Favorite SETI themed SciFi novel

What is everybody's favourite SETI themed Science Fiction novel?

Mine is "Encounter with Tiber" by Buzz Aldrin and John Barnes, followed closely by Contact.

I have to go with 'CONTACT' by Carl S. Written, gee what has it been, 25-30 yrs. ago, and it still holds the standard, in my book.
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Hey, klc, ya beat me to it! It's still an amazing novel--I've read it like 4 times so far. (I so need to buy new books for my bookshelf! LOL)
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Hey, klc, ya beat me to it! It's still an amazing novel--I've read it like 4 times so far. (I so need to buy new books for my bookshelf! LOL)

Recall not Earth by C.C. MacApp

Mercenaries of the Galaxies.
All life on Earth had been destroyed in a quick and easy kill by the great and ruthless intergalactic Vulmot Empire. Only an elite group of spacemen survived the holocaust. The last earthlings, they were scattered wanderers through the galaxies, hiring out their fighting skills to whatever power needed them, yearly growing more bitter, dissolute, desparing.
By now the pitiful remnants of the Space Corps lacked even the will to fight - until a tantalizing promise from an enslaved race made them assemble one last time, for a mission only men with nothing to lose would attempt, for a final battle only desperate courage could win...

Contact obviously a favourite here. I have read twice myself.

One of the things I like about "Encounter with Tiber" is that it is written from the human point of view and the alien point of view as well. There are also some great scientific explanations. Quite a bit of effort was spent in consulting different scientific authorities to make sure the science was accurate in the story. I guess you can expect that coming from an ex-astronaut.

Fred Hoyle's "The Black Cloud". 1958.
Tullio
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Recall not Earth by C.C. MacApp

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Mercenaries of the Galaxies.
All life on Earth had been destroyed in a quick and easy kill by the great and ruthless intergalactic Vulmot Empire. Only an elite group of spacemen survived the holocaust. The last earthlings, they were scattered wanderers through the galaxies, hiring out their fighting skills to whatever power needed them, yearly growing more bitter, dissolute, desparing.
By now the pitiful remnants of the Space Corps lacked even the will to fight - until a tantalizing promise from an enslaved race made them assemble one last time, for a mission only men with nothing to lose would attempt, for a final battle only desperate courage could win...

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Harry Harrison "Resque operation"

Mines is Mote in Godes eye By Larry Niven
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The wise shall exercise dominion over the stars.

Mines is Mote in Gods eye By Larry Niven

Rendezvous with Rama A very good novel and the first part of 4.
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Rendezvous with Rama A very good novel and the first part of 4.

Would you accept 'Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy' by Douglas Adams in this list?

The Lensman Series By E.E. "Doc" Smith

instead of being called Earthlings - we should be called "Tellurians"
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The Lensman Series By E.E. "Doc" Smith

instead of being called Earthlings - we should be called "Tellurians"