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Encounters Out There

Encounters Out There

by SFT ExP

PsychologicalSci-fiHorrorPsychologicalSci-fiHorrorShort Story
Rising Stars:Short story #50

Stories about first contact, aliens, space exploration and colonization, and beyond.

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Peak Rank
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OverviewEngagementProseChapters
Favorites
6
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FVR
0.01%
Rating
3.79
Ratings
7
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RS Days
2
Total Chapters
339
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Chapter Analysis
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#TitleWordsFK GradeDialogueSSPVariation
0Folding Space0----
1A Message of Peace0----
2A-Protest0----
3Operation Annihilate0----
4Project New Eden0----
5I Stitch You, Complete
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6A Cosmic Bubble0----
7The Happy People0----
8Not Without My Dog0----
9The Hunt0----
10Climate Sweep0----
11I Stand for All of Thee0----
12We've Used It Once Before ...0----
13Emergent0----
14Infestation0----
15A-Trade0----
16Incubator0----
17UFOs0----
18Wow!0----
19The Suits Come Off0----
20The Harvesters0----
21Hopefuls0----
22Got Milk?0----
23Our Fate in Space0----
24Galactic Equilibrium Department0----
25Aptitude Test0----
26A Wonderful Masterpiece0----
27Fish0----
28Special Ingredient0----
29No Longer the Prey!0----
30Natural Selection0----
31Pendulum0----
32Goo0----
33Qaevix0----
34Net Worth0----
35Ergot0----
36We Ask Only One Question0----
37Prisoner 37C10740----
38You Shall Not Dominate Us Again0----
39All It Takes Is One Encounter0----
40Parking Dispute0----
41Human Impact0----
42Timothy, Ruler of Mars0----
43We Offer Our Continued Protection for a Price0----
44You Aren't My First Date0----
45You’re Mad, but Such a Genius ...0----
46T-Creator0----
47Indefinite Quarantine0----
48To Save Humanity, of Course ...0----
49Gnarly0----
50 Times Forgotten0----
51He, Who Was Once Samuel, Met His Destiny0----
52These Signals Are Clearly Too Catastrophic to Unsuspecting Civilizations0----
53Humanly Upgraded0----
54Frank Brown, Transformation Report for Friday, Jan, 7Th, 20340----
55The Chosen One0----
56Blind Spots0----
57Your Leader Speaks to Us0----
58Unsubscribe0----
59The Hunt0----
60Humanly Upgraded0----
61Immortals0----
62It's Just Like the Flu0----
63Outsmart the Enemy0----
64There Will Always Be More0----
65To Celebrate the Feast0----
66The Source0----
67Petting Zoo0----
68Operation Silent Majority0----
69A Fortunate Happenstance0----
70Our Second Chance0----
71Beware. Destructive. Slobs.0----
72Oasis0----
73Planet E0----
74Captain Lyla0----
75An Acquired Taste0----
76New Earth0----
77The Gardener0----
78Goodbye, April0----
79And Never ...0----
80Jot0----
81Infiltrate And Dominate0----
82Paralysis0----
83The Source Of The World's Problems0----
84Merry Christmas!0----
85Moonshot Redux0----
86The Grand Restriction0----
87Experimentation0----
88Planet Kruhania0----
89Guided by Shocks0----
90The Wise Ones0----
91Pardoned0----
92Operation Scoop0----
93A Wondrous Gift0----
94CC&Rs0----
95The Unaccountable Era0----
96Dust0----
97 Voyager 120----
98What Have I Done?0----
99Pet Rocks0----
100The Blues0----
101Galactic Traffickers0----
102The ‘Survivors’0----
103Always Spring0----
104The Stream0----
105Just like a Robot Would0----
106Don’t Worry About It, Ralph. You’ll Love It There0----
107I-Voyager0----
108The Best of the Best0----
109Gateway to Heaven0----
110We Must Learn To Be Human Again0----
111Surface Life Shall Be The Past0----
112You'll Dominate The Cosmos0----
113Murphy’s Law0----
114Was That Real Enough for You, Jake?0----
115Stone Tablets0----
116Time Capsule0----
117Superstitious Nature0----
118Ready the Terraformers0----
119Alright, Let’s Pack It Up. We’re Heading Home!0----
120So as You Act and Speak, We Watch and Listen0----
121Our Greatest Olive Branch0----
122'Exile' 0----
123The Keeper0----
124Show, Don't Tell, Johnny …0----
125It's What’s Best for the World0----
126What Difference Will It Really Make?0----
127To Forge a Reality0----
128They Made Us in Their Image0----
129You'll Never Meet Your Clones0----
130Fantastically Delicious Apple Pie0----
131Hello, Earthlings! We’ve Come from Afar!0----
132Eco-Friendly0----
133'The Invitation'0----
134Your World Will No Longer Have Crime0----
135‘Mission of Peace’0----
136And, They’re Dead0----
137The 'Gods' from Earth0----
138The Slender Ones0----
139This Could Be an Invasion!0----
140‘Humans First!’0----
141Collision Course0----
142The Highest Rank0----
143To Bring Peace and Prosperity to Your World0----
144Professor Unoregol 0----
145For Humanity's Sake0----
14624 Hours0----
147Truth0----
148Not Human0----
149`Spiritual Transcendence`0----
150It’s Too Late!0----
151Space Probe0----
152‘Poison the Well'0----
153Grandpa, Why Must We Die?0----
154If It Walks Like a Duck …0----
155Fear Itself … 0----
156Monument of Souls0----
157Peace on Mars0----
158A Diverse Council of Many0----
159Take Back What’s Ours!0----
160Vaporizers in the Wrong Hands0----
161What about Their Leaders in Charge?0----
162General ‘Iron Fist’ Jenson0----
163Self-Destruct0----
164We Honor Your Life and Your Legacy, Sarah0----
165Spread the Word!0----
166The Most Obedient Workforce in the Galaxy0----
167You’ll Be Us0----
168Soylent Red0----
169Your Body, Your Choice0----
170The Ideal Spacefaring Candidates0----
171We Are Martians!0----
172We Can Only Survive This Together …0----
173The Most Dangerous Inhabited Planet0----
174We’re Vegetarians0----
175Trade Agreement0----
176Forbiddens0----
177The White Coats0----
178Search for Intelligent Life0----
179The Rise and Fall of The Hybrids0----
180How Barbaric 0----
181Only Greed Will Melt the Ice0----
182All I Want to Do Is Walk My Dog Safely0----
183Who Are You, Mr. Simmons?0----
184We Can Never Have Nice Things0----
185Reinventing the Wheel0----
186The Alien0----
187Space Is a Big and Complicated Place0----
188For the Sake of Humanity0----
189Life Happens in a Flash0----
190Survey Team0----
191Susan Kim0----
192The Will of the People0----
193Rescue Mission0----
194I’m So Proud of You0----
195A Fulfilling Life0----
196Interstellar Traveler0----
197Election Results0----
198The Program0----
199Answering Two Important Questions0----
200The Implants Drastically Changed Everything0----
201Here We Are0----
202Fear of the Unknown0----
203The Path of Least Resistance0----
204Utopia Mars0----
205Operation Stupification0----
206True Creator0----
207Free Mars 1010----
208In a Flash0----
209For the Good of the Individual 0----
210Too Great a Risk0----
211They’re All Just Like Us0----
212Self-Affirming Statements of Qualia0----
213Present0----
214Abducted0----
215Elite Class0----
216Stash0----
217Resistance0----
218The Next Sandstorm0----
219It’s Not Always about Aliens0----
220The Galaxy’s the Limit0----
221Yours Truly0----
222Last Transport0----
223Your Kind Will Save Our Species0----
224If Only … 0----
225Outcasts0----
226Our Best Shot0----
227‘Freedom …’ 0----
228Have a Goodnight, Mr. Webb0----
229Forcefield0----
230No Faith’s Required0----
231The Ruins0----
232Let Them Face Their Fate0----
233Bob's Reprogrammed Nanites0----
234Center of the Galaxy0----
235Every Species Possible0----
236Xenophobes0----
237FTL0----
238No Vaporizers Required0----
239To Be Human0----
240I’ve Come From Afar0----
241Not Alone0----
242Interplanetary War0----
243Follow Me, Sarah0----
244All Decisions Lead To Suffering0----
245Surface Life Shall Be The Past0----
246‘Paradise’ 0----
247 'swarm' 0----
248We're Free0----
249Only a Human Would Care0----
250Asylum Seekers0----
251Aren’t You an Investor, Too?0----
252As Fast as Possible0----
253I’m Not an Alien!0----
254Destroy the Comets!0----
255Earthling’s Simply Don’t Get It!0----
256First Journal Entry0----
257Why Do They Hate Us So Much?0----
258Individualism0----
259Nonstop0----
260Kill Switch0----
261The Candidate0----
262Karen and Ken0----
263Bit By Bit0----
264Only the Strongest Must Survive!0----
265What Happened to the Colonies?0----
266To Seek More Questions0----
267What Once Was, Is No Longer0----
268You Don’t Want to Know0----
269No Robots0----
270The Alignment0----
271Eclipse0----
272Blocklist0----
273And Yet …0----
274We Shall Inherit the Earth0----
275Let’s Plan Another Trip!0----
276Sycophants End0----
277I Know the Truth!0----
278Litmus Test0----
279The Earth Is Flat0----
280Nowhere Is Safe Anymore!0----
281Joanne’s Memories0----
282Salvage0----
283The Spores0----
284Somewhere Back on Earth0----
285Push the Button0----
286You Can’t Drill a Space Station0----
287Why Space?0----
288Our World Nearly Ended0----
289Those Charlatans!0----
290Alienist0----
291The State of Things0----
292Right Before Our Eyes0----
293Our Island Earth0----
294Knowledge Crystal0----
295The Party's On, Man!0----
296Echo Chamber0----
297We Seek Skilled Volunteers!0----
298Androids, Just like Me0----
299The Pivot0----
300World-Famous Celebrity0----
301She Stands to Fight0----
302Simulation Is Priority0----
303Infiltration0----
304The NDE Paradox0----
305Don’t Shoot the Aliens!0----
306Disbelief0----
307Dude, Did You See That?0----
308The Consumers0----
309Sanctuary0----
310Influencer0----
311Last of the Line0----
312Best of the Earth0----
313Loyalty0----
314Communion0----
315Deleted0----
316Black Box0----
317Wipe0----
318The Cuts0----
319The Resource0----
320Back Room0----
321Equality and Equity for All0----
322We're Different0----
323Silencing0----
324Human Nature0----
325The New Billions0----
326Cheryl!0----
327There Are Others0----
328Cake0----
329Deeply Buried0----
330It Is Our Way0----
331"Socialism Doesn’t Work"0----
332You Are. We Are.0----
333Grounded in the Moment0----
334We’re All Suspect0----
335Incomplete0----
336Heard Around the Globe0----
337Blindsided0----
338Shape Shifters0----