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This version is the original award winning novella that inspired the 20th Century Fox motion picture ENEMY MINE starring Dennis Quaid and Lou Gossett, Jr. It is the story of a human combat pilot, incomplete in himself, taught to be a human by the sworn enemy with which he is…

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This was my very first science-fiction read, when I was around ten or twelve years old, and it never left me.

I was deeply shaken by the bond that grew between two sworn enemies who initially wanted nothing more than to kill each other. I was afraid for them, stranded on a hostile, alien planet, and I cried not only when Jerry died, but also when Samis tried to imitate Willis, lifting his three fingers and staring at the human’s five, asking if more would grow.

What stayed with me most was the moment when the human went to the…

From Jasmine's list on understanding the “enemy”.

“Why should I read this book you ask?”, well it won the Nebula award for best novella in 1979, and the Hugo award in 1980, it was made into a movie in the mid-eighties, at the time I didn’t read much, so I’d seen a pretty good Hollywood movie about a human space fighter pilot, fighting a race call the Drac. Later I read a book of the same name, not realising until a few chapters in that I’d seen the movie years before!

The interesting part was, that because they only fought via space fighter craft, neither race had…

From Oliver's list on first contact science fiction.

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