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Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 138 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,799,452 ratings — published 2021
Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
by (shelved 119 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.00 — 58,149 ratings — published 2006
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
by (shelved 118 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.08 — 529,889 ratings — published 2006
The Sparrow (The Sparrow, #1)
by (shelved 107 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.13 — 84,485 ratings — published 1996
Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
by (shelved 92 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.12 — 189,598 ratings — published 1973
The Mote in God's Eye (Moties, #1)
by (shelved 84 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.07 — 73,852 ratings — published 1974
Childhood’s End (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.12 — 177,834 ratings — published 1953
Contact (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 68 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.15 — 155,740 ratings — published 1985
Semiosis (Semiosis, #1)
by (shelved 66 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.91 — 16,117 ratings — published 2018
Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)
by (shelved 63 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.30 — 193,105 ratings — published 2015
Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1)
by (shelved 58 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.15 — 67,613 ratings — published 1987
Axiom's End (Noumena, #1)
by (shelved 49 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.70 — 28,912 ratings — published 2020
Remnant Population (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.12 — 8,072 ratings — published 1996
Shroud (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.15 — 15,016 ratings — published 2025
Solaris (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.98 — 138,872 ratings — published 1961
2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)
by (shelved 43 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.18 — 342,790 ratings — published 1968
The Mountain in the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.87 — 40,556 ratings — published 2022
Eifelheim (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.78 — 4,787 ratings — published 2006
The War of the Worlds (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.83 — 359,825 ratings — published 1898
Roadside Picnic (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.11 — 94,125 ratings — published 1972
The Polymorph (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 34 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.28 — 21,702 ratings — published 2023
Pushing Ice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.07 — 23,492 ratings — published 2005
Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)
by (shelved 33 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.05 — 68,811 ratings — published 2019
The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #2)
by (shelved 33 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.40 — 239,000 ratings — published 2008
To Sleep in a Sea of Stars (Fractalverse, #1)
by (shelved 32 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.80 — 73,207 ratings — published 2020
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 31 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,499,125 ratings — published 1985
The Mercy of Gods (The Captive's War, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.15 — 44,330 ratings — published 2024
A New Eden (The Betaverse, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.63 — 366 ratings — published 2023
The Left Hand of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.09 — 234,699 ratings — published 1969
Foreigner (Foreigner, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.92 — 11,154 ratings — published 1994
Dragon's Egg (Cheela, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.12 — 10,205 ratings — published 1980
Speaker for the Dead (Ender's Saga, #2)
by (shelved 28 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.11 — 276,989 ratings — published 1986
Eden 2:b (The Star Dreamers #1)
by (shelved 27 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,348 ratings — published
A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, #2)
by (shelved 27 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.32 — 35,665 ratings — published 1999
Leviathan Wakes (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.31 — 335,798 ratings — published 2011
Footfall (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.92 — 17,809 ratings — published 1985
The Deep Sky (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.70 — 14,093 ratings — published 2023
A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2)
by (shelved 25 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.30 — 38,541 ratings — published 2021
Anathem (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.17 — 76,741 ratings — published 2008
A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.13 — 68,277 ratings — published 1992
Spin (Spin, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.04 — 45,525 ratings — published 2005
The Forge of God (Forge of God, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.87 — 16,674 ratings — published 1987
Blind Lake (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.72 — 3,417 ratings — published 2003
Fuzzy Nation (Fuzzy Sapiens, #7)
by (shelved 23 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.15 — 32,638 ratings — published 2011
Stories of Your Life and Others (ebook)
by (shelved 22 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.25 — 131,567 ratings — published 2002
A Half-Built Garden (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.59 — 2,858 ratings — published 2022
A Darkling Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.76 — 2,697 ratings — published 2014
The Gods Themselves (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.08 — 70,372 ratings — published 1972
Alien Clay (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 21 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.99 — 19,764 ratings — published 2024
Sleeping Giants (Themis Files, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.82 — 99,470 ratings — published 2016
“No, I do not come from a world like yours. But the more I understand the words, images and thoughts in your mind, it seems I might be a person after all.”
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“I’d always said that if and when the aliens actually landed, it would be a letdown. I mean, after War of the Worlds, Close Encounters, and E.T., there was no way they could live up to the image in the public’s mind, good or bad. I’d also said that they would look nothing like the aliens of the movies, and that they would not have come to A) kill us, B) take over our planet and enslave us, C) save us from ourselves à la The Day the Earth Stood Still, or D) have sex with Earthwomen. I mean, I realize it’s hard to find someone nice, but would aliens really come thousands of light-years just to get a date? Plus, it seemed just as likely they’d be attracted to warthogs. Or yucca. Or air-conditioning units.”
― All Seated on the Ground
― All Seated on the Ground
