Extraterrestrial Intelligence
The First Encounter
Edited by James L. Christian
Prometheus, 1976, 276 pp, appendix, bibliography, €29.10, ISBN 0-87975-064-2. 
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For centuries, from the earliest legends of the man on the moon, mankind has fantasised and speculated about life in the universe. ETI: The First Encounter considers the consequences to man's view of himself and his world of the first proven contact - when it comes - with beings from another planet. This book leads the way in reflecting on the next stage in man's gradual self-discovery.
Contents
- Ray Bradbury - Foreword: The Nefertiti-Tut Express - A Journey Through Time, Thought and Being
- James Christian - The Story of Life: A Four-Billion-Year Beginning
- Isaac Asimov - Of Life Beyond: Man's Age-Old Speculations
- George Abell - The Search for Life Beyond Earth: A Scientific Update
- Kendrick Frazier - First Contact: The News Event and the Human Response
- Leonard Nimoy - Conversations with Mr. Spock
- William Hamilton - The Discovery of Extraterrestrial Intelligence: A Religious Response
- Ronald Huntington - Mything the Point: ETIs in a Hindu/Buddhist Context
- Michael Tooley - Would ETIs Be Persons?
- Ronald Smith - The Abdication of Human Intelligence
- Peter Angeles - ETIs and the Problem of Intelligence
- Joseph Royce - Consciousness and the Cosmos
- Wilfrid Desan - Angular Truth and Planet X
- Richard Doss - Life and Death in the Biocosmos
- Herman Tennessen - Homo Telluris: The Conscious Cosmic Caddis Fly
- James Christian - Appendix: For Further Reflection