"Project Hail Mary" really pushes the limit when it comes to non-humanoid aliens. But researchers posit that real aliens ...

The year’s best speculative fiction includes a fantasy novel by Kelly Link, alien epics and promising starts to series. Credit...Karan Singh Supported by By Amal El-Mohtar Amal El-Mohtar is a Hugo ...

Dark Horse has created and published many comics within the Alien universe. Some of these comics have been turned into novels. In total, nine have been adapted into novels, which will be explained ...

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The New Scientist Book Club has been reading Tade Thompson’s Rosewater, a thrilling sci-fi novel that imagines Nigeria as ground zero in an alien invasion. This week, our culture editor Alison Flood ...

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 ...

The latest novel by Adrian Tchaikovsky, Shroud, examines the question of whether, faced with an alien intelligence, we would actually perceive it as intelligent. That and whether the aliens would ...