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"I went back to science fiction to try a few experiments …and my first experiment was a disaster…"
- Alfred Bester
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| First Contact | ||
| The initial encounter with a non-human race. |
This is the first instance of this great phrase in science fiction.
| He had piloted the Adastra to its first contact with the civilization of another solar system. His lifework was done and he was wholly prepared to rest...
The space ship swelled on the visiplate as Jack turned the knob. He brought it to an apparent distance of a few hundred yards only... |
| Technovelgy from Proxima Centauri,
by Murray Leinster. Published by Astounding Stories in 1935 Additional resources -
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The phrase "first contact" first appeared in the late nineteenth century, in an anthropological sense.
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'He was in a high-ceilinged windowless cell with walls of glittering white porcelain.'
'I don't have to tell you about the seven two-mile-diameter orbital mirrors...'
'The robant and the tiny old woman entered the control room slowly...'
'Guy named Otto Octavius winds up with eight limbs... What are the odds?'
'It is as you thought when you constructed the time crystal, my master Vaylan.'
'This was their world, their planet — this swift-traveling, yet seemingly moveless vessel.'
