A Guide to First Contact can be read in several ways. Firstly there is the published order – this is the hardest and it is also intentional. Then there are the separate story lines; in the Kindle version these are noted in a separate section in the appendices; there is a secret storyline at the very end (after the credits). The principle of the latter is that any who might guide the human race on a path would, of necessity, employ the hidden hand… not in plain view… so a secret storyline of interference in the ascent of man. Then there is the historical sequence of events; this begins in the pre-history of man, sometime before the Toba event. This published sequence scatters the separate time lines across the books while keeping them in order. The reconstructed historical sequence is:
• Star Crossed
• Late Pleistocene
• Star Beings
This is followed present day events which consist of multiple story lines as follows:
• Cradle Hood
• BVI
• Peer Pressure
• Observer Effect
• Poulbots
• Near Earth Object
• Xhenogie Corp
• Flicker
• Checking Service
• émetteur passif
• Bahati’s Journal
• Keeping in Touch
• Wahchinksapa
• The Unveiling
• Back in NYC
• Rapture
• Welcome to Earth
Events then move to the future and these deal with the events surrounding Triste’s encounters with firstly a féconda and finally with the xenocotrix:
• Capitaires
• Gun Law
• A High Place
• Relics
• Cat
• and Mouse
• Bearer Note
• Misadventure
• Berkeley Heights
• RUSH
• la belle époque
• Khwarezm
• Manhattan
• Trap Door
• Dead City Culture
• Bait
• Rochester Enclave
• Ticket to the Ball
• Instances
• Child Speak, Child Spark
• Façades
• Interruptions
• Decoded
• Memory
• The Xenocotrix
• Backwash
• Shadows and Light
• Coda
Self published paperback edition
tparchie - blog 