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series2 books1969

Tense in tone, about plague and pandemic and survival.

“Daniel H. Wilson's authorized 2019 sequel The Andromeda Evolution revisits the same threat five decades later.”
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Start with The Andromeda Strain →

PatternistSeries

series6 books1976

completed

Dark in tone, about genetic engineering.

“The Patternist series is a group of science fiction novels by Octavia E. Butler that detail a secret history continuing from the Ancient Egyptian period to the far future that involves telepathic mind control and an extraterrestrial plague.”
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Start with Wild Seed →

FootfallNovel

Larry Niven & Jerry Pournellestandalone novel1985

Alien invasion and first contact, tense in tone, set in our world.

“When aliens travel to Earth from Alpha Centauri, differences between alien and human psychology result in an unprovoked invasion, and the resulting resistance results in the aliens' use of a devastating weapon.”
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ContactNovel

Carl Saganstandalone novel1985

First contact, about space exploration and faith and religion, set in our world.

“The Message, awaited for so long, its very possibility doubted by so many, arrives.”
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H. G. Wells' War of the WorldsUniverse

universe65 books1898

Alien invasion.

“No one would have believed, in the closing years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched keenly and closely from the timeless worlds of space.”
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Start with The War of the Worlds →

includes The War of the Worlds

The 5th WaveSeries

series4 books2013

Alien invasion, tense in tone, about survival.

“Cassie Sullivan, the survivor of an alien invasion, must rescue her young brother from the enemy with help from a boy who may be one of them.”
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Start with The 5th Wave →

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