Speaker for the Dead
Orson Scott Card
1986
Books with the “First Contact” trope
Humans meet an alien intelligence for the first time, and the encounter changes everything.
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Plot twists · First Contact
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Solaris
Stanisław Lem
1961
Childhood's End
Arthur C. Clarke
1953
A Fire Upon the Deep
Vernor Vinge
1992
Blindsight
Peter Watts
2006
The Three-Body Problem
Cixin Liu
2008
Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
2021
The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin
1969
Children of Time
Adrian Tchaikovsky
2015
Contact
Carl Sagan
1985
Rendezvous with Rama
Arthur C. Clarke
1973
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