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From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
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Subject: Re: Joe Haldeman's The Coming
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2025 12:22:50 -0400 (EDT)
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Paul S Person  <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
>On Sun, 23 Mar 2025 08:19:14 -0400 (EDT), kludge@panix.com (Scott
>Dorsey) wrote:
>
>>This takes place in a corrupt near-future Florida after astronomers=20
>>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=20
>>I never get to nominate anything for Hugos.
>
>One of the many books from my grandfather's estate on Revelation
>asserts that Space Aliens and Flying Saucers were and will be
>involved.

You can speak to Guy Consolmagno about this.  He has some very interesting
and well-reasoned takes on SETI from a Christian perspective.

If we are all called into judgement, surely it should be expected that
whatever aliens may exist will be called in as well.
--scott
-- 
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."