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The short story “First Contact”, by Murray Leinster, was published in the May 1945 edition of Astounding magazine.

 

 

 

 

 

1. Web Resources

2. Book References

3. Other material

 

Web Resources

There is a rapid turnover of UFO material on the Internet. Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date. Therefore, instead of giving many links to specific webpages I have instead included below a search box which can be used to search various leading UFO websites at the same time. You can then click on tabs at the top of the search results to list only results from forums, only results from websites I have labelled as "skeptical" etc. I have included tabs for a couple of specific websites that I find particularly useful, including the valuable archives of the UFO UpDates email discussion List. The relevant websites are all listed in the discussion of the "UFO Searchillion" search engine in Section 2.4 of the "Free UFO Researcher Starter Pack" and continues to evolve...

 

The relevant search box is one of the two main tools on this website which are intended to help reduce the amount of reinvention of the wheel within UFOlogy. The other main tool is the collection of tables of references to discussion of UFO incidents, personalities and other matters in various books. Those tables can be sorted by author, length and date. I hope these tools are useful.

 

 

 

Book References

The table below includes references to relevant discussions in UFO/SETI books noted by Isaac Koi during a review of approximately 963 UFO/SETI books during the period 2003-2006 (with a few later additions). The table can be sorted by author, date and length of discussion by clicking on the relevant word in the top line of the table.

Many of the tables of references on this website are considerably longer than the references to books found on most other UFO websites. Indeed, some are probably the longest that have been collated in relation to some events and personalities. Together with the "UFO Searchillion" search box, I hope that these tables are found to be a useful contribution to UFOlogy.

For discussion of the “First Contact” short story see the following:

 

Year

Discussion by:

 

No. of Pages

1996

Dick, Steven J in his “The Biological Universe” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 260 (in Chapter 5) of the Cambridge hardback edition.

1

1990

Guthke, Karl S in his “The Last Frontier : Imagining Other Worlds From the Copernican Revolution to Modern Science Fiction: Imagining Other Worlds From the Copernican Revolution to Modern Science Fiction” (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 29 (in Chapter 1.3) of the Cornell University softcover edition.

1

1987

McDonough, Thomas R in his “The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence - Listening for Life in the Cosmos” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 42-43 (in Chapter 3) of the Wiley softcover edition.

2

1998

Pickover, Clifford in his “The Science of Aliens” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 146 (in Chapter 7) of the Basic Books hardback edition.

1

1997

Rutkowski, Chris in “Making Contact” (1997) (edited by Bill Fawcett) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 97 (in Section 2) of the Morrow hardback edition.

1

1975

Stern, Donald K in “Cultures beyond the Earth : The Role of Anthropology in Outer Space” (1975) (edited by Magoroh Maruyama and Arthur Harkins) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 51 (in Chapter 2) of the Vintage paperback edition.

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Other Material

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