FIRSTCONTACT

First contact

First contact is a common science fiction theme about the first meeting between humans and extraterrestrial life, or of any sentient race's first encounter with another one.

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First Contact

"First Contact" is a 1945 science fiction novelette by Murray Leinster credited as one of the first instances of a universal translator in science fiction. It won a retro Hugo Award for Best Novelette in 1996.

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first contact

Noun

  1. the first meeting between people of two previously unknown cultures
  2. the first meeting between humans and extraterrestrials
  3. the moment, during an eclipse or transit, when the apparent positions of the two bodied first touch


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