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First Contact & Second Chance from J. Michael Thomas
What happens when first contact isn’t with aliens—but with ourselves?On this episode of The Science Fiction & Fantasy Factory, Mookie shares the floor with indie sci-fi author J. Michael Thomas for a conversation that starts with a compelling premise and spirals into something bigger: AI, authorship, and the slow erosion of what makes us human.Thomas unpacks his Substack series First Contact, a bold twist on the genre. A UFO lands at Stonehenge in full daylight, undeniable and global… but the beings who emerge aren’t extraterrestrial. They’re human—returning explorers from 200,000 years in…
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