As much as Steven Spielberg likes aliens, he seems to prefer holding them at arm’s length. The creatures in Close Encounters of the Third Kind contact humans using music and lights, but the director ...

All fiction is metaphor,” wrote Ursula K Le Guin. “Science fiction is metaphor.” The writer, most famous for her Earthsea fantasy novels, captured the civil rights movement, second-wave feminism and ...

It becomes easier to get around a new place if you have an atlas handy. When it comes to navigating your way around marketing to an alien culture, your atlas can be any source of information created ...

Right from the jump it's clear that FX's new series Alien: Earth is paying homage and gets its influence from the first two movies in the Alien franchise. The show's creator Noah Hawley (Legion, Fargo ...

How would you describe a culture where women are flogged in public for ‘inappropriate dress’? A culture where one woman suffered 40 lashes from a leather whip for the crime of wearing trousers and a T ...

E.T., title star of the 1982 movie, is deeply nonhuman: benevolent, selfless, and greedy for nothing more than some Reese's Pieces. So did the poor guy deserve to be terrorized by thugs in hazmat ...

If thousands of years from now aliens landed in the crumbling ruins of Washington, D.C., what would they make of it? Ellen Harvey has a wild imagination. These days, the artist has been musing about ...

The original “Alien” (1979) was, like many other blockbuster movies of the day, a slow burn. Painstakingly it set the stage and allowed the tension to simmer while holding off on the mayhem. A ...

The Alien universe is back, baby. Unsurprisingly, attempting to experiment on the alien goes horribly wrong for the scientists. As a result, their facility -- a massive ship split between parts ...

There’s no data to suggest that aliens exist. However, if we believed they existed and came to Earth, our planet would offer them a somewhat risky buffet. There is liquid water, as well as salts, ...