Questions tagged [alien-invasion]
An alien invasion refers to the invasion of one planet by another species.
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Book involving Alien Invasion, enslavement of human race
I know the details of the book well enough, but I can't remember the title or series title for the life of me. It is recent (Post 2008 or so). YA sci-fi. Set in the UK at modern times.
Book one, kid ...
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Looking for name of short story - boy who saves the earth from alien invasion
A short story from the 60s or 70s (I think) - a boy who meets invading aliens and saves the earth by telling them about the powers of his idol, a television superhero (he belongs to a fan club). ...
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Short story where Earth submits to alien warriors but a Terran admiral dooms Earth by trying to ambush alien fleet
Plot Summary/Details
The story is at least partially written in a flash-back. The protagonist is a senior military commander in the Terran space fleet (forget the actual name).
An alien race, ...
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1960s (?) novel about alien invasion
It starts with a man, his wife, his son and his son's girlfriend in bunker. The wife and son defect to the aliens, the man ends up with his son's girlfriend, and fights the aliens.
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Alien invasion film with SFX: electricity arcing between model saucer and model Earth
When I was a little kid, I saw part of a science fiction film on TV that I found pretty unsettling. The main scene I recall is a view from space of the Earth, with an alien saucer-shaped spaceship in ...
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Trying to ID a sci fi show from perhaps mid 90s? Martian invasion beat with love?
I remember Martians (looked like humans) with weapons landing is an assault craft of some sort and humans basically welcoming them/hugging kissing them. The main character, a Martian is sad because it ...
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Story in which God is on the side of aliens invading earth
During an alien invasion of earth, the protagonist and his minister friend find God (yes, THE God) in the invaders' camp.
Short story or novella in anthology. Published in early 1960s, read in the ...
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Trying to find short story about somebody who knew everyone on Earth
I am trying to find a short story I read in an early 1980s (or maybe late 1970s) anthology. I probably read all the stories in the book, but only one made a real impression; I think it was the first ...
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Codex of transhuman and post-human species after alien conquerors bio-engineer population centers
Found this website that looked like an archive of someone's work; it was essentially an encyclopedia, organized in chronological order, of transhuman "species" as they developed. It takes a twisted ...
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Identify DC Comic Book With Alien Invasion/Occupation of Earth
I've been trying to identify this for years:
I remember reading a DC comic book at some point in the late '90s where an alien race invades and occupies Earth.
The aliens occupy Earth for several ...
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Trying to recall a book about an alien parasite invasion of a colony world that I read in 1990 - 1991 [duplicate]
There's a trade paperback book that I purchased at my college bookstore back in 1990-1991 that really caught my imagination, but I can't remember the title or author to go find it again.
The story ...
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Aliens change their mind about invading because they read two kids' comic books and thought Earth was protected by superheroes
My mom remembers reading a science fiction short story as a kid... It's about some alien invaders who are gathering reconnaissance and end up reading a couple of kids' comic books (possibly in their ...
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Pre-80s short story, man walking in a deserted town enters a cafe and climbs down a pit with cables and pipes
I read that SF short twenty or thirty years ago.
A man is walking across land scattered with the remnants of human civilisation (broken crockery, etc.) He comes to an apparently deserted town and then ...
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What was the movie name with a parasitic creature? [duplicate]
Creature could be reproduced from a partial tissue
It also attacked a dog to grow (it was either opening or closing of the movie)
It also attacked a homeless person in a tunnel or something Then ...
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Movie with weird Predator-looking creature that gets energy from a cigarette lighter [duplicate]
I watched this film years ago but I've forgot its name.
In human form, creature was getting energy from a truck's cigarette lighter, using its tongue.
Somehow other creatures were entering earth ...
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Alien Invasion Short Story with American Indians
I'm looking to find a story I read years ago in a paperback of alien invasion shorts.
The story takes place in what seems like North America hundreds if not thousands of years before the Europeans ...
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Trying to track down a striking SF short story set in small town 1950s America
I am French, although I now live in California. As with many other things in those days, there was no serious rival to 1940s-70s American SF.
I'm trying to find the reference of a short story I had ...
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Looking for a UK (?) comic series, in which giant humanoid barbarians invade earth (from space)
Really sure it's a UK series, don't know if it was originally published in 2000AD and then published as individual issues later?
It had airbrushed covers with UFOs and such. the Cover art was cool, ...
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Aliens invade Earth but have no end of problems controlling it [duplicate]
Years ago, I read a short story about aliens invading Earth, written from their perspective. All I remember is that the aliens were more militarily evolved, having conquered many worlds, but were not ...
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What was the first science fiction story that showed a successful alien conquest of the Earth?
The other day, I was remembering the time when I read Mick Farren's SF novel Protectorate (1985). One scene that has stuck with me was one that showed us the thought processes of the "Protector," ...
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Old alien invasion story with character called Grimper or Gramper
I'm trying to ID an old science fiction story featuring an (older) resistance fighter whose grandchildren tagged him something like Grimper or Gramper.
He left Kilroy-style graffiti with that name, ...
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Mind Controlling Invasive Alien Plants
A while ago I was reading a short story / novella, possibly part of an anthology. The Premise was:
Human space explorers land on an alien world, and discovers a primitive species that is Stone Age in ...
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Short story about alien invasion with a twist.
I am looking for identification of a short story I read as part of an anthology around twenty years ago, and I think it might have been written by Harry Harrison but I am not certain.
Plot line goes ...
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Short story: aliens with easy FTL travel but flintlock-type weapons
Im looking for a short story appearing in either Asimov's or Analog magazine. A friend used to give me old issues after he read them. The short story I'm looking for was in an issue around 1997 or ...
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identify movie about alien spreading disease
I watched this movie long time ago. This is what I remember:
I watched it around early 2000's
The alien is spreading blood-like mark disease/virus.
The alien ship is crash landing on land
There's a ...
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ID movie where aliens control humans from behind
Aliens were mass controlling every human being by jumping on their back and plugging in to the neck. It looked like this:
I can't remember anything but one scene, in which US soldiers were in a big ...
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Alien gifts of a game to subjugate the human race [duplicate]
I'm making myself crazy trying to remember the name of a short story I read years ago. It was in a short story collection, and may have been by Arthur C. Clark or Robert Heinlein. I think it was in ...
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Story set in Glasgow about a trainee lawyer whose body is taken over by a scout for an alien invasion [duplicate]
I read this novel in the early 1990's. I think it is written in first person diary form, and it's as much a satirical comment on urban life in Scotland as a science fiction story. The protagonist is ...
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Story: Earth has no space travel, but aliens only have gunpowder weapons and blimps? [duplicate]
My wife read a book decades ago where the most feared and vicious alien race in the galaxy is a race that looks kind of like a teddybear. They arrive, and start to descend upon earth to conquer it......
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Nostalgia: City of Light?
I'm hoping to locate a short story in an old SF magazine (late 50s?). Earth has been colonized by extra-dimensional energy creatures with cities build out of pure energy. That energy pours out of ...
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Need help to find a sci-fi collection I read at school (mid 80s)
I am now 46 and so it's been bugging me for over 30 years - time to try and do something about it.
The collection was in my lower school library (UK). It was a thick black hardback book and I believe ...
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Seeking novel about aliens who conquer and occupy Earth and forbid technological progress
I read this novel (or possibly novella) in the early 1980s in the UK. The paperback was tatty so it may have been published well before that. It was written in English, and I have a feeling the writer ...
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Earth occupation/invasion book I read in the 90s
I remember a TON of details, but I can't for the life of me find the title of this book.
The story takes place during Earth's occupation by a race of red-skinned, black-eyed, three-fingered aliens, ...
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Alien invasion movie, giant robot aliens with long legs capturing people
So I saw this movie about 10 years ago, when I was about 5 years old. Since I was really young, my memory of it isn't really that great.
I think it may have been an alien invasion movie, but the ...
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SF Short Story: alien apes invade during nuclear war
Trying to identify a science fiction short story from an anthology likely published before 1991.
Aliens invade during a nuclear war (which would be World War III, WWIII, WW3). The warring nations ...
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Novel in which an alien ship crashes & the teen survivor helps thwart an alien invasion
I'm looking for a teen paperback novel that's at least 20 years old. An alien ship crashes & the only survivor was a teenage boy. I think the captain of the ship was his uncle or father, & had ...
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What is the name of this sci-fi novel with a male soldier and a lesbian lizard sidekick?
I read this book in the early 2000's, but I can't for the life of me remember the title or author and it's driving me crazy!
The story is in the future. Earth and most of the galaxy has been ...
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Reptilian alien invader starts caring for human boy, one of the last humans alive
I need help in recalling a short science fiction novel from the 1970s.
At the end of a heated war between a reptilian alien species and humans almost all humans have been exterminated. Earth has ...
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Giant aliens invade!
This is another old novel, probably from the 1960's or 70's. Earth is at war with a race of giant (really giant, like 50 feet or more) human-like aliens. We retrieve one of them that was injured, ...
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Old sci-fi novel: post alien invasion, girl called Steelfinder, aliens choked in too-dry air
The story is set on earth, post alien invasion war, humans mostly enslaved.
The story centers around a group of humans struggling to avoid capture, having to be careful where they go because there's ...
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Shaggy God story: Male-female pair left on abandoned world, without memory
A Shaggy God short story I probably read in my youth in the 70's, though the publish date could've been much earlier. A civilization completely abandons their planet in advance of some alien invasion,...
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SciFi show with alien invasion in form of big cloud that consumes everything
I looking for a show in which earth is attacked by big cloud-like structure that groves/moves slowly and consumes everything on its path. I watched it about fifteen years ago. In one scene a jet (...
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Star Wars Intergalactic Alien Invasion
I remember hearing somewhere that there was a post-Return of the Jedi invasion of the Star Wars galaxy by interdimensional aliens. The alien race invading was very difficult for Luke to fight because, ...
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Looking for sci-fi book about alien invasion where Earth builds a giant laser to stop an incoming alien fleet
Looking for a science fiction novel I read as a kid where a few hostile alien saucers show up and the US Air Force is trying to bring them down. It's too fast for any missiles/cannons to work, and ...
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Story where humans artificially accelerate the cultural/scientific status of various planets to create allies against an invasion
Can anyone identify this story for me? I read it in my youth and wish to have my son read it.
Ahead of an impending invasion several men are sent to a distant planet in the invader's path, set to ...
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B&W Invasion Film where humans are taken over
Its a 50s B&W film where the aliens come to earth in small meteorites and from memory are like mushrooms/spores and when a human gets close it bursts and takes them over. One scene I remember at ...
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Seeking alien invasion movie
I rented an alien invasion movie in the mid-90s that I recall as being pretty good. I'd like to see it again, but I'm a little short on details. Really, I have only these:
The aliens impersonate ...
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Trying to find a book about aliens taking over earth and making us fight with them
I'm trying to find this book that I never got to finish last year and for the life of me I can't remember the name! It's actually the second book in a series about a time when aliens take over the ...
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movie where aliens invade a farm
direct to video i believe
90s or 2000s
real people, not animation.
most action occurs at night
may not be accurate, but i think the plot revolves around a family that gathers together for thanksgiving....
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Story about alien takeover and the hero finds a way to make electrons flow in wires
Short story about an alien takeover. The hero finds some mental way to make electrons flow in wires, so he has power to defeat their ships.
From a pulp magazine in early fifties.
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