Top 10 strangest alien invasion novels
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Say the words “alien invasion” and the stories most people think of are those told in movies like Roland Emmerich’s Independence Day (1996), in which the battle lines between good and evil mehr anzeigen are cleanly divided. HG Wells dreamed up this template in 1897, with Martian invaders laying waste the home counties in The War of the Worlds. Half a century later, John Wyndham’s The Kraken Wakes (1953) envisaged the melting of the ice caps not as the by-product of human negligence but as the result of a hostile intervention by alien forces.
In writing my novel Conquest, I was determined to subvert these violent stereotypes. What I find most compelling about earlier alien invasion narratives is the way they highlight how vulnerable we are, not to aliens so much as our own irrational behaviour in the face of the unknown. I wanted to reveal the theme of alien invasion as infinitely flexible, adapting itself to subtle, ambiguous stories in which the divide between human and alien is not always clear cut. [...] it is this irreconcilable contradiction between delusion and epiphany I find most fascinating in other alien invasion stories. Here are 10 of my favourites:
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In writing my novel Conquest, I was determined to subvert these violent stereotypes. What I find most compelling about earlier alien invasion narratives is the way they highlight how vulnerable we are, not to aliens so much as our own irrational behaviour in the face of the unknown. I wanted to reveal the theme of alien invasion as infinitely flexible, adapting itself to subtle, ambiguous stories in which the divide between human and alien is not always clear cut. [...] it is this irreconcilable contradiction between delusion and epiphany I find most fascinating in other alien invasion stories. Here are 10 of my favourites:
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Werk | Sortierreihenfolge |
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Auslöschung (2014) von Jeff VanderMeer | 1 |
How High We Go in the Dark (2022) von Sequoia Nagamatsu | 2 |
The Book of Strange New Things (2014) von Michel Faber | 3 |
Agents of Dreamland (2017) von Caitlín R. Kiernan | 4 |
Picknick am Wegesrand (1972) von Arkady Strugatsky | 5 |
XX: A Novel, Graphic (2020) von Rian Hughes | 6 |
The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again (2020) von M. John Harrison | 7 |
The Employees (2018) von Olga Ravn | 8 |
Lagune (2014) von Nnedi Okorafor | 9 |
Geschichte deines Lebens (Novelle) (1998) von Ted Chiang | 10 |
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