A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology
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).
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.*
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.*
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. "19th-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.*
2019
Schatzman, Evry. "La Vie dans l'Univers." Audio. YouTube (La Lucarne et la Nuit) 12 Aug. 2017.*
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.*
2021
Davies, Paul. "The Eerie Silence: Are We Alone in the Universe?" YouTube (ANUchannel) 31 May 2012.*
2013
Fernández, Rafa. "Razas extraterrestres." Video. YouTube (En Busca de la Verdad) 4 June 2020.* (Crank ufologist).
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.*
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).
2022
_____. "Lee Cronin: Origin of Life, Aliens, Complexity, and Consciousness | Lex Fridman Podcast." Video interview. YouTube (Lex Fridman) 11 March 2022.*
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.*
2025
Santaolalla, Javier. "Nunca encontraremos vida inteligente con el Dr. Javier Santaolalla." Video. YouTube (Canal Voces de la Ciencia) 23 Dec. 2025.*
2025
See also Aliens; UFOs; Science Fiction; Space exploration.
