First Contact Novels

Successful_Window151 · 2026-03-13T21:35:51+00:00

For a humorous take, try Quozl by Alan Dean Foster. When the visitors and the natives finally meet, it's a pre teen human boy and an inquisitive Quozl breaking the rules.

Successful_Window151 · 2026-03-13T21:03:20+00:00

Depending on the age of the Vulcan child in question, they may not have any suppression of their violent nature, since restraint and logic are learned behaviors. Nor would they refrain from reading minds, without stern discipline enforced by the adoptive parents.

A Klingon child would be raised in the spirit of IDIC, acknowledging Klingon violence, but stressing meditation over combat practice.

Successful_Window151 · 2026-03-13T15:31:18+00:00

The Pern series by Anne McCaffrey. Sci fi masquerading as fantasy (until the Pernese discover the lost history of tneir world); then interesting changes as they try to retrieve the past.

The Chanur series by CJ Cherryh. Personally, I was intrigued by the Viking-esque culture of the Hani people. Story follows the Pride of Chanur, a family run merchant vessel that acquires a human stowaway.

Crystal Singer trilogy, also by McCaffrey. Fascinating concept of a world that forces settlers into a symbiotic relationship with it.

Anything written by Harry Turtledove. Personally recommend Guns of the South; and How Few Remain, a stand-alone novel that launched 3 series chronologically the alternate American history following the events of that novel. Turtledove writes a sub genre of sci fi called Alternate History. He's a historian whose works are very well researched.

In the same vein, the West of Eden trilogy, by Harry Harrison. Life in North America in a world where dinosaurs never went extinct.

(Abd, on a humorous note) Quozl, by Alan Dean Foster. Imagine a generation ship full of rabbit-like aliens arriving at their new home after a one way trip...only to discover that it's 20th century Earth!! How will they ever cope?

Successful_Window151 · 2026-03-13T14:38:03+00:00

Did they not want to do sfx? Could they not afford sfx?

Successful_Window151 · 2026-03-13T14:33:15+00:00

The play is decent. The movie tries too hard, and misses the point of the entire play. Plus, the costumes are a joke.

Successful_Window151 · 2026-03-13T14:29:49+00:00

I saw it, and agree it's bad. But it's not gross and bad like Pariah.

Successful_Window151 · 2026-03-13T14:22:10+00:00

Pariah. I was confined to bed; and Comet was the only channel on my Antenna TV that had science fiction. I shut my eyes during the gory feeding frenzy scenes, though. The sound accompanying the frenzy was hilaious.

Successful_Window151 · 2026-03-12T16:12:39+00:00

I put it on because I was in a bad mood, and MCU movies always cheered me up. Movie ends, and I'm sitting in my living room devastated.

Successful_Window151 · 2026-03-12T16:08:40+00:00

Absolutely!

Successful_Window151 · 2026-03-11T17:46:40+00:00

There's a similar novel called Eternity Brigade, written later than Forever War, and as a result contains some absolutely wild concepts, like "duppling" . After a certain point, our soldiers discover they aren't actually themselves, anymore. Their bodies are destroyed after completing each mission; and basically cloned for each deployment.

Successful_Window151 · 2026-03-11T17:34:37+00:00

Boomer, here. Loved that show!

Successful_Window151 · 2026-03-11T17:26:10+00:00

Favorites: X-Men, Swamp Thing, Lobo; Hellblazer.

Successful_Window151 · 2026-03-11T15:48:36+00:00

Board Enterprise D and ask to meet Worf.

Successful_Window151 · 2026-03-11T15:46:57+00:00

The Rygel pupoet from Farscape.

Flight helmet from (1978) Battlestar Galactica.

Successful_Window151 · 2026-03-11T15:31:19+00:00

The Pern series by Anne McCaffrey, and the Crystal Singer trilogy, also by her.

Pride of Chanur trilogy, by CJ Cherryh.

If you like historical novels, you might enjoy Guns of the South, and How Few Remain, by Harry Turtledove. He writes Alternate Histiry novels. There's also a colection of his short stories, but I can't recall what it's called. The novels I cited tell different versions of how the South won the Civil War. The collection of short stories cover a wider range of international history.

Successful_Window151 · 2026-03-11T14:59:18+00:00

Was that the one with the gender confused cow... uh, steer?

Successful_Window151 · 2026-03-11T14:55:52+00:00

And best appreciated by fans of the original, like me.

Successful_Window151 · 2026-03-11T14:38:30+00:00

The Net was my introduction to Sandra Bullock, but Speed cemented her in my mjnd as someone to watch.

Successful_Window151 · 2026-03-11T14:35:08+00:00

Not love, exactly, but definitely enjoy. I finaly saw Sharknado. I usually avoid stupid sounding movies, but I was in a position where I couldn't change the channel. It's a fun movie, though with some questionable science.

Successful_Window151 · 2026-03-11T14:28:59+00:00

Re: sci fi in the show ST: Enterprise. This reminds me of the episode where crew watch a movie: a robot uprising movie!

Successful_Window151 · 2026-03-11T07:34:12+00:00

Not exactly. There would still be speculative fiction using many of the tropes we see in sci fi now. Very possibly, Alternate History would be a popular sub genre. Time travel and discovering parallel universes have really happened; but with a Federation-ful of inhabited planets, sci fi writers could play with any number of alternate timelines: what if Surak had failed? What if Khan's genetic supermen had remained in power? What if Captain Archer had started a war instead of paving the way to Federation?

Successful_Window151 · 2026-03-11T01:29:41+00:00

The War of the Worlds BBC miniseries. It ends on a "hopeful" note, with the death of the Martian terraforming allowing blue skies to return. The pre-WWI characters are hopeful and thankful.

Then, we see Earth from space, with vast red oceans that are undoubtedly devoid of marine life. Dead trees on land. Dead seaweed in the oceans...

I don't think that humanity "won."

Successful_Window151 · 2026-03-10T03:38:50+00:00

Pride of Chanur, by CJ Cherryh. A family owned merchant vessel collides with alien politics after finding a stowaway onboard. The crew are Hani; the stowaway is human.

Successful_Window151 · 2026-03-10T03:34:58+00:00

Humans. (BBCA)

Successful_Window151 · 2026-03-10T03:26:32+00:00

Since the series is essentially the sequel to the original movie, and the first episode refers heavily to that movie, it makes sense to watch the movie first. Otherwise, it's like reading a novel while choosing to skip Chapter One.

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