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Alien life

Encounters with life beyond our own world.

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3,897 books in alien life

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Space opera2012

Annihilation

Star Wars

Drew Karpyshyn

4.5(2)Open Library rating out of 5

Bloom

Kenneth Oppel

4.5(2)Open Library rating out of 5

Captain Marvel

Alis volate propriis

Kelly Sue DeConnick

4.5(2)Open Library rating out of 5

Captain Marvel

Stay fly

Kelly Sue DeConnick

4.5(2)Open Library rating out of 5

Space opera2011

Dragon's Time

Anne McCaffrey; Todd McCaffrey

4.5(2)Open Library rating out of 5

Dread Companion

Andre Norton

4.5(2)Open Library rating out of 5

Space opera2018

Empire of Silence

Christopher Ruocchio

4.5(2)Open Library rating out of 5

Enchantress from the Stars

Sylvia Engdahl

4.5(2)Open Library rating out of 5

Ezra's Duel with Danger

Star Wars: Rebels

Michael Kogge

4.5(2)Open Library rating out of 5

False Gods (The Horus Heresy)

Graham Mcneill

4.5(2)Open Library rating out of 5

Help! I'm Trapped in an Alien's Body

A Close Encounter of the Jake Sherman Kind

Todd Strasser

4.5(2)Open Library rating out of 5

Kaptara

Fear not, tiny alien

Chip Zdarsky

4.5(2)Open Library rating out of 5

Kirinyaga

Mike Resnick

4.5(2)Open Library rating out of 5

Landscape with invisible hand

M. T. Anderson

4.5(2)Open Library rating out of 5

Moon Men

Edgar Rice Burroughs

4.5(2)Open Library rating out of 5

Obsidian

Jennifer L. Armentrout

4.5(2)Open Library rating out of 5

Opal

Jennifer L. Armentrout

4.5(2)Open Library rating out of 5

Orbs

A Science Fiction Thriller

Nicholas Sansbury Smith

4.5(2)Open Library rating out of 5

Space opera2007

Ragamuffin (Sci Fi Essential Books)

Tobias S. Buckell

4.5(2)Open Library rating out of 5

Redemption

Mark Walden

4.5(2)Open Library rating out of 5

Riders of the storm

Julie E. Czerneda

4.5(2)Open Library rating out of 5

Time travel1995

Sherlock Holmes in Orbit

Mike Resnick; Martin H. Greenberg

4.5(2)Open Library rating out of 5

Space opera2001

Star by Star (Star Wars: The New Jedi Order, Book 9)

Troy Denning

4.5(2)Open Library rating out of 5

Space opera2007

Star Flight

Andre Norton

4.5(2)Open Library rating out of 5

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