Is anybody else out there? Are they friendly or hostile? Will we find them or have they already found us? These are the questions we have all pondered as we gaze into the endless expanse of the night sky. Sixteen established and up-coming authors explore these questions and more in this collection of science fiction. Let’s venture together into the unknown as we search for FIRST CONTACT: A Science Fiction Anthology.
Contents:
* Introduction (First Contact) • essay by Colleen Aune
* Learning to Run with Scissors / short story by John M. Olsen
* Bare Plurals / short story by Ariel Cohen
* Captain Clone (2012) / short story by Deborah Walker
* Company Policy / short story by Tim Lieder
* Dreamlogger / short story by Mike Adamson
* Evasion (2009) / short story by Gustavo Bondoni
* Garden of Fog and Monsters (2014) / short fiction by Michelle Ann King
* Harvest / short story by Michael D. Burnside
* Intensive Care / short story by Tom Howard
* The Pink Planet / short story by Greg McCabe [as by Greg McCabe Jr.]
* A Ray of Hope / short story by Frank Roger
* Stars in Her Eyes (2008) / short story by Vaughan Stanger
* The Pattern Box (2015) / short fiction by Christina Klarenbeek
* Belltheimer's Greener Harvest / short story by Roy C. Booth and William Tucker
* A Calendar of Contact / short story by Wenonah Lyon
* A Matter of Conscience / short story by Richard Mandrachio
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