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

As I found while working on my own novel, writing about aliens can be strangely helpful in this pursuit. Just as astronomers use telescopes to examine celestial objects light-years away, novelists can ...

The Scarlett Johansson-led sci-fi film Under the Skin is rightly acclaimed, but there's room for a more loyal adaptation of ...

Between Dune and 2001: A Space Odyssey, there are plenty of impressive sci-fi films based on books.

Steven Spielberg’s fourth film about alien encounters is “Disclosure Day,” following “ET: The Extra-Terrestrial,” “War of the Worlds,” and “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.” That inspired us to ...

An Alien fan looked at the 1979 sci-fi horror classic from the xenomorph's point of view and came up with an interesting ...