sci-fi alien invasion book recommendations?

[RIP Paul]

-looking for books with plots revolving around an alien invasion
-preferably stories set in smaller settings, such as an alien invasion from the perspective of one family in their home/ town

 

[Jo Zebedee]

i think you had some suggestions in this thread?

looking for low-fi, sci-fi book suggestions!

Alien invasions seem, for me, to be bizarrely rare in modern sci fi. Which is sad cos I love a good alien invasion. I'll watch with interest.

 

[Cat's Cradle]

I see that Jo's wonderful novel Inish Carraig was mentioned several times in the other thread. I wonder if you've had the chance to read it yet, RIP Paul? It's a terrific read, and fits your list of desired traits exactly. CC

 

[Rodders]

Harry Turtledove's "In The Balance" books were of an alien invasion that took place in the second world war and spun an alternative universe. They may be a little dated, but i remember them being pretty good.

I also read L. Ron Hubbard's Invasion Earth series. Ten mediocre books in the series that i waded through in the nineties. I don't remember too much about them, but they were better than Battlefield Earth.

 

[Toby Frost]

The Invasion of the Body Snatchers by Jack Finney and The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham spring to mind. Both have interesting slants on alien invasion.

 

[Kieran Song]

The latest one I browsed was the 5th Wave. It's a teen book, if you don't mind.

 

[BigBadBob141]

H.G.Wells's "The War Of The Worlds", the one that started it all, not bad for 1898!!!
"Footfall" by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle is worth a read, it's been a while since I read it but I remember it as quite good.

 

[Pedro Del Mar]

The Border by Robert McCammon

 

[psikeyhackr]

The Man-Kzin Wars started by Larry Niven.

psik

 

[Nick B]

Footfall by Niven and Pournelle is a really good read.

 

[Bick]

They Walked Like Men, Clifford D. Simak.

 

[2DaveWixon]

Way of the Pilgrim by Gordon R. Dickson (caveat: while it's an excellent novel, a portion of which won Gordy a Hugo, it's not really about an alien invasion of Earth, so much as about the subsequent Occupation and resistance movement).

 

[Brian W. Foster]

I really enjoyed John Ringo's Troy Rising series.

Thanks for this thread, btw. I've been looking for some good alien invasion books as well. I'm going to have to take a look at some of the suggestions here.

 

[WaylanderToo]

another for the Troy Rising series

Also

John Ringo - Watch on the Rhine is (IMO) very enjoyable

 

[Pedro Del Mar]

The Silence by Tim Lebbon is a good read, it's not aliens that invade but it's still an invasion story, worth checking it out

 

[Frost Giant]

The story Avoidance Situation by James V. McConnell offers an amusing twist on the alien invasion premise.

 

[russ2]

i think you had some suggestions in this thread?

looking for low-fi, sci-fi book suggestions!

Alien invasions seem, for me, to be bizarrely rare in modern sci fi. Which is sad cos I love a good alien invasion. I'll watch with interest.

Has it moved to YA? Like the Fifth Wave and that one by Stephanie Meyer. I'm a total sucker for bodysnatching aliens and pod people but once you know the original story i dont think you can repeat the suspense with anew version.

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Has it moved to YA? Like the Fifth Wave and that one by Stephanie Meyer. I'm a total sucker for bodysnatching aliens and pod people but once you know the original story i dont think you can repeat the suspense with anew version.

I think it's about doing things differently. Certainly, that's the feedback I get most often on Inish Carraig - that readers find the pared back, close and personal story refreshingly different for the genre which can be, for sure, too formulaic. I do know one of the big sf imprints rejected it as they didn't feel an alien invasion would sell. (This was 2 years ago - the market may have changed.)

 

[russ2]

Absolutely, I wasn't referring to Mayers book. I meant the IOTBS book and film. First 2 films were great but every one since just rehashes it, because the highly evolved concept only has so many interpretations. And there's no surprise when the pods spew out a doppleganger as we already know that will happen having seen the first movie a million times.
Everyone seems odd
Pods are replacing everyone with emotionless doppelgangers
We have to escape.
We can't escape, because they're everywhere.
We're dopplegangers too.

 

[Pedro Del Mar]

There was a series that came out on TV a few years ago based on IOTBS, I really enjoyed it but unfortunately they decided not to carry on with it