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For use as the generic term 'alien' which generally refers to a life-form not of Earth, but it can also be used to describe anything, including objects, from another world or system. Use [aliens-1986] for the sequel to the 1979 film Alien; use [alien-franchise] for that entire franchise.
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Short story, aliens have conquered, resistance underground with computers etc, tunnel dug to...
Aliens have conquered Earth and are in (almost) complete control. …
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Short story where unknown aliens fight a proxy war by seeding a world with weapons
Any chance this was "Cordon Sanitaire" by Timothy Zahn which was in the anthology "Alien Stars". I don't remember it well but my notes say "trans-species user programming gauss-pistol" which sounds a …
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Story about a man sent to prison for murdering one of the first aliens on Earth who is then ...
Could this be "Illegal Alien" by Robert J Sawyer? From memory it's a courtroom drama about an alien (first contact with Earth) who is being prosecuted for murder.
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Book about humans as mercenaries for an alien. NOT Nuttall book
Another possibility is "Starstrike" by W Michael Gear. Goodreads
An alien creature picks up a crew of American, Russian, and Israeli soldiers for an attack on a space station. The humans do eventually …
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60s/70s story, dying man repairs alien machine, survives because machine pipes 'life force' ...
A short story, found in a magazine or anthology sometime definitely before mid 1980s, but I think I read it in the 1970s.
The protagonist is dying but manages to repair a machine before he does so, in …
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Short story where a human kills an alien sent to test humanity
This description reminds me a little of "The Replicators" (1965), a short story by A E van Vogt. The protagonist keeps killing the alien, which returns with larger versions of the tools/weapons that w …
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Novel about an alien spacecraft in the asteroid belt which knocks rocks out of the way by hi...
A bizarre novel I read some time in the 1970s.
The only thing I remember is that they find a clear space in the asteroid belt (this is one of those books back when many people though the asteroid belt …
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