The Challenge of Contact: A Mainstream Journalist's Report on Interplanetary Diplomacy
Language: English
Published by Origin Press,USA, 2001
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The second in a series of acclaimed books, this nonfiction installment sees a retired Los Angeles Times editor reporting on a coalition of humans and aliens who between 1998 and 2001 engaged in extensive interplanetary diplomacy with a goal of open contact. The contact was reportedly abandoned after the events of September 11, 2001, but this epic project is documented as the author--the project's designated writer and herald--shares the daunting challenges this role forced upon him.
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- Title
- The Challenge of Contact: A Mainstream Journalist's Report on Interplanetary Diplomacy
- Author
- Phillip Krapf
- Publisher
- Origin Press,USA
- Publication year
- 2001
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1579830099
- ISBN 13
- 9781579830090
The second in a series of acclaimed books, this nonfiction installment sees a retired Los Angeles Times editor reporting on a coalition of humans and aliens who between 1998 and 2001 engaged in extensive interplanetary diplomacy with a goal of open contact. The contact was reportedly abandoned after the events of September 11, 2001, but this epic project is documented as the author—the project’s designated writer and herald—shares the daunting challenges this role forced upon him.
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About the Author
Phil Krapf is a journalist and freelance writer who worked as an editor on the metro copy desk of the Los Angeles Times, where he shared in a Pulitzer Prize in 1992. He is the author of The Contact Has Begun and Meetings with Paul. He lives in San Ramon, California.
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