First Contact?

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First Contact?
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Author Hugh Walters
Cover artist Leslie Wood
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
SeriesChris Godfrey of U.N.E.X.A
Genre Science fiction novel
Publisher Faber
Publication date
1971
Media typePrint (Hardback)
Pages174
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. [1]

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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.

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