[ WP ] Humanity meets an alien race who are awed , not by our scientific or military achievements , but by the ability of humans to create fiction .

`` The aliens do n't have fiction.'' 
 
 *'' What? `` * 
 
 `` They do n't have fiction.'' 
 
 *'' Do n't be stupid. There's an alien movie playing at the theater downtown. One of their old sci-fi things. Kind of like War of the Worlds. It won some sort of award. `` * 
 
 `` Yeah. That's what scares me. You see that movie?'' 
 
 *'' Yeah, I saw it. `` * 
 
 `` You remember how it ended?'' 
 
 *'' Yeah, like I said, War of the Worlds. They find a virus that kills the invaders and they're saved. `` * 
 
 `` Make. They make a virus that kills the invaders. And they send it to the invaders' planet.'' 
 
 *'' Yeah, okay. `` * 
 
 `` So they wipe out an entire species.'' 
 
 *'' Yeah, but it's just a movie. I mean, I think we even sent them War of the Worlds in return, to keep with the theme. `` * 
 
 `` They sent us a film saying they'd wiped out a species. We sent back a recording saying we'd done the same. The difference is, they do n't understand fiction.'' 
 
 `` What we did was exchange threats.''
