Author

Markus Lauerer

Markus Lauerer is a medical student from Munich, Germany. Apart from annoying patients with a reflex hammer, he spends his time trying to make stories sound half as good on paper as they do in his head. "On First Contacts and Second Chances," is his first English-language publication.

On First Contacts and Second Chances

We've had a hard time accepting the fact that our first and only contact with an alien civilization must ultimately be considered a failure. Our overwrought imaginations simply hadn't allowed for the possibility. All the books and movies we had loved as kids and still treasured…