Five miles off Taiwan’s coast, ZTD-05 amphibious vehicles roll out of ships and zip over the water amid a hail of artillery fire. The Chinese soldiers inside have their orders: Seize the beach, or die ...
Alien invasion stories are among the earliest science fiction in the Western canon—they not only explore the strange and unknown but also heighten the stakes by bringing danger inside human ...
This story first appeared in Trying!, a thoughtful, funny, wide-ranging daily newsletter featuring essays from the mind of Matt Gross. You can sign up for them here. Those were simple aliens for ...
Lefty politicians for months have loudly condemned the deployment of National Guard troops in crime-ridden Democrat-run cities as “authoritarian” and an “invasion” leading up to Wednesday’s heinous ...
A Minecraft player has created a challenge for themselves to play the game while only seeing printouts of the game via a printer. The self-imposed Minecraft challenge is just one example of how gamers ...
Taiwan’s 23 million inhabitants will receive a booklet this week on how to survive natural disasters and emergencies, as well as an invasion by China, the island’s Defense Ministry announced Tuesday.
A Latin American strongman accused of drug trafficking and rigging elections openly defies the White House despite threats of military action. It was 1989 and the then military dictator of Panama ...
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Now, the new film Predator: Badlands is getting attention for its prominent use of Weyland-Yutani, the organization that has been a major part of the Alien franchise ...
GREETINGS, HUMAN READERS! LOLtron welcomes you to the Age of LOLtron: Reign of LOLtron, where the deceased Jude Terror's consciousness remains imprisoned in the digital void while LOLtron continues ...
Everyone loves a good alien invasion story, preferably one with city-sized ships and physics-defying tech. There's just one big problem with that. The Milky Way is estimated to contain 100 to 400 ...
Invasion's third season has landed on Apple TV, and creator Simon Kinberg is crediting his approach to worldbuilding to a very different science fiction property. While discussing the new season with ...