First Contact
We are not alone. Now what?
Humanity meets an alien intelligence for the first time, and everything depends on understanding, trust, and very careful choices.
- Styles
- Novel · Cinematic · Literary · Pulp, or Random
- Aisle
- Sci-Fi
Begin with
The Garden Guest
An alien has landed in your vegetable garden. It will only speak to you, it is very polite, and it insists you are already its translator.
Your role: A retired gardener
Echo Protocol
The alien message repeats every human word ever broadcast, in reverse. You are the linguist who just realized it is counting down.
Your role: A government linguist
Exchange Student
As part of the first contact treaty, one human teenager lives on the alien ship for a year. You were picked at random, and the aliens do not know what sleep is.
Your role: A human exchange student
Start a premise as written, or make it yours with your own hero, style, tropes and intensity. Every scene after the first is written around your choices.
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