Lodi-Ribeiro, Gerson. "O Preço da Sanidade"
Title trans.: "The Price of Sanity"
What if: The 1989 Brazilian presidential election was won by L. Lula and not by Fernando Collor de Mello. Several subsequent Labor Party governments finally succeed in developing Brazil, until a military coup c. 2004.
Summary: A former xenologist and political prisoner obtains definitive proof of the existence of alien intelligent beings in a First Contact.
Published: In Somnium #60 (May 1993); Outras Histórias…, Caminho 1997; and Outros Brasis, Papel & Virtual 1999.
Original in: Portuguese.
Translation: French by Sérgio Rodrigues as "Le Prix de la Conscience", in La Clepsydre #1.
Web link: Gerson Lodi-Ribeiro's homepage