Challenge of Contact: A Mainstream Journalist's Report on Interplanetary Diplomacy - Softcover

Krapf, Phillip

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1579830099 ISBN 13: 9781579830090

Publisher: Origin Press,USA, 2002

Synopsis

The second in a series of acclaimed books, this nonfictioninstallment seesa retired "Los Angeles Times" editor reporting on a coalition of humans and aliens who between 1998 and 2001 engaged in extensive interplanetary diplomacy with a goal of open contact. The contact was reportedly abandoned after the events of September 11, 2001, but this epic project is documented as the author the project s designated writer and herald shares the daunting challenges this role forced upon him."

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Review:

"I ask that people regard the revelations in Phillip Krapf's book with the same attention they directed to the Pentagon Papers in 1971." --Daniel Sheehan, chief counsel for civil litigation, Iran-Contra affair, and chief counsel, Karen Silkwood case

"There was just something about Phillip Krapf that rang true; I guess that's all I can say. Over several hours the story held up--he held up." --Art Bell, Coast to Coast Radio

I ask that people regard the revelations in Phillip Krapf s book with the same attention they directed to the Pentagon Papers in 1971. Daniel Sheehan, chief counsel for civil litigation, Iran-Contra affair, and chief counsel, Karen Silkwood case"

There was just something about Phillip Krapf that rang true; I guess that s all I can say. Over several hours the story held up he held up. Art Bell, Coast to Coast Radio"

Synopsis:

In this revised paperback edition, a retired veteran L.A. Times copy editor who has shared in a Pulitzer Prize reports on a coalition of humans and aliens engaged in extensive interplanetary diplomacy -- with a goal of open contact between the two species. Krapf, the designated writer and herald for the first phase of this epic project, shares the daunting challenges this role has forced upon him. In this third book about his unprecedented experiences, Krapf narrates the story of his three on-board contacts with an advanced ET race that has, amazingly, proposed the induction of Earth into an intergalactic federation of planets--and has for some years been in secret dialogue with hundreds of human leaders, known as 'Ambassadors'. The book significantly updates the hardback edition of 'The Challenge of Contact', which went to press in the spring of 2001. This new edition shares the tragic news of the interruption of the contact project that resulted from the terrorist events of September, 11. Readers will learn that the fully-approved plan for public disclosure by the Ambassadors has been set back -- though not curtailed.

This new edition serves to keep the torch of interspecies diplomacy burning -- until that historic day when the contact, aborted on September 11, 2001, may once again be sanctioned by the interspecies coalition.

About this edition

• Publisher: Origin Press,USA
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1579830099
• ISBN 13: 9781579830090
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 205