By Bill FawcettOur Price: $23.00 Our Item Code: makingcontact Postage Code: book2
369 Pages, Hardcover Features: Table of Contents, Appendix, Drawings, Diagrams
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| Our Review | Opinion of the webmaster, subject to debate |
Let's say you happen to run into an extraterrestrial (as we so often do here at the Research Center). What should you do? Should you, as John Lear suggests, "run like hell," or should you try a more cerebral approach? This book takes the latter tact, offering an anthology of articles, mostly by serious academic types, on everything from alien linguistics to the etiquette of first contact. To give you an idea of the originality of the compendium, there are no articles here by Steven Greer, John Mack, Budd Hopkins or Stanton Friedman. Instead, this book consists of intelligent essays mostly by people you have never heard of. ¶ Some of the advice presented here comes across as naive and contradictory. In the appendix, we are provided with simple drawings that we can display to ETs to initiate contact and teach them such Sesame Street concepts as "tree," "car," "shirt" and "foot." As with other discussions of alien contact, some authors can't grasp the notion of a superior intellect. Things get more interesting when the book stops offering practical advice and returns to theories about alien life and the ways it might have evolved. Contrary to its hype, the volume probably won't help you much when the aliens come a'knock'n, but as an anthology, it is one of the best. -- Glenn Campbell
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