Aliens Genre Books Summary at Celsius 233

Speaker for the Dead – Orson Scott Card (1986)

Ender Wiggin arrives on Lusitania, where humans, pequeninos, and one woman’s buried grief collide. Truth, love, and redemption reshape a world teetering on the edge of trust.

Orson Scott Card

Ender's Saga The Enderverse

Fantasy Science Fiction Young Adult

Xenocide – Orson Scott Card (1991)

Ender, Jane, and the godspoken of Path face a race against time as survival, sacrifice, and the fate of worlds collide in a gripping battle of minds, love, and moral choice.

Orson Scott Card

Ender's Saga The Enderverse

Fantasy Science Fiction Young Adult

Children of the Mind – Orson Scott Card (1996)

Ender, Peter, and Jane race to save worlds from destruction, facing love, identity, and sacrifice in a sweeping journey where humanity’s fate hangs on fragile alliances.

HG Wells

Adventure Science Fiction

The War of the Worlds – HG Wells (1898)

The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells depicts humanity’s struggle for survival as Martians invade Earth, exploring themes of technology, colonialism, and human fragility.

Stephen King

Fantasy Science Fiction Supernatural

Dreamcatcher – Stephen King (2001)

Dreamcatcher by Stephen King blends horror and sci-fi as four childhood friends face an alien invasion, relying on their telepathic bond and shared past to survive.

Orson Scott Card

The Enderverse The Shadow Series

Fantasy Science Fiction Young Adult

Shadows in Flight – Orson Scott Card (2011)

Bean and his brilliant, doomed children race through space, confronting their own fate and the haunting legacy of the Formics in a gripping clash of survival, love, and discovery.

Stephen King

Fantasy Science Fiction Supernatural

The Tommyknockers – Stephen King (1987)

The Tommyknockers by Stephen King blends horror and sci-fi as a buried alien spacecraft influences a small town, granting knowledge at a terrible cost.

Brandon Sanderson

Skyward

Fantasy Science Fiction Young Adult

Skyward – Brandon Sanderson (2018)

Amidst a forgotten prison-world and rising alien threats, a defiant girl with sky-bound dreams dares to uncover buried truths and change humanity’s fate forever.

Brandon Sanderson

Skyward

Fantasy Science Fiction Young Adult

Starsight – Brandon Sanderson (2019)

Spensa infiltrates an alien empire, uncovers cosmic threats, and risks everything to protect her world - a gripping leap into loyalty, identity, and the void beyond stars.

Brandon Sanderson

Skyward

Fantasy Science Fiction Young Adult

Sunreach – Brandon Sanderson (2021)

As FM confronts cosmic threats and personal loss, mysterious alien slugs may hold the key to humanity's survival - if she can unlock their secrets in time.