You Never Get a Second Chance to Make First Contact

Wizards & Spaceships

In this episode, we talk about meeting sentient extraterrestrials: The challenges of communication, what first contact stories say about our own Earthbound society, and why the aliens won't return our texts.

David's recommendations:

• • "Darmok" (Star Trek TNG)
  
  

• • "The Inner Light" (Star Trek TNG)
  
  

• • The Day the Earth Stood Still
  
  

• • Arrival
  
  

• • The Sparrow, Mary Doria Russell
  
  

Rachel's recommendations

• • "Species 10-C" (Star Trek Discovery)
  
  

• • Children of Time, Adrian Tchaikovsky
  
  

• • Attack the Block
  
  

• • Xenogenesis Trilogy (Lilith’s Brood), Octavia E. Butler
  
  

• • Blindsight, Peter Watts