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A scene of a first contact between aliens and humans in Robert Sheckley's 1952 short story "Warrior Race". First contact is a common theme in science fiction about the first meeting between humans and extraterrestrial life, or of any sentient species' first encounter with another one, given they are from different planets or natural satellites.
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"First Contact" is a 1945 science fiction novelette by American writer Murray Leinster, credited as one of the first (if not the first) instances of a universal translator in science fiction. [1] It won a retro Hugo Award for Best Novelette in 1996. Two technologically-equal species are making first contact in deep space.
On December 21, 2011, Ebert added Contact to his "Great Movies" collection. [39] Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times said that the film carried a more philosophical portrait of the science fiction genre than did other films, but still managed "to satisfy the cravings of the general public who simply want to be entertained". [40]
Contact is a 1985 hard science fiction novel by American scientist Carl Sagan. It deals with the theme of contact between humanity and a more technologically advanced extraterrestrial life form . It ranked No. 7 on Publishers Weekly ' s 1985 bestseller list .
First contact (astronomy), the moment in astronomical transit when the apparent positions of the two bodies first touch; First contact (anthropology), the first meeting of two cultures previously unaware of one another; First contact (science fiction), a common science fiction theme about the first meeting between humans and extraterrestrial life
Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels, An English-Language Selection, 1949–1984 is a nonfiction book by David Pringle, published by Xanadu in 1985 [1] [2] with a foreword by Michael Moorcock. Primarily, the book comprises 100 short essays on the selected works, covered in order of publication, without any ranking.
Climate change—science fiction dealing with effects of anthropogenic climate change and global warming at the end of the Holocene era; Megacity; Pastoral science fiction—science fiction set in rural, bucolic, or agrarian worlds, either on Earth or on Earth-like planets, in which advanced technologies are downplayed. Seasteading and ocean ...