More non-fiction than I expected, but I also thought that the title "Aliens" meant space aliens, not strangers in a strange land aliens. Many of the non-fiction pieces were interesting reads, but none were particularly outstanding. Mostly long-form, magazine-style, personal essays, with the occasional narrative thrown in to make things a little more literary. One of the stories in the collection, Nami Mun's "The Anniversary," was phenomenal. It was like a Raymond Carver story--harsh and heartbreaking.