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Looking for author - IASFM late 1980s - first contact short story
I am looking for the author and title of a short story that appeared in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine in the late 1980s: likely 1988 or 1989.
The plot is that the main character has a job ...
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Aliens psych test humans before allowing them to settle
I read a book many years ago, in the early 90s, but published earlier, and I'm trying to find it again. The story started out with aliens contacting the earth and leaving several devices that ...
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First contact filmed like it was real life
Hard to describe the film in the subject, sorry about that...
I remember watching this movie more than 10 years ago. Somehow (I don't remember the details) an asteroid is detected in a collision ...
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Trying to identify a short story about a dog and how it's being left behind resulted in a human /alien race alliance [duplicate]
This is a story - likely from the mid seventies - that I read (maybe even have) in an anthology paperback. The premise is that humanity is threatened by a malevolent alien race. A military (?) space ...
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Short Story About Contact With An Alien Race That Extruded An Elixir
I remember once many years ago reading a short story about how the Human Race established contact with an alien race. One of the exchanges involved one alien and one human meeting in orbit on a space ...
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Identify: book about a Jesuit arguing that lizard people are Satanic?
I got most of the way through this book a while back but had to return it to the library. Now I can't remember the title or who wrote it. I do remember it was written sometime around 1955.
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