A popular Chinese hard sci-fi novel imagines a coming war with an alien species and gets some things right in the process, and badly fumbles the others.

Ancient astronaut theorists claim that aliens wanted our planet for gold mining. But why would they need gold, much less in a place where it's hard to extract?

Just because an alien invasion is very unlikely doesn't mean we shouldn't spend at least some time and effort preparing for the possibility...

It makes sense for an alien species not to care about wiping out a civilization on another planet. Question is whether it would be worth the hassle.

Even if aliens would try to invade and conquer us, they're probably not going to be in a hurry to do so or even want to spend the effort...

Internet conspiracy theorists discover to slowest alien invasion of all time.

Some of this blog's readers would make really scary and really good alien invaders...

The third, and for now, final installment of a sci-fi experiment focused on this blog's favorite themes.

While we're trying to get aliens' attention with active SETI, we need to keep in mind that we talk to aliens at our own risk.

Part two of the sci-fi experiment featuring a space opera built around this blog's favorite themes...

A sci-fi experiment incorporating some of this blog's favorite themes...

Despite what the movie told you, we wouldn't be all that defenseless from an alien invasion.