In these science fiction books, extraterrestrial beings are sympathetic, horrifying and everything in between.

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In space, no one can hear you scream, but they can sure hear you scratching your head as you try to make sense of the sprawling “Alien” universe. While Ridley Scott’s 1979 haunted-house-in-the-cosmos ...