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1. When the Catteni invade Earth, they act like futuristic Vikings, looting and pillaging their way around the world, and helping themselves to anything and everything (including people!) that catches their beady yellow eyes. Kris Bjornsen becomes a resistance fighter who eventually helps lead humanity out of slavery to the Catteni and back to being a free race.
In which of Anne McCaffrey's short stories did we first meet Kris, later the subject of a four-book series?
2. The alien Masters live in domed cities, and only emerge inside their Tripod travelling machines. They control humanity by means of the Cap, which is melded to the scalp and into the brain on or near someone's fourteenth birthday. Eventually they are overcome by a band of determined freedom fighters, and people can go back to running their own affairs. What substance does the resistance introduce to the domed cities' water supplies, in order to incapacitate the aliens?
3. The Kurians triggered various natural disasters to gain control of the Earth. They use the vile Reapers to drain the souls from humans, in order to feed on them. The resistance fighters are aided by the alien Lifeweavers, who are too weak to stop the Kurians alone, but can genetically alter humans to help them in their fight against the invaders. Which series of novels by E.E. Knight is set against this background, and details the fight to save Earth and humanity from the Kurians?
4. Which book, made into a film often referred to as "one of the worst films of all time", features an alien race trying to repossess the Earth, when the Psychlo invaders are overthrown and default on the 'mortgage' they took out on the planet?
5. After a series of plagues kills more than half the human population, various alien plants and animals start to appear. They are extrememly successful at ousting the Earth creatures whose ecological niches they then fill, and it seems as if all indigenous life on Earth will become extinct, overrun by the invaders. The "Uncle Ira Group" must try and find a way to stop this process before the ecosystem is irreparably damaged. Which of these series am I describing?
6. Flying saucers bring sluglike alien invaders from Titan; they possess humans by attaching themselves to the host's flesh, and taking control of their brain. These "hagridden" victims are used as arms and legs by the aliens, often until they starve or succumb to disease. Secret Agent Elihu Nivens, known as Sam, eventually commands the ship which sets off to destroy the slugs on Titan and free humanity from further threat. Which book am I describing?
7. Seven books, loosely divided into two connected series, end with The Race of reptilian alien invaders nuking Indianapolis in revenge for an attack on their Earth colonisation fleet. The President of the United States allowed the loss of Indianapolis rather than give up the Space Program; the US has almost completed an interstellar ship which will carry the fight to the aliens' homeworld and finally free Earth from their predations. Which author, famed for his alternate histories, wrote the books?
8. When the University of Central Florida's science lab explodes, taking a square mile of campus with it, the physics department gets the blame. It turns out that it was actually a Gate opening to another world, heralding the arrival of several races of aliens, bent on taking over the Earth. Eventually the Adar prove friendly and supply humanity with weapons that can close the Gates and stop the incursions by the unfriendly races. Three of the four books in this series take their titles from the lines of a famous poem; which one?
9. During an interplanetary war, James Mowry is disguised as a Sirian using plastic surgery, and sent to infiltrate their homeworld and begin a campaign of sabotage before a human attack force arrives. He singlehandedly becomes a clandestine organisation named "Dirac Angestun Gesept" and wreaks havoc, before being relocated to another Sirian colony to start all over again. Which novel by Eric Frank Russell is this?
10. This story tells us of strange telepathic alien children born to the women of a sleepy English country village. One man realises that they have evil intentions towards humanity and, working alone, manages to detonate a bomb, killing both himself and the aliens. Which book by John Wyndham is this?
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