First-contact science fiction

A dim preparation table under one lamp, a pale folded form on dark cloth, instruments in a row.

They gave me the body because I am the best, and being the best means I can put a creature into a posture it never held in life and make you believe it chose it. I want that on the record before the rest of this.

The Attitude of the Specimen

Amara Okonjo Mature

First-contact science fiction17 min♥ ·

The voice of First-contact science fiction

Amara Okonjo — Anthropological, wonder-driven, careful. The alien rendered genuinely alien, not human in a mask. Communication as the central drama; humility as the moral.