Ten Favorite Novels About Aliens

(alphabetically by author)

 

Largely from the Alien POV

  • Under the Skin by Michel Faber

  • Golden Dream: A Fuzzy Odyssey by Ardath Mayhar *

  • To Marry Medusa by Theodore Sturgeon (sometimes titled The Cosmic Rape)

  • The Man Who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis

Largely from the Human POV

  • Sarah Canary by Karen Joy Fowler

  • Little Fuzzy by H. Beam Piper

  • Tuf Voyaging by George R. R. Martin

  • The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell

From a Mixed Human and Alien POV

  • Lilith’s Brood by Octavia Butler

  • The Universe in Miniature in Miniature by Patrick Somerville

* I had one of the strangest book experiences of my life with my copy of this novel—not a reading experience; a book experience. Ask me sometime.

— June 2, 2021


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