gm farcaster, what is the best literature to read on aliens?

i want to learn how disruptive will alien existence be

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Read the short story 'State of the Art' by Banks.

Small spoiler: the hyper advanced Culture civilization observes Earth and ruminates on whether to make contact or not

Also imo a really good analogy from real life is civilized humans observing/contacting remote uncontacted tribes