3.83 avg rating — 356,744 ratings

""A cylinder from space lands in south-west London, and naïve locals approach it armed with a white flag - only to be instantly incinerated by an all-destroying heat-ray, as tentacled Martians emerge.""

4.12 avg rating — 176,574 ratings

""The Overlords appeared suddenly over every city—intellectually, technologically, and militarily superior to humankind. Benevolent, they made few demands: unify earth, eliminate poverty, and end war. With little rebellion, humankind agreed, and a golden age began. But...""

3.90 avg rating — 26,072 ratings

""Subtly, almost imperceptibly, alien life-forms are taking over the bodies and minds of his neighbors, friends, family, the woman he loves, and the entire world as he knows it.""

4.16 avg rating — 185 ratings

3.90 avg rating — 368 ratings

""Were the alien and his robot here to help or hinder humankind? Find out the surprising answer in the original story that inspired the classic 1951 science fiction movie The Day the Earth Stood Still.""

4.36 avg rating — 191 ratings

4.35 avg rating — 84 ratings

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4.07 avg rating — 68 ratings

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3.92 avg rating — 559 ratings

""A deadly weapon, known only as Thor’s Hammer, brings promise of salvation. Now, the scattered remnants of the human race must find the device and recover it before the aliens can discover its location. Because if the rampaging Astral forces beat them to the weapon, the fate of Earth will be sealed.""

liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating

""describes a covert invasion by aliens who take on the appearance of human beings and attempt to develop a virulent disease to assist in their plans for global conquest.""

3.96 avg rating — 3,410 ratings

""Fleeing Earth after an alien invasion, the human race stands on the threshold of evolution, like a fish cast on artificial shores...""

2.83 avg rating — 268 ratings

""This sequel appeared in February of 1898 and quickly entered into the annals of science fiction history.""

4.10 avg rating — 6,167 ratings

""The survivors escaped a devastating, earth-changing event (referred to as either a technological singularity or alien invasion) by encasing themselves in "bobbles"—impenetrable, high-energy stasis force fields that allow them to jump decades or millennia forward in time.""

3.90 avg rating — 5,503 ratings

""...details the terrifying discovery of an intelligent, Jupiter-sized cloud of interstellar gas headed for Earth. The cloud positions itself in front of the Sun, threatening mass extinction by blocking life-saving solar radiation.""

3.99 avg rating — 63,132 ratings

""...The story follows archaeologist Dan Sylveste as he investigates the extinction of the Amarantin civilization, uncovering a galactic threat known as the Inhibitors, which destroys advanced species before they can spread, leading to a dangerous race against time...""

3.56 avg rating — 126 ratings

""What do you do when an alien with exceptional physical abilities crash lands on Earth and leaves a path of death and destruction in its wake? You use biological modification to create an enhanced human able to match the alien in strength and speed...""

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 249,852 ratings

""Earth is targeted with asteroids by aliens as a form of interplanetary warfare...""

3.92 avg rating — 17,748 ratings

""An alien craft is approaching Earth. Attempts to communicate go unanswered. The welcoming committee of Americans and Russians at a space station is blasted, its occupants killed or captured.""

3.91 avg rating — 1,651 ratings

""...hostile aliens known as "the Fish" utilize devastating tactics by capturing asteroids and dropping them on planetary targets.""

3.53 avg rating — 6,081 ratings

""A technologically advanced but xenophobic alien race, the Shongairi, invades Earth, but humanity fights back with surprising ferocity and ingenuity.""

3.57 avg rating — 145 ratings

""The Mollans plan to use the asteroid Ceres as a weapon. By crashing it into the Moon, they aim to disrupt Earth's gravitational and ecological balance, believing this extreme measure is exactly what humanity needs to survive.""

4.14 avg rating — 183,226 ratings

""... prolonged and enigmatic conflict between humans and the alien Taurans. The narrative delves into how miscommunication, cultural misunderstandings, and the vast distances involved in interstellar warfare amplify the uncertainties inherent in military engagements.""

4.61 avg rating — 8,855 ratings

""...begins with a secret Chinese military project sending signals into space during the Cultural Revolution, leading to contact with an alien civilization facing extinction and planning an invasion of Earth.'"

3.86 avg rating — 1,055,001 ratings

""The earth has been invaded by a species that takes over the minds of their human hosts while leaving their bodies intact. Wanderer, an invader, has been given Melanie's body but the former tenant is refusing to relinquish possession of her mind.""

4.06 avg rating — 4,451 ratings

""The Silentium Flood refers to the Flood at the terrifying peak of their power during the Forerunner-Flood War...""

3.48 avg rating — 2,894 ratings

""After ecological disasters nearly destroyed the Earth, 26 survivors—the last of humanity—are trapped by an alien race in a sterile enclosure known as the Shell.""

3.71 avg rating — 1,792 ratings

""...the story depicts an indifferent alien invasion where colossal, fast-growing extraterrestrial flora destroy Earth's ecosystem, reducing humanity to irrelevance and inevitable starvation.""

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 483,173 ratings

"Aliens invade in waves."

3.94 avg rating — 3,656 ratings

""An alien invasion leaves Earth in ruins, with two alien races fighting for control. A small group of survivors is led by a boy with mysterious, powerful abilities.""

3.91 avg rating — 31,312 ratings

""The rogue crew of the Libra were caught in a "time knot" that allowed them to drag the Terminus—a cataclysmic white hole event—backward toward the present day... To stop the impending apocalypse, Shannon ensures the Libra and its time-traveling crew are permanently destroyed...""

2.88 avg rating — 17 ratings

""The aliens came from a distant star - and a distant time... People of the future, they couldn't be destroyed in the present. The only hope of conquering them was by traveling forward in time.""

3.82 avg rating — 13,504 ratings

""...about identity, survival, and transformation amidst an alien invasion in rural West Virginia.""

4.12 avg rating — 91,907 ratings

""Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those young rebels who are compelled, in spite of extreme danger, to venture illegally into the Zone to collect the mysterious artifacts that the alien visitors left scattered around.""

3.62 avg rating — 5,026 ratings

""Something out beyond the orbit of Pluto has made contact.""

3.82 avg rating — 2,944 ratings

""Everyone disappears overnight, and the world becomes overgrown with vegetation, populated by fearless animals, and subject to freakish weather.""

4.04 avg rating — 45,214 ratings

""... [a] space probe reveals a bizarre truth: The barrier is artificial, generated by huge alien artifacts.""

3.53 avg rating — 4,588 ratings

""Now, with an alien signal from the stars being broadcast around the world, humanity is finally starting to realize that it's already been warned, and it may be too late.""

3.61 avg rating — 300 ratings

"Anthology. "The collection explores the "outer limits" of literature by blending literary styles with speculative fiction, examining themes like technology, first contact, and societal collapse through the lens of "invaders," which can be literal aliens or more abstract concepts.""

4.29 avg rating — 764 ratings

""Long ago, the Tripods—huge, three-legged machines—descended upon Earth and took control. Now people unquestioningly accept the Tripods' power. They have no control over their thoughts or their lives.""

4.07 avg rating — 315 ratings

""A civilization-ending comet is headed for Earth. Two days before impact, thousands of mysterious pods land in a swath across North America. When people touch them, the pods open. Anyone who climbs inside is carried away.""

3.74 avg rating — 6,373 ratings

""...a probe sent out to explore the Oort Cloud found a strange alien rock and an international team of scientists was put together to go and look at it, I made the draw.""

3.62 avg rating — 6,712 ratings

""Out of... options, NASA turns to Jansen. For all the dangers of the mission, it’s the shot at redemption she always longed for. But... one thing becomes horribly clear: the future of humanity lies in Jansen’s hands.""

3.89 avg rating — 4,092 ratings

""The invaders came in 2050…They did not kill anyone outright. they said they came on behalf of the intelligent species of Earth—dolphins and whales. The Invaders quietly destroyed every evidence of technology, then peacefully departed, leaving behind plowed ground and sprouting seeds. In the next two years, ten billion humans starved to death.""

3.23 avg rating — 74 ratings

""In the twenty-first century, American explorers discover alien teleportation and time-travel equipment on the moon, which leads them into a multi-dimensional struggle with a maleficent entity who plans to obliterate the universe...""

4.01 avg rating — 4,082 ratings

"'Omally groaned. "It is the end of mankind as we know it. I should never have got up so early today" and all over Brentford electrical appliances were beginning to fail...' "Is Brentford the first base in an alien onslaught on planet Earth?""

3.84 avg rating — 684 ratings

"Anthology. "...a forgotten Haudenosaunee "Calling Song" broadcasted into space acts as an interstellar beacon. Aliens arrive, and due to a misunderstanding, their "cultural exchange" inadvertently results in the total destruction of Earth.""

3.76 avg rating — 42 ratings

"Anthology. USA defeated by aliens."

4.09 avg rating — 747 ratings

""...an alien race is utilizing a biological agent to trigger this fatal flaw in human biology, intending to wipe out humanity so they can easily claim the planet.""

3.74 avg rating — 17,306 ratings

""...the alien entity Wormwood crashes in Nigeria, creating an impenetrable biodome around which a bustling boomtown named Rosewater organically forms.""

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 13,807 ratings

""Sorcerer Pug wakes from a nightmare that portends destruction for all of Midkemia, and his son Magnus learns the reason: a beacon draws an army of alien invaders...""

4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings

""A meteor falls from the sky. Strange behavior spreads through the streets. Friends and neighbors start to seem… different. Not quite themselves. Subtly. Almost imperceptibly.""

4.16 avg rating — 1,528 ratings

""A mist descended from the sky, disabling all technology and causing a weird message to appear in the corner of everyone’s eye. The situation grew even worse as animals and people started to warp, transforming into terrible monsters that prey on the living.""