This is a new feature I developed where each month we will look at our favorite – the best – series in a genre or topic.
The topic here, by my definition, is a series with characters who are Aliens. These are the ones which came to mind. I enjoyed some more than others. They seem to fall mostly into the romance or scifi genres.
Since I haven’t read everything, it’s a subset of the possibilities. I’m sure I am forgetting some great authors. There are also plenty of authors I have yet to read. Please share your favorites with me in the comments, also.
My favorite Aliens series are (in no particular order):
Midnight Breed Lost Fleet Universe Midsolar Murders
by Lara Adrian by Jack Campbell by Mur Lafferty
Ice Planet Barbarians Alien Castaways, Alien Mate Hell Squad, Galactic Gladiators
by Ruby Dixon by Cara Bristol by Anna Hackett
What are your favorite series?
Vote for your top 3 favorites! You can vote for my favorites or add favorites of your own.
About Cara Bristol
Cara Bristol continues to evolve, adding new subgenres of erotic romance to her repertoire. She has written spanking romance, contemporary romance, paranormal, and science fiction romance. No matter what the genre, one thing remains constant: her emphasis on character-driven seriously hot erotic stories with sizzling chemistry between the hero and heroine. Cara has lived many places in the United States, but currently lives in Missouri with her husband. She has two grown stepkids. When she’s not writing, she enjoys reading and traveling.
About Jack Campbell
Jack Campbell is a pseudonym for American science fiction author John G. Hemry.
John G. Hemry is an American author of military science fiction novels. Drawing on his experience as a retired United States Navy officer, he has written the Stark’s War and Paul Sinclair series. His father, Jack M. Hemry, also served in the navy and as John points out was a mustang. John grew up living in several places including Pensacola, San Diego, and Midway Island.
Under the name Jack Campbell, he has written three related series: the Lost Fleet, Beyond the Lost Fleet, and Genesis Fleet series, He has also written over a dozen short stories, many published in Analog magazine, and a number of non-fiction works.
John graduated from Lyons High School in Lyons in 1974 then attended the US Naval Academy (Class of ’78) where he was labeled ‘the un-midshipman’ by his roommates.
He lives in Maryland with his wife and three kids. His two eldest children are diagnosed as autistic and suffer from Neuro immune dysfunction syndrome (NIDS), an auto-immune ailment which causes their illness, but are progressing under treatment.
John is a member of the SFWA Musketeers whose motto reads: ‘The Pen is Mightier Than the Sword, but the Wise Person Carries Both’.
About Lara Adrian
LARA ADRIAN is the New York Times and #1 internationally best-selling author of the Midnight Breed vampire romance series, with nearly 4 million books in print and digital worldwide and translations licensed to more than 20 countries. Her books regularly appear in the top spots of all the major bestseller lists including the New York Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, Indiebound, Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, etc.
About Mur Lafferty
Mur Lafferty is the author of Solo: A Star Wars Story and the Hugo and Nebula nominated novel Six Wakes, The Shambling Guides series, and several self pubbed novels and novellas, including the award winning Afterlife series. She is the host of the Hugo-winning podcast Ditch Diggers, and the long-running I Should Be Writing. She is the recipient of the John Campbell Award for best new writer, the Manly Wade Wellman Award, the Best Fancast Hugo Award, and joined the Podcast Hall of Fame in 2015, its inaugural year.
Hery nonfiction essays have appeared in Knights of the Dinner Table, and on the podcast The Dragon Page.
Mur lives in Durham, NC, with my husband, a college student, and a dog who threatens to love us to death.
In January, 2014, she graduated from the Stonecoast program at the University of Southern Maine with an MFA in popular fiction.
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I’ve read and enjoyed all those, but the Jack Campbells and those are a when not if. I also like Veronica Scott’s Badari Warriors series, Ilona Andrew’s Innkeeper Chronicles (go Orro, my fav), Ann Aguirre’s Galactic Love, Gail Koger’s Coletti Warlords, Nnedi Okorafor’s Binti, Patty Jansen’s Ambassador, and I’ll stop there. Love this theme, obviously.
oh Sophia! You bring up some great ones I didn’t think about. Especially Ilona Andrews of course. The Jack Campbell books are amazing. I listened to them from the library (on CD!) and have been buying them. I LOVE them. Start at the beginning. The narrator is awesome too.
OH – that’s true about Midnight Breeds… I forgot. It’s marketed as vampire books, but they are aliens! I’ve also read one of Bristol’s series, but not that one, and many years ago, I read a Hackett Cyborg/alien series. I think the most “alien” series I’ve read is Ann Aguirre’s Galactic Love… that was some cross-species romance happening!
They are all interesting reads. Sophia pointed more I forgot. It’s a category where I would read more.
I included Kresley Cole’s Immortals after Dark series, since there are some aliens in it, and I also included Dianne Duvall’s Immortal Guardians series (Ami is an alien) and the Aldebarian Alliance series where some of the immortal guardians find love with aliens out in the universe!
Thanks for sharing Janie.
Haven’t read them but they sound good.
Well I enjoyed all of these and they are in different genres. Some are more scifi and some are more romance oriented.
I’ve only read the Midnight Breed books, but I enjoyed them.
yes they were good. If you enjoy Scifi the Jack Campbell and Mur Lafferty ones are great also. For romance, the Ruby Dixon, Cara Bristol and Anna Hackett are fun.