| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - Aliens seem to first have been introduced as forms of social commentary coupled with an increasingly materialist worldview, from Voltaire's 'Micromegas' (1752) as a vehicle for warning against anthrocentric hubris and a convenient means to lampoon a few people he didn't particularly care for, to H.G. Wells 'War of the Worlds' (1898) as a criticism of gunboat colonialism.
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