# Any good alien invasion novels?

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**Created:** [May 12, 2012, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-alien-invasion-novels/621724 "2012-05-12T20:10:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![montag01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/51bf81/32.png) [@montag01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/montag01)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2012, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-alien-invasion-novels/621724/61 "2012-12-28T14:47:08Z")

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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](http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-59021-299-8), if interested. The novel starts off as sort of a satire of the genre and gets a lot darker as the story progresses.

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**Author:** ![psikeyhackr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/97f17d/32.png) [@psikeyhackr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psikeyhackr)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2013, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-alien-invasion-novels/621724/62 "2013-11-01T22:04:25Z")

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> [@Ashley\_Pomeroy](#):
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> If you’ve got several days free, I can heartily recommend Harry Turtledove’s _[Worldwar](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worldwar)_ series, which mashes together an alien invasion, alternative history, and World War II without being a complete train wreck.

Just finishing this, it’s great.

psik

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**Author:** ![Damfino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Damfino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damfino)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2013, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-alien-invasion-novels/621724/63 "2013-11-02T00:55:59Z")

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> [@Polycarp](#):
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> I always approach a new Turtledove _opus_ gingerly! 😉

Saw what you did there! 🙂

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