This is a summary version. The full (long) version is here: Case II First Contact What Case II is The five cases, from a 2023 taxonomy, are mutually exclusive at the […]
Case II First Contact (Summary Version)
Category: Science and Aliens
Case II First Contact
Case I of First Contact
Case I of First Contact The first door is detection. We hear them, or we find something they left. Leakage. Beacons. Artifacts. And the scientific limits that decide whether any […]
First Contact Revisited
First Contact Revisited The five ways a story can meet the other. A map I still use. Science of stories: Fermi, Kardashev, Drake, and the light-speed bubble that always leaves […]
Building Alien Worlds with Scientific Rigor: Introducing the DKF Framework for Science Fiction
Welcome, sci-fi enthusiasts and aspiring world-builders! As a hard science fiction writer, I’ve always believed that the heart of an interesting story lies in blending imagination with scientific precision. When […]
Case I of First Contact, an Article by Torn MacAlester
This article is the first follow-on to a series on first contact. This is part of a series of articles about science fiction world building: From the moment […]
Worldbuilding for Science Fiction 8 Apr 2025
In the sub-genre of hard science fiction, an attempt is made to ensure that the science in the story is somewhat correct. One issue that I have been following is […]
First Contact: An Article By Torn MacAlester
First contact is one of the mainstay themes of science fiction. In fact, it would not surprise me if it was the most common theme in all science fiction. To […]