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Starship Mine (First Contact)

Starship Mine (First Contact)

byPeter Cawdron
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Karen B
5.0 out of 5 starswhat a lovely story!
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 10, 2023
Gives me hope for the positive possibilities of First Contact.

Whether due to our unique human fears, prejudices and aggression, or because there is a violent element to all of life, most of our conceptions about first contact are rather terrifying.

The possibility of meeting life that is open and curious about other forms of life is heartwarming and stimulates the imagination, imagining so many wonderful discoveries and perspectives on life in our universe.

More, please!
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Leigh Holland
3.0 out of 5 starsWe're All Stardust, After All.
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 23, 2017
Starship Mine by Peter Cawdron, 115 pages, March 12th, 2016, Genre: Science Fiction/First Contact. Warning: May Contain Spoilers.
Starship Mine is the story of a human being making first contact with an alien civilization. It’s also the story of a gay couple living in the Bible Belt, raising two foster kids. Casey and James love each other, even though they’re temperamentally quite different. Their kids, Angela and Robbie, are also well-loved and return that love. In fact, one of their greatest fears is that someone will come along and take their children away from them.
One Friday evening, most of the inhabitants of Earth share the same dream. It’s a dream about a blue gaseous planet surrounded by rings, much like the rings of Saturn. At first, James is baffled by what people are talking about. He doesn’t believe it to be true. Instead, he tries to find a rational explanation for the phenomenon. While at the church awaiting the kids to finish rehearsing for a performance, James has the dream while awake. To the others, it appears he has a seizure. In his own perception, he has floated in a distant galaxy, viewing a blue planet with rings. After he recovers, James is checked out by a paramedic and released to go home, so long as he doesn’t drive. The Reverend agrees to drive them home. Once home, James and Casey watch the news, trying to learn more about these strange events. James’ consciousness is transported far away to the distant galaxy of the strange aliens and their blue planet. James is given the chance to remain with the aliens or to remain with his family. James makes the only choice he believes will lead to his fulfillment.
If you ask, “Would you like to have the opportunity to meet an alien if such a civilization existed?”, most people excitedly respond they would. It’s the adventure of a lifetime, meeting an alien, seeing a new planet! And yet, here on this lovely green and blue planet Earth, many people are shackled to certain perceptions of ‘normal’ that too often cause us to disrespect those who are different from us. If we can’t become comfortable and accepting of those who are different from us, how can we hope to ever peacefully interact with an alien civilization?
I enjoyed reading Starship Mine. This book can be read in roughly an hour, making it an ideal lunchtime companion. While I won’t give away the ending, I wish that the book had been longer and the story had continued further along. It presented the adventure of first contact through a unique lens. This won’t appeal to science fiction fans who are looking for a fully immersive alien experience, such as “Dune”. I’d recommend this to science-fiction fans who enjoy stories that allow the reader to see humanity in a new way.
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spaddriverdavis
2.0 out of 5 stars Not my kind of SCI FI
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 27, 2017
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I normally dont write book reviews as over the years I have determined I have a style I like and dont think its fair to judge on my style. However I found this book to be one that took me four tries to finish since I wanted to give it a chance.
I just could not find a reason to keep on reading after four or five pages.....children always crying, vomiting in church a big deal, a world of rings, stars etc. The final killer for me was the alien being a small girl, once he sees the aliens he gets a screaming fit...then he comes back to earth and gets a lobotomy..............not my idea of what I like in a book.
I guess Im a Dune kind of SCI-FI reader and this kind of soft Sci -Fi just does not make it for me.................plus almost $8 for 78 pages????
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Rayfer
2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 2, 2020
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I like this author, but this book (somewhere between a short novella and a long short-story) just goes nowhere. It's engaging in the beginning but it ended abruptly, with little explanation as to the what's and why's things happened as they did. It was more a heartfelt tale about the difficulties of being openly gay and the effects of poor parenting on foster care children who finally find family when placed with a loving gay couple than about the unfolding science fiction story.
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Tlbremer
2.0 out of 5 stars Really stupid
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 18, 2021
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No good science, more of a poor soap opera, gave it two honest stars but considered one. Deleted from my kindle.
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jt
2.0 out of 5 stars Ok
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 11, 2020
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Not so great sci fi
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Bryan G
2.0 out of 5 stars Climaxes but then instantly fizzles
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 18, 2016
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Extremely disappointing after an interesting start. The story climaxes with first contact with aliens, but then instantly fizzles, as if the author got bored and decided to wrap things up as quickly as possible.
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