In these science fiction books, extraterrestrial beings are sympathetic, horrifying and everything in between.

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A new preprint from David Kipping, assistant professor of astronomy at Columbia University, has suggested that our first contact with aliens will likely be atypical, and particularly bleak. Since at ...

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