Books with category Alien Invasion
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The Infinite Sea

2015

by Rick Yancey

How do you rid the Earth of seven billion humans? Rid the humans of their humanity. Surviving the first four waves was nearly impossible. Now Cassie Sullivan finds herself in a new world, a world in which the fundamental trust that binds us together is gone. As the 5th Wave rolls across the landscape, Cassie, Ben, and Ringer are forced to confront the Others’ ultimate goal: the extermination of the human race.

Cassie and her friends haven’t seen the depths to which the Others will sink, nor have the Others seen the heights to which humanity will rise, in the ultimate battle between life and death, hope and despair, love and hate.

The 5th Wave

2013

by Rick Yancey

After the 1st wave, only darkness remains. After the 2nd, only the lucky escape. And after the 3rd, only the unlucky survive. After the 4th wave, only one rule applies: trust no one.

Now, it's the dawn of the 5th wave, and on a lonely stretch of highway, Cassie runs from Them. The beings who only look human, who roam the countryside killing anyone they see. Who have scattered Earth's last survivors. To stay alone is to stay alive, Cassie believes, until she meets Evan Walker. Beguiling and mysterious, Evan Walker may be Cassie's only hope for rescuing her brother-or even saving herself. But Cassie must choose: between trust and despair, between defiance and surrender, between life and death. To give up or to get up.

All You Need Is Kill

There’s one thing worse than dying: It’s coming back to do it again and again

When the alien Gitai invade, Keiji Kiriya is just one of many raw recruits shoved into a suit of battle armor and sent out to kill. Keiji dies on the battlefield, only to find himself reborn each morning to fight and die again and again.

On the 158th iteration though, he sees something different, something out of place: the female soldier known as the Bitch of War. Is she the key to Keiji’s escape, or to his final death?

Dreamcatcher

2001

by Stephen King

Four friends' association with a mentally handicapped boy with supernatural abilities leaves them with special gifts that come in handy when they unite as adults for an annual hunting trip in Maine and find themselves in the middle of an alien invasion.

The Man Who Fell to Earth

1999

by Walter Tevis

T.J. Newton is an extraterrestrial who arrives on Earth with a desperate mission of mercy. In his quest to save his home planet, he discovers a world filled with loneliness and despair, leading to a tragic end.

Newton, an alien disguised as a human, lands in Kentucky and begins to patent advanced technology from his planet, Anthea. His goal is to amass the wealth needed to build a spaceship to rescue the last survivors of his devastated world.

However, instead of finding the help he seeks, Newton encounters self-destruction and succumbs to human afflictions like alcoholism, abandoning his mission. This poignant tale explores the human condition and the existential loneliness that resides within us all.

The War of the Worlds

1983

by H.G. Wells

When an army of invading Martians lands in England, panic and terror seize the population. As the aliens traverse the country in huge three-legged machines, incinerating all in their path with a heat ray and spreading noxious toxic gases, the people of the Earth must come to terms with the prospect of the end of human civilization and the beginning of Martian rule.

Inspiring films, radio dramas, comic-book adaptations, television series and sequels, The War of the Worlds is a prototypical work of science fiction which has influenced every alien story that has come since, and is unsurpassed in its ability to thrill, well over a century since it was first published.

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