Aliens Steal Cable: Difference between revisions

* In the short story [http://sfreader.com/contest-2008-1.asp "On a Clear Day You Can See All the Way to Conspiracy"] by Desmond Warzel, the aliens not only listen to local AM radio, they call in.

* ''I Married an Earthling!'' uses this as its premise.

* ''Adrift Among The Ghosts'' by Jack L. Chalker, in which an alien race sentenced a criminal to criss-cross space at just the right distance from earth to intercept and record historic radio and TV broadcasts. Why was this considered a punishment? Because it forced him to relive our nuclear holocaust over and over and over and over...

* In the ''[[Transformers Shattered Glass]]'' prose stories, the Transformers tune into broadcast signals to study Earth culture in preparation for travelling there, with some Transformers adopting aspects of Earth culture they find appealing. Unfortunately, they also believe based on [[Buck Rogers|old scifi serials]] that Earth's weaponry is primitive compared to their own, which leads to them arriving at Earth and [[Nuke'Em|getting shot down by a nuke they weren't expecting]]. Oops.