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Alien Invasion Reading List
Page Modified: April 5, 2008
- A Forest of Stars: The
Saga of Seven Suns, Book 2
Author: Anderson, Kevin J.
Publisher: Warner $ 24.95 ISBN: 0446528714 Date: 2003
PW
The bestselling and award-winning author continues his stunning epic series: a vast panorama of galactic civilization and apocalyptic war. "A rip-roaring space opera full of mystery, adventure, and suspense."--"Science Fiction Chronicle."
Updated 5.6.03 - Forge of God
Author: Bear, Greg
Publisher: Forge $ 17.95 ISBN: 0312930216 Date: 1987
This remarkable novel of alien invasion shows off Bear's talents to their full effect: science-fictional extrapolation that is stunningly believable and characters who are real and affecting in their heroism and sacrifice.
Updated 9.23.05 - Lilith's Brood
Author: Butler, Octavia
Publisher: Aspect $ 13.95 ISBN: 0446676101 Date: 2000
For the first time, Butler's gripping trilogy--Dawn, Adulthood Rites, and Imago--are presented in one omnibus. Butler, a Hugo and Nebula award-winner, relates the story of an alien race that comes to Earth after a nuclear holocaust and merges genetically with the human survivors.
Updated 9.23.05 - Survival
Author: Czerneda, Julie E.
Publisher: Daw $ 23.95 ISBN: 0756401801 Date: 2004
When her field base is mysteriously attacked, Dr. Mackenzie Connor must escape to another planet with an alien archaeologist and find a defense against the unknown aggressor--before they launch a full-scale invasion of Earth.
Updated 9.23.05 - The Course of Empire
Author: Flint, Eric
Publisher: Baen $ 22 ISBN: 0743471547 Date: 2003
Threatened by an alien race that is sending a genocidal extermination fleet to the solar system, humanity's only chance rests with an unusual pair of allies--a young Jao prince and a young human woman brought up amongst the Jao occupiers.
Updated 9.23.05 - The Coming
Author: Haldeman, Joe
Publisher: Ace $ 21.95 ISBN: Date: 2000
Astronomy professor Aurora Bell gets a message from space that seems to portend the arrival of extraterrestrials. Earth is in chaos, struggling in the wake of nuclear war and certainly unprepared to face invasion of any kind. But the more Rory investigates, the more she doubts the authenticity of the transmission. If the message is an elaborate hoax, who's behind it, and why?
Updated 9.23.05 - The Puppet Masters
Author: Heinlein, Robert A. Date: 1979
Earth was being invaded by aliens and the top security agencies were helpless: the aliens were controlling the mind of every person they encountered. So it was up to Sam Cavanaugh, secret agent for a powerful and deadly spy network, to find a way to stop them--which meant he had to be invaded himself!
Updated 9.23.05 - The Legend of Earth
Author: Hogan, James P.
Publisher: $ ISBN: Date: 2000
From the author of The Proteus Operation and Endgame Enigma--a sci-fi writer known for his emphasis on real science--comes this novel of a planet Earth controlled by aliens and one man's journey into a world-wide conflict that will pit American against American.
Updated 9.23.05 - Phoenix Cafe
Author: Jones, Gwyneth
Publisher: Tor $ 24.95 ISBN: 0312865341Date: 2005
The concluding and most powerful volume in the SF masterpiece, The White Queen trilogy, Phoenix Cafe is "a flamboyant, wildly imaginative, and deeply moving novel about (of all things) the aliens among us" ("Washington Post Book World").
Series: White Queen, North Wind, Phoenix Cafe
Updated 9.23.05 - Probability Moon
Author: Kress, Nancy
Publisher: Tor $ 23.95 ISBN: 0312874065 Date: 2000
Kirkus
Humanity has expanded into other solar systems using the remnants of an ancient technology of star gates--instant travel devices left in place by a now-vanished superrace. Yet now an alien race also has discovered the gates, a race with which no communication is possible, and they are determined to exterminate humanity. - Probability Sun
Author: Kress, Nancy
Publisher: Tor $ 24.95 ISBN: 0312874073 Date: 2001
Kirkus
In an intense novel of war and science, Kress returns to the future of Probability Moon in which the human race is losing an interstellar war against the mysterious alien Fallers. - Maze of Worlds
Author: Lumley, Brian
Publisher: Tor $ 25.95 ISBN: 0312866046 Date: 1998
Spencer Gill, whose understanding of machines verges on the supernatural, leads a group of renegade aliens through a deadly, four-dimensional maze in this long-awaited sequel to Lumley's House of Doors.
Updated 9.23.05 - Watch on the Rhine
Author: Ringo, John & Tom Kratman
Publisher: Baen $ 25 ISBN: 0743499182 Date: 2005
PW
In this action-packed offshoot adventure of the bestselling Posleen War series that began with Gust Front, the Posleen Invaders face the reconstituted Waffen SS in this brutal and unbiased look at the inner workings of the Waffen SS.
Suggested Reading: Alien Invasions
Updated 7.18.05 - Old Man's War
Author: Scalzi, John
Publisher: Tor $ 23.95 ISBN: 0765309408 Date: 2005
PW
John Perry did two things on his 75th birthday. First he visited his wife's grave. Then he joined the army. The good news is that humanity finally made it into interstellar space. The bad news is that planets fit to live on are scarce-and aliens willing to fight for them are common. The universe, it turns out, is a hostile place.
So: we fight. To defend Earth (a target for our new enemies, should we let them get close enough) and to stake our own claim to planetary real estate. - Publisher Marketing
Updated 10.3.05 - The Alien Years
Author: Silverberg, Robert
Publisher: Prism $ 24 ISBN: 0061050350 Date: 1998
This major science fiction epic by an award-winning author tells the story of a California family and their struggle against a chillingly powerful alien presence.
Updated 9.23.05
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