Whenever Steven Spielberg looks to the skies and ponders whether intelligent life is lurking out there in the cosmos, we tend to get a cinematic classic. "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" and "E.T.

Don't they have something to do ? Even if there were any other life forms in the universe, the distance is far to great to make observation/communication likely. I ...

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