A common theme in Speculative Fiction, science fiction writers have loved to speculate for decades what that pivotal moment will be like: the day we first make contact with an extra-terrestrial intelligence.
The name for the trope and the term itself comes from the 1945 Murray Leinster novelette First Contact.
Review I had started to forget what I liked so much about science fiction and apocalyptic horror, and Black Tide scratched a particular kind of itch. It is a nail-biting…