Best First Contact and Alien Fiction

Humanity meets intelligence from elsewhere — the most philosophically rich premise in sci-fi.

Novels (The Call of the Wild / White Fang) by Jack London
À la recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust
What's mine's mine by George MacDonald
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Native Son by Richard Wright
Novels (Emma / Mansfield Park / Northanger Abbey / Persuasion / Pride and Prejudice / Sense and Sensibility) by Jane Austen
Ovid with an English translation: Heroides and Amores by Ovid
Behind a Mask, or, A Woman's Power by Louisa May Alcott
The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith
The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith

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