![]() A human interrogator is sent to examine an alien who is trying to fine the only timeline that lets them both survive, but the consequences may be too high. "What You Are About To See" by Jack Skillingstead. Compelling, charming, and with solid suspense. She stumbles into a facility where she, with a simple robot companion, must train dogs or face her own destruction. A young female scavenges within the Dome that aliens placed to imprison humanity. Life in a trailer park with a neighbor who is stealing your electricity. "If Nudity Offends You" by Elizabeth Moon. Only one problem, the telepaths must touch to communicate. Telepaths - well telelogs they call it - are brought to attempt communication with aliens that music be sequester in a completely difference atmosphere. A brutal, layered, and visceral tale of first contact between humans and wolf-like aliens. "A Midwinter's Tale" by Michael Swanwick. Charming fable of Americana on the Moon and the astronauts who spend time there. "Sunday Night Yams at Minnie and Earl's" by Adam-Troy Castro. Obnoxious tourists stumble across aliens in the Australian Outback. "The First Contact with the Gorgonids" by Ursula K. A human and alien navigate a strange relationship while pursued by a woman that the alien fears. A graffiti artist is hired to attempt to understand an alien “siren” through art. "Guerrilla Mural of a Siren's Song" by Ernest Hogan. A young boy tries to hire an alien to kill the man who plans to kill his sister. A small tale set in Card’s Enderverse that, while well written, doesn’t amount to much. A superb SF commentary on the tourist industry in formerly great countries.Īverage. A modern-day native must give ungrateful tourists a tour around the majestic ruins of his ancestors. "The 43 Antarean Dynasties" by Mike Resnick. Eventually she’ll find a metallic hand that seems to have its own mission. A woman scavengers her city for pieces of destroyed alien tech. "Recycling Strategies for the Inner City" by Pat Murphy. Missing from the e-book version due to ‘contractual limitations’ Aliens give earth superior technology just be allowed to hang out with us. "The Aliens Who Knew, I Mean, Everything" by George Alec Effinger. An alternative path of human development is revealed when spacefaring ‘teddy bears’ attack. "The Road Not Taken" by Harry Turtledove. An artist and a scientist see their relationship fall apart during a study of nearly unfathomable aliens. Two young men go to a party to meet girls, but what they find is a little offbeat and strange. "How to Talk to Girls at Parties" by Neil Gaiman. A zombie outbreak story wrapped in the SF container of an alien invasion tale. ![]() Alien Contact is rated 84%.Ĥ great / 15 good / 4 average / 1 poor / 1 DNF Almost everyone will find something to like here. Style is substance in "Exo-Skeleton Town" by Jeffrey Ford, which combines a crime story, Hollywood glamour and despair, alien bugs, and romance into a very compelling story.ĭefinitely recommended. In "Laws of Survival" by Nancy Kress, a woman must train feral dogs to appeal a simple robot and the alien masters. "A Midwinter's Tale" by Michael Swanwick is a brutal and suspensful tale that works as a first contact, animal uplift story, wildness survival, and cozy holiday reminisce. My favorite are "The 43 Antarean Dynasties" by Mike Resnick, which explores the melancholy of tourism to a place where the glory as collapsed but the people remain. Even the stories rated ‘merely’ good are well worth reading. ![]() This is a very strong collect with 4 stories rated as great and only 2 stories rated as poor. Using the mixture of well established and lesser-known authors, Alien Contact stories offer many different takes on the subject matter. His purpose for this collection was to collect great “recent” alien stories, (1980-2010.). Marty Halpern, in his introduction for this collection, describes the Alien Contact story as one of the classic tropes of Science Fiction. But from Amazon here and support this blog. AVERAGE STORY: 3.80 4 great / 15 good / 4 average / 1 poor / 1 DNF
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