![]() “Exposure Therapy”-my first professional publication, in Analog many years ago-was a first-contact story. What interested you in a first-contact story that takes a more peaceful route than the murderous invader angle we see so often?įirst contact has been my favorite subgenre of science fiction since I was a teenager. The only problem? Communities like the one protagonist Judy Wallach-Stevens belongs to have made enormous progress in healing the Earth, and they may not want to abandon it after all. They’re a multicultural community made up of different interstellar life-forms, they value parenthood to the point that they show up to negotiations with children in tow, and they’ve come to Earth for the express purpose of airlifting humans off of our doomed planet. ![]() The Ringers, the aliens that descend to Earth at the beginning of Ruthanna Emrys’ A Half-Built Garden, are perhaps the best-case scenario as far as aliens go. ![]()
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