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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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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This review is from: The Challenge of Contact: A Mainstream Journalist's Report on Interplanetary Diplomacy (Paperback)
This writing is so typical of fiction I can not believe the author was a journalist. I was expecting something more convincing, like a factual account not a novel,
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By a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist,
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Deftly written by Phillip H. Krapf (a 25-year veteran of the L.A. Times), The Challenge Of Contact: A Mainstream Journalist's Report On Interplanetary Diplomacy is an informed and informative report on a diplomatic and negotiated coalition between humans and aliens. A Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, Krapf is particularly candid in recounting his own three on-board contacts with an advanced ET race and their invitation for Earth to join an intergalactic federation of planets. A fascinating study that presents our world as close to induction into an intergalactic federation of planets, The Challenge Of Contact is a welcome very highly recommended addition to the growing library of UFOlogy Studies.
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I'm embarrassed to say I read this book. When I bought it, I assumed it was going to be an intellectual look into the challenges of contact. Unfortunately, I quickly figured out that it was the worst kind of b-grade UFO material that money can buy. Even with a huge font, they are barely able to stretch this material to 200 pages, and then only by filling it with inane dialogue by a truly lame author. One example is a "dinner party" aboard a UFO. All the guests, except the author, are intellectual elites and extremely snobbish, and they are all gathered to discuss the future of earth with the aliens. It's completely unbelievable that this snobbish dinner gala aboard a UFO is going to be filled with the same small talk, exactly as if it were a debutante ball in Atlanta. It's just too much to believe. Why would anyone publish a book that is so totally mediocre that you want to toss it in the trash after the first few pages? Advice to the author: if you're going to write a book and try to pass it off as being true-to-life, at least have a decently vivid imagination and have someone help you with the dialogue.
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On April 2, 1999, a Good Friday-some 22 months after my first encounter with the Verdant race-I awoke about 6:30 a.m. in a very odd state of mind. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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On April 2, 1999, a Good Friday-some 22 months after my first encounter with the Verdant race-I awoke about 6:30 a.m. in a very odd state of mind. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sovereign planets, intergalactic federation, absolute intelligence Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Deputy Envoy, San Francisco, Cold War, The Contact Has Begun, Los Angeles Times, Verdant High Command New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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