Re: Joe Haldeman's The Coming

Paul S Person  <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:

On Sun, 23 Mar 2025 08:19:14 -0400 (EDT), kludge@panix.com (Scott
Dorsey) wrote:
>

This takes place in a corrupt near-future Florida after astronomers=20
have received a message from space.  Saying anything else is going
to spoil some part of the plot.  After all these years I suspect this
is probably my favorite alien first contact novel of all time.
>
This came out in 2000 and have just not got around to it.  No wonder=20
I never get to nominate anything for Hugos.

>
One of the many books from my grandfather's estate on Revelation
asserts that Space Aliens and Flying Saucers were and will be
involved.

You can speak to Guy Consolmagno about this.  He has some very interesting
and well-reasoned takes on SETI from a Christian perspective.

If we are all called into judgement, surely it should be expected that
whatever aliens may exist will be called in as well.
--scott
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