Alien Abductions: Creating a Modern Phenomenon

Extraterrestrials regularly abduct humans from Earth, often performing bizarre surgeries and experiments on their subjects, according to the popular and profitable "nonfiction" offered by major publishing houses. Books by John Fuller, Budd Hopkins, David Jacobs, Whitley Strieber, and others have helped shape contemporary belief in alien beings.Science fiction scholar Terry Matheson reveals that the alien abduction literary genre has been a part of our history for decades, but was never take...