Independence Day Reading List
Oh, you thought we meant the Fourth of July? Gotcha! We weren’t inspired by the holiday, we were inspired by the movie. Given the state of things, this seemed somehow more appropriate. Enjoy our favorite first-contact alien reads!
Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End
Carl Sagan, Contact: A Novel
Cixin Liu, The Three-Body Problem
H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds
H. P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madnesss
Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation
John W. Campbell, Jr., The Mightiest Machine
Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle, The Mote in God’s Eye
M. John Harrison, Light
Mary Doria Russell, The Sparrow
Michael Flynn, Eifelheim
Octavia E. Butler, Lilith’s Brood: The Xenogenesis Trilogy
Peter Watts, Blindsight
Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles
Stanislaw Lem, His Master’s Voice
Tade Thompson, Rosewater
Ted Chiang, Story of Your Life
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
Did we leave your favorite off of the list? Let us know in the comments!