They’ve arrived, and they usually aren’t here to make friends.
The Accidental Spaceship - Gene Hunt
Ender’s Game - Orson Scott Card*
Felix Yz - Lisa Bunker
Future Eden - Colin Thompson
The Iron Giant - Ted Hughes
My Teacher is an Alien - Bruce Coville
Only You Can Save Mankind - Terry Pratchett
Space Race - Sylvia Waugh
Sputnik’s Guide to Life on Earth - Frank Cottrell Boyce
The White Mountains - John Christopher
The True Meaning of Smekday - Adam Rex
Which version of you is the best?
The Clone Codes - Patricia McKissack
Double Identity - Margaret Peterson Haddix
The Fourteenth Goldfish - Jennifer L. Holm
House of the Scorpion - Nancy Farmer
Popular Clone - M.E. Castle
A disturbing future gone wrong.
Among the Hidden [#1 of series] - Margaret Peterson Haddix
Children of Exile - Margaret Peterson Haddix
The City of Ember - Jeanne DuPrau
The Clone Codes - Patricia McKissack
Dark Life - Kat Falls
Fever Crumb - Philip Reeve
Freakling [series] - Lana Krumwiede
The Giver - Lois Lowry
House of the Scorpion - Nancy Farmer*
The Hunger Games [series] - Suzanne Collins*
Masterminds [series] - Gordon Korman
The Maze Runner [series] - James Dashner*
Memento Nora - Angie Smibert*
Raider’s Ransom - Emily Diamond
The Roar - Emma Clayton
Shade’s Children - Garth Nix
Sky Jumpers - Peggy Eddleman
What Happened to Serenity? - PJ Sarah Collins
A problem created by unethical science.
The Astounding Broccoli Boy - Frank Cottrell Boyce
Cryptid Hunters [series] - Roland Smith
Dark Life [series] - Kat Falls
Edge of Extinction [series] - Laura Martin
Felix Yz - Lisa Bunker
Fuzzy Mud - Louis Sachar
Horizon - Scott Westerfeld
Jake and the Giant Hand - Philippa Dowding
Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton*
Killer Species: Menace from the Deep - Michael P. Spradlin
Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment [#1 series] - James Patterson
Me and Marvin Gardens - A.S. King
The Neptune Project - Polly Holyoke
Science Fair - Dave Barry
Virals - Kathy Reichs*
Watchdog - Will McIntosh
Adventures on other planets!
Chronicle of the Dark Star #1: Last Day on Mars - Kevin Emerson
Cosmic - Frank Cottrell Boyce
George’s Secret Key to the Universe - Lucy & Stephen Hawking
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams*
The Lost Planet - Rachel Searles
MINRS - Kevin Sylvester
The Softwire: Virus on Orbis 1 - P.J. Haarsma
Space Case - Stuart Gibbs
A Wrinkle in Time [series] - Madeleine L’Engle
Stowaway - John David Anderson
Homebound - John David Anderson
The aftermath of an apocalyptic event that affected a large portion of humanity.
The City of Ember - Jeanne DuPrau
The Girl Who Owned a City - O.T. Nelson*
The Only Ones - Aaron Starmer
The Pack - Tom Pow
Parched - Melanie Crowder
Raider’s Ransom - Emily Diamond
It looks like a human, but is it one?
The Clone Codes - Patricia McKissack
The Iron Giant - Ted Hughes
Robots Rule! - C.J. Richards
Under Their Skin - Margaret Peterson Haddix
Watchdog - Will McIntosh
Blends alternative history with wacky technology, and sometimes otherworldly forces.
Airman - Eoin Colfer
The Clockwork Three - Matthew J. Kirby
The Hunchback Assignments - Arthur Slade
The Inventors at No. 8 - A.M. Morgen
Leviathan [#1 of series] - Scott Westerfeld
The Mortal Engines - Philip Reeve
Only they can save mankind.
Against the Odds - Amy Ignatow
The Hypnotists - Gordon Korman
Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment [#1 of series] - James Patterson
Michael Vey: The Prisoner of Cell 25 [#1 of series] - Richard Paul Evans
Powerless [series] - Matthew Cody
School for Sidekicks - Kelly McCullough
Sidekicked + Minions - John David Anderson
Urban Outlaws - Peter Jay Black
The Vindico [series] - Wesley King
In short: don’t do it.
Baseball Card Adventures [series] - Dan Gutman
The Dead Gentleman - Matthew Cody
Flashback Four [series] - Dan Gutman
The Fourteenth Goldfish - Jennifer L. Holm
Frozen in Time - Ali Sparkes
Haunters - Thomas Taylor
The Hour of the Cobra - Maiya Williams
TUT: The Story of My Immortal Life - P.J. Hoover
A Whole Nother Story - Dr. Cuthbert Soup
In science fiction, games play YOU!
Epic - Conor Kostick
Game-Changer - Margaret Peterson Haddix
Game Over, Pete Watson - Joe Schreiber
Heir Apparent - Vivian Vande Velde
Interworld - Neil Gaiman & Michael Reaves
The Memory Bank - Carolyn Coman & Rob Shepperson
The Seems: The Glitch in Sleep - John Hulme
The Softwire: Virus on Orbis 1 - P.J. Haarsma