Books like The War of the Worlds
A cylinder falls from the sky onto Horsell Common in Surrey, and the narrator, a writer living nearby, joins the crowd that gathers round it as its top begins to unscrew.
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The Day of the Triffids
Bill Masen wakes in a London hospital with his eyes bandaged to find that almost everyone who watched the previous night's green meteor shower has gone blind, and that the triffids, tall walking plants with poisonous stings, are loose.
The Island of Doctor Moreau
Edward Prendick, shipwrecked and then cast adrift, is put ashore on a remote Pacific island where the exiled vivisectionist Doctor Moreau carries out his experiments on animals.
The 5th Wave
After four waves of alien attack have killed most of humanity, sixteen-year-old Cassie Sullivan, alone in the woods with a rifle and trusting no one, sets out to keep her promise to find her little brother.
The Time Machine
A late-Victorian inventor travels eight hundred thousand years into a future where humanity has split into two species, and then continues to the cold red beach at the end of the world.
Rosewater
In 2066 Rosewater is a town in Nigeria built around an alien dome that opens once a year and heals whoever is nearby, and Kaaro, a government agent who can read minds, starts to notice that people like him are dying.
Project Hail Mary
An astronaut wakes up alone on a spaceship with no memory of his mission, and must solve an interstellar puzzle with the help of an unlikely alien friend.
Roadside Picnic
Years after unseen visitors stopped briefly on Earth and left behind six Zones full of lethal anomalies and priceless artefacts, Red Schuhart makes his living as a stalker, slipping into the Zone outside his town to bring out what he can sell.
The Prestige
In the 1890s two London stage magicians, Alfred Borden and Rupert Angier, fall into a lifelong feud over a trick each believes the other has stolen, and a century later their descendants meet to read what they left behind.
Sleeping Giants
A girl riding her bike in South Dakota falls through the ground into a giant metal hand, and years later, as a physicist, Rose Franklin leads a secret project to find the rest of the body, told through interviews by an unnamed man.
The Boy on the Bridge
Twelve scientists and soldiers cross Britain in an armoured lab called the Rosalind Franklin, looking for a cure for the hungry plague, and Stephen Greaves, a gifted teenage boy among them, finds something new.
The Mote in God's Eye
In 3017, a thousand years after humanity spread to the stars, a probe arrives from the Mote, a star nobody has ever visited, and the Second Empire of Man sends the battlecruiser MacArthur to meet whoever sent it.
The Mountain in the Sea
Ha Nguyen, a marine biologist, is brought by a technology corporation to the Con Dao archipelago off Vietnam, now sealed off from the world, to study a species of octopus that may have developed its own language and culture.