First Contact

Our Child of the Stars: the most magical, bewitching book of the year

By Stephen Cox

Dune

By Frank Herbert, Herbert, Frank

The Colour Out of Space

By H. P. Lovecraft

The War of the Worlds

By H.G. Wells

Man Who Fell to Earth

By Walter Tevis

Blood Music

By Greg Bear

Prelude to Foundation

By ISAAC ASIMOV

Cosmonaut Keep: Engines of Light: Book One

By Ken MacLeod

Dark Light: Engines of Light: Book Two

By Ken MacLeod

All Flesh is Grass

By Simak, Clifford D.

Thorns

By Robert Silverberg

Adventures in Time and Space

By Mary Taylor

Our Child of Two Worlds

By Stephen Cox

Providence

By Max Barry

Our Child of the Stars

By Stephen Cox

Stranger in a Strange Land

By Robert A. Heinlein

Cat's Cradle

By Kurt Vonnegut

For the First Time, Again

By Sylvain Neuvel

Shards of Earth

By Adrian Tchaikovsky

The Humans

By Haig, Matt

Semiosis: A novel of first contact

By Sue Burke

Proxima

By Stephen Baxter

The Martian Chronicles (Flamingo Modern Classic)

By Bradbury, Ray

Blindspace

By Jeremy Szal

Deep Blue

By Jane O'Reilly

Blue Shift: A thrilling alien space adventure with an unforgettable new heroine

By Jane O'Reilly

Babylon's Ashes

By James S A Corey

God Emperor Of Dune: The inspiration for the blockbuster film

By Frank Herbert

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

By Douglas Adams

The Invincible (The MIT Press)

By Stanislaw Lem, N. Katherine Hayles, Bill Johnston