Alien first-contact stories are a classic of science fiction, and they’re all the more fascinating because they can feel like predictions of a possible future. This is the book that made me fall in ...

Hollywood makes initiating alien contact seem much easier than it has proven to be. In E.T. the Extraterrestrial, E.T. got ...

Popularized by H.G. Wells' novel, The War of the Worlds, a common trope in science fiction is, of course, the moment of first contact between humans and intelligent extraterrestrial life. The concept ...

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Steven Spielberg's Disclosure Day is the latest movie to tackle the subject of first contact, but these masterpieces understood the idea much better.

The moment of first contact with extraterrestrials is a staple of science fiction. It usually involves a frantic scientist having a Eureka moment, realising in a single dramatic instant that Earth is ...