Novels about extraterrestrial life

1897 serialized novel by H. G. Wells

1961 novel by Stanisław Lem

1979–1992 series of five books by Douglas Adams

1979 novel by Douglas Adams

1985 novel by Orson Scott Card

1959 military science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein

1950 novel by Ray Bradbury

1968 novel by Arthur C. Clarke

1973 novel by Arthur C. Clarke

2008 novel by Stephenie Meyer

novel by H. G. Wells

1953 novel by Arthur C. Clarke

2001 novel by Stephen King

1972 children's novel written by Roald Dahl

Animorphs is a science fantasy series of youth books written by Katherine Applegate and her husband Michael Grant, writing together under the name K. A. Applegate, and published by Scholastic. It is told in first person, with all six main characters taking turns narrating the books through their own perspectives. The core themes of the series are horror, war, imperialism, dehumanization, sanity, morality, innocence, leadership, freedom, family, and growing up.

1969 novel by Michael Crichton

1956 novel by Arthur C. Clarke

1989 novel by Isaac Asimov

1999 novel by Vernor Vinge

1977 novel by Frederik Pohl

novel by Stanisław Lem

1957 novel by Ivan Yefremov

1930 Olaf Stapledon science fiction novel

1955 novel by Jack Finney

1987 novel by Michael Crichton

hard science fiction novel by Peter Watts

1982 novel by L. Ron Hubbard

1932 novel by Lao She

1986 novel by Stanisław Lem

novel series by Doris Lessing

Anathem is a science fiction novel by American writer Neal Stephenson, published in 2008. Major themes include the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics and the philosophical debate between Platonic realism and nominalism.

science fiction novel by James S. A. Corey

2013 novel by Rick Yancey

Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta (often shortened to Shikasta) is a 1979 science fiction novel by Doris Lessing, and is the first book in her five-book Canopus in Argos series. It was first published in the United States in December 1980 by Alfred A. Knopf, and in the United Kingdom in November 1979 by Jonathan Cape. Shikasta is also the name of the fictional planet featured in the novel.

science fiction novel by James S. A. Corey

1937 novel by Olaf Stapledon

1950 novel by A. E. van Vogt

novel by Clifford D. Simak

1981 novel by C. J. Cherryh

novel by Robert A. Heinlein

1964 novel by Philip K. Dick

1980 novel by Robert L. Forward

Schismatrix () is a science fiction novel by Bruce Sterling, originally published in 1985. The story is Sterling's only novel-length treatment of the Shaper/Mechanist universe. Five short stories preceded the novel and are published together with it in a 1996 edition entitled Schismatrix Plus. Schismatrix was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1985, and the British Science Fiction Award in 1986.

1965 novel by Clifford D. Simak

thumb|right|China Miéville on Bookbits radio talks about Embassytown. Embassytown is a science fiction novel by British author China Miéville. It was published in the UK by Pan Macmillan on 6 May 2011, and in the US by Del Rey Books on 17 May 2011. A limited edition was released by Subterranean Press. The novel's plot involves the town of Embassytown, the native alien residents known as Ariekei, their Language, and humans' interaction with them. The novel was well reviewed and won the 2012 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.

1965 novel by Nikolay Nosov

1979 science fiction novel by John Varley

Book series by Jack Vance

Footfall is a 1985 science fiction novel by American writers Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. The book depicts the arrival of members of an alien species called the Fithp that have traveled to the Solar System from Alpha Centauri in a large spacecraft driven by a Bussard ramjet. Their intent is conquest of the planet Earth.

1961 novel by Philip José Farmer

1897 novel by Kurd Lasswitz

1994 alternate history novel by Harry Turtledove

1962 novel by H. Beam Piper

1963 novel by Walter Tevis

2014 science fiction novel by Becky Chambers

2003 novel by Richard K. Morgan

book by George R.R. Martin

science fiction trilogy by Soviet author Sergey Snegov

book by Arthur C. Clarke

2004 novel by Joe Haldeman