![]() ![]() ![]() And alien stories can be particularly important to social science fiction, because building alien cultures and having humanity interact with them provides a way to explore how we interact with the unknown and how cultures may clash. Which isn’t new, to be clear! Nearly as long as there have been stories about threatening aliens, there have been stories that ask if humans themselves are the true alien invader. While aliens have long been a mainstay of space horror (hello, Alien) and space western adventure stories where they often stand in for a problematic other, there’s a lot more possible range to their existence. They can represent the terrifying other, the inexorable force, the new friend. Aliens are a staple in science fiction, a plot element that you can find in almost any sub-genre. ![]()
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