46 books
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First Contact Books
Showing 1-50 of 2,070
Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 123 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.50 — 1,037,642 ratings — published 2021
Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
by (shelved 111 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.01 — 53,191 ratings — published 2006
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
by (shelved 108 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.08 — 483,534 ratings — published 2006
The Sparrow (The Sparrow, #1)
by (shelved 97 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.14 — 81,437 ratings — published 1996
Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
by (shelved 87 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.12 — 182,812 ratings — published 1973
The Mote in God's Eye (Moties, #1)
by (shelved 80 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.07 — 72,825 ratings — published 1974
Childhood’s End (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.12 — 172,553 ratings — published 1953
Contact (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 63 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.15 — 151,803 ratings — published 1985
Semiosis (Semiosis, #1)
by (shelved 58 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.90 — 15,014 ratings — published 2018
Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1)
by (shelved 54 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.15 — 62,716 ratings — published 1987
Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)
by (shelved 49 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.30 — 169,991 ratings — published 2015
Axiom's End (Noumena, #1)
by (shelved 46 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.71 — 27,995 ratings — published 2020
Remnant Population (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.11 — 7,381 ratings — published 1996
2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)
by (shelved 40 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.18 — 334,532 ratings — published 1968
Solaris (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.98 — 128,883 ratings — published 1961
Eifelheim (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.78 — 4,585 ratings — published 2006
The War of the Worlds (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.83 — 347,325 ratings — published 1898
Roadside Picnic (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.12 — 85,596 ratings — published 1972
The Mountain in the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.89 — 35,143 ratings — published 2022
To Sleep in a Sea of Stars (Fractalverse, #1)
by (shelved 32 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.80 — 69,465 ratings — published 2020
Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)
by (shelved 31 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.05 — 59,953 ratings — published 2019
Pushing Ice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.07 — 22,074 ratings — published 2005
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 31 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,466,401 ratings — published 1985
A New Eden (The Betaverse, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.64 — 340 ratings — published 2023
The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #2)
by (shelved 30 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.40 — 215,351 ratings — published 2008
Foreigner (Foreigner, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.92 — 10,895 ratings — published 1994
The Left Hand of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.10 — 217,225 ratings — published 1969
Speaker for the Dead (Ender's Saga, #2)
by (shelved 27 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.11 — 269,958 ratings — published 1986
Dragon's Egg (Cheela, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,747 ratings — published 1980
Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.31 — 314,540 ratings — published 2011
Anathem (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.17 — 75,282 ratings — published 2008
A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, #2)
by (shelved 25 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.32 — 34,991 ratings — published 1999
Spin (Spin, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.04 — 44,209 ratings — published 2005
A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2)
by (shelved 24 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.31 — 35,933 ratings — published 2021
Blind Lake (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.72 — 3,316 ratings — published 2003
Footfall (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.92 — 17,528 ratings — published 1985
Fuzzy Nation (Fuzzy Sapiens, #7)
by (shelved 23 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.15 — 32,076 ratings — published 2011
Stories of Your Life and Others (ebook)
by (shelved 22 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.25 — 123,801 ratings — published 2002
A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.13 — 66,242 ratings — published 1992
The Gods Themselves (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.09 — 68,356 ratings — published 1972
The Forge of God (Forge of God, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.87 — 16,296 ratings — published 1987
Shroud (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.20 — 6,823 ratings — published 2025
A Darkling Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.76 — 2,647 ratings — published 2014
Sleeping Giants (Themis Files, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.82 — 97,231 ratings — published 2016
Lagoon (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.63 — 9,164 ratings — published 2014
Agent to the Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.93 — 23,727 ratings — published 2004
A Half-Built Garden (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.61 — 2,647 ratings — published 2022
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.27 — 120,643 ratings — published 2016
Rosewater (The Wormwood Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.74 — 16,850 ratings — published 2017
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.80 — 296,699 ratings — published 2014
“Your president only speaks for Americans. American movies speak for your world. Who hasn't seen Wizard of Oz? Or Jaws? Or Star Wars? We've seen them, and we're not even from this planet.”
― Agent to the Stars
― Agent to the Stars
“...когда несходные культуры вступают в контакт, одна обычно должна подчиниться, иначе - война.
("Первый контакт")”
― First Contacts: The Essential Murray Leinster
("Первый контакт")”
― First Contacts: The Essential Murray Leinster












