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Books like Contact 1985
Matched on how they feel, not on genre or who made them: the same pull on fourteen measures of character (tone, pace, scale, ambiguity and the rest), read from each title on Taste Buds. About Contact
Books closest to Contact
Childhood’s End 1952Also epic, earnest and grave
The Last Theorem 2008Also classical in form, earnest and epic
Year's Best SF 1996Also earnest, classical in form and grave
Year's Best SF 9 2004Also classical in form, earnest and contemporary
Genius Makers 2021Also epic, contemporary and earnest
The Light of Other Days 2000Also contemporary, earnest and classical in form
The Songs of Distant Earth 1986Also epic, earnest and classical in form
Dark star safari 2002Also classical in form, epic and contemporary
The story of B 1996Also grave, earnest and contemporary
Aurora 2015Also earnest, contemporary and grave
The fifth sacred thing 1993Also earnest, grave and contemporary
In Siberia 1999Also earnest, classical in form and grave
The same feel, in other forms
Films
Disclosure Day 2026Also earnest, epic and classical in form
Contact 1997Also earnest, epic and classical in form
Oceans 2010Also epic, earnest and contemporary
Albums
- Mother Earth 2000Also earnest, grave and classical in form
- Endless Forms Most Beautiful 2015Also earnest, epic and grave
- The Awakening 2023Also earnest, grave and classical in form
Series
KADO: The Right Answer 2017Also earnest, contemporary and grave
Pantheon 2022Also epic, contemporary and earnest
The Americas 2025Also epic, earnest and grave
Games
Planet of Lana 2023Also earnest, contemporary and grave
Rewrite 2011Also epic, earnest and contemporary
Lone Echo II 2021Also contemporary, earnest and grave
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