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| Alien Encounters |
Listed here are links to Reading Guides for works dealing with first contact with an alien race and/or alien invasion; also works dealing primarily with an alien language or culture. Some titles will be listed under more than one topic. For more detail on this topic and additional recommended reading, see Alien Encounters in the Subject Matter section of this site. For links to Viewing Guides for television and film that deal with this topic go to Browse by Topic: Alien Encounters in the Media Guides section of this site. |
| • Alien Encounters in General • Alien Point of View • First Contact • Alien Invasion • Communicating with Aliens • Interspecies Mating • |
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| Alien Encounters in General |
| "Out of All Them Bright Stars" by Nancy Kress |
| Solaris by Stanislaw Lem |
| "Strange Wine" by Harlan Ellison |
| "Who Goes There?" by Don A. Stuart |
| "The Women Men Don't See" by James Tiptree, Jr. |
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| Alien Point of View |
| "They're Made of Meat" by Terry Bisson |
| "Think Like a Dinosaur" by James Patrick Kelly |
| "When I Was Miss Dow" by Sonya Dorman Hess |
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| First Contact |
| "After the Days of Dead-Eye Dee" by Pat Cadigan |
| "And the Angels Sing" by Kate Wilhelm |
| "Devolution" by Edmund Hamilton |
| "Face Value" by Karen Joy Fowler |
| "First Contact" by Murray Leinster |
| "Homelanding" by Margaret Atwood |
| "If the Stars are Gods" by Gordon Eklund and Gregory Benford |
| "Listening to Brahms" by Suzy McKee Charnas |
| "A Saucer of Loneliness" by Theodore Sturgeon |
| "The Sentinel" by Arthur C. Clarke |
| "Slow Life" by Michael Swanwick |
| "Story of Your Life" by Ted Chiang |
| "Tricentennial" by Joe Haldeman |
| "Vaster Than Empires and More Slow" by Ursula K. Le Guin |
| "Wang's Carpets" by Greg Egan |
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| Alien Invasion |
| "The Cloak and the Staff" by Gordon R. Dickson |
| "Midnight News" by Lisa Goldstein |
| "Nightwings" by Robert Silverberg |
| "Passengers" by Robert Silverberg |
| The Puppet Masters by Robert A. Heinlein |
| "The Road Not Taken" by Harry Turtledove |
| "The War of the Worlds" by H. G. Wells |
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| Communicating with Aliens |
| "Call Me Joe" by Poul Anderson |
| "Enemy Mine" by Barry Longyear |
| "Kyrie" by Poul Anderson |
| "A Martian Odyssey" by Stanley G. Weinbaum |
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| Interspecies Mating |
| "And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side" by James Tiptree Jr. |
| "Angel'" by Pat Cadigan |
| "The Ballad of Lost C'Mell" by Cordwainer Smith |
| "Bloodchild" by Octavia Butler |
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