For many years, I watched science fiction movies and didn't question the look of humanoid aliens. Then, I read a book by Carl Sagan, and it became clear that our idea of life was incredibly bias. It wasn't that hard to realize why television and movies depicted aliens like this. They were played by people, and it was a matter of being practical. However, Sagan's tale about aliens got me thinking, and, as an aspiring author, this influenced my first short story. A short tale of aliens visiting Earth in a search for intelligent life (no, it's not a satire, but that might be another idea).
Sagan's opinion about the destruction of mankind also influenced this tale about aliens visiting Earth. The aliens are far from humanoid and are, in fact, spheres who communicate by changing color and humming. It could be that this tale was also influenced by an episode of Futurama where Earth wars against balls (hehe).
While Sagan's tale of alien contact, titled simply "Contact" is ingenius, I wanted to show it from the alien perspective simply because I thought it would be cool. While the nature of the short story is bleak, "Alien Contact" is a meager ten pages of reading. I know that it can never compare to the work of Sagan, but I also can't ignore his impression on it.
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