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First Contact Series

33 primary works • 33 total works
FIRST CONTACT is a series of stand-alone novels that explore the concept of humanity's First Contact with extraterrestrial life. Like BLACK MIRROR or THE TWILIGHT ZONE, the series is based on a common theme rather than common characters. These books can be read in any order. Technically, they're all first as they all deal with how we might initiall…
Anomaly
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4.02 · 5731 Ratings · 453 Reviews · published 2011 · 14 editions
ANOMALY examines the prospect of an alien intellig…

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    Galactic Exploration
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    4.18     · 1116 Ratings · 70 Reviews · published 2012 · 5 editions
    Galactic Exploration looks at the Rare Earth hypot…

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    Xenophobia
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    4.27     · 2598 Ratings · 200 Reviews · published 2013 · 6 editions
    Xenophobia examines the impact of first contact wi…

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    Little Green Men
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    4.06     · 1506 Ratings · 138 Reviews · published 2013 · 3 editions
    Little Green Men is a tribute to the works of Phil…

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    Feedback
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    4.17     · 2061 Ratings · 170 Reviews · published 2014 · 3 editions
    Twenty years ago, a UFO crashed into the Yellow Se…

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    My Sweet Satan
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    4.14     · 1857 Ratings · 157 Reviews · published 2014 · 4 editions
    The crew of the Copernicus are sent to investigate…

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    Alien Space Tentacle Porn
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    4.12     · 909 Ratings · 100 Reviews · published 2015 · 6 editions
    A 1950s hospital. Temporary amnesia. A naked man r…

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    Starship Mine
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    4.24     · 1301 Ratings · 119 Reviews · published 2016 · 7 editions
    James Patterson is a gay accountant living in Keye…

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    Welcome to the Occupied States of America
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    4.32     · 1215 Ratings · 84 Reviews · published 2016 · 7 editions
    FIRST CONTACT is a series of stand-alone novels th…

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    Maelstrom
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    4.13     · 1436 Ratings · 113 Reviews · published 2017 · 9 editions
    Tunguska, Roswell, the Bermuda Triangle, the Mary …

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    Losing Mars
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    4.29     · 2442 Ratings · 195 Reviews · published 2018 · 3 editions
    Disaster strikes in orbit around Mars. A Chinese s…

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    Hello World
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    4.22     · 603 Ratings · 44 Reviews · published 2019 · 4 editions
    HELLO WORLD represents a decade of science fiction…

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    3zekiel
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    4.08     · 4991 Ratings · 526 Reviews · published 2019 · 12 editions
    Deep within the Congo, a team of scientists prepar…

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    But The Stars
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    4.17     · 1230 Ratings · 90 Reviews · published 2020 · 8 editions
    "But the stars that marked our starting fall away.…

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    Wherever Seeds May Fall
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    4.31     · 3759 Ratings · 355 Reviews · published 2021 · 3 editions
    Astronomers from around the world watch in awe as …

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    Déjà Vu
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    4.29     · 1402 Ratings · 86 Reviews · published 2021 · 6 editions
    Jessica Rowe is an astrobiologist onboard the star…

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    Jury Duty
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    4.25     · 1896 Ratings · 117 Reviews · published 2021 · 3 editions
    The United Nations is thrown into chaos when an al…

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    Cold Eyes
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    4.42     · 3486 Ratings · 212 Reviews · published 2021 · 6 editions
    COLD EYES is a FIRST CONTACT tribute to the 1974 s…

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    Generation of Vipers
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    4.39     · 1514 Ratings · 79 Reviews · published 2022 · 4 editions
    Generation of Vipers is the sequel to Wherever See…

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    Clowns
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    4.27     · 1207 Ratings · 80 Reviews · published 2022 · 5 editions
    Humanity's First Contact with an intelligent extra…

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    The Tempest
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    4.31     · 1289 Ratings · 68 Reviews · published 2022 · 8 editions
    Marc and Emma are on the graveyard shift onboard t…

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    Apothecary
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    4.34     · 1629 Ratings · 109 Reviews · published 2023 · 6 editions
    In 1558, during the reign of Bloody Queen Mary, Ea…

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    The Art of War
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    4.52     · 1623 Ratings · 106 Reviews · published 2023 · 6 editions
    Commander Lisa Chao works in the US Navy’s Strateg…

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    Ghosts
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    4.42     · 1776 Ratings · 113 Reviews · published 2023 · 6 editions
    When an alien spacecraft four times the size of a …

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    The Artifact
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    4.16     · 1729 Ratings · 112 Reviews · published 2023 · 4 editions
    Five hundred miles from the Mediterranean, deep in…

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    The Anatomy of Courage
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    4.58     · 843 Ratings · 63 Reviews · published 2024 · 4 editions
    Dr. Christopher Walters has been assigned to a med…

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    The Simulacrum
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    4.40     · 1227 Ratings · 79 Reviews · published 2024 · 3 editions
    Someone is altering old astronomical images. In on…

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    Love, Sex and the Alien Apocalypse
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    4.07     · 776 Ratings · 54 Reviews · published 2024 · 4 editions
    Alice is a college student. All she wants is to fi…

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    The Minotaur
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    4.41     · 788 Ratings · 46 Reviews · published 2025 · 4 editions
    Life has been found beneath the icy shell of the m…

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    Dark Beauty
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    4.23     · 443 Ratings · 21 Reviews · published 2025 · 3 editions
    Dark Beauty is a tribute to Kurt Vonnegut's Slaugh…

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    Gold Rush
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    4.56     · 644 Ratings · 55 Reviews · published 2025 · 4 editions
    Astronomers discover an interstellar comet on a co…

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    The Darkness Between the Stars
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    4.30     · 392 Ratings · 18 Reviews · published 2025 · 3 editions
    The Darkness Between the Stars is a novella specul…

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    The Oracle
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    4.56     · 168 Ratings · 23 Reviews · published 2025 · 3 editions
    Carl Meier is a private in the German Sixth Army. …

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