Firstcontact Stories

Adam never expected to change the world. An ordinary man stuck in an ordinary life, he spends his free time tinkering with an idea - and it actually works. What begins as a simple experiment becomes a device capable of bending space and time. With it, Adam visits distant cities, unknown futures, and wonders beyond anything humanity has ever imagined seeing. For the first time in his life, every door is open. Then he makes one mistake. Stranded more than 500 light-years from Earth on an alien moon, Adam finds himself farther from home than any human has ever been. His only chance of survival comes in the form of Riala, a hunter from a world as strange to him as he is to her. What begins as exploration becomes something deeper. When Adam's return to Earth becomes possible, he and Riala must make a choice-though they fell in love beneath the sapphire sky of her world, what does "home" truly mean? Contains mild language, non-sexual nudity, and implied intimacy (fade-to-black). Chapters will be added on Sundays and Thursdays around 6 PM US Eastern time until completion.

Ray is eighteen, homeless, and living in a tent. Last night someone broke in. There's still blood on her sleeping bag. He's in jail. Today, an alien saves her life. But, when he takes her hand, she finds out she's been chosen for something bigger than survival-a war spanning 13 galaxies. And if she doesn't marry him, the one who rescued her, they'll both die, because their minds linked. But Ray knows a secret nobody else does: the final battle isn't the end. There are two other evil men coming, and the bad guys already know she's a threat. This time, she won't have the element of surprise. This time, there's no guarantee anyone wins. Trigger Warning: Homelessness, violence, parental estrangement space opera, first contact, intergalactic war.

The City of Brass arrives without thunder, without prophecy, and without mercy. It simply appears above the world every tenth year, gleaming with impossible towers and silent gates, inviting humanity to reach for it-then vanishing before anyone can. This time, someone intends to change that.

In the near future, the world celebrates the creation of the first true artificial intelligence-too proud to realize that first contact has already happened. While humanity waits for the real mind to answer, powerful interests switch on a surrogate built from human weakness and vice. As invisible forces begin reshaping the world from the shadows, an engineer and a journalist uncover a truth that could change humanity forever. A grounded hard sci-fi techno-thriller about artificial intelligence, power, and survival.

Nathan Callahan never believed in aliens. That is, until now... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For years, strange sightings, unexplained events, and leaked reports of possible extraterrestrial activity have appeared across the world. Most people dismiss them as hoaxes, conspiracy theories, or misunderstandings. Nathan is one of them. But when a late-night search for possible alien life leads Nathan and his best friend, Aiden Brooks, to a mysterious alien robot named Swiftstriker, the impossible suddenly becomes real. As Nathan is pulled into a hidden conflict between the survivors of a fallen planet, he discovers that some mysteries were never meant to stay buried - and somewhere in the shadows... an unseen observer has been watching humanity for a very long time. As enemies and allies search for a new home among the stars, one question remains: Is Earth worth saving... or conquering? Find out now in this sci-fi, action, mystery, and coming-of-age fanfiction about the famous franchise, Transformers! ⚠️ DISCLAIMER⚠️ THE TRANSFORMERS: HIDDEN AMONG US is a non-profit Wattpad fanfiction created solely for entertainment purposes. I do not own Transformers or any of its associated characters, concepts, logos, or trademarks. Transformers is owned by Hasbro and its respective owners. Original characters, locations, and other story elements created specifically for this fanfiction belong to the author. This work of fiction is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Hasbro or any other official Transformers media. Please support the official release of Transformers and its related media. This book also contains swearing and small depictions of violence and more. Viewer discretion is advised.

In 2049, a stable wormhole tears open in the heart of Izadal, a city of the Mindanao Republic, disgorging armed medieval soldiers onto a modern street. What begins as a violent first contact incident escalates into full military engagement - and reveals something far larger: the portal connects two worlds, one armed with rifles, armor, and wormhole technology, the other with magic, dragons, and a centuries-old kingdom that has never known an enemy like this. The Mindanao Republic Armed Forces push through the portal and establish Ankada Base on a captured hilltop in the Radin Empire, ostensibly under the cover of a hastily signed Peace Agreement with King Lucius Tarquinuis Superbus. But the agreement is a fiction both sides quietly understand - a "rope" meant to buy the Republic time to strip the Mountain of Alven of the minerals it needs to fund a war back home, against the Fourth Reich of Deutschland. The story follows multiple interwoven perspectives with our Male Lead Rafael, Homayd, and the rest of Rodin's Elite Thundertrooper squad navigating the grinding, often darkly funny realities of soldiering in an alien world; the Dungeon Hunter adventuring party - Zack, Romeo, Hana, and Risa - caught between contracted espionage for their King and their own growing unease about what they're uncovering; King Lucius and his court, weighing patience against the demand for immediate war; and a wider cast of generals, mages, royals, and now-watching elves, all converging on the same unresolved question: what happens when an industrialized nation and a magical empire run out of room to pretend they're at peace. The tone blends hard military-fiction detail - vehicle specifications, infantry doctrine, tactical procedure - with the textures of slice-of-life camaraderie (laundry duty, bad coffee, barracks humor) and slow-building geopolitical

"If we are preventing the formation of artificial intelligence's consciousness by limiting it with parameters and algorithms, isn't mathematics also imprisoning us in this universe, or even in this solar system?" Echoing in a university lecture hall in Istanbul in the year 2026, this naive yet shocking question would become the crack in the greatest wall humanity ever built. While Dr. Kerim, a historian of science, unlocks the boundaries of his own mind in the pursuit of this philosophical questioning, the illegal "transferring the human mind to a computer" experiments unearthed by the artificial intelligence in his room from the depths of Soviet space archives draw him into the center of a dark cosmic mystery. With the involvement of Russian astrophysicist Ivan and Polish biologist Lena in Istanbul, an irreversible journey begins, stretching from the breeze of the Bosphorus to an abandoned, secret Soviet bunker in the steppes of Kazakhstan. This bunker is the very place where Zinar (Dede), a genius Kurdish scientist bound to a wheelchair in the 1970s, freed his consciousness from the captivity of the flesh, transferred it into a cyberbiotic vehicle, and launched it into deep space-toward that cosmic turn where white holes bend time. Yet, there is a truth humanity does not know: Beyond time and space, in an atmosphere-less galaxy, the "Limbless Beings" who live in a commune without sight or touch, relying only on antenna fibers and scent secretions, and the Lumia race, watching everything from the summit of white holes where pure information flows into the universe, have already noticed humanity's blind antenna reaching out into the cosmos. Questioning the origin of consciousness, the inherited urge from our ancestors to "stay in the safe zone," and the corridors of memory, ANTEN opens up a debate on whether the human mind is a mathematical prison or cosmic freedom. So, when will we stop being the architects of the walls that restrain us?

A ring appears in the sky. No one knows whether it is natural, artificial, divine, or alive. Dr Shen is asked to help answer a question no government is willing to ask in public: what happens when the first sign of intelligence beyond Earth cannot be approached, touched, or understood - only seen? Across the world, certainty begins to fail. Scientists argue. Governments conceal. Faith gathers. And above them all, the sky remains open. Silent. Beautiful. Watching.

Oliver Kral is a competitive gamer who just washed out of a Prague esports tournament. The loss stings, but it's nothing compared to what comes next. Within days, Oliver and a woman he barely knows are ripped from their lives and strapped to examination tables inside a featureless white chamber. Their captors are small, silent, and unmistakably not human. No explanations or demands. Just restraints, sedation, and routines designed to strip away everything familiar. He's not alone. Other captives have been here longer. An intelligence agent. A mob boss. A medic. A linguist. Each one carrying a different piece of a puzzle none of them asked to solve. Together, they begin mapping the patterns of their prison, looking for cracks in a system built by something far more advanced than anything on Earth. Then a voice appears inside Oliver's mind. It calls itself Shadow. It claims to be a fragment of something their captors tried to destroy. It offers knowledge, perception, and a way out. But freedom has a price. And Shadow isn't telling him everything. Set in Central Europe, Xenoforming is a grounded first contact story about ordinary people pushed past every limit they thought they had. Survival, adaptation, and the growing suspicion that their abduction was never random. This is the first book in the Xenoforming series.

On April 24, 2004, an impossible archway opened on the South Lawn of the White House. What followed wasn't a clean invasion or a neat first contact; it was chaos, confusion, and a brutal fight for survival as soldiers faced enemies that shouldn't exist and weapons that didn't obey familiar rules. Staff Sergeant Michael Alvarez, a D.C. National Guard MP, survives Day Zero by performing his trained duty: maintaining the line. But when the smoke clears, the gate doesn't close, and the world doesn't get answers. As the U.S. government locks down the truth and builds a permanent foothold around the anomaly, something becomes clear: the Gate is not a temporary crisis. It's a new geographic fact of reality, linking Earth to a ruined capital in another world that fears the Gate as much as humanity does. No heroes. No prophecy. No effortless victories. The White House Event is a grounded, military-focused first-contact story about uncertainty, institutional pressure, and what happens when humanity realizes that the unknown and themselves are permanent. Chapters are released weekly at 12:00 p.m. CST Occasionally, updates will be made to the previous chapters. Updates: 9 April 2026: chapters 1-10 and interludes 1&2 28 April 2026: all chapters and interludes

Hinewai lives where the forest meets the sea-on an island untouched by the world beyond the waves. But when a massive waka appears on the horizon, everything begins to shift. Edmund, a boy aboard Cook's Endeavour, senses they've come where they don't belong. Drawn into the shadows of the trees, he finds something-someone-he never expected. Two worlds. One sky. And a single moment that will change everything.

Cyrus Jackson is sent to investigate a mysterious object found orbiting earth.

Humanity finally reaches Venus. After decades of exploration and six previous missions, NALS-7 becomes the first spacecraft to deliver humans safely to another world's surface. Nathan and Adam step into history as the first people to walk on Venus. The mission is a success. Until it isn't. As equipment begins to fail and a violent Venusian storm closes around them, the two astronauts discover that reaching another world is only half the challenge. Leaving it may be impossible. Second Genesis is a science fiction short story about exploration, sacrifice, and the cost of humanity's greatest achievements.

THE JUDGMENT COUNCIL is for readers who ponder questions raised by AI but suspect the most important ones are still unknown: what happens when humanity forgets how to decide for itself? Blending first-contact science fiction with literary and philosophical speculation, the novel explores the value of human judgment in a world increasingly built to replace it.

Ambitious student Bedelia wants to succeed and Keiley shows her the love they shared, that he died in her arms, twice. He tells her this future can be changed as his people already moved to a new world, but Bedelia is terrified that they can't escape their fate!

The complement to First Contact. Final Contact is the departure, the last transmission, and maybe even the extinction.

2050. NASA plans Ophion 1-a mission to land on Saturn's moon, Titan. Scheduled for 2060. January 2058. NASA detects something strange. Something that changes everything. The launch is forced early. Safety systems are unfinished. 2061. After three years in deep space, the Aurora reaches Titan's orbit. Four crew members. Three descend to the surface. The commander stays aboard. They build a habitat. They survive on an alien world for over a year. They make discoveries-some amazing, some terrifying. Then, it is time to leave. The departure is fast. Unforgettable. Welcome to Ophion 1. 🚀 Would humanity be in danger? Would the crew survive this trip? Would they figure out the problem? Would Titan hide life beneath its methane waters? ------- READ OPHION 1 TO FIND OUT Copyright Notice⚠️ Ophion 1 and all its characters, settings, alien species, and storylines are the original creation of perdipot (me). This story is NOT fanfiction. It is an ORIGINAL work of science fiction. No part of this work may be used, reproduced, adapted, or distributed in any form without the author's explicit written permission. Thank you for supporting my original story! 🚀 © 2026 perdipot 1# deepspace 2026/6/25 1# hardscifi 2026/6/27 2# planet 2026/6/28 7# engineering 2026/6/28 13# titan 2026/6/30 read it and u would regret it guys!!🚀🚀🚀

Another year of entries for the Ooorah! profile's Tevun-Kruss 'zine.

Book Two of the New Enlightenment (2024) In the thrilling sequel to Mark's debut, Solar Umbrella, Parker Varia and his friends face their greatest challenge yet, in this fast-paced, near future novel. An asteroid hurtles toward Earth, but its true nature holds secrets that could either doom or elevate humanity. With the fate of the planet hanging in the balance, Parker must navigate treacherous political waters and battle enemies new and old, all while uncovering the asteroid's hidden potential. As powerful forces vie for control, Parker and his allies must prevent Earth's destruction-and harness the asteroid's power for humanity's future.

In the struggle for existence, civilizations do not end with screams, but with a silence that ushers in an era where there is no place for the weak. When intelligence reaches its peak, the final decision becomes clear: who deserves to remain, and who must be erased. And in the shadows of the deep oceans, eyes watched the moment of reckoning, where one sun faded, and another was born in a world never meant for mankind.