The Shoutbox
SIGMA PI DO-OR-DIE!
That's my Pi...
patient 0 was the pizza man. we gotta find that pizza man if we have any hope of saving the campus from those sigma pi eating bastards!
Undead Prat Farty Pizza sounds like it might be a little better imo.
Undead Frat Party Pizza sounds like an 80s B-Horror.
devoured like the undead or devoured like a college frat pizza party? not much difference now that i think about it tho
Aye, when you guys reply to spam, just know your hilarious prod at the spammer might get devoured with it.
Deleted some spammy shouts and also one reply from a regular, in case that regular is wondering where their shout went.
Romania. I love the cut of your jib.
I think my favorite is perhaps Vernor Vinge's A Deepness in the Sky, but the books you list are all great, also. Rama was one of the first ones I read, so perhaps I hold it in high regard due to it being the first or one of the first I ever read. Then again, it almost doesn't qualify, being more of a BDO contact than alien first contact.
Originally Posted by Sedai
Perhaps the finest of the first contact stories? I would put it at or near the top...
To clarify, I don't think I've read all that many first contact novels to be weighing in on an all time list. But something like H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds or Niven and Pournelle's The Mote in God's Eye or even something brand new like Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary spring to mind. Again, I'm not the most qualified person to be talking to. Those are just some of my favorites.