🏷️ First Contact
8 entries tagged with this trope
The Mountain in the Sea
Ray Nayler · 2022
Octopuses have developed their own civilization. A marine biologist races to understand them before corporations exploit them. A profound meditation on consciousness and communication.
To Sleep in a Sea of Stars
Christopher Paolini · 2020
Kira finds an alien relic that bonds with her body. She's humanity's best hope — or its doom. Paolini's adult sci-fi debut is massive, ambitious, and surprisingly emotional.
Children of Time
Adrian Tchaikovsky · 2015
Humanity's last survivors find a terraformed world — but the spiders got there first. Alternating chapters follow human desperation and spider evolution. You WILL root for the spiders.
Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir · 2021
A man wakes up on a spaceship with no memory and a mission to save Earth. From the author of The Martian.
Children of Time
Adrian Tchaikovsky · 2015
An uplift experiment goes sideways and spiders inherit a planet. Humanity's last ship arrives.
The Three-Body Problem
Liu Cixin · 2008
Cultural Revolution physics meets alien invasion. Big ideas, bigger ambitions.
Children of Time
Adrian Tchaikovsky · 2015
Spiders evolve intelligence on a terraformed planet. The last humans are coming. Who inherits the world? Makes you root for spiders.
Children of Ruin
Adrian Tchaikovsky · 2019
Uplifted octopuses meet the spider civilization from book one. If you loved intelligent arachnids, wait until you meet the octopuses. Cephalopod consciousness done perfectly.