Are you with them? Or against them? Best Alien Encounter BOOKS With China’s Cultural Revolution as the backdrop, the story unfolds to reveal how people deal with the alien visitors to Earth. In The Three-Body Problem, a group of military scientists send signals into space in search of intelligent life. Liu Cixin, The Three-Body Problem, translator Ken Liu (2016) ![]() Lagoon follows a group of individuals who call Lagos home as the city and its inhabitants deal with the changes brought on by the new alien presence. Nnedi Okorafor, Lagoon (2016)Ī massive object has crash landed in the lagoon off the coast of Lagos, capital of Nigeria and one of Africa’s biggest cities. This is the premise of Wesley Chu’s three novels The Lives of Tao, The Deaths of Tao, and The Rebirths of Tao, which offer up an action-packed blend of alien invasion fiction, political thrillers, and alternative history. Then imagine that this voice belongs to a member of an alien race that has been trapped on Earth since before the dinosaurs, and you are now part of the millennia-long war between the two factions of this alien race. Imagine waking up hung over from a night on the town and discover that there is a voice inside your head that does not belong to you. This piece of advice is particularly relevant if you live in Florida, whose wetlands served as Vandermeer’s inspiration for Area X. To avoid nightmares, read these books in the daytime or leave the light on when you go to sleep. The novels are science fiction that borders on horror. The Southern Reach Trilogy contains the three novels Annihilation, Authority, and Acceptance. The Southern Reach is a government agency set to monitor Area X, a mysterious ecological anomaly of extraterrestrial origin. Jeff Vandermeer’s Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy merges alien invasion with genetic mutations gone haywire. Jeff Vandermeer, Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy (2014) ![]() The result is a funny and singular work unlike anything else you’ve ever read.3. Illustrated with enormous wit and dynamism—mixing classic tropes from science fiction, indie comics, B-movies, and campus culture—this graphic novel is something different, a large-scale action/adventure story as seen from the point-of-view of a contemporary, realistic hero-ine. Mean-while, Stacey’s long-stifled romantic feelings for her friend Charlotte begin to surface, while the professor she had admired and respected becomes the students’ worst enemy. As space insects begin to burrow into students and staff, transforming them into slobbering, babbling monsters, a conglomeration of misfits must band together to prevent the infestation from spreading. But when a hurricane batters the small college town, downing power lines and knocking out cell phone reception, Stacey and her friends are stranded with no way to communicate with the outside world at the worst possi-ble moment: in the midst of an alien invasion. ![]() Stacey, a brilliant, overachieving astrobiology major at Fenton College, had planned on just another lonely Spring Break on campus. In this wildly entertaining collaboration, novelists Owen King and Mark Jude Poirier team up with illustrator Nancy Ahn to present a wickedly funny graphic novel about an alien invasion on a college cam-pus.
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