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• The War of the Worlds

  Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946

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  H.G. Wells is responsible for the introduction of many of science fiction’s genre tropes, including stories about alien invasions. The novel tells the story about an alien invasion from Mars in south England. The War of the Worlds was first…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• American Experience. War of the Worlds

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  The War of the Worlds was most memorably dramatized in a 1938 radio program directed by and starring Orson Welles that allegedly caused public panic among listeners who did not know the Martian invasion was fictional. This is the story of that…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The War of the Worlds

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  Released in 1952, H. G. Wells’s end-of-civilization classic receives a chilling Cold War–era update, complete with hallucinatory Technicolor and visionary, Oscar-winning special effects.

• E.T

  the Extra-terrestrial

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  Hopefully, if aliens exist, they'll be shy and friendly like this guy, instead of the probing kind (no thank you).

• Childhood's End

  Clarke, Arthur C. (Arthur Charles), 1917-2008

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  Childhood’s End is the story of the alien invasion of Earth by a species called Overlords. The invasion is peaceful. The society that the Overlords proceed to build on Earth is that of a utopia. But what does that say about human kind?

• Lagoon

  Okorafor, Nnedi

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  A massive object has crash landed in the lagoon off the coast of Lagos, capital of Nigeria and one of Africa’s biggest cities. Lagoon follows a group of individuals who call Lagos home as the city and its inhabitants deal with the changes brought on…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Independence Day

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  The ultimate alien invasion flick. If aliens are real, let us hope they come in peace.

• The Three-body Problem

  Liu, Cixin

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  In The Three-Body Problem, a group of military scientists send signals into space in search of intelligent life. One day, they receive a reply. With China’s Cultural Revolution as the backdrop, the story unfolds to reveal how people deal with the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Star Wars. Episode IV, A New Hope

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  In the Star Wars universe, earth does not exist. So technically even the humans in this series could be considered "alien." Still the Star Wars universe is populated with amazing alien races (non-human races) such as the Clawdite, Arcona, …Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Alien

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  In space no one can hear you scream. You don't want to run into the Xenomorph of the Alien film. One of the deadliest of all known alien species, these creatures require a host organism in order to reproduce.

• Contact

  Sagan, Carl, 1934-1996

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  When a signal reaches Earth from twenty-six light years away, scientist Ellinor “Ellie” Arroway becomes part of a team that deciphers the message. The message turns out to be instructions on how to build a space ship that can travel to the center of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Contact

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  The film adaptation of Carl Sagan's book.

• The Left Hand of Darkness

  Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-2018

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  The Left Hand of Darkness is still a mind-bending literary experience where Le Guin deconstructs gender as a social construct in the creation of the ambisexual alien race that populates the planet of Gethen. This is a really neat imagining of what a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Saga. Volume One

  Vaughan, Brian K.

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  In the comic book series Saga, Alana and Marko, wife and husband, are members of two alien races at war. On the run from the authorities of both warring sides because of the potential disruption caused by their relationship, Alana and Marko raise…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Men in Black

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  Do you think the pentagon and the U.S. government is hiding information about aliens from us? Well, that is kind of the premise of Men in Black, where a police officer joins a secret organization that polices and monitors extraterrestrial…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Stories of Your Life and Others

  Chiang, Ted,

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  The story that has lent its title to this story collection, “Story of Your Life,” is the inspiration for the science fiction movie Arrival (2016). The collection as a whole fits better into a speculative fiction slot than pure science fiction;…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Arrival

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  The film adaptation of the Ted Chiang's short story about a linguist trying to communicate with aliens.

• Lilith's Brood

  Butler, Octavia E.,

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  Previously known as The Xenogenesis Trilogy, Octavia Butler’s Lilith’s Brood consists of the novels Dawn, Adulthood Rites, and Imago. Telling stories of alien abduction, alien invasion, and the creation of a human-alien hybrid species, Lilith’s…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Star Trek, the Next Generation. Season 1

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  While the Earth does exist in the Star Trek universe, the goal of the starship Enterprise (which is populated by both human and non-human beings) is Its continuing mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Agent to the Stars

  Scalzi, John, 1969-

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  Agent to the Stars is a science fiction novel by american writer John Scalzi. It tells the story of Tom Stein, a young Hollywood agent who is hired by an alien race to handle the revelation of their presence to humanity.