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I am trying to locate a story about first contact where the aliens want to talk to the ship's dog instead of the contact team, any ideas?
The premise is that the dog can tell the aliens more about the real nature of human beings. I've been looking for the story for weeks now.
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A short story (possibility written in the 80's), where humans visit an alien race that evolves fast?
I was from a wikipedia article. Humans discover a primitive race of aliens that are very small, whose sense of time is much more accelerated. Communication with the aliens can take hours for humans, ...
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80's or earlier story called "There Stands a Statue"(?)
In the 80's(?) I read a story in an secondhand anthology that may be called "There Stands a Statue." The plot I remember is something like this.
In the park there stands a statue; like many others it ...
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Humans Stumble Upon Low-Tech Aliens
More than five years ago, I started reading a sci-fi book about advanced humans making first contact with (definitely pre-industrial but might specifically be iron-age, medieval-era) humanoids. I don’...
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Humanity as a galactic ring species [duplicate]
Short story, published before 1976.
Humanity has spread along the circumference of the galaxy (apparently avoiding the core), and diversified. The main characters are a married couple of a hairless ...
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Can't remember name of Sci Fi first contact Novel, "solution to the Fermi paradox"
I'm looking for the name of a "first contact" novel, where humans (in the future, who are fairly advanced) receive a signal from an alien world. There's debate about how to respond, or if they should ...
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SF first contact story where it is revealed that it is humanity's destiny to merge with alien
I believe story was written between 1950-1970. I read it in a large paperback anthology in the 1980s. It was a short story - deep space encounter with alien intelligence. The first astronaut to ...
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An anthology of short stories about first contact [closed]
Years ago I remember seeing an anthology of short stories about first contact, aptly titled: "First contact" (or something like that).
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Short story, where humans encounter an alien race, tell them stories; the aliens act out the stories and kill the researchers
Can't remember author or title of the story.
Seem to remember the protagonist is an investigator of some sort trying to find out why previously-peaceful alien race has killed the research or liaison ...
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60s-70s short story: distant future, mankind has spread throughout the galaxy, and make "first contact" with other descendants of Earth [duplicate]
I vividly remember a scene from a short story (?) I read back in the sixties or seventies, and am trying to remember the publication and title. If it sounds familiar to you, please post.
The scene ...
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Sci-fi book/series with feline aliens, and a female astronaut [duplicate]
From what I remember, the astronaut made first contact with a race of felines that live on the other side of the Galaxy. They had always been able to see Earth, but Earth couldn't see them because ...
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That's what's unique about humans among all species—"they die"
My friend read this science fiction story as a kid, probably written prior to 1970. Forgive me it's a second hand description: Earth is visited by aliens. The aliens note that every race in the galaxy ...
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Short Sci-fi Story about a door on the Moon?
I read it in a sci-fi collection book, like a "Greatest Sci-Fi Of XXXX". I read a story years ago while underway on a submarine, about a door that appears on the moon, and a retired astronaut is ...
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Pre-1990 short story, Earth space probe (NASA?) lands somewhere like Titan and is found by a female alien
As the title says, this would have been pre-1990. A short story in which a space probe from Earth, presumably NASA, lands on a world like Titan and is found by a female member of the local species. I ...
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Woman Jesuit priest protagonist
I am looking for the title of a sf novel that features a Jesuit who is a woman? It’s a first contact scenario, I think. I remember that the priest had shaved her head as a token of her total ...
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