First Contact?

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First Contact? is a juvenile science fiction novel, the thirteenth in Hugh Walters' Chris Godfrey of U.N.E.X.A. series. It was published in the UK by Faber in 1971, in the US by T.Nelson Books in 1973.

[edit] Plot summary

Radio signals begin flooding Earth from the vicinity of Uranus and two ships, each with a crew of four are sent to investigate. The signals are traced to an alien spaceship on one of the moons of Uranus. The ships land and all but two enter the alien vessel to converse with the apparently friendly humanoid alien, Vari. The two remaining crewmen believe the alien to be malevolent and determine to destroy it...

Preceded by Nearly Neptune

First Contact? 1973

Succeeded by Passage to Pluto

[edit] External links

• First Contact? page including a review by Theodore Sturgeon