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From: Robert Woodward <robertaw@drizzle.com>
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Subject: Re: Joe Haldeman's The Coming
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2025 10:02:48 -0700
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In article <vs81gk$jaci$1@dont-email.me>,
 Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 3/29/2025 12:38 AM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
> > On 3/23/2025 7:19 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> >> This takes place in a corrupt near-future Florida after astronomers
> >> have received a message from space.  Saying anything else is going
> >> to spoil some part of the plot.  After all these years I suspect this
> >> is probably my favorite alien first contact novel of all time.
> >>
> >> This came out in 2000 and have just not got around to it.  No wonder
> >> I never get to nominate anything for Hugos.
> >> --scott
> > 
> > My favorite first contact novel is "Footfall" by Niven and Pournelle.
> > 
> > My second favorite first contact novel is "Live Free or Die" by John Ringo.
> > 
> > My third favorite first contact novel is "Enterprise Stardust" by K. H. 
> > Scheer and Walter Ernsting.
> > 
> > I've got several more.
> > 
> > Lynn
> 
> You know, "Mutineer's Moon" by David Weber could be viewed as a first 
> contact novel.  So, my favorite first contact novel is "Mutineer's Moon" 
> by David Weber.
> 
> The real question is, who is the first contact with in "Mutineer's Moon" 
> by David Weber ?

Who other than Dahak?

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"We have advanced to new and surprising levels of bafflement."
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Robert Woodward robertaw@drizzle.com