Alien first-contact stories are a classic of science fiction, and they’re all the more fascinating because they can feel like ...

As I found while working on my own novel, writing about aliens can be strangely helpful in this pursuit. Just as astronomers use telescopes to examine celestial objects light-years away, novelists can ...

No other sentient organisms were supposed to evolve on these garden worlds, but evolve they did. Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Children of Time is the story of a group of human explorers who attempt to ...