In the classic 1950s sci-fi serial Quatermass and the Pit (written for the BBC by Nigel Kneale and later remade as a brilliantly lurid Hammer film), a London building site starts turning up prehistoric skulls that lead to a foul encounter with humanity's dark nature.
But using a military term, Rick's group is used to living "behind enemy lines," not only from on-going encounters with the walkers, but also by encountering depraved humanity.
This became known as "the ELIZA effect" — a quirk of human nature that makes us think a human (or human-like intelligence) is behind the scenes whenever we encounter signs of "humanity" in a computer interface.
In short, we encounter the full humanity of these women, and the encounter transforms us, as well.
For both the secular and the religious, money is the best way we have of insulating ourselves from the vulnerability and emotional maelstrom of encountering the raw humanity of need and anger.
But Bissell has written the finest account yet of what it feels like to be a video game player at "this glorious, frustrating time," a rare moment when humanity encounters, as he writes, "a form of storytelling that is, in many ways, completely unprecedented".
The Greek body beautiful is the theme of this epic, sexy encounter with some of humanity's highest achievements.
Most of the time, we move from point to point on a familiar route that we have trod into a trench, and all the humanity we encounter is as unfamiliar as the landscape is familiar.
Wood, in this book, celebrates the fact that the novel is where you encounter a multiplicity of humanity without any reference to their instrumental significance; and it is yourself you escape when you enter the lives of these others.
Editor Eric Raab noted in the book's press release that "who better to tell the tale" of humanity's encounter with the antagonistic alien Covenant than Staten, who had "intimate knowledge" of the series' story.
