Five SF Stories About Aliens Posing As Human

[james_davis_nicoll]

Aliens living among us... and vice versa.

Five SF Stories About Aliens Posing as Humans

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[patrick_morris_miller]

There is a television series - confusingly also titled The Man who Fell to Earth - which is explicitly a sequel to the film but is also in many ways a remake. Bill Nighy does a very good job of compensating for David Bowie's unavailability. [1]

Pity the network axed it after the first season.

[1] I have come to suspect Bowie was the keystone holding the universe together. It was when he died that things started going to shit.

V

[(Anonymous)]

patrick_morris_miller: "I have come to suspect Bowie was the keystone holding the universe together. It was when he died that things started going to shit."

I have the same susupition.

[(Anonymous)]

I was today years old when I learned that Walter Tavis is responsible for three of my favourite movies / series.

(The C of M is good, to be sure, but that Scientology guy just doesn’t do it for me)

Love all the acting in everything else though.

[james_davis_nicoll]

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[dwight_benjamin_thieme]

I'd be interested in that book title too. IIRC, it was set in Australia. If it's the same one, that's where hilarity ensues when the aliens themselves can't tell from human; one was an alien anthropologist mistaking another alien as a human and interviewing them for their thesis. Um, is the alien named George?

[thomasyan]

https://www.amazon.com/Forgotten-Door-Alexander-Key/dp/0590085344 ?

[thomasyan]

how would you say The Far Side of Evil compares to Enchantress from the Stars? I've read the latter, but not the sequel.

[james_davis_nicoll]

About the same.

[scott_sanford]

I would not show extraterrestrials Far Side cartoons until they had mastered the basics of Earth society.

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[(Anonymous)]

Again, I can't believe you have not reviewed The Man Who Fell to Earth before.

[(Anonymous)]

In the same vien as The Man Who Fell to Earth, there is the 1984 film Brother From Another Planet.

Also in the long run of Doctor Who, there are many aliens who have disguised themselves as humans, for both good and bad reasons. The Slitheens are one.

You could almost put the Doctor himself in this category, except that he seldom denies that he's not human if somebody thinks to bring it up.

-Awesome Aud

[patrick_morris_miller]

The Doctor nearly revels in confusing medics wielding stethoscopes.

[dagibbs]

For some reason, the first thing that came to my mind was the tv series V.

[(Anonymous)]

While the aliens in V made themselves look like humans, instead of lizards, they did actually say they were aliens.

-Awesome Aud