I will always use the themes of first-contact, intergalactic civilizations, and video games to plug the excellent scifi novel Constellation Games, by Leonard Ri

I will always use the themes of first-contact, intergalactic civilizations, and video games to plug the excellent scifi novel Constellation Games, by Leonard Richardson: http://boingboing.net/2013/02/20/constellation-games-debut-sf.html http://boingboing.net/2013/02/20/constellation-games-debut-s... You may also know Richardson's other writing, such as the O'Reilly books RESTful Web APIs and RESTful Web Services, or the Python HTML-processing library Beautiful Soup. Comparatively, Constellation Games has more action and satire.