Quote:What if you could live for a thousand years? What if you could soar among the stars with an advanced alien race? Would you-could you-leave your family behind? That's the dilemma that faces James Patterson, a gay trans man living in Oklahoma, in the religious heartland of America. He's the first person to make contact with an extraterrestrial intelligence-only First Contact comes at a price.

FIRST CONTACT is a series of stand-alone novels that explore humanity's first interaction with extraterrestrial life. This series is similar to BLACK MIRROR or THE TWILIGHT ZONE in that the series is based on a common theme rather than common characters. This allows these books to be read in any order. Technically, they're all first as they all deal with how we might initially respond to contact with aliens, exploring the social, political, religious, and scientific aspects of First Contact.