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 ...

If I had to pick just one alien book as my favorite, it would be H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds. What I love most is the atmosphere Wells builds — that slow, suffocating sense of an invasion that ...

Have you read Max Evry's A Masterpiece in Disarray: David Lynch’s Dune? It's the kind of making-of movie book that's hard to come by these days - not just definitive, but also honest in a way that the ...

Scientists are listening in on sperm whale conversations and studying Earth's strangest microbes to prepare humanity for first contact with extraterrestrial life. Tardigrades—a type of invertebrate ...