alien
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Along with being an origin story and an alien hunt unfurling in a 2016-set timeline, “Lanterns” grounds itself in a murder mystery that defines its 2026 plot running in parallel.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026
At Huxley-Parlour, SaraNoa Mark’s chunky cast-glass sculptures look like fragments of artifacts from an ancient alien civilization.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
Dive into this short story about humans’ first contact with an alien who’s been corrupted by some very modern vices.
From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026
An unexplained catastrophe, and the arrival of mysterious alien beings, have turned British society upside down - and a man and his elderly aunt muddle through on the Kent coast.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
My dad is standing, hands on hips, looking at Mr. Larkin like he’s a space alien.
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
And I don’t think that was because of the ships, the gadgets or the aliens.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
In medbed lore, they are one of several kinds of aliens cited to explain the super-advanced “dimensional” medical technology.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
It was going out to find aliens that thought different.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
Second, though “virtually all scientists” reject the idea that aliens have visited Earth, researchers are “increasingly confident that humanity will discover extraterrestrial life.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
I stare at him, beseeching the aliens or Clark Gable or whoever’s in charge of soul abductions to bring back my brother.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
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