This entry was published at least two years ago (originally posted on April 25, 2020). Since that time the information may have become outdated or my beliefs may have changed (in general, assume a more open and liberal current viewpoint). A fuller disclaimer is available.
📚 twenty of 2020: Starman by Alan Dean Foster ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A pleasant and easy adaptation of an 80s SF film that I remember enjoying when it came out. It’s another of the “benevolent alien meets paranoid humans” contact stories, but does it simply and well.