Alien Books
A common argument amongst the historians is about when the UFO and Alien craze actually began. Purists believe that the first encounter was around 500 B.C. when we had the first reports of a man named Ezekiel claiming to have witnessed a wheel of fire descending from the heavens. Some cite H.G Wells and his vision of interplanetary war and Martian invasion as the Victorian-age beginning of Alien lore. Still others believe that UFO culture began in the late 1940’s with a report by a pilot of a mysterious aircraft that triggered numerous similar reports from all over the United States. Whenever it began, authors have been imagining very interesting things to write about in their alien books.
War of the Worlds, by H.G. Wells was the first true appearance of invading aliens in writing. Though not typical fare, the message in this science fiction fantasy was clear; the aliens were winning due to incredible technologically advanced weaponry, weapons of mass destruction and unmerciful use of chemical weapons. This was a book full of carnage and calamity. There were detailed descriptions of cities reduced to rubble and decimated armies with corpses strewn about. The invading Martians were using tanks with three legs and heat rays. This was the beginning, and most probably the inspiration for other alien books to come.
The UFO panic created by the War of the Worlds-inspired radio broadcast in 1938 and narrated by Orson Welles is probably one of the main reasons that authors began writing their alien books. Thousands of listeners were terrified by the seemingly real news reports of a terrible alien invasion and this, along with the alien invasion meme planted into to Western culture by the book, began the distinctly American alien panic that would echo through the years and into today’s pop culture. Besides alien books, there are now movies and television programs, comic books and conventions that allow us to express our vision of life on other planets and the contradiction in our hope that we may one day get to meet them face-to-face and the fear that we actually might see that happen.
But, alien books aren’t limited to fictional writing. There are a number of books that capture the imagination with tales of the unexplained and even others that attempt to prove the existence of aliens and UFO’s, citing reports, studies and sightings. There are books that present data such as the shapes of flying saucers and the coloring of lights, their purposes and what they mean. There are books dedicated to breaking the truth about government conspiracies regarding alien technology and research into flying saucers. There are even groups that study the Bible in search of clues about ancient alien visitors and UFO sightings. The phenomenon has grown to encompass the entire world.
Whatever your interest might be on the subject of extra-terrestrial life, you can be sure that there is plenty of information to be had and opinions to mull over in the form of alien books.
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