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A reluctant conscript stumbles into a war he never asked to fight.
Mercury Rising
Sci-Fi · Alien Invasion · First Contact · Space Opera
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A reluctant conscript stumbles into a war he never asked to fight. Mercury Rising follows Brooklyn, an ordinary man framed for murder and forced into Earth’s orbital defenses during an alien conflict that has already rewritten history. As space battles and buried conspiracies collide, survival demands more than obedience. This is an alternate-history science fiction novel driven by dark humor, escalating stakes, and the realization that the real threat may be closer than it appears.
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Top Gun in space!
An alternative history with aliens, an immortal misanthrope and SF tropes aplenty
The year is 1975 – Robert Oppenheimer has invented the Atomic Engine, the first human has walked on the moon, and Jet Carson and the Eagle Seven have sacrificed their lives to stop alien invaders.
Brooklyn, however, just wants to keep his head down, pay his mother’s rent, earn a little scratch of his own, and maybe get laid sometime. Simple pleasures! But life is about to get real complicated when a killer with a baseball bat and a mysterious box of 8-track tapes sets him up for murder.
So, his choices are limited – rot away in prison or sign up to defend the planet from the assholes who dropped a meteorite on Cleveland. Brooklyn crosses his fingers and picks the Earth Orbital Forces, believing that after a few years in the trenches – assuming he survives – he can get his life back. Unfortunately, the universe has other plans.
Brooklyn is launched into a quest to save humanity, find his true family, and grow as a person – while simultaneously coping with high-stakes space battles, mystery science experiments and the realisation that the true enemies perhaps aren’t the tentacled monsters on the recruitment poster… Or are they?
File Under: Science Fiction [ Little Green Men | Injection | Below the Crust | The Truth is out There ]
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When invisible barriers appear across Earth, ordinary lives are shattered by an impossible mystery.
The Glass
Post-Apocalyptic · Sci-Fi · Alien Invasion · First Contact
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When invisible barriers appear across Earth, ordinary lives are shattered by an impossible mystery. A father, a detective, a journalist, and two lovers are drawn together as they cross the Glass and uncover a truth that could reshape humanity. The Glass: The Complete Series delivers epic science fiction tension and emotional depth, with 4.5 stars on Amazon and Goodreads.
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THE GLASS: THE COMPLETE SERIES is over 1200 pages of thrilling adventure, inspiring characters, and mysterious aliens. With over 5000 ratings, you won’t want to miss out. What’s really behind the Glass?
A hush falls over Earth as invisible barriers appear at random. Cars crash into them; trees are sliced in half, but nothing prepares humanity for what comes next.
As the effects take hold, Ransom learns his young daughter Chrissy is prone to inclinations, which is exactly what he’d feared the most. Drake, a seasoned detective, joins forces with Britt, a brilliant journalist, as well as Peggy and Will, two small town lovers unwittingly thrust into danger.
The road won’t be easy, and they have no choice but to venture past the Glass. What they find on the other side is another story.
From the best-selling author of The Event, First Life, Echoes From the Moon, and Lost Contact.
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After first contact collapses into fear, three lives are trapped inside a militarized future shaped by human control and alien silence.
The Collapsing Wave
Sci-Fi · Alien Invasion · Hard Sci-Fi
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After first contact collapses into fear, three lives are trapped inside a militarized future shaped by human control and alien silence. As hope resurfaces, escape leads toward a confrontation that could redefine survival itself. The Collapsing Wave is an epic, emotionally driven sequel with 4.4 stars on Amazon and wide critical praise.
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Six months since the earth-shattering events of The Space Between Us, the revelatory hope of the aliens' visit has turned to dust and the creatures have disappeared into the water off Scotland' s west coast.
Teenager Lennox and grieving mother Heather are being held in New Broom, a makeshift US military base, the subject of experiments, alongside the Enceladons who have been captured by the authorities.
Ava, who has given birth, is awaiting the jury verdict at her trial for the murder of her husband. And MI7 agent Oscar Fellowes, who has been sidelined by the US military, is beginning to think he might be on the wrong side of history.
When alien Sandy makes contact, Lennox and Heather make a plan to escape with Ava. All three of them are heading for a profound confrontation between the worst of humanity and a possible brighter future, as the stakes get higher for the alien Enceladons and the entire human race…
Sequel to the bestselling The Space Between Us, The Collapsing Wave is an exquisite, epic first-contact novel, laced with peril and populated by unforgettable characters, and the awe-inspiring book we all need right now…
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When the pandemic leaves Jamie Gray stuck in gig work, a chance encounter leads to a job with a mysterious team caring for creatures in an alternate dimension—giant…
The Kaiju Preservation Society
Sci-Fi · Alien Invasion · First Contact
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When the pandemic leaves Jamie Gray stuck in gig work, a chance encounter leads to a job with a mysterious team caring for creatures in an alternate dimension—giant kaiju roaming a world free of humans. But others have crossed over with reckless intentions, threatening both realities. John Scalzi delivers a sharp, high-energy standalone adventure filled with peril and wonder.
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The Kaiju Preservation Society is John Scalzi's first standalone adventure since the conclusion of his New York Times bestselling Interdependency trilogy.
When COVID-19 sweeps through New York City, Jamie Gray is stuck as a dead-end driver for food delivery apps. That is, until Jamie makes a delivery to an old acquaintance, Tom, who works at what he calls “an animal rights organization.” Tom’s team needs a last-minute grunt to handle things on their next field visit. Jamie, eager to do anything, immediately signs on.
What Tom doesn't tell Jamie is that the animals his team cares for are not here on Earth. Not our Earth, at least. In an alternate dimension, massive dinosaur-like creatures named Kaiju roam a warm, human-free world. They're the universe's largest and most dangerous panda and they're in trouble.
It's not just the Kaiju Preservation Society who have found their way to the alternate world. Others have, too. And their carelessness could cause millions back on our Earth to die.
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In The Darkening, strange summer snow and dimming daylight signal a global collapse as alien spores infect the world.
The Darkening
Post-Apocalyptic · Sci-Fi · Alien Invasion
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In The Darkening, strange summer snow and dimming daylight signal a global collapse as alien spores infect the world. Nate and Paula Corwin flee Montana with their children, facing mutated threats, blizzards, and collapsing refugee camps on the road south. A relentless apocalyptic thriller from million-copy bestseller Jasper T. Scott, rated 4.6 stars on Amazon.
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The sun is dimming, the world is ending, and the long journey south is only the beginning.
In the middle of summer, snow falls over Montana. Daylight dims to a ghostly twilight. And at night, glowing alien spores drift from the sky bringing a sickness that can twist the people you love into something unrecognizable. The air grows colder and the infected more dangerous with every passing day.
Nate Corwin, a science teacher, and his wife Paula, a nurse, know that their suburban home won’t hold for long. With their two children, Riley and Jonah, and their loyal golden retriever, Max, they set out for Paula’s family farm in Florida—one place they pray might still be safe—and warm.
But the road south is a gauntlet of horrors: parasite-driven killers, blizzards, collapsing refugee camps, and monsters that hunt in the dark. The only defense—UV light—is feeble at best, and the infected are starting to adapt.
As the alien bloom spreads and the world tilts toward madness, the Corwins will learn that survival isn’t just about keeping the monsters out, it’s about deciding how far you’re willing to go to protect the people you love.
The Darkening is a relentless, heart-pounding journey through a world where the sun is growing dark, the rules are gone, and every step could be your last.
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As war erupts between Earth’s rival powers, journalist Cher Hunt and scientist Chad McLaren uncover a nightmare on LV-187—a colony consumed by Xenomorphs.
Alien: Colony War
Sci-Fi · Alien Invasion · Space Colonization
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As war erupts between Earth’s rival powers, journalist Cher Hunt and scientist Chad McLaren uncover a nightmare on LV-187—a colony consumed by Xenomorphs. Human armies battle while the real enemy waits in the dark. David Barnett’s Alien: Colony War is a tense, action-packed space thriller of war, conspiracy, and survival against impossible odds.
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War has come to the colonies. And the deadliest weapon isn’t human.
As political rivalries on Earth ignite conflict among the stars, the United Americas, the Union of Progressive Peoples, and the Three World Empire bring their war to the frontiers of space. When the UK colony of New Albion declares independence, the fragile peace shatters—and something far worse awakens.
Caught in the crossfire, journalist Cher Hunt searches for the truth behind her sister’s death, while scientist Chad McLaren and his team uncover a secret that could doom them all. On the desolate world of LV-187, human armies collide—and the Xenomorphs are waiting.
David Barnett’s Alien: Colony War delivers explosive sci-fi horror where survival means facing the ultimate enemy.
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Alone in the dark is one thing.
Ship of Fools
Sci-Fi · Alien Invasion · First Contact
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Alone in the dark is one thing. Following a signal toward something far worse is another. In Ship of Fools, the generation ship Argonos drifts through deep space until a transmission leads its crew to the remains of a ruined colony and a mystery that only grows more disturbing the closer they get. A bleak, unsettling sci-fi horror story with theological weight and creeping dread.
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“[Russo] is not afraid to take on the question of evil in a divinely ordered universe...This is an ambitious novel of ideas that generates considerable suspense while respecting its sources, its characters, and most important, the reader.”—The New York Times
Home to generations of humans, the starship Argonos has wandered aimlessly throughout the galaxy for hundreds of years, desperately searching for other signs of life. Now, a steady, unidentified transmission lures them toward a nearby planet, where the grisly remains of a former colony await the crew.
Haunted by what they have seen, the crew has no choice but to follow when another signal beckons the Argonos into deep space—and into the dark heart of an alien mystery...
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Perfect for fans of star-faring intrigue, this gripping novel boasts a 4.5 out of 5 stars Amazon rating.
The Two Lies of Faven Sythe
Sci-Fi · Alien Invasion · Space Opera
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Award-winning author Megan E. O’Keefe delivers The Two Lies of Faven Sythe, a dazzling standalone space opera where a missing mentor and a haunted ship unravel a galaxy-spanning conspiracy. Perfect for fans of star-faring intrigue, this gripping novel boasts a 4.5 out of 5 stars Amazon rating. A tale of secrets, survival, and the truth among the stars.
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The Black Celeste is more than a ship. It is a legend, a ghost story, and the reason pirate Bitter Amandine swore never to return to the Clutch. Survival came at a cost, and she has no desire to face what still lingers there.
Faven Sythe cannot avoid it. As a crystborn navigator, she has trained her whole life to read the starpaths. When her mentor vanishes, leaving behind one final, cryptic route that ends in the Clutch, she has no choice but to follow.
Together, Amandine and Faven uncover a conspiracy stretching across the galaxy. Secrets fester in the graveyard of ships, and the truth could shatter everything they thought they knew.
Some mysteries are better left buried. This one refuses to stay hidden.
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James D. Prescott’s The Fifth Kind: Arrival is a pulse-pounding sci-fi thriller where ancient aliens, buried secrets, and modern conspiracies collide.
The Fifth Kind: Arrival
Sci-Fi · Alien Invasion · First Contact · Hard Sci-Fi
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James D. Prescott’s The Fifth Kind: Arrival is a pulse-pounding sci-fi thriller where ancient aliens, buried secrets, and modern conspiracies collide. With 4.4 out of 5 stars on Amazon, it follows an exobiologist and an intelligence officer racing to stop a revelation that could destroy humanity. Fans of The X-Files and Ancient Aliens won’t be able to look away.
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Deep beneath the sands of Egypt, archaeologists uncover something impossible: a mummified body sealed in a tomb, wearing a space suit. Half a world away, Dr. Katherine Shepard and Colonel Devon Peters investigate a crashed UFO and find one of its passengers still alive—and unmistakably human.
Their discoveries link to a truth buried across millennia: aliens have walked among us, shaping Earth’s history from the shadows. Worse, they are still here. A secret war rages between factions older than civilization itself, and humanity is collateral damage.
As Shepard and Peters chase answers through shifting allegiances and hidden agendas, they realize survival depends on unraveling the aliens’ plan before it unravels them. Some revelations can’t be contained. This one could end the world.
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A must-read for fans of sci-fi horror, corporate intrigue, and monsters that don’t care about quarterly reports.
Alien: The Cold Forge
Horror · Sci-Fi · Alien Invasion
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Alex White delivers a pulse-pounding Alien novel packed with corporate espionage, human treachery, and terrifying Xenomorph horror. Praised for its brutal tension and sharp prose, Alien: The Cold Forge holds a 4.4 out of 5 stars on Amazon. A must-read for fans of sci-fi horror, corporate intrigue, and monsters that don’t care about quarterly reports.
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Weyland-Yutani doesn’t give up easily. After losing their prized Xenomorph specimens at Hadley’s Hope, the Company is determined to bounce back with a new project: the Cold Forge. Aboard remote station RB-232, scientists push the limits of biology in pursuit of the ultimate weapon.
Enter Dorian Sudler, a ruthless corporate auditor whose job is to sniff out weakness and betrayal. But when whispers of a spy surface, Sudler’s mission twists into a deadly game of paranoia. Someone aboard isn’t loyal to the Company—and that’s a capital offense.
Meanwhile, the Xenomorphs themselves are multiplying, their hunger uncontained. If the saboteur strikes, the entire station could go up in flames… or worse, be overrun.
Who will survive when corporate greed collides with perfect predators?
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A familiar face becomes the most frightening thing in the world when something inhuman begins taking over a quiet California town.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Horror · Sci-Fi · Alien Invasion · First Contact
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A familiar face becomes the most frightening thing in the world when something inhuman begins taking over a quiet California town. Dr. Miles Bennell uncovers an alien invasion that spreads through neighbors, friends, and loved ones, turning intimacy into paranoia. Invasion of the Body Snatchers is classic sci-fi horror built on dread, suspicion, and the fear that the people you know are already gone.
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Celebrate one of the earliest science fiction horror novels by rediscovering Jack Finney’s internationally acclaimed Invasion of the Body Snatchers—which Stephen King calls a story “to be read and savored for its own satisfactions,” now repackaged with a foreword by #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz.
On a quiet fall evening in the peaceful town of Mill Valley, California, Dr. Miles Bennell discovers an insidious, horrifying plot. 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.
First published in 1955, this classic alien invasion novel and science fiction thriller about the triumph of the human spirit over an invisible enemy has inspired multiple film adaptations and entertained readers for decades. This repackaged edition features a new cover by Hugo award–winning illustrator, John Picacio and a foreword by New York Times bestselling author, Dean Koontz.
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The Border turns an alien invasion into full-scale apocalypse, then makes it even worse.
The Border
Sci-Fi · Alien Invasion · First Contact
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The Border turns an alien invasion into full-scale apocalypse, then makes it even worse. Earth is caught in the middle of a brutal war between two hostile alien races, while the few human survivors left behind are forced to battle hunger, fear, and creatures twisted into something monstrous. When a mysterious injured boy appears with strange power and a message from his dreams, this sci-fi horror epic leans into destruction, survival, and the fragile possibility of hope in a world already broken.
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The New York Times–bestselling author "pulls out all the stops for this exhilarating alien-invasion epic . . . One of his finest" (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
It happened one day in April. Huge explosions in skies across the world heralded the coming of the Gorgon ships, sparking a worldwide panic. Indestructible, they blasted Earth’s greatest cities into rubble. Then, through portals opening in the air, came the skeletal Cyphers. And Earth became a battlefield in a war between two alien races bent on mutual destruction.
In Colorado, just over a hundred survivors have found sanctuary in the ruins of an apartment complex—and it’s not just the Gorgons and Cyphers who threaten them. They are regularly besieged by the Gray Men, humans mutated by something in the atmosphere into monstrosities straight out of nightmares.
With their ammunition and supplies dwindling, the remaining humans face a bleak future. Then one day, a teenage boy appears, seemingly human, seemingly the victim of catastrophic injuries. He can’t remember where he came from, but he senses a power within himself—one that causes an earthquake to repel a horde of Gray Men. A voice speaks to the boy in his sleep, telling him to find “the white mansion.” Now, the one thing the survivors need most of all is blossoming within them: hope. But only if they choose to trust in a boy who has no memory and only three words from a dream to guide him . . .
"A prime example of a master storyteller/writer returning to the type of novel that made him a master and an excellent addition to the alien invasion flavor of the Apocalyptic Novel canon." —SF Signal
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