Thread: Looking for "First Contact" books, not necessarily scifi :)
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Old 01-02-2013, 06:02 AM   #10
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Footfall by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Footfall
Good suggestion. I reread that last year and enjoyed it again.

I have just reread "In the Ocean of the Night" by Gregory Benford. It is about alien contact, but I wouldn't call it first contact. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Ocean_of_Night.

And of course, there is Damon Knight's "To Serve Man". Only a short, but it is about contact with an alien race and learning to understand each other.
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