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• The Three-body Problem

  Liu, Cixin,

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  After a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens, different camps start forming to either welcome the superior beings and help them take over a corrupt world, or to fight against the invasion.

• Lagoon

  Okorafor, Nnedi

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  After word gets out on the Internet that aliens have landed in the waters outside of the world's fifth most populous city, chaos ensues. Now it's up to a biologist, a rapper, and a soldier to handle first contact with an alien ambassador.

• On Earth as It Is on Television

  a Novel

  Jane, Emily,

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  When spaceships arrive and then depart suddenly without a word, the certainty that we are not alone in the universe turns to intense uncertainty as to our place within it.

• Axiom's End

  a Novel

  Ellis, Lindsay, 1984-

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  Cora Sabino becomes an interpreter for an alien being when her estranged whistleblower father launches a media frenzy about a first-contact cover-up.

• Space Opera

  Valente, Catherynne M., 1979-

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  When aliens make first contact, a band of human musicians, dancers, and roadies are chosen to represent Earth on the greatest stage in the galaxy. And the fate of their species lies in their ability to rock.

• Dawn

  a Lilith's Brood Novel

  Butler, Octavia E.,

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  Aliens have saved humanity from extinction, and the now-infertile human race fights to maintain its identity when they offer to trade genetic material and bioengineering for a price: metamorphosing a new kind of being.

• The Lesson

  a Novel

  Turnbull, Cadwell, 1987-

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  The people of the U.S. Virgin Islands tensely coexist with an alien species on an undisclosed research mission on Earth, until the death of a boy plunges three families into a conflict that will touch everyone and teach a terrible lesson.

• Key Lime Sky

  Hess, Al,

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  An alien invasion hits the town of Muddy Gap, but a disgruntled pie aficionado is the only one who seems to remember it… Is xir reputation as the town eccentric impeding xir quest for answers?

• The Seep

  Porter, Chana, 1984-

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  Living in a utopian world shaped by alien invaders who make any dream possible, a 50-year-old trans woman is devastated by the end of her marriage before an unexpected quest pits her against the aliens' most avid supporters.

• Intergalactic Exterminators, Inc.

  Bishop, Ash,

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  When Russ Wesley finds an unusual artifact, the last thing he expects is for it to draw the attention of an alien from a distant planet. Equally surprising is the team of intergalactic exterminators dispatched to deal with the threat!

• UFO Mushroom Invasion

  Shirakawa, Marina,

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  Wary of the hyper-intelligent beings they find inside a crashed flying saucer, the government covers the story up. But it’s not the strange visitors they should be afraid of—the real danger is the parasitic spores smuggled aboard!

• Saturn Run

  Sandford, John, 1944 February 23-

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  When a Caltech intern notices what seems to be a spaceship decelerating towards Saturn, a new space race begins as governments hurry to get their hands on the technology.

• Exordia

  Dickinson, Seth,

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  A disaffected office worker has an unearthly close encounter and joins a team of civilians, soldiers and scientists to investigate a mysterious other-worldly broadcast.

• A Half-built Garden

  Emrys, Ruthanna,

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  On a warm March night in 2083, Judy Wallach-Stevens stumbles upon the first alien visitors to Earth, who have crossed the galaxy to save humanity, convinced that the people of Earth must leave their ecologically-ravaged planet behind.

• Rosewater

  Thompson, Tade,

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  In 2012, an alien appears and substantially alters the world's geopolitical landscape. In the 2050s, it creates an impenetrable dome in Rosewater, Nigeria, and agent Kaaro must use his psychic powers to investigate the deaths linked to it.

• Blindsight

  Watts, Peter, 1958-

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  Two months after the Earth is taken over by an alien species, a space probe detects a faint signal from the edge of the solar system and attempts to make contact, despite the dangers the signal hints at.