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Book SynopsisCh 1: Introduction: Exploring First Contact through the Lens of History, Science, and Fiction.- Ch 2: Likelihood and appearance of life beyond the Earth: An astronomical perspective.- Ch 3: Theology, Anthropology, and First Contact with Non-Humans.- Ch 4: From Exoplanets to ET: Christian imagination in the search for God and humanity in aliens.- Ch 5: Fear and the Spectacle of Alien Invasion.- Ch 6: The other as myself? Aliens in videogames as ‘the other’; The cases of Half-Life and Prey.- Ch 7: “Look Roger, a dead Alien”: Extraterrestrial life and esotericism in Mike Mignola’s Hellboy.- Ch 8: Something real, something measurable: Eurocentric Science, Religion and Nature in Avatar.- Ch 9: “A profound clarity.” Visions of humanity in Dune.
