Alien invasion
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This article is about extra-terrestrial life as a theme in fiction. For other uses, see Alien invasion (disambiguation).
Alien invasion or space invasion is a common feature in science fiction stories and film, in which extraterrestrial lifeforms invade the Earth to exterminate and supplant human life, enslave it, harvest people for food, steal the planet's resources, or destroy the planet altogether. It can be considered as a science-fiction subgenre of the invasion literature, expanded by H. G. Wells's seminal alien invasion novel The War of the Worlds, and is a type of "first contact" science fiction.
The examples and perspective in this article deal primarily with the United States and do not represent a worldwide view of the subject. (January 2021) |
Experts consider the prospects of an actual invasion of Earth by extraterrestrials to be extremely unlikely, due to the enormous cost in time and resources.[1]