First Contact Theme in Science Fiction

Last Modified on May 8, 1996

The stories/novels below are those which either have the First Contact theme as the major premise, or have recognizable First Contact situations as an integral part of the plot. They were compiled from my own reading and the contributions from the science fiction literary discussion list, SF-LIT. Thanks for everybody who contributed to the list. To learn more about SF-LIT, send e-mail to LISTPROC@LOC.GOV with no subject line and the word help within the message body.

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@ From NCG#From SF-LIT
The stories are sorted according to the Author Surnames in alphabetical order

A B C D F G H K L M N P S W

A

Anderson, Poul
@The Enemy Stars
Asimov, Isaac
@Found
@Nothing for Nothing
@Victory Unintentional

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B

Bear, Greg
# Anvil of Stars
Blish, James
@A Case of Conscience
Bradbury, Ray
@Here There Be Tygers

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C

Campbell, John W.
@Who Goes There?
Card, Orson Scott
# Ender's Game

Clarke, Arthur C.
@Before Eden
@Childhood's End
@Expedition to Earth
@Loophole
@No Morning After
@Publicity Campaign
@Rendez-vous with Rama

Clement, Hal
@Cycle Of Fire
@Mission Of Gravity
@Needle

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D

Del Rey, Lester
@Outpost Of Jupiter

Dickson, Gordon R.
@Dolphin's Way
@In The Bone
@The Alien Way

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F

Foster, Alan Dean
# Nor Crystal Tears

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G

Gunn, James E.
@The Listeners

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H

Hamilton, Peter F.
#The Nano Flower

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K

Klass, Morton
@Earthman's Burden

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L

Leiber, Fritz
@The Wanderer

Leinster, Murray
@De Profundis
@First Contact
@Nobody Saw The Ship
@Propagandist
@Proxima Centauri
@The Castaway
@This Star Shall Be Free

Lewis, C.S. >Out of The Silent Planet

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M

MacLean, Katherine
@Pictures Don't Lie

McDonald, Ian
# Chaga

McKenna, Richard
# Mine Own Ways

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N

Niven, Larry & Jerry Pournelle
# Footfall
@The Mote In God's Eye

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P

Pierce, Hayford
@Mail Supremacy

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S

Sagan, Carl
@Contact

Silverberg, Robert
@Collision Course
@Tower of Glass

Simak, Clifford D.
@Way Station

Sturgeon, Theodore
# Affair With A Green Monkey
@Killdozer
@To Marry Medusa

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W

Weinbaum, Stanley G.
@A Martian Odyssey

Williams, Ralph
@Pax Galactica

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