Speculative fiction helps us imagine new futures—life on Mars (The Martian), the genetic resurrection of dinosaurs (Jurassic Park), the creation of a surveillance state (1984). So Eliot Peper—author ...

A provocative theory circulating among artificial intelligence researchers suggests that once machines achieve human-level intelligence and beyond, they might create something entirely unexpected: a ...

In the 2016 science fiction movie Arrival, a linguist is faced with the daunting task of deciphering an alien language consisting of palindromic phrases, which read the same backwards as they do ...

Dark Horse has created and published many comics within the Alien universe. Some of these comics have been turned into novels. In total, nine have been adapted into novels, which will be explained ...