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A man sits very still while someone glues foam ridges to his forehead. He's about to be an alien from seventy light years away, and he'll still have two arms. Screen aliens have always struggled to be genuinely different from us.
This book holds film and TV aliens up against what biology and the philosophy of mind actually suggest. 2001 and Solaris sit at the two extremes, intelligence you never see and intelligence you see but can't understand, and almost everything else lands somewhere in between.
What you get: a ZIP file containing the book as a PDF (147 pages) and an EPUB, so you can read it on a computer, tablet or e-reader.
A man sits very still while someone glues foam ridges to his forehead. He's about to be an alien from seventy light years away, and he'll still have two arms. Screen aliens have always struggled to be genuinely different from us.
This book holds film and TV aliens up against what biology and the philosophy of mind actually suggest. 2001 and Solaris sit at the two extremes, intelligence you never see and intelligence you see but can't understand, and almost everything else lands somewhere in between.
What you get: a ZIP file containing the book as a PDF (147 pages) and an EPUB, so you can read it on a computer, tablet or e-reader.