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ME HUMAN, YOU ALIEN: How to Talk to an 
Extraterrestrial




by
Jonathan Vos Post




(c) 1996 by Emerald City Publishing
an excerpt from a book entitled THE HANDBOOK OF UFO CONTACT, 
to appear Spring 1997, New York: William Morrow & Co.


Copyright 1996, by Emerald City Publishing.
All rights reserved.  May not be reproduced without permission.  
May be posted electronically provided that it is transmitted unaltered, in its
entirety, and without charge.




TABLE OF CONTENTS






Introduction and Chapter One 



A Handful of Coins, A Loop of String, a Flashlight, and Two Magnets	
	
Pocket Change Worth Billions	
	
A Loop of String, Approximately 72" in Circumference	

Cat's Cradle	
	
Soldier's Bed = Church Window = Fish Pond	

Chapter Two 

A Pocket Flashlight	
	
Two Small Bar Magnets	
	
Experiment 1: Magnet and Compass	
	
Experiment 2: Testing UFO Material	
	
Experiment 3: Magnetization, Magnetic Induction, and Curie Point	
	
A Pad of Paper and a Couple of Pens or Pencils	

Chapter Three 
	
Speech Lessons, Informants, and Two or More Extraterrestrials	
	
Protocol and Protagoras: The Empirical Approach	

Chapter Four 
	
What Kind of Language?	
	
Sound, Light, Viruses, and Neutrinos	
	
	(a) Light				
	(b) Sound				
	(c) Smell				
	(d) Taste				
	(e) Touch				
	(f) Posture			
	(g) Biomorphic Writing	
	(h) Biological Vectors	
	(i) Direct Nerve Contact	
	(j) Exotic Radiations	
	(k) Telepathy			
	(l) Combinations
			
Chapter Five 

Linear or Nonlinear?			
Systematic, We Hope				
I Never Metasystem I Didn't Like	
What is the Meaning of Meaning?	
Arbitrary is as Arbitrary Does		
Conventions: Pay at the Door		
By Way of Contrast				
You're So Creative!			
Unique in All the Universe		
Similarity	

Chapter Six 
				
Pythagorus, Rosetta Stone, and Omnilingual: Science Fiction Insights	
	Ą Gauss and Pythagorean Triangle	
	Ą Weinbaum's "A Martian Odyssey"
	Ą Knuth and Arithmetic			
	Ą Leinster's "First Contact"		
	Ą Piper's "Omnilingual"			
	Ą Sagan's Intellectual Seive		
	Ą Aldiss' "Dark Light Years"		
	Ą Clarke's "Childhood's End"		
	Ą Dickson's "Alien Way"			
	Ą Gallun's "Old Faithful"			
	Ą Hoyle's "Black Cloud"	
	
	Chapter Seven 
		
	Ą Leiber's "Wanderer"		
	Ą Violent Sci-Fi Movies		
	Ą Yefremov's "Heart of the Serpent"	
	Ą MacLean's "Pictures Don't Lie"	
	Ą Mann's "Eye of the Queen"	
	Ą Masson's "Not So Certain"		
	Ą Niven's "Mote in God's Eye"	
	Ą Watson's "Embedding"
	
	Chapter Eight
		
	Ą Delany's "Babel-17"			
	Ą Vance's "Language of Pao"	
	Ą Lem's "Solaris"				
	Ą Sagan's "Contact"			
	Ą Pohl's "JEM"					
	Ą Moffitt's "Jupiter Theft"		
	Ą Clement's "Mission of Gravity"
	
	Chapter Nine 
	
	Ą White's "All Judgment Fled"		
	Ą Farmer's "Mother"				
	Ą Lasswitz' "Two Planets"			
	Ą Oliver's "Unearthly Neighbors"	
	Ą Recent Fiction				
	Ą LeGuin's "Author of the Acacia Seeds"	
	Ą Sheckley's "Language of Love"	to be done
	Ą Fontenay's "Communication"	to be done
	Ą Kerr's "Communication"	to be done
	Ą Aarons' "Communicators"	to be done
Further Adventures in Exo-Linguistic Analysis	to be done

Chapter Ten 

Aliens, Language, and Twilight Zone	
Aliens, Language, and The Outer Limits	
A Collection of Memorable Aliens

Chapter Eleven:  Bibliography
		


Chapter Twelve:  Appendices 
						
Appendix: People to Contact for First Contact	
Appendix: Declaration of Principles Following the Detection...
ME HUMAN, YOU ALIEN: How to Talk to an Extraterrestrial

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