First contact stories in which we CREATED the first contactees?

[seawasp]

This question came up on another list I'm on, so I'm wondering how many such stories have been done. The easiest category is the AI stories in which an AI "wakes up" and becomes the first "alien" intelligence we encounter, but how many are there in which we created our own biological first-contact situation (i.e, made by accident or deliberately another intelligent species that we have a first-contact interaction with)?

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[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

Rise of the Planet of the Apes? Or to a lesser extent Day of the Dolphin. And of course Frankenstein for the Ur-science fictional premise.

I'm actually reading WJW's Knight Moves, and at the beginning Falken meets some genetically engineered Classical Greek centaurs that he taught to speak. By the time the plot gets rolling he realizes they're well on their way to creating their own civilization, independent of humanity now that the Earth is virtually abandoned.

[xander-opal.livejournal.com]

Knight Moves looks like an interesting book. Thanks for bringing it up, I'm going to need a fresh book soon!

[dsrtao]

The Island of Dr. Moreau, of course. Bear's Blood Music. Sturgeon's Microcosmic God. To an extent, Flowers for Algernon.

[muirecan.livejournal.com]

The flying sorcerers. If earth ever contacts Pern again since they lost it in the files thinking the world is uninhabited and dangerous. I have vague memories that I should know more like this. Basically the 40's, 50's, and 60's had a lot of lost colony books. OH I know Andre Norton ummm , Star Born where the descendents of the scientists who escaped the purges on earth in The Stars are Ours are found and contacted by Earth.

[laetitia-apis.livejournal.com]

"Basically the 40's, 50's, and 60's had a lot of lost colony books."

_The Great Explosion_ springs to mind.

[gary-jordan.livejournal.com]

How about the Belisarius series. It starts out with Michael of Macedonia meeting the crystalline entity which came to be known as Aid, or Aide. The crystals were created by far future humanity.

[melchar.livejournal.com]

Seanan MacGuire has started a series [at least 2 books] about a human-created sentient alien race in her just-out book 'Parasite'. Genetically-enhanced tapeworms blended with human DNA and a few other additives. It was a fun read.

I got beaten to 'Day of the Dolphins'. How about 'Day of the Trifids'? The implication is that they were cultivated as a curiousity until their triggering event.

Then ... does 'Godzilla' count? Along with the stable of sentient monster movie critters of that ilk - [Rodan, Mothra, Gamera...] Plus others that get 'problem solving intelligence' [ala 'Jurassic Park']

[lamparty.livejournal.com]

Heinlein for the Win! "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress", Mike AKA Adam Selene! Well at least it's one heck of a story! Plenty of Stories with Human mutants with Psi powers, Cyborgs and Self-Aware Robots, up lifted Dolphins, lots to pick from!