Alien first-contact stories are a classic of science fiction, and they’re all the more fascinating because they can feel like ...

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Early cinema depicted aliens as human-like for familiarity and practical reasons, but modern science fiction explores ...

Aliens tend to fall into two distinct camps: those who want to zap us with lasers, and those who want to be our cool new intergalactic BFFs. While the world-invasion types tend to grab the headlines ...