One reason no one believed us is that the alien's signal is traveling in the wrong direction. We weren't scanning the heavens for astronomical events, or looking for a new star to name after ourselves. We weren't looking for a signal at all, which, we suppose, is how we found it. And it seems to have developed a fondness for science fiction, which comprises much of the literature it has decided to collect. Ask any computer buff.
Computers emit radio signals.
Apparently that shielding isn't good enough. We say that because, in addition too much published literature, we discovered a great deal of unpublished work in the alien's signal. Our alien is tapping into the computers used by writers for word processing and is stealing their material. With all that data sitting in our hands we decided to capitalize on it and this magazine is the result. Unlike the alien, who is an outright plagiarist and thief, we contacted the authors of the stories in this issue and paid them.