Arthur Clarke

Martians from The War of the Worlds

Aliens in Science Fiction: What’s “Out There” Has Always Reflected What’s “In Here”

ByJoelle Renstrom

While science fiction has long been obsessed with robots, the genre has an even longer relationship with aliens, who are often far scarier: where they came from, how they think, and what they want are questions to which there is no comforting answer, if there’s an answer at all.