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First Contact Gone Wrong

Humanity meets the alien and it goes badly — through malice, misunderstanding, or sheer incompatibility.

2 titles

Common themes

First Contact 2 Space Opera 1

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1910s 1960s

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Garrett Putman Serviss Keith Laumer

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A Bad Day for Vermin

Cover of A Bad Day for Vermin by Keith Laumer

A Bad Day for Vermin

Keith Laumer · 1964

A Columbus of Space

Cover of A Columbus of Space by Garrett Putman Serviss

A Columbus of Space

Garrett Putman Serviss · 1911

4 hr 8 min read

First ContactSpace Opera