Any good alien invasion novels?

[SeldomSeen]

Stephen King's Dreamcatcher? The alien invaders are a kind of virus that takes over and controls humans' minds & bodies. Does that count as "humanoid?

[Damuri Ajashi]

Originally Posted by Little Nemo

Another alien invasion classic is Footfall by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. It's a single novel so you can go through it in a lot less time than Turtledove's series.

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[Zsofia]

Originally Posted by SeldomSeen

Stephen King's Dreamcatcher? The alien invaders are a kind of virus that takes over and controls humans' minds & bodies. Does that count as "humanoid?

More importantly, it doesn't count as "good".

[A Sniveling Mess]

Originally Posted by SeldomSeen

Stephen King's Dreamcatcher? The alien invaders are a kind of virus that takes over and controls humans' minds & bodies. Does that count as "humanoid?

No,I don't think it does,but I now realize that that was an unreasonable restriction that I added.I should probably check that one out too.Thanks for the suggestion.

[BrainGlutton]

Originally Posted by JRyan35

Even the title sounds frightening.Seriously,that book seems fairly popular.Did you think it was pretty good?

Never read the book, only know the story from three film adaptations. (And from excerpts from the book, which Stephen King quoted in Danse Macabre.)

[BrainGlutton]

Originally Posted by Valgard

Sure they are, aside from the wrong number of eye - torso, head, two arms, two legs.

Look, if not even Kirk would hit it, it ain't humanoid!

(Aaaah, what'm I talkin' about, he'd do a horta . . .)

[runner pat]

Originally Posted by BrainGlutton

Look, if not even Kirk would hit it, it ain't humanoid!

(Aaaah, what'm I talkin' about, he'd do a horta . . .)

Of course he would, hortas are hot!

[tullsterx]

Originally Posted by Little Nemo

Another alien invasion classic is Footfall by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. It's a single novel so you can go through it in a lot less time than Turtledove's series.

Yeah, but, not a humanoid race. But, yeah, that's the first one that came to my mind before the OP specified "human (oid?)"

[d-d-d]

Hi, i agree with Footfall, loved that one, especially with the 'orion' being feasible.

Best one i have read yet though is Greg Bears 'The Forge Of God'

[Polycarp]

Originally Posted by DrFidelius

It suffered badly from Turtledove Bloat. I finished the series but none of the follow-ups because, hey, Nazis versus Space Lizards!

I always approach a new Turtledove opus gingerly!

[montag01]

Perhaps this isn't kosher (and if it isn't, the mods should delete my post), but I published an alien invasion novel (hopefully a very unusual alien invasion novel) in October. It's called The Survivors. Here's the Publisher's Weekly review, if interested. The novel starts off as sort of a satire of the genre and gets a lot darker as the story progresses.