The Midwich Cuckoos
by John Wyndham | 
Trouble with Lichen
by John Wyndham | 
Air
by Geoff Ryman | 
The Child Garden
by Geoff Ryman | 
The Black Cloud
by Fred Hoyle | 
God's Fires
by Patricia Anthony | 
Quatermass
by Nigel Kneale | 
Hello America
by J. G. Ballard | 
Survivor
by Octavia E. Butler | 
Invasive Procedures
by Orson Scott Card | 
Them Bones
by Howard Waldrop | 
Collision Course
by Robert Silverberg | 
Raising Caine
by Charles E. Gannon | 
Peace on Earth
by Stanislaw Lem | 
Clay's Ark
by Octavia E. Butler | 
The Outward Urge
by John Wyndham | 
The Chrysalids
by John Wyndham | 
Chocky
by John Wyndham | 
The War of the Worlds
by H. G. Wells | 
The Day of the Triffids
by John Wyndham |
Ships are sinking for no apparent reason, carrying hundreds to a dark underwater grave. Strange fireballs race through the sky above the deepest trenches of the oceans. Something is about to show itself, something terrible and alien, a force capable of causing global catastrophe.