First Contact?

First Contact?
First edition
Author	Hugh Walters
Cover artist	Leslie Wood
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Series	Chris Godfrey of U.N.E.X.A
Genre	Science fiction novel
Publisher	Faber
Publication date	1971
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	174
ISBN	0-571-09757-X
OCLC	3206928
LC Class	PZ7.W1715 Fg
Preceded by	Nearly Neptune
Followed by	Passage to Pluto

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.

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 Ariel, 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. One of the two remaining crewmen believe the alien to be malevolent and determines to destroy it...

External links

First Contact? page including a review by Theodore Sturgeon

Hugh Walters's U.N.E.X.A series

U.N.E.X.A. series	Blast Off at Woomera (1957) The Domes of Pico (1958) Operation Columbus (1959) Moon Base One (1960) Expedition Venus (1962) Destination Mars (1963) Terror by Satellite (1964) Journey to Jupiter (1965) Mission to Mercury (1965) Spaceship to Saturn (1967) The Mohole Mystery (1968) Nearly Neptune (1969) First Contact? (1971) Passage to Pluto (1973) Tony Hale, Space Detective (1973) Murder on Mars (1975) The Caves of Drach (1978) The Last Disaster (1978) The Blue Aura (1979) The Dark Triangle (1979) The Glass Men (unpublished)

Boy Astronaut	Boy Astronaut (1977) First Family on the Moon (1979) School on the Moon (1981)

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