https://padlet.com/LJWatts/nxyw75a0slodfvyh Science fiction reading list - Year 8 en-us 2020-05-16 13:43:09 UTC 2023-07-02 17:31:41 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/294643205/11f1834a86d6060185a1a070a64054b7/ljw_copy.jpg LJWatts https://padlet.com/LJWatts/nxyw75a0slodfvyh/wish/576712039 Humans have been enslaved by aliens known as Tripods.]]> 2020-05-16 13:46:19 UTC https://padlet.com/LJWatts/nxyw75a0slodfvyh/wish/576712039 LJWatts https://padlet.com/LJWatts/nxyw75a0slodfvyh/wish/576868110 Although this has a setting of an Earth invaded by the Vuuv it is more a satire for older readers than pure science fiction.
It was Book of the Week 18 March 2018]]> 2020-05-16 16:19:52 UTC https://padlet.com/LJWatts/nxyw75a0slodfvyh/wish/576868110 LJWatts https://padlet.com/LJWatts/nxyw75a0slodfvyh/wish/576874003 Earth has been invaded by one, small alien who needs to get back home.
Book of the Week 30 June 2019]]> 2020-05-16 16:26:07 UTC https://padlet.com/LJWatts/nxyw75a0slodfvyh/wish/576874003 LJWatts https://padlet.com/LJWatts/nxyw75a0slodfvyh/wish/576877435 Alien machines with their lethal heat rays invade the Earth from Mars. This first appeared serialised in magazines in 1897.
An e-audiobook is available from Borrow Box with a Warwickshire library card]]> 2020-05-16 16:29:27 UTC https://padlet.com/LJWatts/nxyw75a0slodfvyh/wish/576877435 LJWatts https://padlet.com/LJWatts/nxyw75a0slodfvyh/wish/576880029 Aliens are poised to invade Earth and young Ender Wiggins must survive military training in order to fight them.]]> 2020-05-16 16:31:49 UTC https://padlet.com/LJWatts/nxyw75a0slodfvyh/wish/576880029 LJWatts https://padlet.com/LJWatts/nxyw75a0slodfvyh/wish/576882315 A probe lands on Earth and the townsfolk of a nearby town are all found dead. Can Earth's scientists deal with the threat?]]> 2020-05-16 16:34:19 UTC https://padlet.com/LJWatts/nxyw75a0slodfvyh/wish/576882315 LJWatts https://padlet.com/LJWatts/nxyw75a0slodfvyh/wish/576887724 A small group of scientists struggle to communicate with a black cloud that arrives from space and blocks the Sun.]]> 2020-05-16 16:39:46 UTC https://padlet.com/LJWatts/nxyw75a0slodfvyh/wish/576887724 LJWatts https://padlet.com/LJWatts/nxyw75a0slodfvyh/wish/576890125 People in London appear to be hypnotised by spaceships that hover above the city and start sleepwalking towards them. Only Sam seems to be immune to their signal.]]> 2020-05-16 16:42:24 UTC https://padlet.com/LJWatts/nxyw75a0slodfvyh/wish/576890125 LJWatts https://padlet.com/LJWatts/nxyw75a0slodfvyh/wish/576965382 Cassie is trying to survive in a world where repeated alien invasions have decimated the population.]]> 2020-05-16 18:00:08 UTC https://padlet.com/LJWatts/nxyw75a0slodfvyh/wish/576965382 LJWatts https://padlet.com/LJWatts/nxyw75a0slodfvyh/wish/576967589 Bill Masden is recovering from an eye operation and misses the meteor shower watched by people worldwide. He is therefore one of those who has the chance of escape when killer plants called Triffids appear shortly afterwards.]]> 2020-05-16 18:02:53 UTC https://padlet.com/LJWatts/nxyw75a0slodfvyh/wish/576967589