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First contact story where aliens are (discovered at the very end to be) anti-matter
Does anyone recall the name of a SF first contact story where humans encounter an alien ship, and use the weak force to define left and right. At the very end, as the human and alien space walk out to ...
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First Last? Contact
I am looking for a short story published in an anthology in either 2014 or 2015 (more likely 2015).
In the story, the universe is undergoing a Big Crunch and SETI suddenly begins to get thousands of ...
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Cannot find simple first contact "mood" story
I read a first contact science fiction story in class in 1976 that I found fascinating but cannot find anywhere after many searches. It was perhaps written by Pohl or Asimov or Leinster ? but every ...
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Alien survives crash, dies from medicine
This is an old (1950's or 60's?) short story, possibly Soviet or European author. An alien ship crashes near an isolated village (might be a fishing village?). One alien survives the crash but is ...
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Looking for short story about alien scavengers chasing space whales on earth
I read this short story years ago on the net, and a lot of details have faded from my mind since then.
The premise is that there are these gigantic space-borne creatures that eats just about ...
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Story about linguist who deciphers alien language/script [duplicate]
I remember a short story or maybe novella about a first contact. The powers in place bring in a renowned linguist (female, iirc) and her team to help communicate with the aliens.
Working off the ...
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Short story about a hole to another universe that pulls in metal
This question reminded me of a story I read in the 90s.
A woman is caught shoplifting a bunch of metal items by throwing them into her purse. She has no memory, and the purse is empty. Anything metal ...
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Which novel involves vampires, burning satellites, space travel, and body modification?
About a decade ago, I encountered a novel or a novella that I cannot locate.
The setting was Earth, about one century into the future. I remember vampires and a mesh of satellites around the Earth ...
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Story where the main character learns to perceive time out of order from the aliens
I read a story several years ago in which aliens come make first contact with Earth, and a bunch of scientists set to work trying to establish communication with them in various fields. The main ...
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Story About Contact with an Alien Race That Lives on a Different Time Scale [duplicate]
I remember a few months ago looking at a story about humans arriving on a planet and finding a microscopic alien race. This microscopic alien race lived on a different time scale where they aged a lot ...
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Author of story that I think was called "the Grantha Incident"
I'm trying to remember the author of a first contact story from the 50s or 60s. I think it was called "The Grantha Incident" but can't turn up anything with that title. In the story, a spaceship ...
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Aliens united to destroy a violent race, but the twist is that it’s humanity
I'm looking for a sci-fi short story where a crew from Earth makes first contact with an alien. The alien tells them about how all the alien races united to destroy an extremely violent/belligerent ...
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Looking for a sci-fi novel about first contact
Male author who did not typically write science fiction.
Novel came out in the 1990's I think.
It seemed initially to be a story about a serial killer but it turns out the protagonist was merely ...
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Underground particle detector finds alien signal
I read a review in New Scientist about 5–10 years ago of a new sci-fi novel published by an author with an academic background – he may have been an astronomer or physicist – about someone working ...
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Short Story About How 2 Astronauts Who Stop for Lunch Unknowingly Destroy the Only Lifeform on an Arid Planet
In the 70's or 80's I read a short story in which 2 astronauts looking for a nice place to eat lunch choose a spot at the pole of a small desolate planet, overlooking the world's only pool of surface ...
