (1), primitive aliens (1)
1997-09-00	NOVEL	English	The Zanti Misfits	John Peel			science fiction (1), novelization (1), first contact (1), ants (1), military (1)
1997-05-00	SHORTFICTION	English	We Will Drink a Fish Together ...	Bill Johnson			science fiction (1), aliens (1), first contact (1), bodyguard (1), honor (1), Dakotas (1)
1997-00-00	SHORTFICTION	English	When the Fire Creatures Came	Donald Wandrei			first contact (1), thriller (1), science fiction (1), aliens (1)
1996-06-00	SHORTFICTION	English	Decency	Robert Reed			science fiction (1), aliens (1), first contact (1), solar sail (1), euthanasia (1), murder (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)
1996-12-00	NOVEL	English	First Contact	J. M. Dillard			time travel (1), science fiction (1), novelization (1), star trek (1), Star Trek: The Next Generation Movies (1), Star Trek VIII: First Contact (1), Borg (1), first contact (1)
1996-09-00	SHORTFICTION	English	Gone	John Crowley			alien visitation (1), what human is (1), science fiction (1), hope (1), despair (1), first contact (1), aliens (1), near future (1), service (1)

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