5 Best 「first contact」 Books of 2024| Books Explorer

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Table of Contents
  1. Pushing Ice
  2. Three-Body Problem Set (Remembrance of Earth's Past)
  3. Sphere: A Novel
  4. The Gods Themselves: A Novel (Nemesis Bantam Spectra Book)
  5. The Listeners
No.1
100

Pushing Ice

Reynolds, Alastair
Gollancz

The burgeoning new economies in near-Earth space are fuelled by a steady stream of comets, steered back home by huge nuclear-powered mining ships like Bella Lind's Rockhopper. Bella and her crew are desperate for some much-needed R&R - until Janus, one of Saturn's ice moons, inexplicably leaves its natural orbit.

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No.2
94

The inspiration for the Netflix series 3 Body Problem!WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST NOVELOver 1 million copies sold in North America“A mind-bending epic.”―The New York Times • “War of the Worlds for the 21st century.”―The Wall Street Journal • “Fascinating.”―TIME • “Extraordinary.”―The New Yorker • “Wildly imaginative.”―Barack Obama • “Provocative.”―Slate • “A breakthrough book.”―George R. R. Martin • “Impossible to put down.”―GQ • “Absolutely mind-unfolding.”―NPR • “You should be reading Liu Cixin.”―The Washington PostThe Three-Body Problem Boxed Set contains all three volumes of the groundbreaking, Hugo Award-winning series―The Three-Body Problem, The Dark Forest, and Death's End―by China's most beloved science fiction author, Cixin Liu.A secret military group sends signals into space in hopes of establishing contact with aliens―and succeeds.Picking up their signal is an alien civilization on the brink of destruction who now readies to invade Earth.News of the coming invasion divides humanity like never before. Some want to help the superior beings take over a world they see as corrupt. Others prepare to fight the invasion at all cost.The Three Body Problem trilogy is a ground-breaking saga of enormous scope and vision.The Three-Body Problem SeriesThe Three-Body ProblemThe Dark ForestDeath's EndOther Books by Cixin LiuBall LightningSupernova EraTo Hold Up the SkyThe Wandering EarthA View from the Stars

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No.3
92

Sphere: A Novel

Crichton, Michael
Harper Paperbacks

Now available in trade paperback, New York Times bestselling author Michael Crichton’s classic science fiction thriller.\nIn the middle of the South Pacific, a thousand feet below the surface of the water, a huge vessel is discovered resting on the ocean floor. It is a spaceship of phenomenal dimensions, apparently undamaged by its fall from the sky. And, most startling, it appears to be at least three hundred years old. But even more fantastic—and frightening—is what waits inside…

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No.4
90

In the twenty-second century Earth obtains limitless, free energy from a source science little understands: an exchange between Earth and a parallel universe, using a process devised by the aliens. But even free energy has a price. The transference process itself will eventually lead to the destruction of the Earth's Sun—and of Earth itself.Only a few know the terrifying truth—an outcast Earth scientist, a rebellious alien inhabitant of a dying planet, a lunar-born human intuitionist who senses the imminent annihilation of the Sun. They know the truth—but who will listen? They have foreseen the cost of abundant energy—but who will believe? These few beings, human and alien, hold the key to Earth's survival.

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No.5
86

A classic of science fiction, this book predicted and inspired the creation of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI)—the organization dedicated to the search for extraterrestrial life. A tale of contact with alien life hailed by leaders of SETI organizations and today's leading science fiction authors as hugely influential, the story appeals to both science fiction readers and the hundreds of thousands of members of various SETI organizations.

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