Books about aliens
Books about meeting life from other worlds, whether first contact, war or uneasy coexistence. Ender's Game prepares humanity for another alien invasion, Ted Chiang's Stories of Your Life and Others includes the story behind the film Arrival, and Becky Chambers's The Galaxy, and the Ground Within brings travellers of different species together at a rest stop. Arkady Martine's A Desolation Called Peace tries to talk to the unknowable.
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- 1Ender's Game
8.88.8 / 10 - 2Skyward
8.78.7 / 10 - 3Dungeon Crawler Carl
8.78.7 / 10 - 4Leviathan Wakes
8.68.6 / 10 - 5The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
8.68.6 / 10 - 6Children of Time
8.58.5 / 10 - 7Stories of Your Life and Others
8.48.4 / 10 - 8Ender's Shadow
8.48.4 / 10 - 9A Desolation Called Peace
8.48.4 / 10 - 10We Are Legion (We Are Bob)
8.48.4 / 10 - 11Anathem
8.48.4 / 10 - 12Gemina
8.38.3 / 10 - 13Old Man's War
8.38.3 / 10 - 14Saga
8.38.3 / 10 - 15Rendezvous with Rama
8.38.3 / 10 - 16Pandora's Star
8.28.2 / 10 - 17The Forever War
8.28.2 / 10 - 18One Fell Sweep
8.28.2 / 10 - 19The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
8.28.2 / 10 - 202001: A Space Odyssey
8.28.2 / 10 - 21Slaughterhouse-Five
8.28.2 / 10 - 22Contact
8.28.2 / 10 - 23Ancillary Mercy
8.28.2 / 10 - 24The Sword of the Lictor
8.18.1 / 10 - 25The Gods Themselves
8.18.1 / 10 - 26Spin
8.18.1 / 10 - 27Heir to the Empire
8.18.1 / 10 - 28The Dreaming Void
8.08.0 / 10 - 29Rocannon's World
7.47.4 / 10 - 30Consider Phlebas
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