Sci-fi authors have been getting us ready for first contact with aliens for decades.

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. Real scientists all over the world are ...

Humanity loves imagining first contact as the big emotional moment: the ship lands, the music swells, and everyone feels very ...

In these science fiction books, extraterrestrial beings are sympathetic, horrifying and everything in between. By James S.A. Corey James S.A. Corey is the pen name of Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck, the ...