Questions tagged [aliens]
For use as the generic term 'alien' which generally refers to a life-form not of Earth, but it can also be used to describe anything, including objects, from another world or system. Use [aliens-1986] for the sequel to the 1979 film Alien; use [alien-franchise] for that entire franchise.
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Movie or show about some space/alien dust that causes animals to explode
I remember watching a movie or a show as a kid where this dust from space or from aliens fell onto a mouse, and it made the mouse violent and go after a cat. After a time, the mouse exploded into this ...
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Sci-fi / Action movie involving portals appearing in the desert and soldiers accidently passing through into another dimension (last 10 years)
Very vague I know - I remember watching this movie without really knowing what it was, and enjoyed it, but can I find it again? No.
There were alien / creatures involved, the first ones we meet are ...
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Movie where a man is talking to a parasite in his stomach
I wanna say it's an old movie. Maybe late 80s. I saw it a few years ago once. I'm assuming it's sci-fi horror; I'm pretty sure it's about aliens/parasites.
There's a scene with a man in bed, and he's ...
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Story Identification: Rousing speech delivered on alien planet to alien allies that borrowed heavily from Shakespeare and Churchill
This story or novella probably dates from the '80s and I probably read it in Analog or Galaxy, but I cannot swear to it.
An exploratory team of humans, or maybe a small colonizing team, (call them &...
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Searching for sci-fi film where several characters are alone on an alien planet and there's a large alien "cube" and some organism attacking them
Sadly, I don't remember a great deal about this movie other than a specific scene where there are three to five(?) characters in some kind of shuttle or base on an alien planet. Can't remember why ...
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Earliest 'space locust'/'devouring swarm' type of alien in science fiction?
Modern examples include the Zerg from StarCraft, Tyranids from Warhammer 40,000; the aliens from Alien (1979) are also central examples and seem like the immediate antecedent for most modern takes. ...
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Name of film with a little girl with an alien inside her body?
I want to know the name of a film with a little girl, (a child or perhaps 12 years old, tops) with an alien inside her body.
This little girl still acts like a normal girl her age, in other words she'...
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Science fiction story with a boy and girl protagonist and spider-like alien abductors
The story begins with the daughter of a government scientist before rockets could achieve orbit on earth, and they meet a boy's family who claims that their backwoods family jerry-rigged a satellite ...
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Chapter book where a scientist with lung cancer is abducted by aliens
I'm struggling trying to remember a book from my 3rd grade class (1993–94.) I bought it at my school book fair so it was age appropriate for grade school level.
It was a chapter book about a scientist ...
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What is the earliest work to have a species deliberately falsify its level of technology?
I am looking for the earliest example of a work where a species pretends to be at a much lower or higher level of technology than the one it has achieved. An example of this would be the Organians in ...
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TV show about a boy who finds a hidden room
TV show about a boy who finds a hidden room with goblin and finds out what he is and has kid with alien in another dimension or something. Time moves fast in that place and his friends try to get him ...
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Short story where an alien signal containing a DNA sequence leads to the end of life on Earth
I read this short story online some time in the past 10 years. Year and author unknown.
It starts on an alien planet where the only life is a red (?) moss or lichen. At some point a gigantic antenna ...
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SciFi movie where woman has alien baby
It was an old American movie where a doctor believes his wife has an alien baby growing inside her belly, and in the end he insists on doing surgery on her (by opening her torso) to find this alien ...
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A story about humans exploring space that are conquered by a much superior alien race
I believe the human race has finally managed to be able to explore the solar system. They begin inhabiting whatever they can find. Eventually an alien race with superior technology meets the ...
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Short story about aliens sending messages to Earth and prime math being key to decoding
I read this short story probably in the 2000s, but I don’t know how old it was then.
Story beats I remember:
Aliens decided it was too much work to actually travel, so they just beamed messages to ...
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Book with a man on an alien planet who cooked biscuits for the aliens in a copper kettle
I read a sci-fi book back in high school, around 88-91. It involved a frontier man on alien planet and fuzzy aliens who liked biscuits cooked in a brass or copper kettle.
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People in a train realise their planet is attacked by powerful and vicious aliens
This short fiction (short novella ? long novelette ?) is clearly SF : it happens on a sparsely settled planet far from the main human settled worlds, during a fierce attack by cruel aliens.
I read it ...
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70-80’s scifi space machine aliens [duplicate]
Robot invaders that start off as rock/eggs and then use tentacles to build bodies out of parts and maybe humans parts too and the “egg is head” with green visor eye. I remember a dude and a girl using ...
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Alien possessing a man in a care facility [duplicate]
I'm looking for the name of a live-action movie I watched maybe 15-20 years ago. It takes place in a care facility (likely a psychiatric hospital, given what I remember of the plot, but it's possible ...
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Sci-fi children's book with an alien football mascot named Mookiee?
I remember when I was EXTREMELY young, I read a very non-descript children's book with an alien character named Mookiee who served as the mascot of a middle-school football team on Earth. I can't ...
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Science fiction TV episode in which three young women meet a dying alien
Three young women meet a dying alien. They agree that they will add a year to their lives in order to give birth to the alien in the future. Only one of them however is chosen to give birth to the ...
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Old sci-fi movie that has multiple alien spaceships with long necks and people being turned into piles of worms
My mom has asked me to help her find an old sci-fi movie that has multiple alien spaceships with long necks and people being turned into piles of worms.
She believes that the movie is from the 70's or ...
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Alien "sex" short story
I'm looking for a short story that I read many years ago (20-40 years!) about aliens who kind of melt into one another when they are being intimate. Like one could put their hand right through the ...
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Movie/show with alien hand covered in mouths on man’s chest?
This is so far out there it might just be a fever dream. I have a strange memory of a sci fi show/movie with a man and a robot. The man gets captured by some sort of aliens who attempt to use mouths ...
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Short story about a guy who turns an untranslatable alien signal into a sports betting wire
I was re-reading Varley's A Persistence of Vision and the Eight Worlds story "The Black Hole Passes" which uses the "Ophiuchi Hotline" setting reminded me of this story. I read ...
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70s/80s novel. Woman helps alien man avoid the government agents chasing him
For along time I have been confusing two stories. One of which was the short story "Amanda and the Alien" by Robert Silverberg. (A high school girl encounters an alien who feeds on humans ...
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An invisible giant on a steamship
I read this story at least 20 years ago, probably in a collection so it could be even older.
The POV character works on a steamship, mostly in the engine room. He befriends a very old man who also ...
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Novel in which an alien federation initially opposes humanity's advance towards interstellar space, then hires them to help them fight a war
Humanity in the not too distant future has successfully colonized its solar system, and is now on verge of developing faster-than-light drives. A peaceful alien federation spanning the galaxy and ...
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Movie in which an alien family visit Earth and are serial killers
They bleed blue blood and the daughter ends up with an African American guy.
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Early 2000s cartoon about humans fighting a war with some kind of alien species in space
I remember watching a cartoon (series?) in the late 90s early 2000s about humans fighting a war in space. They had tanks and artillery and mostly wore armor. I believe they were fighting some kind of (...
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A comedy sci-fi book-series, in which the fate of humanity depends on a gameshow competition
Having recently started to read Dungeon Crawler Carl (highly recommended, btw!), I've been reminded of a series I read a few decades back.
As is often the case, my memory is a bit fuzzy. But the ...
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Old manga where two highschool girls are transported to an alien planet where all the aliens are tiny, and the girls have to help with their problems
Title is pretty much all I remember about the plot, I never actually read it, just saw a couple pages from it. I'm pretty sure it's quite old now, based on the art style.
The only scene i remember ...
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Movie about an alien girl running around a ship with amnesia
This movie is a low budget movie and feels like a Syfy original movie. Though I'm not sure if it is. I saw it on TV, as a kid a decade or two ago. I've checked the Syfy listings, and "alien girl ...
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Scientists in Antarctica dig up a Neanderthal and impregnate a woman with its DNA
SF book where a scientist digs up a Neanderthal and take the DNA from it and use it to impregnate a woman trying to recreate a Neanderthal. However when she is impregnated the twins inside her grow ...
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Origin of giant psionic-hating space monsters?
The 2021 novel Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky includes a type of creature called the "Architects" which I will summarize in my own words as:
Moon-sized creatures from the alternate ...
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Paperback from the 80s where a fight against aliens attacking Earth begins with an F15 intercepting them over Colorado
I read a paperback in the early 80s, can't remember the title. Aliens were going to attack Earth but Earth was warned as scouts attacked early around Colorado and we figured them out. The planet got ...
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Movie involving a crashed/landed alien craft in an icy cavern
I only remember one scene from this movie. A guy finds a black spacecraft in a icy cavern. I'm pretty sure there was another bad guy seeking the ship in the mountain.
This would have been a movie (or ...
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Sci-fi novel about a war between humans and bipedal alien deer
I read this maybe 30 years ago. but to be safe let's say somewhere between 1986 and 1995, but probably right in the middle of that span.
Science fiction paperback, average length. I don't recall ...
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Earth enslaved by aliens. Last sentence of the short story gives added grimness to it
I read this short story about 25 years ago. It may be older than that.
It is a grim story with examples of the harshness of the alien rule. The thing that made it memorable for me was the last ...
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Sci-fi book featuring an alien character which reproduced by budding
I'm looking for a sci-fi book I read in probably the mid to late 80s. I recall an alien character — possibly not immediately identified as an alien — that was "pregnant" with its offspring, ...
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What is this film about a group of friends travelling with camcorders who encounter people whose faces were distorted?
I roughly remember a group of friends travelling with camcorders who kept seeing people who just stood there facing away from them, and when they saw their faces shaking so fast, their faces were ...
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Movie about aliens that secretly invade earth
A movie I watched when I was younger (about 2010ish) was about a woman finding out about a secret alien invasion. They look and act like humans but they can't show emotion, so that's how survivors end ...
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Obscure sci-fi illustration book showing speculative alien life forms on other worlds
This book has to have been published in the early '90s or before.
It was an illustration book showing speculative alien life forms on other worlds. I checked it out from the library at school every ...
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SciFi Short Story About A Robot Caretaker and Her Ward
I'm looking for a short story I read a couple years ago. It was about a woman (I think she was a marine biologist?) who was turned into a robot to help raise kids on an alien world. One of her kids is ...
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SF book about a spaceship captain and female officer who survive a crash landing on a jungle planet and are hunted by an invisible alien predator
I am looking for the title of a SF book about a male and female space officer who survived a spaceship crash on an alien planet where everyone of their crew is dead and an invisible alien tries to ...
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A children's novel featuring a race of spider-like aliens
Some 30 years ago when I was in the 6th grade, I remember reading an excerpt from a sci-fi novel in my English class.
I don’t remember much of the story, but it did feature a race of intelligent ...
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Can anyone identify this reposted artwork of a Grey alien?
I love spooky paranormal stuff (though I don't believe a lick of it) and am curious to know the origins of this eerie illustration of a Grey alien. I've seen it reposted online a lot, but with no ...
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80s movie involving friendly, flying aliens that were light creatures (not Cocoon)
The aliens were friendly and flew. In the end, they were saying goodbye, like at a hospital maybe. They were light creatures; the graphics were bad, they looked hand-drawn, kind of. It’s not Cocoon (...
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A very cramped place with visiting aliens
I read this novella (or maybe longish novelette ?) at least 20 years ago, probably in a magazine so it could have been older than that.
I don't remember much. It took place in a crowded place, ...
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Golden Age short story about carnivorous aliens that pay humans a license fee to clone them for meat
The story is told from the perspective of one of a handful of explorers who encountered the aliens. The explorer is sharing a terrible secret with a colleague: When the explorers encountered the ...
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