Invaders from Beyond: First Wave

We are not alone... more’s the pity.

Three poignant, sometimes blackly comic accounts, where unlikely heroes – kids, screw-ups, survivors – stumble their way through protecting Earth from faintly baffling alien invasions.

It’s one of the oldest devices in science fiction, from Wells’ The War of the Worlds to Invasion of the Body Snatchers and The Thing. Why do so many aliens want to invade the Earth anyway? Who’s going to stop them? Is this going to take long?

Colin Sinclair's short stories have appeared in Fox Spirit Books' anthologies Guardians and Girl at the End of the World. His favourite word is indolent. He often wonders if his bio should have jokes.

Tim Major's time-travel thriller novel, You Don't Belong Here, was published by Snowbooks in September 2016. His first novella, Carus & Mitch, was shortlisted for a This Is Horror Award.

Julian Benson is the news editor for PCGamesN, a website about video games, their makers, and the people who devote their lives to them. He once interviewed the space pope of an online universe and he won't shut up about it.