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- My Teacher Is an Alien
series4 books1989
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My Teacher Is an Alien is a four-book science fiction children's book series authored by Bruce Coville. The titles include:My Teacher Is an Alien (1989) My Teacher Fried My Brains (1991) My Teacher Glows in the Dark (1991) My Teacher Flunked the Planet (1992)
- Chocky
series2 books1968
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Chocky (1968) is John Wyndham's science fiction novel about an eleven-year-old boy, Matthew, whose parents grow alarmed by his conversations with an unseen presence that feeds him unsettling insights into mathematics and human progress, building toward the reveal of what, or who, Chocky really is. Mark Daniel's Chocky's Challenge (1986), published after Wyndham's death, is an authorized continuation that carries the story forward.
- Martians, Go Home
Fredric Brownstandalone novel1955
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Martians, Go Home is a science fiction comic novel by American writer Fredric Brown, published in the magazine Astounding Science Fiction in September 1954 and later by E. P. Dutton in 1955. The novel concerns a writer who witnesses an alien invasion of Earth by boorish little green men from Mars.
- I Was a 6th Grade Alien
series12 books1999
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- The Dreaming Jewels
Theodore Sturgeonstandalone novel1950
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The Dreaming Jewels (1950), also known as The Synthetic Man, is a science fiction novel by American writer Theodore Sturgeon. It was his first published novel.
- Harriet's Hare
Dick King-Smithstandalone novel1997
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"The last thing eight-year-old Harriet Butler expects is to meet a space alien who is on vacation from another planet. But one morning, in her dad's wheat field..." - taken from book jacket.
- The Clone Chronicles (M. E. Castle)
series4 books2012
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- 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.
- Pip & Flinx
series18 books1972
part of Humanx Commonwealth
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The Pip & Flinx novels follow Flinx, a young man with an unusual, mysterious origin, and his ever-present animal companion Pip, across Alan Dean Foster's Humanx Commonwealth setting. Beginning with The Tar-Aiym Krang (1972) — chronologically the second entry, since Foster later filled in Flinx's earlier life — the series grew to fifteen novels published between 1972 and 2017, mixing planetary adventure with a slowly unfolding personal mystery.
- Buttheads from Outer Space
Jerry Mahoneystandalone novel2018
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Hoping to become famous, sixth-graders Josh and Lloyd write a blog inviting extraterrestrials to Earth, but soon realize they have made a very big mistake.
- Ormingat Trilogy
series3 books2000
completed
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- Agent to the Stars
John Scalzistandalone novel2005
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"The space-faring Yherajk have come to Earth to meet us and to begin humanity's first interstellar friendship. There's just one problem: They're hideously ugly and they smell like rotting fish. Gaining humanity's trust isn't easy when you look like a B-movie terror. The Yherajk need someone who can help them close the deal. Thomas Stein knows all about closing deals - he's one of Hollywood's hottest young agents who's just closed the biggest deal of his career. But it's one thing to sell your client when she's a hot young starlet. It's another thing entirely when your client is an entire alien species, depending on you to pull off the greatest introduction in this history of man. Stein's going to need all his smarts, all his skills, and all his wits to earn his percentage and his place in history." [Source: front dust jacket flap of Subterranean Press edition]
- Time for the Stars
Robert A. Heinleinstandalone novel1956
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Explorer spaceships need a way to communicate back to earth in a timely manner when they are light years away. When telepathy is found to have no delay, pairs of twins are hired. One twin stays on Earth to receive reports, and the other twin goes into space.
- H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds
universe65 books1898
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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. And then the cylinders fell. H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds opens in the quiet of the Surrey commons, where a falling star proves to be the first Martian craft — and from the pit rise the towering tripods, the Heat-Ray, the choking Black Smoke and the creeping red weed, wielded by minds that regard mankind much as we regard the creatures we boil for supper. This is invasion rendered as natural disaster: cold, methodical, and vast beyond argument. Wells' 1898 novel is the seed; everything else grows from that Martian soil. The catalogue gathers direct sequels and continuations alongside a wide field of other hands. In War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches the invasion is retold across the whole planet through the eyes of Twain, Verne, Tolstoy, Lowell and Kipling; in the Manly Wade and Wade Wellman crossover, Sherlock Holmes, Watson and Professor Challenger take the field against the machines; and Scott Washburn's Great Martian War stretches the fighting into a decades-long alternate history of steam, artillery and grinding attrition. It is a loose shared world — no single decreed sequence, many voices answering one calamity. What sets this world apart is its refusal of heroics: the invaders fall not to generals but to the smallest things of Earth, humbling and indifferent. Begin, always, with Wells' original novel — it is short, and it is the ground every later book stands upon. From there follow your appetite: Global Dispatches for the panorama, the Holmes campaign for adventure, Washburn for the long war.
