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A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology

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by José Ángel García Landa

(University of Zaragoza, Spain)

Aliens

Aliens (Extraterrestrial beings). See E motifs. Extraterrestrial beings.

Aliens (Extraterrestrial visitors, monsters and invaders)

Aliens (immigrants). See Immigrants

Alien invasions

Aliens (Extraterrestrial visitors, monsters and invaders)

Barr, Marleen S. "Biological Wishful Thinking: Strange Bedfellows and Phallic Fallacies." In Barr, Alien to Femininity. Westport (CT): Greenwood P, 1987. 103-24.*

Benford, Gregory. "Aliens and Knowability: A Scientist's Perspective." In Bridges to Science Fiction. Ed. George E. Slussser et al. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1980. 53-63.

_____. "Effing the Ineffable." In Aliens: The Anthropology of Science Fiction. Ed. George E. Slusser and Eric S. Rabkin. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1987. 13-25.

Gomel, Elana. Science Fiction, Alien Encounters, and the Ethics of Posthumanism. Palgrave Macmillan.

Jancovich, Mark. "Fordist Fears: Alien Beings and Rational Control." In Jankovich, Horror. London: Batsford, 1992. 62-82.*

Knowlson, James R. "Communication with Other Worlds in Fiction." Philosopical Journal 5 (1968): 61ff.

Lieb, Michael. Children of Ezekiel: Aliens, UFOs, the Crisis of Race, and the Advent of End Time. Durham (NC): Duke UP, 1998.*

Mateos-Aparicio Martín-Albo, Ángel. "Los marcianos observados desde el continente: The War of the Worlds y Auf Zwei Planeten." In Actas del 25º Congreso AEDEAN, Granada 2001. CD-ROM. Granada: U de Granada: Departamento de Filología Inglesa, 2002.*

_____. "'Ya están aquí': El vampiro y el marciano como figuras de la alteridad." In AEDEAN: Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference (León, 16-18 de diciembre, 1999). CD-ROM. León: AEDEAN, 2003.*

_____. "'Martians U.S.A.': El planeta rojo visto por la imaginación de Edgar Rice Burroughs." In AEDEAN XXX: Proceedings of the 30th International AEDEAN Conference. [Huelva, 2006]. Ed. María Losada Friend et al. Huelva: U de Huelva, 2007.*

Marron, Orley K. "Alternative Theory of Mind for Artificial Brains: A Logical Approach to Interpreting Alien Minds." In Theory of Mind and Literature. Ed. Paula Leverage et al. Purdue UP, 2011. 187-200.

Meyers, Walter E. Aliens and Linguists: Language Study and Science Fiction. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1980.

Pielke, Robert G. "Humans and Aliens: A Unique Relationship." Mosaic 13.3-4 (1980): 29-40.

Slusser, George E., and Eric S. Rabkin, eds. Aliens: The Anthropology of Science Fiction. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1987.

Waldrop, M. Mitchell. "The Search for Alien Intelligence: SETI is Dead — Long Live SETI." Published online 27 July 2011 (Nature 475 (2011): , 442-444. doi:10.1038/475442a

http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110727/full/475442a.html

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Wolmark, Jenny. Aliens and Others: Science Fiction, Feminism and Postmodernism. New York: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1993.

Films

Alien. Dir. Ridley Scott. Cast: Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, John Hurt, Ian Holm, Harry Dean Stanton, Yaphet Kotto, Veronica Cartwright. Inspired by It! The Terror from Beyond Space. Followed by Aliens. Panavision. USA, 1979. (Oscar for special effects).

Aliens. Dir. James Cameron. Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Carrie Henn, Michael Biehn, Paul Reiser, Lance Henriksen, Bill Paxton, Jenette Goldstein. Followed by Alien 3. USA, 1986.

Alien 3 Dir. David Fincher. Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Charles S. Dutton, Charles Dance, Paul McGann, Brian Glover, Ralph Brown, Danny Webb, Christopher John Fields, Holt McCallany, Lance Henriksen, Peter Postlethwaite. Music by Elliot Goldenthal. Visual effects by Richard Edlund; Alien creature designed by H. R. Giger, effects by Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff, Jr. Ed. Terry Rawlings. Prod. des. Norman Reynoldsss. Photog. Alex Thomson. Exec. prod. Ezra Swerdlow. Characters created by Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett. Plot by Vincent Ward, script by David Giler, Walter Hill and Larry Ferguson. Prod. Gordon Carroll, David Giler and Walter Hill. USA: Twentieth Century Fox, 1992. (Panavision. Followed by Alien Resurrection).

_____ , dir. Alien 3. Special ed. Spanish DVD (2 DVD). Madrid: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, 2003.*

Alien Resurrection. Dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Winona Ryder, Dominique Pinon, Ron Perlman, Gary Dournan, Michael Wincott, Kim Flowers, Dan Hedaya, J. E. Freeman, Brad Dourif. USA, 1997.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Dir. and screenplay Steven Spielberg. Cast: Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon, Cary Guffey, Bob Balaban. Cinematography by Vilmos Zsigmond. Music by John Williams. Panavision. USA, 1977. Reedited 1980, 1998. (Oscar for Zsigmond).

District 9. Dir. Neill Blomkamp. Written by Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell. Music by Michelle Belcher and Clinton Shorter. Ed. Julian Clarke. Prod. Des. Philip Ivey. Photog. Trent Opaloch. Exec. Prod. Bill Block, Ken Kamins. Co-exec. Prod. Paul Hanson, Elliott Ferwerda. Co-prod. Philippa Boyens. Prod. Peter Jackson, Carolynne Cunningham. Tristar Pictures / Block/Hanson / Wingnut Films, 2009. Spanish DVD: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, 2010.*

The Host. Dir. Andrew Niccol. Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Jake Abel, Max Irons, Diane Kruger, William Hurt. (Spanish title: La huésped).

K-Pax. Dir. Iain Softley. Screenplay by Charles Leavitt, based on the novel by Gene Brewer. Cast: Kevin Spacey, Jeff Bridges, Alfre Woodard, Mary McCormack. Co-prod. Michael Levy. Exec. prod. Susan G. Pollock. Music by Edward Shearmur. Ed. Craig McKay. Prod. des. John Beard. Photog. John Mathieson. Prod. Lawrence Gordon, Lloyd Levin and Robert Ecolesberry. Universal. Spanish VHS: K-Pax. Barcelona: Laurenfilm, 2002.*

Prometheus. Dir. Ridley Scott. Written by Jon Spaihts and Damon Lindelof. Cast: Noomi Rapace, Logan Marshall-Green, Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron, Idris Elba, Guy Pearce, Logan Marshall-Green, Sean Harris, Rafe Spall, Edmun Elliott. Music by Marc Streitenfeld. Cinemat. Dariusz Wolsky. Ed. Pietro Scalia. Prod. Des. Arthur Max. Sets by Sonja Klaus. Prod. David Giler, Walter Hill, Ridley Scott, Tony Scott. Exec. Prod. Michael Costigan, Michael Ellenberg, Mark Huffam, Damon Lindelof. Asoc. Prod. Teresa Kelly. Brandywine Productions / Dune / Scott Free, dist. 20th Century Fox, 2012.*

Literature

Bioy Casares, Adolfo. "El calamar opta por su tinta." Story. From Bioy, El lado de la sombra. 1962. In Antología de la Literatura Fantástica. Ed. Jorge Luis Borges, Silvina Ocampo and Adolfo Bioy Casares. 1965. Barcelona: Edhasa, 1983. 1989. 1991. 93-106.*

Card, Orson Scott. Speaker for the Dead. Novel. 1986. (Nebula Award 1986; Locus 1987; Hugo 1987).

_____. La voz de los muertos. (Nova ciencia ficción 1). Barcelona: Ediciones B.

_____. Ender, el Xenocida. (Nova ciencia ficción 50). Barcelona: Ediciones B.

_____. Ender el Xenocida. (Ciencia Ficción Zeta, 155). Barcelona: Ediciones B-Zeta Bolsillo, 2009.*

Eklund, Gordon, and Gregory Benford. "If the Stars Are Gods." 1975. In The Science Fiction Century. Ed. David G. Hartwell. New York: Tor Books, 1997. 558-84.*

Haddon, Mark. ¡Bum! Barcelona: Salamandra, 2011.*

Lovecraft, H. P. "At the Mountains of Madness." Astounding Stories (1936). Online ed. in Wikisource.

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/At_the_Mountains_of_Madness

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Stapledon, Olaf. The Flames: A Fantasy. London: Secker and Warburg, 1947.

Swanwick, Michael. "Ginungagap." From Triquarterly. In The Science Fiction Century. Ed. David G. Hartwell. New York: Tor Books, 1997. 304-26.*

Voltaire. "Micromegas: Historia filosófica." Story. In Voltaire, Opúsculos. Cuentos. (Grandes Pensadores Gredos; Voltaire, II). Madrid: Gredos, 2010. Rpt. Barcelona: RBA, 2014. 91-110.*

See also Extraterrestrial beings; Alien invasions; Otherness; SETI.

Alien invasions

Cantril, Hadley, Hazel Gaudet, and Herta Herzog. The Invasion from Mars: A Study in the Psychology of Panic. 1940. New York: Harper and Row, 1966.

Gailor, Denis. "War of the Worlds, the 'invasion story' and Victorian Moralism." Critical Survey 8.3 (1996): 270-76.*

García Landa, José Ángel. "Alegorías de la Bomba." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 28 August 2005.

http://garciala.blogia.com

Hillis, Scott. "How to Prepare for Alien Invasion." Rev. of Travis Taylor's and Bob Boan's An Introduction to Planetary Defense. In Reuters 25 April 2007.

http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN0934498720070425?src=042507_0801_DOUBLEFEATURE_&pageNumber=1

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Stapledon, Olaf. "Mr. Wells Calls in the Martians." Rev. of Star-Begotten. London Mercury 36 (July 1937): 295-96.

Taylor, Travis, and Bob Boan. An Introduction to Planetary Defense. 2007.

Films

The Day the Earth Stood Still. Dir. Robert Wise. Script by Edmund North. Cast: Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, Hugh Marlowe, Sam Jaffe, Billy Gray, Frances Bavier, Lock Martin. USA, 1951.

Enemy from Space. Dir. Val Guest. Cast: Brian Donlevy, Michael Ripper, Sidney James, Bryan Forbes, John Longden, Vera Day, William Franklyn. UK, 1957. (Remake of The Creeping Unknown. Video title: Quatermass II. Sequel: Five Million Years to Earth).

Independence Day. Dir. Roland Emmerich.

Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Dir. Don Siegel. Based on Jack Finney's novel. Allied Artists, 1956.

The Invasion. Dir. Oliver Hirschbiegel and James McTeigue. Written by David Kajganich, based on the novel The Body Snatchers by Jack Finney. Cast: Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Jeremy Northam, Jackson Bond; Jeffrey Wright, Veronica Cartwright. Photog. Rainer Klausmann. Ed. Joel Negron and Hans Funck. Music by John Ottman. Prod. des. Jack Fisk. Prod. Joel Silver. USA: Warner, 2007.*

This Island Earth. Dir. Joseph Newman. Based on Raymond F. Jones' novel. Cast: Jeff Morrow, Rex Reason, Faith Domergue, Russell Johnson, Lance Fuller, Douglas Spencer. Music by by Bernard Herrmann. Technicolor. USA, 1955. (Spanish title: Planeta prohibido).

The War of the Worlds. Dir. Byron Haskin. Screenplay by Barré Lyndon, based on the novel by H. G. Wells. Cast: Gene Barry, Ann Robinson, Less Tremayne. Prod. George Pal. Music by Leith Stephens. Technicolor. USA: Paramount, 1952. (Oscar for visual effects). Spanish DVD. Paramount Home Entertainment Spain, 2004.*

War of the Worlds. Dir. Steven Spielberg. Screenplay by David Koepp, based on the novel by H. G. Wells. Tom Cruise, Miranda Otto, Dakota Fanning, Tim Robbins, James DuMont, David Alan Basche, Daniel Franzese, Justin Chatwin, Christopher Evan Welch, David Harbour, John Scurti, Yul Vasquez, Lenny Venito, Lisa Ann Walter, Julie White, Rafael Sardina, Rick Gonzalez, Mariann Mayberry, Sharrieff Pugh George Katt, Travis Aaron, Camillia Sanes. Exec. prod. Colin Wilson Prod. Paula Wagner, Kathleen Kennedy. 2005.

_____, dir. War of the Worlds. DVD. Paramount / Dreamworks / Amblin / C/W, 2005.*

Literature

Finney, Jack. The Body Snatchers. SF novel. 1955.

_____. Los ladrones de cuerpos. Trans. Lorenzo Luengo. Bibliópolis, 2002. Rpt. as Invasión: Los ladrones de cuerpos. (Bibliópolis Fantástica, 2). Bibliópolis, 2007.

Harrison, Harry. Invasion: Earth. London: Sphere Books.

King, Stephen. The Tommyknockers. Novel. 1988. London: Hodder and Stoughton-New English Library, 1989.*

Stapledon, Olaf. Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future. Novel. London: Methuen, 1930.

_____. Star Maker. SF novel. London: Methuen, 1937.

_____. Star Maker. In Last and First Men and Star Maker: Two Science Fiction Novels. New York: Dover, 1968.*

_____. Hacedor de estrellas. Barcelona: Minotauro, 1965. 1985.

_____. Hacedor de Estrellas. PDF. Utópika, 2002.*

http://www.pdfdownload.org/pdf2html/view_online.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.librosgratisweb.com%2Fpdf%2Fstapledon-olaf%2Fhacedor-de-estrellas.pdf

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_____. "Nautiloids." From Star Maker. In An Olaf Stapledon Reader. Ed. Robert Crossley. Syracuse (NY): Syracuse UP, 1997. 22-27.*

_____. The Flames: A Fantasy. London: Secker and Warburg, 1947.

_____. "The Flames: A Fantasy." Novella. 1947. In An Olaf Stapledon Reader. Ed. Robert Crossley. Syracuse (NY): Syracuse UP, 1997. 71-123.*

Wells, H. G. The War of the Worlds. SF novel. Serialized 1897.

_____. The War of the Worlds. (Book form). London. 1898.

_____. The War of the Worlds. London: William Heinemann.

_____. The War of the Worlds. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1946.

_____. The War of the Worlds. In Seven Science Fiction Novels of H. G. Wells. New York: Dover, n. d. 207-453.*

_____. A Critical Edition of The War of the Worlds: H. G. Wells's Scientific Romance. Ed. David Y. Hughes and Gary M. Geduld. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1993.

_____. The War of the Worlds. Videobook at YouTube-CC Prose. 23 Feb. 2012.*

http://youtu.be/bdzMO9PIXOk

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_____. La Guerra de los Mundos. Trans. Ramiro de Maeztu (1902). Appendix by Constantino Bértolo Cadenas. Illust. Mario Lacoma. (Tus Libros, 44). Madrid: Anaya, 1984. 2nd ed. 1986. 3rd ed. 1987.*

_____. La guerra de los mundos. (Obras maestras de la Ciencia Ficción). Barrcelona: Planeta DeAgostini, c. 2001.

Wells, H. G. The War of the Worlds. Online eComic version. Abridged by Ian Edginton and Matt Brooker. Art by D'Israeli. http://www.darkhorse.com/zones/wotw/wotw_popup.php?p=

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See also Extraterrestrial Beings.