Alien Contact
The thought war / Paul McAuley
How to talk to girls at parties / Neil Gaiman
Face value / Karen Joy Fowler
The road not taken / Harry Turtledove
The aliens who knew, I mean, everything / George Alec Effinger
I am the doorway / Stephen King
Recycling strategies for the inner city / Pat Murphy
The 43 Antarean dynasties / Mike Resnick
The gold bug / Orson Scott Card
Kin / Bruce McAllister
Guerrilla mural of a siren's song / Ernest Hogan
Angel / Pat Cadigan
The first contact with the gorgonids / Ursula K. Le Guin
Sunday night yams at Minnie and Earl's / Adam-Troy Castro
A midwinter's tale / Michael Swanwick
Texture of other ways / Mark W. Tiedemann
To go boldly / Cory Doctorow
If nudity offends you / Elizabeth Moon
Laws of survival / Nancy Kress
What you are about to see / Jack Skillingstead
Amanda and the alien / Robert Silverberg
Exo-skeleton town / Jeffrey Ford
Lambing season / Molly Gloss
Swarm / Bruce Sterling
MAXO signals / Charles Stross
Last contact / Stephen Baxter
Human-alien encounters, Fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general
Marty Halpern, Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, Orson Scott Card, Cory Doctorow, Ursula K. Le Guin, Paul McAuley, Karen Joy Fowler, Harry Turtledove, George Alec Effinger, Pat Murphy, Mike Resnick, Bruce McAllister, Ernest Hogan, Pat Cadigan, Adam-Troy Castro, Michael Swanwick, Mark W. Tiedemann, Elizabeth Moon, Nancy Kress, Jack Skillingstead, Robert Silverberg, Jeffrey Ford, Molly Gloss, Bruce Sterling, Stephen Baxter
Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman born Neil Richard Gaiman, 10 November 1960) is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre, and films. His notable works include the comic book series The Sandman and novels Stardust, American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book. He has won numerous awards, including the Hugo, Nebula, and Bram Stoker awards, as well as the Newbery and Carnegie medals. He is the first author to win both the Newbery and the Carnegie medals for the same work, The Graveyard Book (2008). In 2013, The Ocean at the End of the Lane was voted Book of the Year in the British National Book Awards. || Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novels. His books have sold more than 350 million copies, and many have been adapted into films, television series, miniseries, and comic books. King has published 63 novels, including seven under the pen name Richard Bachman, and five non-fiction books. He has also written approximately 200 short stories, most of which have been published in book collections.

King has received Bram Stoker Awards, World Fantasy Awards, and British Fantasy Society Awards. In 2003, the National Book Foundation awarded him the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He has also received awards for his contribution to literature for his entire bibliography, such as the 2004 World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement and the 2007 Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America. In 2015, he was awarded with a National Medal of Arts from the U.S. National Endowment for the Arts for his contributions to literature. He has been described as the "King of Horror", a play on his surname and a reference to his high standing in pop culture. || Orson Scott Card is an American novelist, critic, public speaker, essayist and columnist. He writes in several genres but is known best for science fiction. His novel Ender's Game (1985) and its sequel Speaker for the Dead (1986) both won Hugo and Nebula Awards, making Card the only author to win both science fiction's top U.S. prizes in consecutive years. || From his website: Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction author, activist, journalist and blogger -- the co-editor of Boing Boing (boingboing.net) and the author of the bestselling Tor Teens/HarperCollins UK novel LITTLE BROTHER. He is the former European director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and co-founded the UK Open Rights Group. Born in Toronto, Canada, he now lives in London.


2 Creative Commons-licensed photos: cindiann: http://www.flickr.com/photos/trucolorsfly/2625294688/ & Joi Ito, Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. || "As of 2010, Ursula K. Le Guin has published twenty-one novels, eleven volumes of short stories, three collections of essays, twelve books for children, six volumes of poetry and four of translation, and has received many awards: Hugo, Nebula, National Book Award, PEN-Malamud, etc. Her recent publications include a volume of poetry, Incredible Good Fortune, the novel Lavinia, and an essay collection, Cheek by Jowl. She lives in Portland, Oregon." - [source][1]


  [1]: http://www.ursulakleguin.com/Biography-70Word.html || Harry Norman Turtledove is an American novelist, who has produced works in several genres including alternate history, historical fiction, fantasy and science fiction.

In 1979, Turtledove published his first two novels, *Wereblood* and *Werenight*, under the pseudonym "Eric G. Iverson." Turtledove later explained that his editor at Belmont Tower did not think people would believe the author's real name was "Turtledove" and came up with something more Nordic. He continued to use the "Iverson" name until 1985, when he published his "Herbig-Haro" and "And So to Bed" under his real name. Another early pseudonym was "Mark Gordian." Turtledove has recently begun publishing historical novels under the pseudonym "H.N. Turteltaub" (Turteltaube means turtle dove in German). He published three books as Dan Chernenko (the Scepter of Mercy series). || George Alec Effinger was an American science fiction author. || Patricia Oren Kearney Cadigan || American science fiction writer || Robert Silverberg is an American author, best known for writing science fiction. He is a multiple winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards.

Silverberg received a Nebula award in 1986 for his novella Sailing to Byzantium, which takes its name from Yeats' poem; a Hugo in 1990 for Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another; and in 2004 he was named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America.

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  [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Silverberg || Sterling is an American science fiction author, best known for his novels and his work on the Mirrorshades anthology, which helped define the cyberpunk genre. - [*Wikipedia*][1]

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  [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Sterling