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From: Tony Nance <tnusenet17@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Joe Haldeman's The Coming
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2025 19:43:19 -0400
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On 3/23/25 8:19 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

Thanks for this - I'd never heard of it before, and it sounds interesting.

Tony