I'm looking for a sci-fi book's title. It was a novel about aliens (Martians I think) who came to Earth not to conquer it militarily, but economically. They sold household appliances at lower prices. It was published after 2010 for sure.
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1If you can visit scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9335/… and edit more details in your question, it would help immensely.– FuzzyBootsCommented Dec 2, 2020 at 16:56
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3Sounds like something Philip Dick would have done: Fnools turn up as tiny real-estate agents and VW repair men in "War with the Fnools"– YorikCommented Dec 2, 2020 at 17:26
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2Possibly the same story asked about in Short story about a Martian invasion that starts with a mysterious set of stores in major cities i.e. The Martian Shop by Howard Fast.– John RennieCommented Dec 2, 2020 at 17:57
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Maybe 2001 novel "First Contract" by Greg Costikyan?– Jim GreenCommented Dec 2, 2020 at 18:25
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1@Yorik - no, it wasn't him. JohnRennie - I wrote it's a novel, not a short story. JimGreen - no, it was published after 2010 for sure.– SprytusCommented Dec 2, 2020 at 20:25
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Ring Around the Sun by Clifford Simak comes close; there's a bunch of 'forever' products coming onto the market, at unbeatable prices, and... it's not Martians, but another kind of alien. Alas, 'published after 2010' doesn't fit; first edition was 1952.
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Another Simak novel, They Walked like Men (1962), also has aliens taking over the world with money: buying homes and evicting residents; buying factories and stores and closing them, etc. Because of course only aliens would do that sort of thing... Commented Dec 3, 2020 at 8:31
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Thank you for help, but I just found it - 'Trzeci najazd Marsjan' by Marek Oramus. You could never guess because... it was not published in English. I did not know that it was a Polish novel (I'm from Poland). Simak's novels seem interesting too.– SprytusCommented Dec 3, 2020 at 13:35
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In English it would be called something like "The Third Martian Raid", right? Commented Dec 3, 2020 at 15:37
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2@Sprytus you can add your own answer to identify the book. That way we have a permanent record of it. Commented Dec 3, 2020 at 17:30
Per the OP's comment on another answer, this is Trzeci najazd Marsjan (2010), a novel written in Polish by Marek Oramus (Polish version).