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Tagged with books alien-invasion
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Science fiction book - defending earth with space shuttles
Read this a while ago: the space-opera theme of aliens attacking Earth. The defenders fly "space shuttles" armed with rockets (perhaps originally intended for meteor defense). Notably the ...
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Book about an alien invasion with: a disease, a dead person's mansion, aliens playing in the water, and a missile launch at Vandenberg AFB
I'm looking for a book about an alien invasion. I can recall that there's a disease that kills a lot of people, and this man is in some dead person's mansion, possibly in Los Angeles.
I believe the ...
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Searching for a story about aliens defeated thanks to a computer virus
I recall reading this story in the late 1980s. I think it was a pulp magazine. I don't remember the cover, and there were no illustrations.
The story began with unnoticed hacker disappearances around ...
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SciFi Book Find - Alien Precursor Attack Before a Large Scale Invasion (not in series)
Some overall details;
A book series I listened to as audiobooks in 2019-2022. They were newish books so published in the range 2010-2022. It had somewhere around 3 - 4 books. There was never a large ...
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Old Sci Fi Book where French refused to give up part of their territory to stop the war
Help me find this book or short story, from which I remember single scene.
I have read book or part of it in Czech around the year 2000.
The book is either very convincing steampunk, or very old (pre ...
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Isolated teenage boy evading alien-controlled mechanical bots while seeking food and human contact
A young teenage boy, whose family is recently deceased, is now living alone in a secluded forest cabin. He primitively survives using a bow and arrow for food. He was raised to never leave the ...
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Young adult book series about a teen who goes into a Texas prison while fighting aliens
I read this about six years ago. It is a trilogy, I believe. The story starts off with a girl who is surviving on her own, trying to find her family. Later in the book, she joins a colony where she ...
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Alien invasion book where the aliens first introduce an invasive species from another planet to weaken them
I'm trying to find a science fiction book from many years ago but I don't remember the name or author. I borrowed it from the library in the late '80s or early '90s.
The plot was generally about an ...
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Earth invaded by alien entities feeding on electricity [duplicate]
I'm looking for a book that was purchased in the late '70s or early '80s.
The action takes place in the '60s to '70s.
Some day a radio amateur was puzzled by a strange Morse code message he received. ...
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Book series: Space Navy based Space Opera, several alien species warring for generations
There’s a series of books I read, probably 10 years or more ago that I just can’t seem to pinpoint.
Here are some things I recall:
Space Navy based Space Opera
Space ships could jump between solar ...
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Book with Animal on Earth being invaded by humans (Humans Are The Monsters Trope)
The book is set up like your average "invasion" trope, where the pov is watching its home getting invaded, we're lead to believe that we're reading from a human POV (Or, it's not suggested ...
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Green Lizard Race Rebellion
There was a book that came out in the either late 80s to 90s I think. It was a sci-fi fantasy series. At least a trilogy. It was about a green lizard race that were either eradicated or turned slaves. ...
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Book about teenage boy who finds out he’s part alien, is good at gymnastics and helps with an alien invasion
Early 2000s is when I read it. The book was about a teenage boy who turns out to be part alien (I think). He was really good at gymnastics his eyes did this crazy dilating thing that would freak out ...
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Late 80s/early 90s young adult sci-fi book about teenage girl living on the moon after Earth's invasion by aliens
The book is about a teenage girl who lives on the Moon after aliens take over the Earth. I think there was a picture of a blonde girl sitting and the moon in the background on the cover. It was one of ...
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Book: alien fleet invades Earth armed with spears and shields [duplicate]
I'm searching for a science fiction book, with the twist that I haven't actually read this book. I have only heard the outline of the plot of it. But I'm fairly certain that it is indeed a book, and ...
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