Invading radio waves throw the world into chaos in Frederic Brown’s The Waverlies. Then we come up with our own classifications for the types of alien invasion stories and discuss examples.
Links:
The Waverlies by Frederic Brown [Astounding, January 1945]:
https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v34n05_1945-01_AK/mode/2up
Phantom from Space [1953]:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJXSYuNUmUQ
Invasion of the Body Snatchers [1956]:
https://archive.org/details/invasionofthebodysnatchers1956_201911
Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell [Astounding, August 1938]:
https://archive.org/details/sim_astounding-science-fiction_1938-08_21_6/
The Puppet Masters by Robert Heinlein [1951]:
https://archive.org/details/puppetmasterswal0000hein
It Came from Outer Space [1953]:
https://archive.org/details/it-came-from-outer-space-1953
Storm Warning by Donald Wollheim [Future Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1942]:
https://archive.org/details/FutureV03N01194210/mode/2up
Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke [1953]:
https://archive.org/details/childhoodsend0000clar_f3g4
With Folded Hands by Jack Williamson [Astounding, July 1947]:
https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v39n05_1947-07_AK
Dimension X episode “With Folded Hands” [1951 radio show]:
https://archive.org/details/dimension-x-02-with-folded-hands-jack-williamson-04-15-50
Martians Go Home by Frederic Brown [1954]:
https://archive.org/details/martiansgohome00fred_wit
Martians Go Home [1989]:
https://archive.org/details/mystery-movie-1
Invaders of Earth edited by Groff Conklin [1952]:
https://archive.org/details/invadersofearth0000grof
The Leech by Robert Sheckley (as Phillips Barbee) [Galaxy, December 1952]:
https://archive.org/details/galaxymagazine-1952-12
