Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : The anthropology of the alien / George E. Slusser and Eric S. Rabkin
  • Part one : Searchings : the quest for the alien
  • The alien on our minds / Larry Niven
  • Effing the ineffable / Gregory Benford
  • Border patrols / Michael Beehler
  • Alien aliens / Pascal Ducommun
  • Metamorphoses of the dragon / George E. Slusser
  • Part two : Sightings : the aliens among us
  • Discriminating among friends : the social dynamics of the friendly alien / John Huntington
  • Sex, superman, and sociobiology in science fiction / Joseph D. Miller
  • Cowboys and telepaths
  • formulas and phenomena / Eric S. Rabkin
  • Robots : three fantasies and one big cold reality / Noel Perrin
  • Aliens in the supermarket : science fiction and fantasy for 'inquiring minds" / George R. Guffey
  • Aliens 'R' U.S. : American science fiction viewed from Down Under / Zoe Sofia
  • Part three : Soundings : man as the alien
  • H.G. Wells' familiar aliens / John R. Reed
  • Inspiration and possession : ambivalent intimacy with the alien / Clayton Koelb
  • Cybernauts in cyberspace : William Gibson's Neuromancer / David Porush
  • The human alien : in-groups and outbreeding in Enemy mine / Leihgton Brett Cooke
  • From Astarte to Barbie and beyond : the serious history of dolls / Frank McConnell
  • An introduction of monsters / Colin Greenland.