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17 books where the first contact trope is a big part of the story.

2001: A Space Odyssey Arthur C. Clarke 1968 · Science fiction
Blindsight Peter Watts 2006 · Science fiction
Childhood's End Arthur C. Clarke 1953 · Science fiction
Children of Ruin Adrian Tchaikovsky 2019 · Science fiction
Children of Time Adrian Tchaikovsky 2015 · Science fiction
Contact Carl Sagan 1985 · Science fiction
Death's End Cixin Liu 2008 · Science fiction
Rendezvous with Rama Arthur C. Clarke 1973 · Science fiction
Ringworld Larry Niven 1970 · Science fiction
Solaris Stanisław Lem 1961 · Science fiction
Speaker for the Dead Orson Scott Card 1986 · Science fiction
Sphere Michael Crichton 1987 · Science fiction
The Dark Forest Cixin Liu 2008 · Science fiction
The Martian Chronicles Ray Bradbury 1950 · Science fiction
The Mercy of Gods James S. A. Corey 2024 · Science fiction
The Three-Body Problem Liu Cixin 2008 · Science fiction
To Sleep in a Sea of Stars Christopher Paolini 2019 · Science fiction

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