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First Contact Books
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Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 136 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,691,852 ratings — published 2021
Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
by (shelved 117 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.00 — 57,152 ratings — published 2006
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
by (shelved 116 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.08 — 521,346 ratings — published 2006
The Sparrow (The Sparrow, #1)
by (shelved 100 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.13 — 83,596 ratings — published 1996
Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
by (shelved 90 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.12 — 188,412 ratings — published 1973
The Mote in God's Eye (Moties, #1)
by (shelved 84 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.07 — 73,677 ratings — published 1974
Childhood’s End (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.12 — 176,894 ratings — published 1953
Contact (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 67 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.15 — 155,023 ratings — published 1985
Semiosis (Semiosis, #1)
by (shelved 60 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.90 — 15,671 ratings — published 2018
Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1)
by (shelved 58 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.15 — 66,680 ratings — published 1987
Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)
by (shelved 55 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.30 — 188,543 ratings — published 2015
Axiom's End (Noumena, #1)
by (shelved 49 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.70 — 28,739 ratings — published 2020
Remnant Population (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.11 — 7,944 ratings — published 1996
Shroud (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.16 — 13,663 ratings — published 2025
Solaris (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.98 — 137,010 ratings — published 1961
2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)
by (shelved 40 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.18 — 341,311 ratings — published 1968
The Mountain in the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.87 — 39,508 ratings — published 2022
The War of the Worlds (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.83 — 357,434 ratings — published 1898
Eifelheim (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.78 — 4,716 ratings — published 2006
Roadside Picnic (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.12 — 92,407 ratings — published 1972
The Polymorph (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 34 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.28 — 21,823 ratings — published 2023
Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)
by (shelved 33 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.05 — 67,209 ratings — published 2019
Pushing Ice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.07 — 23,219 ratings — published 2005
To Sleep in a Sea of Stars (Fractalverse, #1)
by (shelved 32 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.80 — 72,600 ratings — published 2020
The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #2)
by (shelved 32 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.40 — 235,282 ratings — published 2008
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 31 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,493,305 ratings — published 1985
The Mercy of Gods (The Captive's War, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.15 — 42,450 ratings — published 2024
A New Eden (The Betaverse, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.64 — 359 ratings — published 2023
The Left Hand of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.09 — 231,450 ratings — published 1969
Foreigner (Foreigner, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.92 — 11,126 ratings — published 1994
Dragon's Egg (Cheela, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.12 — 10,142 ratings — published 1980
Speaker for the Dead (Ender's Saga, #2)
by (shelved 28 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.11 — 275,915 ratings — published 1986
Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.31 — 331,973 ratings — published 2011
A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, #2)
by (shelved 26 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.32 — 35,527 ratings — published 1999
Footfall (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.92 — 17,759 ratings — published 1985
A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2)
by (shelved 25 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.30 — 38,045 ratings — published 2021
Anathem (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.17 — 76,487 ratings — published 2008
Spin (Spin, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.04 — 45,283 ratings — published 2005
The Forge of God (Forge of God, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.87 — 16,616 ratings — published 1987
Blind Lake (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.72 — 3,398 ratings — published 2003
A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.13 — 67,910 ratings — published 1992
Fuzzy Nation (Fuzzy Sapiens, #7)
by (shelved 23 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.15 — 32,549 ratings — published 2011
Stories of Your Life and Others (ebook)
by (shelved 22 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.25 — 130,107 ratings — published 2002
A Darkling Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.76 — 2,685 ratings — published 2014
The Gods Themselves (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.08 — 69,989 ratings — published 1972
A Half-Built Garden (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.59 — 2,814 ratings — published 2022
Sleeping Giants (Themis Files, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.82 — 99,061 ratings — published 2016
Lagoon (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.63 — 9,438 ratings — published 2014
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.80 — 322,661 ratings — published 2014
Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)
by (shelved 20 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.40 — 181,822 ratings — published 2010
“The notion of a universe filled with cowards... who stay cowardly FOREVER, no matter how advanced they become... seems no[t] only unimaginative and temporally myopic, but deeply dismal, as well.”
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“So, let me get this right. You invented this groundbreaking medical technology that changes the way we literally do everything in trauma and blood, and you are out here, 30.3 light-years away from Earth, on a planet where everyone involved in the Eden project was a hundred percent sure there’d be no DNA, blood, or anything? And now here we are playing with the DNA of an alien race? What is this? What is actually going on here?”
― Eden 2:b
― Eden 2:b
