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- Quicksand
John Brunnerstandalone novel1967
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A British psychiatrist in a deadening job and a deadening marriage gets a mysterious patient; a petite young woman who speaks an unrecognizable language and is unfamiliar with the common objects, sights, and behaviors of normal life, yet who is able to quickly and easily cripple or kill a large man with her bare hands when she feels threatened. He feels more than professional concern for the woman, who he believes is not actually mentally ill but is in fact a more unusual case.
- The Black Cloud
Fred Hoylestandalone novel1957
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The Black Cloud is a 1957 science fiction novel by British astrophysicist Fred Hoyle. It details the arrival of an enormous cloud of gas that enters the Solar System and appears about to destroy most of the life on Earth by blocking the Sun's radiation.
- The Kraken Wakes
John Wyndhamstandalone novel1953
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" Behind a spectacular meteor shower actually hides the beginning of an invasion by a mysterious and powerful alien race. Earth's life is disrupted by the attacks of extraterrestrials whose war machines, emerging from the depths of the oceans, seem indestructible. The coalitioned forces of the whole world are worthless, powerless in the face of the indecipherable and deadly plans of a superior intelligence, capable of bringing the entire planet to the brink of catastrophe" Goodreads May 20, 2022
- The Host
Stephenie Meyerstandalone novel2008
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The earth has been invaded by a species that take over the minds of their human hosts while leaving their bodies intact, and most of humanity has succumbed. But Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away. Wanderer, the invading "soul" who has been given Melanie's body, knew about the challenges of living inside a human: the overwhelming emotions, the too vivid memories. But there was one difficulty Wanderer didn't expect: the former tenant of her body refusing to relinquish possession of her mind. Melanie fills Wanderer's thoughts with visions of the man Melanie loves--Jared, a human who still lives in hiding. Unable to separate herself from her body's desires, Wanderer yearns for a man she's never met. As outside forces make Wanderer and Melanie unwilling allies, they set off to search for the man they both love.--From publisher description.
- The Man Who Fell to Earth
Walter Tevisstandalone novel1963
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The Man Who Fell to Earth is a 1963 science-fiction novel by American writer Walter Tevis. Published by Gold Medal Books as a paperback original, it was Tevis's second novel, following The Hustler. The novel follows Thomas Jerome Newton, an extraterrestrial from the drought-stricken planet Anthea, who comes to Earth hoping to build a spacecraft that can save the surviving members of his species.
- Childhood's End
Arthur C. Clarkestandalone novel1953
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Childhood's End is a 1953 science fiction novel by the British author Arthur C. Clarke. The story follows a peaceful alien invasion of Earth by mysterious Overlords, whose arrival begins decades of apparent utopia under indirect alien rule, at the cost of human identity and culture.
- The Puppet Masters
Robert A. Heinleinstandalone novel1951
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Parasitical aliens attach themselves to human hosts and take over their bodies. Two spies are sent to find out what's happening, but the extent is much farther than they knew. With access to the humans' memories, the aliens quietly invade the government and start taking over.
- Eye in the Sky
Philip K. Dickstandalone novel1957
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Eight visitors touring a particle-accelerator facility are caught in a catastrophic malfunction, a collapsing platform, a burst of radiation, that leaves them all unconscious. When protagonist Jack Hamilton, an engineer recently fired over Red Scare-era suspicions about his wife's politics, comes to, the world around him is subtly, then not so subtly, wrong: physics bends to fit one fellow victim's religious convictions, then to another's paranoid fears, as the group cycles through what turn out to be shared hallucinations built from each other's private belief systems. Philip K. Dick's early novel about how differently people actually see the same world.
- I Will Fear No Evil
Robert A. Heinleinstandalone novel1970
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I Will Fear No Evil is a science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, originally serialised in Galaxy and published in hardcover in 1970. The title is taken from Psalm 23:4.
- Stranger in a Strange Land
Robert A. Heinleinstandalone novel1961
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Stranger in a Strange Land is a 1961 science fiction novel by the American author Robert A. Heinlein. It tells the story of Valentine Michael Smith, a human who comes to Earth in early adulthood after being born on the planet Mars and raised by Martians, and explores his interaction with and eventual transformation of Terran culture.
- Sirius: A Fantasy of Love and Discord
Olaf Stapledonstandalone novel1944
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Sirius is a 1944 science fiction novel by the British philosopher and author Olaf Stapledon, whose title character is a dog named Sirius with humanlike intelligence. A sense of existential questioning suffuses the book, as the author delves into aspects of Sirius's psyche. The novel deals with many human issues through Sirius and his experiences, his unusual nature, his ideas and his relationships with humans. The characters go to great lengths to prevent Sirius from becoming a circus-type wonderdog, and instead, they seek to develop Sirius's character much like a family would create and foster that of a human child.
- The Proteus Operation
James P. Hoganstandalone novel1985
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The Proteus Operation is a science fiction alternate history novel written by James P. Hogan. The plot focuses on an Anglo-American team of soldiers and civilians sent back in time from the Nazi-dominated world of 1975 to prevent an Axis victory in World War II that was engineered by more advanced time travelers from the 21st century.
- Slaughterhouse-Five or the Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death
Kurt Vonnegut & Jr.standalone novel1969
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Vonnegut opens in his own voice, describing the twenty years it took him to face writing about surviving the firebombing of Dresden as a POW. He then hands the story to Billy Pilgrim, an awkward, fatalistic American chaplain's assistant swept into the Battle of the Bulge and captured by German forces alongside a soldier who dies blaming him for it. Imprisoned in a disused slaughterhouse in Dresden, Billy survives the firebombing that follows, and, we're told upfront, has also come 'unstuck in time,' living his life out of order, including a stretch on the alien world of Tralfamadore. Vonnegut's best-known novel folds war memoir into science fiction and black comedy.
- The Body Snatchers
Jack Finneystandalone novel1955
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The Body Snatchers is a science fiction horror novel by American writer Jack Finney, originally serialized in Collier's magazine in November–December 1954 and published in book form the following year.
- The Midwich Cuckoos
John Wyndhamstandalone novel1957
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The Midwich Cuckoos is a 1957 science fiction novel written by the English author John Wyndham. It tells the tale of an English village in which the women become pregnant by brood parasitic aliens. The book has been praised by many critics, including the dramatist Dan Rebellato, who called it "a searching novel of moral ambiguities", and the novelist Margaret Atwood, who called the book Wyndham's "chef d'œuvre". The book has been adapted for film, radio, and television.
- The Death of Grass
John Christopherstandalone novel1956
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The Death of Grass is a 1956 post-apocalyptic science fiction novel written by the English author Sam Youd under the pen name John Christopher. The plot concerns a virus that kills off grass species, including rice and wheat. The Death of Grass was the first of several post-apocalyptic novels written by Youd. The novel was written in a matter of weeks and liberated him from his day job.
- Those Who Watch
Robert Silverbergstandalone novel1967
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Those Who Watch is a science fiction novel by American writer Robert Silverberg, first published by Signet in 1967. The novel concerns a trio of alien explorers, each one surgically altered so as to appear outwardly human, who find themselves separated, and permanently stranded on Earth, after their ship explodes while hovering in low orbit. Each of the aliens is injured during the accident, and all are taken in and nursed back to health by kindly human beings.
- October the First Is Too Late
Fred Hoylestandalone novel1966
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October the First is Too Late is a science fiction novel by astrophysicist Fred Hoyle. It was first published in 1966.
- Venus Plus X
Theodore Sturgeonstandalone novel1960
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Charlie Johns wakes in a featureless silver room with no memory of how he got there and a watch that's inexplicably running backward. He's been brought, how and by whom is never explained to him, to Ledom, an isolated, technologically advanced society whose members are all both male and female and have done away with fixed sex roles entirely. Guides walk him through Ledom's customs and machinery while making clear he's there to judge them before he can go home. Interwoven with Charlie's tour are chapters following an ordinary mid-century American family, setting the utopia against the world it's implicitly critiquing. Theodore Sturgeon's provocative novel about gender and social design.
- Flashforward
Robert J. Sawyerstandalone novel1999
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Flashforward is a science fiction novel by Canadian author Robert J. Sawyer first published in 1999. The novel is set in 2009. At CERN, the Large Hadron Collider accelerator is performing a run to search for the Higgs boson. The experiment has a unique side effect; the entire human race loses their consciousness for about two minutes. During that time, nearly everyone sees themselves roughly twenty-one years and six months in the future. Each individual experiences the future through the senses of their future self. This "flashforward" results in countless deaths and accidents involving vehicles, aircraft, and any other device needing human control at the time of the experiment. The novel was adapted into the 2009 television series FlashForward.
- Sea Siege
Andre Nortonstandalone novel1957
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On a bleak little island in the West Indies, Griff Gunston faces many questions. Why were so many small island cruisers adrift and abandoned? Why was the sea disease that Griff's scientist father was investigating radioactive. Why were the colonies of octopi growing larger and becoming so strangely organized and daring? Before the answers can be found, civilization blanks out. An atom bomb war has left the little group isolated. A danger from the ocean floor, a new type of intelligence is prepared to seize the world for itself. (adapted from the blurb accompanying the first edition)
- Century Rain
Alastair Reynoldsstandalone novel2004
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Century Rain is a 2004 noir science fiction alternative history mystery novel by Welsh author Alastair Reynolds (ISBN 0-575-07436-1).
- The Disappearance
Philip Wyliestandalone novel1951
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One ordinary moment, the world splits in two: every man on Earth finds every woman gone without a trace, and at the same instant every woman finds herself in a world emptied of men -- two parallel realities on the same planet, each population convinced the other has vanished. Philip Wylie follows both worlds afterward, one sliding into authoritarian collapse without women to share or restrain power, the other building something more equal and freer, using the split to interrogate mid-century assumptions about sex, marriage and the double standards separating what men and women were each allowed to be. A speculative novel years ahead of the feminist movement it anticipates.
- Ossian's Ride
Fred Hoylestandalone novel1959
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Ossian's Ride is a science fiction novel by British astrophysicist Fred Hoyle, published in 1959.
