“That will do for now,” the alien was saying. But now the words were like ice-cold steel, stabbing into Finn. The alien was turning away, still talking in that idle manner, as if to himself. Little verminous creatures, to be captured, put to work, tormented, experimented on and casually killed, without a second thought. So, Finn realized, no matter what he said or did, Cacinnix would always see him and other humans as little rats. The reference to the slavers calling humans rats is in the third book: In a thunderous, bellowing cascade, the entire vault collapsed inward, burying Bloodkin and Slavers alike under tons of earth and ruptured metal. The force of the explosion finished the job that time had begun on the weakened metal of the vault. The shock of the explosion hurled Finn backwards, deeper into the tunnel, and flung the Bloodkin and Slavers in tangled heaps across the floor of the vault.Īnd then they vanished, into crushing blackness. The half-melted case erupted in a volcanic blast of light and fire. But there was no doubt his wish – that they held some kind of weapon – was answered. What, he wondered idly, had ‘Thermal Grenade Launcher’ meant to the men of the distant past?įinn was never to know precisely what had been stored in the vault, in those cases marked USAF.
Long, heavy, cylindrical objects of dark metal, with other odd words printed on them. Nor did the contents of one of the cases, whose lid he found loosened by corrosion. It was not a word that held meaning for Finn. The cases themselves were mysteries, even when a stray moonbeam slanted in from the tunnel mouth and spotlighted a printed word, faintly visible on the outside of one case – USAF. Silently he moved round the vault, peering at the cases, squeezing behind them to examine the metal walls, by touch more than sight. Usin’ their machines, or their slaves, or both.”ĭestroying the base with a USAF missile happens at the end of the first book: That’s what the Slavers do, a lotta the time – dig. “There’s lots of that stuff around,” Baer went on, “only the wilds’ve covered it, an’ you gotta dig some to get at it.
Not natural ores, but metal that had been worked, or created, by the ancient humans who had built that glittering and unnatural civilization, and then had destroyed it. It seemed that most of the smaller Slaver bases were built on or near some source of special metals, left from the Forgotten Time. “They’re dead set on metals,” Baer told him. He was far more interested in something Baer had found out – what it was that had brought the Slavers to Earth. But to Finn, who knew nothing of space travel or other planets, it was a meaningless question. One things he failed to learn was the origin of the Slavers – what other world they came from. In the first book we are told the Slavers have come to Earth to mine it: I only have books one and three of the series, but I've been able to find matches for several of your points.
#Books about alien invasion series#
Wells along with text from The Taking of Ireland (retold tales from The Book of Invasions).This is definitely the Huntsman series by Douglas Hill. These new authors appear alongside the following classic and essential writers: George Tomkyns Chesney, George Allan England, Austin Hall, H.P. Did aliens build the ancient pyramids? do they live amongst us today? what happens when they invade? And are they just the people from the next valley? or country? or planet? Would it be an inevitable act of aggression, one of assistance and care, or simply a reminder of our paltry existence in a crowded universe? Flame Tree’s successful Gothic Fantasy series brings a brilliant new mix of classic and new writing, in this beautiful edition. Wells’ War of Worlds spawned a huge wave of speculative fiction but the roots of such fears run deep in our literature, where the mysteries of other cultures have long threatened the familiar and the comfortable. Visitors from other planets have long obsessed us.
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