Extraterrestres

 

    from

A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology

http://bit.ly/abibliog

by José Ángel García Landa

(University of Zaragoza, Spain)

 

 

Extraterrestrial Beings /

extraterrestrial intelligence

 

 

Aldiss, Brian. This World and Nearer Ones. Essay on SF. 1979.

Barthes, Roland. "Martiens." In Barthes, Mythologies. Paris: Seuil, 1957. (Rpt. Points).  42-4.*

Benford, Gregory.  "Aliens and Knowability: A Scientist's Perspective." In Bridges to Science Fiction. Ed. George E. Slussser et al.  Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1980.  53-63.

_____.  "Effing the Ineffable." In Aliens: The Anthropology of Science Fiction. Ed. George E. Slusser and Eric S. Rabkin.  Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1987.  13-25.

Domínguez, Nuño. "Una misión para buscar extraterrestres en la estrella más cercana a la Tierra." El País 1 Oct. 2016.*

         http://elpais.com/elpais/2016/09/29/ciencia/1475176650_120772.html

         2016

Feijoo, Benito Jerónimo (Fray). "¿Hay otros mundos?" From Cartas eruditas y curiosas. In Feijoo, Antología popular. Ed. Eduardo Blanco-Amor. Buenos Aires: Ediciones Galicia, 1966. 231.* (Extraterrestrial beings)

Feinberg, G., and R. Shapiro. Life beyond Earth. New York: Morrow, 1980.

Flammarion, Camille. La pluralidad de mundos habitados. Madrid: Gapar y Roigl, 1873.

Fontenelle, Bernard le Bouvier de. Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes. 1686. 4th ed. Paris, 1866. (Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds).

_____. The Theory or System of Several New Inhabited Worlds Trans. Aphra Behn. 1700.

_____. (Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle). Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds. Trans. H. A. Hargreaves. Ed. Nina Rattner Gelbart. Berkeley: U of California P, 1990.

_____. Conversaciones sobre la pluralidad de los mundos. Trans. A. Beltrán. Madrid: Editora Nacional, 1982.

García Landa, José Angel. "Addison on Aliens." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 13 Dec. 2014.*

         http://vanityfea.blogspot.com.es/2014/12/addison-on-aliens.html

         2014

_____. "Addison on Aliens: On the Origins of the Evolutionary Epic." Ibercampus (Vanity Fea) 15 Dec. 2014.*

         http://www.ibercampus.eu/addison-on-aliens-2605.htm

         2015

_____. "Addison on Aliens." Social Science Research Network 8 Jan. 2015.*

         http://ssrn.com/abstract=2543435

         2015

_____. "Addison on Aliens." Academia 30 May 2015.*

         https://www.academia.edu/12682907

         2015

_____. "Addison on Aliens: On the Origins of the Evolutionary Epic." ResearchGate 23 March 2016.*

         https://www.researchgate.net/publication/299385986

         2016

_____. "Addison y los extraterrestres." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 30 May 2015.*

         http://vanityfea.blogspot.com.es/2015/05/addison-y-los-extraterrestres.html

         2015

_____. "Baja probabilidad de vida inteligente." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 7 June 2020.*

         https://vanityfea.blogspot.com/2020/06/baja-probabilidad-de-vida-inteligente.html

         2020

Gould, Stephen Jay. "SETI and the Wisdom of Casey Stengel." In Gould, The Flamingo's smile. 1985. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1991. 403-13.*

_____. "SETI y la sabiduría de Casey Stengel." In Gould, La sonrisa del flamenco. Barcelona: RBA, 1995. 342-52.*

_____. The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History. 1985.

_____. La sonrisa del flamenco. Trans. Antonio Resines. Barcelona: Grijalbo Mondadori-Crítica, 1995.

_____. La sonrisa del flamenco. Trans. Antonio Resines. Barcelona: RBA, 1995.*

Guerrero, Teresa. "'Curiosity' encuentra indicios de vida en Marte." El Mundo (Papel) 8 June 2018.*

         http://prensa.unizar.es/noticias/1806/180608_z0_pale.pdf

         2018

Heidmann, J. "Dix années de recherches futures de signaux extraterrestres." Annales de Physique 14.133 (French Physics Society, 1989).

Heidmann, J., and J.-C. Ribes. A la recherche des extraterrestres. Paris: Nathan, 1985.

Lasswitz, Kurd. "Unser Recht auf Bewohner anderer Welten." Essay on SF. 1910.

"Life on Mars? So What?" New York Times 11 Aug. 1996.

Livio, Mario. "Winston Churchill’s Essay on Alien Life Found." Nature 15 Feb. 2017.*

         http://www.nature.com/news/winston-churchill-s-essay-on-alien-life-found-1.21467

         2017

Loeb, Avi. Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth.

_____. "Proyecto Lyra: La misión para interceptar una posible nave alienígena en su paso por el sistema solar." El Confidencial (Novaceno) 1 May 2023. (Oumuamua).

         https://www.elconfidencial.com/tecnologia/novaceno/2023-05-11/espacial-interceptar-nave-alienigena-sistema-solar_3626720/

         2023

_____. Interstellar. 2023.

Longrich, Nicholas. "La evolución nos dice que es probable que seamos la única vida inteligente del universo." The Conversation 24 Oct. 2019.*

         https://theconversation.com/la-evolucion-nos-dice-que-es-probable-que-seamos-la-unica-vida-inteligente-del-universo-125643

         2023

Loosley, William. An Account of a Meeting with Denizens of Another World. 1871. Ed. David Langford. David & Charles, 1979.

Marx, G., ed. Bioastronomy: The Next Steps. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1987.

Menor-Salván, César. "Vida en Marte: Una realidad incómoda." The Conversation 11 Dec. 2022.*

         https://theconversation.com/vida-en-marte-una-realidad-incomoda-195771

         2022

NeoFronteras. "¿Estamos solos?" Neofronteras 1 June 2020.*

         http://neofronteras.com/?p=7124

         2020

Rees, Martin. "Why Aliens May Be Weirder Than We Think." The Guardian (Future) 26 Oct. 2023.*

         https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20231025-if-alien-life-is-artificially-intelligent-it-may-be-stranger-than-we-can-imagine

         2023

Raulin, F., J. Heidmann, C. Vincent and S. Brunier. "Dossier bioastronomique." In Ciel et espace. French Astronomical Society, 1990.

Slusser, George E., and Eric S. Rabkin. Aliens: The Anthropology of Science Fiction.  Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1987.

Tarter, J., ed. SETI: Search for Extraterrestrial Life. (NP 114). Washington: NASA Headquarters, 1989.

Tipler, F. J. "Extraterrestrial Intelligent Beings Do Not Exist." Physics Today (April 1981): 9, 70-71.

_____. "We Are Alone in Our Galaxy." New Scientist 96 (7 October 1982): 33-35.

Vakoch, Douglas A., and Jeffrey Punske, eds. Xenolinguistics: Towards a Science of Extraterrestrial Language. London: Routledge, 2023.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003352174

Wallace, A. R. Man's Place in the Universe: A Study of the Results of Scientific Research in Relation to the Unity or Plurality of Worlds. New York: McClure Phillips, 1903.

Washington Post. "19^th-c. Spaceman Tale Stirs Interest in Texas 'Blob'." Washington Post 26 May 1973.* Online at YouTube (Espace des Sciences).*

         https://youtu.be/wjzEMIox_a8?t=775

         2020

Wilkins, John. Discovery of a New World, or a Discourse to Prove that it is problable there may be another habitable world in the moon; with a Discourse concerning the possibility of a passage thither. 1638.

Wilson, E. O. "10. A Portrait of E. T." In Wilson, The Meaning of Human Existence. New York and London: Norton-Liveright, 2014. 110-22.*

 

 

 

 

 

Audio

 

"Giordano Bruno: L'Infini, l'Univers et les Mondes." Audio (French radio). YouTube (Deus sive natura) 3 Aug. 2019.*

         https://youtu.be/a6b4UTjhF50

         2019

 

Schatzman, Evry. "La Vie dans l'Univers." Audio. YouTube (La Lucarne et la Nuit) 12 Aug. 2017.*

         https://youtu.be/MFzRKGGSuek

         2017

Walker, Sara Imari. "What Is Life, Episode 2. Sara Walker: If We Find Alien Life, Will We Even Know It?" Interview by Carl Zimmer. In What Is Life?

         http://whatislife.libsyn.com/-episode-2-sara-walker-if-we-find-alien-life-will-we-even-know-it

         2019

 

 

 

 

 

 

Literature

 

Asimov, Isaac. "The Martian Way." SF story. Galaxy (1952?).

_____. The Gods Themselves. SF novel. 1971.

_____. Los propios dioses. DeBols!llo.

Bradbury, Ray. Martian Chronicles (=The Silver Locusts). Novel. 1951.

Campbell, John W. Invaders from the Infinite.   Novel.

Cavendish, Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle. Observations upon Experimental Philosophy. With The Description of a New World, called The Blazing World. Fantasy. 1666.

_____. The Blazing World and Other Writings.  Ed. Kate Lilley. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1994.

_____. From The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World. 1666, 1668. In The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Ed. M. H. Abrams, Stephen Greenblatt, et al. New York: Norton, 1999. 1765-71.*

Clarke, Arthur C.  "The Sentinel." Story. New Worlds 22 (1953).

_____.  2001: A Space Odyssey. Novel.

_____.  Rendezvous with Rama. Novel. 1973. Hugo Award, Nebula Award.

Cyrano de Bergerac.L'Autre Monde:

_____. Voyage dans la Lune. 1657.

_____. L'histoire des états et empires du soleil.

Defoe, Daniel. The Consolidator: or, Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World in the Moon. 1705.

Dick, Philip K.  All We Marsmen. Novella. Worlds of Tomorrow (August 1963).

_____. Clans of the Alphane Moon. Novel. 1964.

Finney, Jack. The Body Snatchers. SF novel. 1955. Film: Invasion of the Body Snatchers, dir. Don Siegel.

Foster, Alan Dean. Alien. Film novelization.  1979.

Hubbard, L. Ron.  Battlefield Earth. Novel. 1982.

_____.  The Invaders' Plan.  Novel. 1986. Vol. 1 of the novel decalogy Mission: Earth.

Lasswitz, Kurd. Auf Zwei Planeten. Novel. 1897.

_____.  On Two Planets.  Trans. 1971.

Le Guin, Ursula K.  Planet of Exile. Novel.  Written 1963-64. 1966.

_____.  The Left Hand of Darkness. 1969. Hugo and Nebula Awards.

Lem, Stanislaw. Solaris. Novel.1961.

_____. Solaris. Novel. 1961. Trans. from the French by Joanna Kilmartin and Steve Cox. Afterword by Darko Suvin. New York: Berkley, 1970.

_____. Solaris. Barcelona: Minotauro.

Lessing, Doris. Re: Colonised Planet 5 Shikasta: Personal, Psychological, Historical Documents Relating to Visit by Johor (George Sherban): Emissary (Grade 9) 87th of the Period of the Last Days. Novel. 1979.

_____.  The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five (As narrated by the Chronicles of Zone Three).  1980.

_____.  The Sirian Experiment: The Report by Ambien II, of the Five.  Novel. 1981.

_____. The Making of the Representative for Planet 8. Novel. 1982.

_____. Documents Relating to the Sentimental Agents of the Volyen Empire.  Novel. 1983.

Lewis, C. S. Out of the Silent Planet. Novel. 1938.

_____. Perelandra. Novel. 1943.

_____.  That Hideous Strength. Novel. 1945.

Sagan, Carl. Contact.  Novel. 1985.

_____. Contact. 1985. Trans. Raquel Albornoz. Barcelona: Plaza y Janés, 1989.

_____. Contact. Trans. Raquel Albornoz. (Obras maestras de la Ciencia Ficción). Barcelona: Planeta DeAgostini, 2001.

Stapledon, Olaf. Star Maker. Novel. 1937.

Strugatsky, Arkady, and Boris Strugatsky. Roadside Picnic. Novel. 1972. Trans. 1977.

Vonnegut, Kurt. Slaughterhouse-Five: or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death. Kurt Vonnegut: A Fourth-Generation German-American now living in easy circumstances on Cape Cod [and smoking too much], who, as an American infantry scout hors de combat, as a prisoner of war, witnessed the fire-bombing of Dresden, Germany, 'The Florence of the Elbe', a long time ago, and survived to tell the tale. This is a novel somewhat in the telegraphic schizophrenic manner of tales of the planet Tralfamadore, where the flying saucers come from. Peace.  Novel. New York: Delacorte, 1969. 

Watson, Ian.   Alien Embassy. Novel. 1977. 

_____.  Miracle Visitors.  Novel. 1978.

Wells, H. G. The War of the Worlds. Novel. Serialized 1897, book 1898.

_____. The War of the Worlds. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1946.

_____. The War of the Worlds.  In Seven Science Fiction Novels of H. G. Wells. New York: Dover, n. d. 207-453.*

_____. A Critical Edition of The War of the Worlds: H. G. Wells's Scientific Romance. Ed. David Y. Hughes and Gary M. Geduld. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1993.

_____. La Guerra de los Mundos. Trans. Ramiro de Maeztu (1902). Appendix by Constantino Bértolo Cadenas. Illust. Mario Lacoma. (Tus Libros, 44). Madrid: Anaya, 1984. 2nd ed. 1986. 3rd ed. 1987.*

Wilson, Colin. The Space Vampires. Novel. Filmed as Lifeforce.

 

 

 

 

Video

 

Balbín, José Luis, et al. "LA CLAVE - OTROS MUNDOS, OTRAS VIDAS." Video. (Antena 3, La Clave, 1992). YouTube (pep ito) 20 Feb. 2013.*

https://youtu.be/zRpu51vlFXE

2021

 

Davies, Paul. "The Eerie Silence: Are We Alone in the Universe?" YouTube (ANUchannel) 31 May 2012.*

         http://youtu.be/fUsXKOo-9mo

         2013

 

Fernández, Rafa. "Razas extraterrestres." Video. YouTube (En Busca de la Verdad) 4 June 2020.* (Crank ufologist).

         https://youtu.be/QzDLt-vv8LI

         2020

 

Fridman, Lex. "Clara Sousa-Silva: Searching for Signs of Life on Venus and Other Planets – Lex Fridman Podcast #195." Video interview. YouTube (Lex Fridman) 28 June 2021.*

https://youtu.be/CGAvsmokB4c

         2021

_____. "Brian Greene: Quantum Gravity, the Big Bang, Aliens, Death, and Meaning - Lex Fridman Podcast #232." Video. YouTube (Lex Fridman) 20 Oct. 2021.* (Consciousness, future of humankind, space exploration, cosmology).

         https://youtu.be/98HZanvAJ8Y

         2022

_____. "Lee Cronin: Origin of Life, Aliens, Complexity, and Consciousness | Lex Fridman Podcast." Video interview. YouTube (Lex Fridman) 11 March 2022.*

https://youtu.be/ZecQ64l-gKM

2022

_____. "Martin Rees: Black Holes, Alien Life, Dark Matter, and the Big Bang | Lex Fridman Podcast #305." Video, interview. YouTube (Lex Fridman) 23 July 2022.*

https://youtu.be/50r-5ULcWgY

2025

 

Santaolalla, Javier. "Nunca encontraremos vida inteligente con el Dr. Javier Santaolalla." Video. YouTube (Canal Voces de la Ciencia) 23 Dec. 2025.*

https://youtu.be/YX3HyrlP2A8

         2025

 

 

 

See also Aliens; UFOs; Science Fiction; Space exploration.

 

 

Extraterrestres

 

     from

A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology

http://bit.ly/abibliog

by José Ángel García Landa

(University of Zaragoza, Spain)

 

 

Aliens

 

 

Aliens (Extraterrestrial beings). See E motifs. Extraterrestrial beings.

Aliens (Extraterrestrial visitors, monsters and invaders)

Aliens (immigrants). See Immigrants

Alien invasions

 

 

 

Aliens (Extraterrestrial visitors, monsters and invaders)

 

Barr, Marleen S. "Biological Wishful Thinking: Strange Bedfellows and Phallic Fallacies." In Barr, Alien to Femininity. Westport (CT): Greenwood P, 1987. 103-24.*

Benford, Gregory. "Aliens and Knowability: A Scientist's Perspective." In Bridges to Science Fiction. Ed. George E. Slussser et al. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1980. 53-63.

_____. "Effing the Ineffable." In Aliens: The Anthropology of Science Fiction. Ed. George E. Slusser and Eric S. Rabkin. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1987. 13-25.

Calanchi, Alessandra. "Alien Gothic and Gothic Aliens: Leigh Brackett's 'Respectful Distance'." In Gothic Metamorphoses Across the Centuries: Contexts, Legacies, Media. Ed. Maurizio Ascari et al. Bern, Berlin, Brussels, New York, Oxford: Peter Lang, 2020. 131-47.*

Faber Kaiser, Andreas.¿Sacerdotes o cosmonautas? (Otros Mundos). Barcelona: Plaza & Janes, 1974.

https://andreas.faber.cat/libros/sacerdotes-o-cosmonautas/

         2021

_____. "El muñeco humano." 1989. Online at Andreas Faber-Kaiser.*

         https://andreas.faber.cat/articulos/extraterrestres/el-muneco-humano/

         2021

García Landa, José Angel.  "La Guerra de los Mundos." In García Landa, Blog de notas 2005/2 25 Aug. 2005.* (Steven Spielberg's film).

         http://www.unizar.es/departamentos/filologia_inglesa/garciala/z05-2.html

         2005 - DISCONTINUED 2025 – Online at the Internet Archive.*

         https://web.archive.org/web/20120310113604/http:/www.unizar.es/departamentos/filologia_inglesa/garciala/z05-2.html

         2025

         https://www.flickr.com/photos/garciala/39910765913/in/dateposted-public/

         2020

_____. "La Guerra de los Mundos." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 25 Aug. 2025.*

         https://garciala.blogia.com/2005/082501-la-guerra-de-los-mundos.php

         2025

_____. "Retropost, 2005: La Guerra de los Mundos." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 25 Aug. 2025.*

         https://blogdenotasvanityfea.blogspot.com/2025/08/retropost-2005-la-guerra-de-los-mundos.html

         2025

         https://x.com/JoseAngelGLanda/status/1959847134607335659

         2025

_____. "El ABC y la Plandemia Marciana." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 15 Feb. 2023.*

         https://vanityfea.blogspot.com/2023/02/el-abc-y-la-plandemia-marciana.html

         2023

Gomel, Elana. Science Fiction, Alien Encounters, and the Ethics of Posthumanism. Palgrave Macmillan.

Gómez Muñoz, Pablo. "The Alien as a Vehicle for Cosmopolitan Discourses: The Case of The Day the Earth Stood Still." Atlantis 40.2 (Dec. 2018): 123-44.*

         http://doi.org/10.28914/Atlantis-2018-40.2.07

         2019

Jancovich, Mark. "Fordist Fears: Alien Beings and Rational Control." In Jankovich, Horror. London: Batsford, 1992. 62-82.*

Knowlson, James R. "Communication with Other Worlds in Fiction." Philosopical Journal 5 (1968): 61ff.

Lieb, Michael. Children of Ezekiel: Aliens, UFOs, the Crisis of Race, and the Advent of End Time. Durham (NC): Duke UP, 1998.*

Mateos-Aparicio Martín-Albo, Ángel. "Los marcianos observados desde el continente: The War of the Worlds y Auf Zwei Planeten." In Actas del 25º Congreso AEDEAN, Granada 2001. CD-ROM. Granada: U de Granada: Departamento de Filología Inglesa, 2002.*

_____. "'Ya están aquí': El vampiro y el marciano como figuras de la alteridad." In AEDEAN: Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference (León, 16-18 de diciembre, 1999). CD-ROM. León: AEDEAN, 2003.*

_____. "'Martians U.S.A.': El planeta rojo visto por la imaginación de Edgar Rice Burroughs." In AEDEAN XXX: Proceedings of the 30th International AEDEAN Conference. [Huelva, 2006]. Ed. María Losada Friend et al. Huelva: U de Huelva, 2007.*

Marron, Orley K. "Alternative Theory of Mind for Artificial Brains: A Logical Approach to Interpreting Alien Minds." In Theory of Mind and Literature. Ed. Paula Leverage et al. Purdue UP, 2011. 187-200.

Meyers, Walter E. Aliens and Linguists: Language Study and Science Fiction. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1980.

Pielke, Robert G. "Humans and Aliens: A Unique Relationship." Mosaic 13.3-4 (1980): 29-40.

Slusser, George E., and Eric S. Rabkin, eds. Aliens: The Anthropology of Science Fiction. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1987.

Waldrop, M. Mitchell. "The Search for Alien Intelligence: SETI is Dead — Long Live SETI." Published online 27 July 2011 (Nature 475 (2011): , 442-444. doi:10.1038/475442a

         http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110727/full/475442a.html

         2011

Wolmark, Jenny. Aliens and Others: Science Fiction, Feminism and Postmodernism. New York: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1993.

 

 

 

 

Films

 

 

Alien. Dir. Ridley Scott. Cast: Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, John Hurt, Ian Holm, Harry Dean Stanton, Yaphet Kotto, Veronica Cartwright. Inspired by It! The Terror from Beyond Space. Followed by Aliens. Panavision. USA, 1979. (Oscar for special effects).

Aliens. Dir. James Cameron. Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Carrie Henn, Michael Biehn, Paul Reiser, Lance Henriksen, Bill Paxton, Jenette Goldstein. Followed by Alien 3. USA, 1986.

Alien 3 Dir. David Fincher. Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Charles S. Dutton, Charles Dance, Paul McGann, Brian Glover, Ralph Brown, Danny Webb, Christopher John Fields, Holt McCallany, Lance Henriksen,  Peter Postlethwaite. Music by Elliot Goldenthal. Visual effects by Richard Edlund; Alien creature designed by H. R. Giger, effects by Alec Gillis and  Tom Woodruff, Jr. Ed. Terry Rawlings. Prod. des. Norman Reynolds. Photog. Alex Thomson. Exec. prod. Ezra Swerdlow. Characters created by Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett. Plot by Vincent Ward, script by David Giler, Walter Hill and Larry Ferguson. Prod. Gordon Carroll, David Giler and Walter Hill. USA: Twentieth Century Fox, 1992. (Panavision. Followed by Alien Resurrection).

_____ , dir. Alien 3. Special ed. Spanish DVD (2 DVD). Madrid: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, 2003.*

Alien Resurrection. Dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Winona Ryder, Dominique Pinon, Ron Perlman, Gary Dournan, Michael Wincott, Kim Flowers, Dan Hedaya, J. E. Freeman, Brad Dourif. USA, 1997.

Arrival. Dir. Denis Villeneuve. Paramount, 2016. (Extraterrestrial contact).

Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Dir. and screenplay Steven Spielberg. Cast: Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon, Cary Guffey, Bob Balaban. Cinematography by Vilmos Zsigmond. Music by John Williams. Panavision. USA, 1977. Reedited 1980, 1998. (Oscar for Zsigmond).

District 9. Dir. Neill Blomkamp. Written by Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell. Music by Michelle Belcher and Clinton Shorter. Ed. Julian Clarke. Prod. Des. Philip Ivey. Photog. Trent Opaloch. Exec. Prod. Bill Block, Ken Kamins. Co-exec. Prod. Paul Hanson, Elliott Ferwerda. Co-prod. Philippa Boyens. Prod. Peter Jackson, Carolynne Cunningham. Tristar Pictures / Block/Hanson / Wingnut Films, 2009. Spanish DVD: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, 2010.*

The Host. Dir. Andrew Niccol. 
Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Jake Abel, Max Irons, Diane Kruger, William Hurt. (Spanish title: La huésped).

K-Pax. Dir. Iain Softley. Screenplay by Charles Leavitt, based on the novel by Gene Brewer. Cast: Kevin Spacey, Jeff Bridges, Alfre Woodard, Mary McCormack. Co-prod. Michael Levy. Exec. prod. Susan G. Pollock. Music by Edward Shearmur. Ed. Craig McKay. Prod. des. John Beard. Photog. John Mathieson. Prod. Lawrence Gordon, Lloyd Levin and Robert Ecolesberry. Universal. Spanish VHS: K-Pax.  Barcelona: Laurenfilm, 2002.*

Not of This Earth. Dir. Roger Corman. Cast: Paul Birch, Beverly Garland, Morgan Jones, William Roerick, Dick Miller. USA, 1957. (Several remakes, e.g. 1988).

Prometheus. Dir. Ridley Scott. Written by Jon Spaihts and Damon Lindelof. Cast: Noomi Rapace, Logan Marshall-Green, Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron, Idris Elba, Guy Pearce, Logan Marshall-Green, Sean Harris, Rafe Spall, Edmun Elliott. Music by Marc Streitenfeld. Cinemat. Dariusz Wolsky. Ed. Pietro Scalia. Prod. Des. Arthur Max. Sets by Sonja Klaus. Prod. David Giler, Walter Hill, Ridley Scott, Tony Scott. Exec. Prod. Michael Costigan, Michael Ellenberg, Mark Huffam, Damon Lindelof. Asoc. Prod. Teresa Kelly. Brandywine Productions / Dune / Scott Free, dist. 20th Century Fox, 2012.*

 

 

 

 

 

 

Literature

 

 

Baxter, Stephen. Stories of Your Life and Others. Easthampton (MA): Small Beer Press, 2002.

Benítez, J. J. Mis 'primos'. Barcelona: Planeta, 2021.

Bioy Casares, Adolfo. "El calamar opta por su tinta." Story. From Bioy, El lado de la sombra. 1962. In Antología de la Literatura Fantástica. Ed. Jorge Luis Borges, Silvina Ocampo and Adolfo Bioy Casares. 1965. Barcelona: Edhasa, 1983. 1989. 1991. 93-106.*

Card, Orson Scott. Speaker for the Dead. Novel. 1986. (Nebula Award 1986; Locus 1987; Hugo 1987).

_____. La voz de los muertos. (Nova ciencia ficción 1). Barcelona: Ediciones B.

_____. Ender, el Xenocida. (Nova ciencia ficción 50). Barcelona: Ediciones B.

_____. Ender el Xenocida. (Ciencia Ficción Zeta, 155). Barcelona: Ediciones B-Zeta Bolsillo, 2009.*

Eklund, Gordon, and Gregory Benford. "If the Stars Are Gods." 1975. In The Science Fiction Century. Ed. David G. Hartwell. New York: Tor Books, 1997. 558-84.*

Haddon, Mark. ¡Bum! Barcelona: Salamandra, 2011.*

Kotzwinkle, William. E.T., the Extra Terrestrial Storybook. Fiction. c. 1982.

London, Jack. "The Red One." Cosmopolitan Magazine (Oct. 1918). (Alien contact).

_____. "The Red One." In The Red One. New York: Macmillan, 1918.

_____. "El Idolo Rojo." In London, Los vagabundos. Madrid: Club Internacional del Libro, 1983. 53-88.*

_____. "El Rojo." In London, Fragmentos del futuro. Ed. and trans. Francisco Cabezas Coca. Illust. Juan Paccini. (Tus Libros, 43). Madrid: Anaya, 1984. 161-94.*

Lovecraft, H. P. "At the Mountains of Madness." Astounding Stories (1936). Online ed. in Wikisource.

         http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/At_the_Mountains_of_Madness

         2006-10-30

Mieville, China. Embassytown. New York: Ballantyne Books, 2011.

Sagan, Carl. Contact.  Novel. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1985.

_____. Contact. 1985. Trans. Raquel Albornoz. Barcelona: Plaza y Janés, 1989.

_____. Contact. Trans. Raquel Albornoz. (Obras maestras de la Ciencia Ficción). Barcelona: Planeta DeAgostini, 2001.

Salla, Michael. Space Force. (Crank conspiranoid bullshit).

_____. Galactic Federations Councils. (Crank conspiranoid bullshit).

_____. US Army Insider Missions: Space Arks, Underground Cities & ET Contacts. Vol. 1. (Book Eight of the Secret Space Program Series). 2023. (Crank conspiranoid bullshit).

Stapledon, Olaf. The Flames: A Fantasy. London: Secker and Warburg, 1947.

Swanwick, Michael. "Ginungagap." From Triquarterly. In The Science Fiction Century. Ed. David G. Hartwell. New York: Tor Books, 1997. 304-26.*

Von Daniken, Erich. The Gold of the Gods. Fake history. New York: Bantam.

_____. Regreso a las estrellas. Fake history.

_____. La historia miente. Fake history.

_____. Recuerdos del futuro. Fake history.

_____. Las huellas de los dioses. Fake history.

Voltaire. "Micromegas: Historia filosófica." Story. In Voltaire, Opúsculos. Cuentos. (Grandes Pensadores Gredos; Voltaire, II). Madrid: Gredos, 2010. Rpt. Barcelona: RBA, 2014. 91-110.*

 

 

 

 

Video

 

 

Baños, Pedro. "GEOPOLÍTICA ESOTÉRICA 👁️ Enrique de Vicente." Video interview. YouTube (El Canal del Coronel) 16 April 2024.* (Secret societies, Extortion, Blackmail, Politicians; occult science and prophecies, Masons, Elites, Depopulation, Revolutions, American revolution, Globalization and integration; Islamism; Al Quaeda, ISIS, Iron Mountain Report, war, belicism, climate change, aliens, control, false flag attacks, Gladio, terrorism, 11-S, 11-M, secret services and subversion).

https://www.youtube.com/live/Xs-r3CBQZfU

         2024

 

Coulthart, Ross. "David Grusch UFO/UAP bombshells: Ross Coulthart reveals the inside story." Video. YouTube (7NEWS Australia) 27 July 2023.*

https://youtu.be/x_9gTDXF9Vc

         2023

 

Entin, Brian, et al. "We Are Not Alone: Live Roundtable on Historic UFO Hearing | NewsNation Prime." Video. YouTube (NewsNation) 31 July 2023.*

https://youtu.be/vUnKRknLVSA

         2023

 

Prez, Shawn. "Dr. Steven Greer on Seeing & Studying Aliens, Man-Made v. Alien UFOs, Govt. Secrets (Full Interview)." Video. YouTube (djVlad) 5 Aut. 2023.* (HOAX: Close-to death experience, UFOS, secrets, Cover-ups, Deep State, Cheney, George W. Bush, Clinton, globalist PsyOps, disinformation, Luis Elizondo).

         https://youtu.be/hALD1Je3wL8

         2023

 

Hartley, Greg, et al. "🛸"We've Been LIED To!" Who's REALLY Deceiving Us?" Video. YouTube (The Behavior Panel) 15 June 2023.* (David Grusch; Intelligence, Secrets, Aliens, UFOs; Gestures; Nonverbal communication).

https://youtu.be/pvdUjRvAcMs

         2023

 

Jiménez, Iker, et al. "🔴 EMISIÓN ESPECIAL - Ovnis: Algo está pasando | #laestirpedeloslibres." Video. YouTube (Canal Iker Jiménez) 29 July 2023.* (Aliens and UFOs hearing; David Grusch, Javier Sierra, Robert Lazar, Fernando Cámara; José Antonio Caravaca; Enrique de Vicente; José Luis Martín Ovejero, Proxemics, Close encounters; Robert Bigelow, John Podesta, Luis Elizondo, Edgar Mitchell, Chris Mellon, Curt Collins, Miguel Lens Astray, PsyOps, Disinformation).

https://www.youtube.com/live/Qf10skUeAds

         2023

 

Morás, Nicolás, and Nicolás Martínez Lage "La NASA confirma Ovnis, México muestra 'Aliens' y busca regularlos: ¿Qué oculta este circo masivo?" Video. YouTube (Los Liberales) 15 Sept. 2023.* (John Podesta, Dave Grusch, Jaime Maussan).

         https://youtu.be/o9Fcfx-Ew0U

         2023

 

Morris, Clayton. "Alien Bodies! Video Evidence of U.S. Held UFO Handed Over to Journalists." Video interview with David Grusch. Redacted 9 June 2023.*

         https://youtu.be/VTRx6NSYbkc

         2023

 

Peterson, Jordan. "'Something Non-Human Has Been Here A Long Time' | Dr. Garry Nolan | EP 563." Video. YouTube (Jordan B. Peterson) 17 July 2025.* (Creativity, Neurology, Associations; UFOs, Havana syndrome)

https://youtu.be/HxVVz2Jorzk

         2025

 

Sánchez Dragó, Fernando, et al. "No estamos solos." ("La Noche", TVE, 1990)." Video. YouTube (Moisés Garrido y Claudia M. Moctezuma) 9 May 2023.*

https://youtu.be/BkHgaM_Kxoc

         2024

 

US Congress. "House Hearing on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, or UFOS - UFO Hearing Live | Former USA Officials Claim Government Holds UFOs | US Congress UFO Disclosure." Video. YouTube (CNN-News18) 27 July 2023.* (David Grusch; Cover-ups; Secrets).

https://www.youtube.com/live/nSeuq6HAJnI

         2023

 

 

 

 

See also Extraterrestrial beings; Alien invasions; Otherness; SETI; UFOs.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alien invasions

 

Cantril, Hadley, Hazel Gaudet, and Herta Herzog. The Invasion from Mars: A Study in the Psychology of Panic. 1940. New York: Harper and Row, 1966.

Gailor, Denis. "War of the Worlds, the 'invasion story' and Victorian Moralism." Critical Survey 8.3 (1996): 270-76.*

García Landa, José Ángel. "Alegorías de la Bomba." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 28 August 2005.

         http://garciala.blogia.com

Hillis, Scott. "How to Prepare for Alien Invasion." Rev. of Travis Taylor's and Bob Boan's An Introduction to Planetary Defense. In Reuters 25 April 2007.

         http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN0934498720070425?src=042507_0801_DOUBLEFEATURE_&pageNumber=1

         2007-04-28

Stapledon, Olaf. "Mr. Wells Calls in the Martians." Rev. of Star-Begotten. London Mercury 36 (July 1937): 295-96.

Taylor, Travis, and Bob Boan. An Introduction to Planetary Defense. 2007.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Films

 

 

Annihilation. Dir. Alex Garland. 2018.

The Day the Earth Stood Still. Dir. Robert Wise. Script by Edmund North.  Cast: Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, Hugh Marlowe, Sam Jaffe, Billy Gray, Frances Bavier, Lock Martin. USA, 1951.

District 9. Dir. Neill Blomkamp. Written by Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell. Music by Michelle Belcher and Clinton Shorter. Ed. Julian Clarke. Prod. Des. Philip Ivey. Photog. Trent Opaloch. Exec. Prod. Bill Block, Ken Kamins. Co-exec. Prod. Paul Hanson, Elliott Ferwerda. Co-prod. Philippa Boyens. Prod. Peter Jackson, Carolynne Cunningham. Tristar Pictures / Block/Hanson / Wingnut Films, 2009. Spanish DVD: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, 2010.*

The Earth Dies Screaming. Dir. Terence Fisher. Cast: Willard Parker, Virginia Field, Dennis Price, Vanda Godsell. UK, 1964.

Earth vs. The Flying Saucers. Dir. Fred F. Sears. Written by Bernard Gordons and George Worthing Yate, based on a story by Curt Siodmak, inspired by Flying Saucers from Outer Space, by Major Donald E. Keyhoe. Aphotog. Fred Jackman, Jr. Music by Mischa Bakaleinikoff. Art dir. Paul Palmentola. Sets by Sidney Clifford. Ed. Danny D. Landres. USA, 1956.*

Enemy from Space. Dir. Val Guest. Cast: Brian Donlevy, Michael Ripper, Sidney James, Bryan Forbes, John Longden, Vera Day, William Franklyn. UK, 1957. (Remake of The Creeping Unknown. Video title: Quatermass II. Sequel: Five Million Years to Earth).

Independence Day. Dir. Roland Emmerich.

Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Dir. Don Siegel. Based on Jack Finney's novel. Allied Artists, 1956.

The Invasion. Dir. Oliver Hirschbiegel and James McTeigue. Written by David Kajganich, based on the novel The Body Snatchers by Jack Finney. Cast: Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Jeremy Northam, Jackson Bond; Jeffrey Wright, Veronica Cartwright. Photog. Rainer Klausmann. Ed. Joel Negron and Hans Funck. Music by John Ottman. Prod. des. Jack Fisk. Prod. Joel Silver.  USA: Warner, 2007.*

This Island Earth. Dir. Joseph Newman. Based on Raymond F. Jones' novel. Cast: Jeff Morrow, Rex Reason, Faith Domergue, Russell Johnson, Lance Fuller, Douglas Spencer. Music by by Bernard Herrmann. Technicolor. USA, 1955. (Spanish title: Planeta prohibido).

Life. Dir. Daniel Espinosa. Written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick. Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Rebecca Ferguson, Ryan Reynolds. Columbia, 2017.*

         http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5442430/

         2017

The War of the Worlds. Dir. Byron Haskin. Screenplay by Barré Lyndon, based on the novel by H. G. Wells. Cast: Gene Barry, Ann Robinson, Less Tremayne. Prod. George Pal. Music by Leith Stephens. Technicolor. USA: Paramount, 1952. (Oscar for visual effects). Spanish DVD. Paramount Home Entertainment Spain, 2004.*

War of the Worlds. Dir. Steven Spielberg. Screenplay by David Koepp, based on the novel by H. G. Wells. Tom Cruise, Miranda Otto, Dakota Fanning, Tim Robbins, James DuMont, David Alan Basche, Daniel Franzese, Justin Chatwin, Christopher Evan Welch, David Harbour, John Scurti, Yul Vasquez, Lenny Venito, Lisa Ann Walter, Julie White,  Rafael Sardina, Rick Gonzalez,  Mariann Mayberry, Sharrieff Pugh George Katt, Travis Aaron, Camillia Sanes. Exec. prod. Colin Wilson Prod. Paula Wagner, Kathleen Kennedy. 2005.

_____, dir. War of the Worlds. DVD. Paramount / Dreamworks / Amblin / C/W, 2005.*

 

 

 

Literature

 

 

Borges, Jorge Luis. El libro de arena. Stories. 1975. ("There Are More Things").

_____. El libro de arena. Madrid: Alianza, 1977.

_____. El libro de arena. In Borges, Obras completas. Barcelona: Círculo de Lectores. Vol. 3.

_____. El libro de arena. In Borges, Obras Completas II. Barcelona: RBA / Instituto Cervantes, 2005. 9- 74.*

_____. The Book of Sand. Trans. Norman Thomas di Giovanni. New York: Dutton, 1978.

_____. Le Livre de sable. Paris: Gallimard, 1978.

Finney, Jack. The Body Snatchers. SF novel. 1955.

_____. Los ladrones de cuerpos. Trans. Lorenzo Luengo. Bibliópolis, 2002. Rpt. as Invasión: Los ladrones de cuerpos. (Bibliópolis Fantástica, 2). Bibliópolis, 2007.

Harrison, Harry. Invasion: Earth. London: Sphere Books.

King, Stephen. The Tommyknockers. Novel. 1988. London: Hodder and Stoughton-New English Library, 1989.*

Stapledon, Olaf. Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future. Novel. London: Methuen, 1930.

_____. Star Maker. SF novel. London: Methuen, 1937.

_____. Star Maker. In Last and First Men and Star Maker: Two Science Fiction Novels. New York: Dover, 1968.*

_____. Hacedor de estrellas. Barcelona: Minotauro, 1965. 1985.

_____. Hacedor de Estrellas. PDF. Utópika, 2002.*

         http://www.pdfdownload.org/pdf2html/view_online.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.librosgratisweb.com%2Fpdf%2Fstapledon-olaf%2Fhacedor-de-estrellas.pdf

         2011

_____. "Nautiloids." From Star Maker. In An Olaf Stapledon Reader. Ed. Robert Crossley. Syracuse (NY): Syracuse UP, 1997. 22-27.*

_____. The Flames: A Fantasy. London: Secker and Warburg, 1947.

_____. "The Flames: A Fantasy." Novella. 1947. In An Olaf Stapledon Reader. Ed. Robert Crossley. Syracuse (NY): Syracuse UP, 1997. 71-123.*

Wells, H. G. The War of the Worlds. SF novel. Serialized 1897.

_____. The War of the Worlds. (Book form). London. 1898.

_____. The War of the Worlds. London: William Heinemann.

_____. The War of the Worlds. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1946.

_____. The War of the Worlds. In Seven Science Fiction Novels of H. G. Wells. New York: Dover, n. d. 207-453.*

_____. A Critical Edition of The War of the Worlds: H. G. Wells's Scientific Romance. Ed. David Y. Hughes and Gary M. Geduld. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1993.

_____. The War of the Worlds. Videobook at YouTube-CC Prose. 23 Feb. 2012.*

         http://youtu.be/bdzMO9PIXOk

         2012

_____. La Guerra de los Mundos. Trans. Ramiro de Maeztu (1902). Appendix by Constantino Bértolo Cadenas. Illust. Mario Lacoma. (Tus Libros, 44). Madrid: Anaya, 1984. 2nd ed. 1986. 3rd ed. 1987.*

_____. La guerra de los mundos. (Obras maestras de la Ciencia Ficción). Barrcelona: Planeta DeAgostini, c. 2001.

Wells, H. G. The War of the Worlds. Online eComic version. Abridged by Ian Edginton and Matt Brooker. Art by D'Israeli. http://www.darkhorse.com/zones/wotw/wotw_popup.php?p=

         2007

 

 

 

 

Video

 

 

Fridman, Lex. "Neal Stephenson: Sci-Fi, Space, Aliens, AI, VR & the Future of Humanity - Lex Fridman Podcast #240." Video interview. YouTube (Lex Fridman) 11 Nov. 2021.* (Space exploration).

         https://youtu.be/xAfdSak2fs8

         2022

_____. "Elon Musk: War, AI, Aliens, Politics, Physics, Video Games, and Humanity – Lex Fridman Podcast #400." Video. YouTube (Lex Fridman) 9 Nov. 2023.*

https://youtu.be/JN3KPFbWCy8

         2023

 

"H.G. Wells and the War of the Worlds: A Documentary." Video. YouTube (The Orchard on Demand) 25 March 2017.*

         https://youtu.be/h8sSKMZiPMI

         2019

 

Morris, Clayton. "Former FBI agent EXPOSES the truth of the UFO invasion | Redacted Conversations." Interview with John DeSouza. YouTube (Redacted) 19 March 2023.* (Deep State, PsyOps, UFOs and "UAPs", New York Times, The X Files,  fake alien invasion, Disinformation, surveillance, the globalist Cabal and occult bankers, Obama and James Comey).

https://youtu.be/U06GkT6mx04

         2023

 

 

 

 

See also Extraterrestrial Beings.