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First Contact Books
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Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 131 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,506,086 ratings — published 2021
Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
by (shelved 117 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.00 — 56,053 ratings — published 2006
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
by (shelved 113 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.08 — 511,143 ratings — published 2006
The Sparrow (The Sparrow, #1)
by (shelved 100 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.13 — 82,960 ratings — published 1996
Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
by (shelved 89 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.12 — 186,797 ratings — published 1973
The Mote in God's Eye (Moties, #1)
by (shelved 83 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.07 — 73,450 ratings — published 1974
Childhood’s End (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.12 — 175,612 ratings — published 1953
Contact (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 65 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.15 — 154,092 ratings — published 1985
Semiosis (Semiosis, #1)
by (shelved 59 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.90 — 15,504 ratings — published 2018
Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1)
by (shelved 57 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.15 — 65,500 ratings — published 1987
Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)
by (shelved 53 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.30 — 183,113 ratings — published 2015
Axiom's End (Noumena, #1)
by (shelved 49 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.71 — 28,550 ratings — published 2020
Remnant Population (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.11 — 7,752 ratings — published 1996
Shroud (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.17 — 11,955 ratings — published 2025
Solaris (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.98 — 134,657 ratings — published 1961
2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)
by (shelved 39 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.18 — 339,480 ratings — published 1968
The Mountain in the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.87 — 38,238 ratings — published 2022
Eifelheim (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.78 — 4,678 ratings — published 2006
The War of the Worlds (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.83 — 354,468 ratings — published 1898
Roadside Picnic (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.12 — 90,320 ratings — published 1972
The Polymorph (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 34 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.28 — 21,782 ratings — published 2023
Pushing Ice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.07 — 22,896 ratings — published 2005
To Sleep in a Sea of Stars (Fractalverse, #1)
by (shelved 31 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.80 — 71,879 ratings — published 2020
Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)
by (shelved 31 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.05 — 65,145 ratings — published 2019
The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #2)
by (shelved 31 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.40 — 230,693 ratings — published 2008
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 31 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,486,065 ratings — published 1985
A New Eden (The Betaverse, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.65 — 353 ratings — published 2023
The Left Hand of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.10 — 227,541 ratings — published 1969
Foreigner (Foreigner, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.92 — 11,072 ratings — published 1994
The Mercy of Gods (The Captive's War, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.16 — 39,608 ratings — published 2024
Dragon's Egg (Cheela, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.12 — 10,058 ratings — published 1980
Speaker for the Dead (Ender's Saga, #2)
by (shelved 28 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.11 — 274,586 ratings — published 1986
Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.31 — 327,093 ratings — published 2011
A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, #2)
by (shelved 26 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.32 — 35,379 ratings — published 1999
Footfall (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.92 — 17,711 ratings — published 1985
Anathem (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.17 — 76,172 ratings — published 2008
Spin (Spin, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.04 — 44,981 ratings — published 2005
A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2)
by (shelved 24 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.30 — 37,422 ratings — published 2021
Blind Lake (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.72 — 3,355 ratings — published 2003
A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.13 — 67,469 ratings — published 1992
The Forge of God (Forge of God, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.87 — 16,548 ratings — published 1987
Fuzzy Nation (Fuzzy Sapiens, #7)
by (shelved 23 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.15 — 32,439 ratings — published 2011
Stories of Your Life and Others (ebook)
by (shelved 22 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.25 — 128,334 ratings — published 2002
The Gods Themselves (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.08 — 69,540 ratings — published 1972
Sleeping Giants (Themis Files, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.82 — 98,506 ratings — published 2016
A Darkling Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.76 — 2,678 ratings — published 2014
Lagoon (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.63 — 9,383 ratings — published 2014
Agent to the Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.93 — 24,223 ratings — published 2004
A Half-Built Garden (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.60 — 2,768 ratings — published 2022
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.25 — 132,634 ratings — published 2016
“I'm overwhelmed, Captain Picard. I'm quite - overwhelmed. I go home each night to a loving wife, two beautiful daughters. We eat the evening meal together as a family, (I think that is important), and they always ask me if I had a good day."
"And how will you answer them tonight, Chancellor?"
"I will have to say, 'This morning, I was the leader of the universe as I knew it. This afternoon, I am only a voice in a chorus. But I think it was a good day.”
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"And how will you answer them tonight, Chancellor?"
"I will have to say, 'This morning, I was the leader of the universe as I knew it. This afternoon, I am only a voice in a chorus. But I think it was a good day.”
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“Let us begin by saying that no two symmetriads are alike and that the geometry of each is, as it were, an “invention” of the living ocean. So then, the symmetriad produces in its interior things that are often called “instant machines,” though these formations bear no resemblance to machines constructed by people — the term only refers to a certain “mechanical” purposiveness of operation.”
― Solaris
― Solaris
