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• "The War of the Worlds" (1898) by H. G. Wells

  5 July by H. G. Wells

  This was, we do believe, the first novel on the theme of conflict with alien civilisations in the history of literature.
  It has remained justly famous for its dramatic story line — the invading Martians have superior tecHnology and are more advanced scientifically than mankind — and its (...)

• "The Time Machine" (1895) by H. G. Wells

  21 June by H. G. Wells

  H. G. Wells (1866-1946) was a prolific author in many diverse domains (novels, short stories, social commentary, history, satire and biography) and a very engaged social commentator and critic. He was nominated four times for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
  But he is best remembered today for (...)

• "Who Goes There?" (1938) - an iconic sci-fi story by John Campbell

  16 January 2020 by John Campbell

  A scientific expedition in Antarctica discovers the remnants of an alien spaceship that had crashed there millions of years ago, and decides – unwisely – to melt the frozen remnants of one of the forms found nearby. When the alien being revives and reveals incredible shape-changing abilities and (...)

• "Exit the Professor" (1947) - a comic masterpiece by Henry Kuttner

  13 May 2018 by Henry Kuttner

  Narrated in the first person in the local dialect by a very uneducated, very unsophisticated and very unusual young man who lives in a remote mountain town in the hills of Kentucky with his equally unusual family, this very funny story relates the adventures of a visiting professor from New (...)

• "Liberation of Earth" (1953) by William Tenn

  1 May 2018 by William Tenn

  First published in the May 1953 issue of Future Science Fiction, this amusing, insightful and thought-provoking satire of human pretentiousness in a galactic environment – the Earth is invaded by warring very-superior, very-different and very-uncaring aliens, with very terrifying results – was (...)