--- title: Alien Invasion | Author Q&A | Favourite Tales & Writing Practices description: In the second part of our Alien Invasion Q&A, we asked the authors for their thoughts on the genre and their own favourite stories and their writing processes. image: https://blog.flametreepublishing.com/hubfs/shutterstock_443761822.jpg --- - [Home](https://info.flametreepublishing.com/blog) | - [ Contact & About Us](https://blog.flametreepublishing.com/contact-us) T H E   F L A M E   T R E E   B L O G ![Hubspot header Flame Tree Independent red](https://blog.flametreepublishing.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Hubspot%20header%20Flame%20Tree%20Independent%20red.jpg?width=980&name=Hubspot%20header%20Flame%20Tree%20Independent%20red.jpg)   # Flame Tree Fiction # Alien Invasion | Author Q&A | Favourite Tales & Writing Practices Posted by [Gillian Whitaker](https://blog.flametreepublishing.com/fantasy-gothic/author/gillian-whitaker) - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) **In the first part** of this Q&A, authors featured in our new [Alien Invasion](https://www.flametreepublishing.com/Alien-Invasion-Short-Stories.html) anthology spoke about [the inspirations behind their story](https://blog.flametreepublishing.com/fantasy-gothic/alien-invasion-author-qa-story-inspirations). Today, we hear from them about their writing methods and the other Alien Invasion-themed stories that have really stuck with them the most. Like the [previous books in the series](https://www.flametreepublishing.com/Gothic-Fantasy-Book-Series-List.html), the new stories in this anthology will be accompanied by classic fiction from the genre: as well as the **seminal** work *The War of the Worlds* by **H.G. Wells**, short stories and novel extracts from **Voltaire, Jonathan Swift, A. Merritt** and more will make an appearance – you can see the full list of included authors [here](https://blog.flametreepublishing.com/fantasy-gothic/successful-submissions-endless-apocalypse-alien-invasion), in what promises to be an exciting line-up of **otherworldly creations**!  ![](https://blog.flametreepublishing.com/hubfs/shutterstock_443761822.jpg)   What are your favourite stories from this genre?  [Claude Lalumière](http://claudepages.info/) Of course, H.G. Wells's novel ***The War of the Worlds***, and, also of course, Orson Welles's brilliant 1938 radio drama adaptation. Beyond that: the 1978 Philip Kaufman film ***Invasion of the Body Snatchers*** is my favourite iteration of the often-adapted Jack Finney novel; W.D. Richter's insanely fun 1984 film, ***The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai** **across the 8th Dimension***; George Alec Effinger's hilarious story ‘**The Aliens Who Knew, I Mean, Everything**’.   [Maria Haskins](https://mariahaskins.com/?__hstc=250500889.b479b22c41b4fa0e39f553dc349fb2d2.1505122813655.1521633108773.1521635142494.120&__hssc=250500889.3.1521635142494&__hsfp=1251526681) I've been a fan of **Ray Bradbury** since forever, and his short story ‘Boys! Raise Mushrooms in Your Cellar!’ is a story that has stuck in my head since I read it in my early teens. *The War of the Worlds* by H.G. Wells is another fantastic classic. Also, the 1981 British TV series ***The Day of the Triffids***, and the TV-show ***V*** (also from the 1980s) made huge impressions on me when I was a kid.   [John Walters](https://johnwalterswriter.com/) One of the greatest and most devastating alien invasion stories of all time is ‘**The Screwfly Solution**’ by Racoona Sheldon, alias Alice Sheldon, who most often wrote under the pseudonym James Tiptree, Jr. In it, aliens pervert human sexuality so that men start killing off all the women, thus effectively ending the human race so that the aliens can take over the Earth. Another favourite is the novel *This Immortal* by **Roger Zelazny**.   [Rich Larson](http://richwlarson.tumblr.com/) The book ***Shade's Children***, the movie ***Attack the Block*** and the video game ***Half-Life 2*** always come to mind as particularly vivid alien invasions. I've also written an alien invasion novel of my own, *Annex*, which draws on all three of those inspirations and comes out **this July** from Orbit Books.   [Bo Balder](http://www.boukjebalder.nl/) I grew up with **Ursula K. Le Guin** and her *The Left Hand of Darkness*. She showed me strangeness could be rightness, and that the real aliens are often humans. Also** Larry Niven**, whose style is old-fashioned now, but who I love for his strange aliens and the breadth of his vision. Right now I like to read **Ann Leckie**, **Kate Elliott**, **Neal Stephenson** and **William Gibson**.   [William R.D. Wood](http://www.williamrdwood.com/) [![shutterstock_700254508b-2.jpg](https://blog.flametreepublishing.com/hs-fs/hubfs/shutterstock_700254508b-2.jpg?width=262&name=shutterstock_700254508b-2.jpg)](http://www.williamrdwood.com/) John Carpenter's version of ***The Thing***, based on John W. Campbell, Jr.'s *Who Goes There?* For me the real fear isn't for the characters in the story but in the apocalypse that would result if the creature(s) survived and made it into the world. There would be no containing it or saving any part of ourselves and that's about as **horrify ing** as it gets.    [Eric Reitan](http://thepietythatliesbetween.blogspot.co.uk/) Years ago I read Octavia Butler’s ***Dawn*** and was blown away by how Butler used an alien contact story to wrestle with big philosophical questions. What does it mean to be human? Why is humanity so mired in violence? What does it do to us to welcome otherness into our very identities? Similar themes come up in Arthur C. Clarke’s ***Childhood’s End***. In graduate school I devoured Orson Scott Card’s ***Ender*** books – especially the second in the series, *Speaker for the Dead*, which so powerfully dramatises the tragedies that can result when we fail to understand the other. More recently, I’ve been reading Nnedi Okorafor’s ***Binti*** series, which also succeeds in using the alien contact theme to tell a great story that sheds light on these questions.   [Laura Pearlman](https://unlikelyexplanations.com/) My favourite stories about hostile aliens invading the Earth are the terrifying short story ‘**The Screwfly Solution**’ by by Raccoona Sheldon (Alice Sheldon / James Tiptree Jr), the classic ***Twilight Zone* **episode ‘To Serve Man’, and the movie ***The Thing***, which includes a brief but fantastic performance by a dog playing an alien trying to pass as a dog.   [Sunil Patel](http://ghostwritingcow.com/) I love alien invasion stories and could talk about them for hours, but in the interest of brevity, I’ll pick two that come to mind because they’re at opposite ends of the spectrum. ***Independence Day*** is the quintessential blockbuster, the high watermark for movies where aliens blow up the White House*. **Arrival*** – based on the excellent **Ted Chiang** story *Story of Your Life *– engages both the head and the heart, grappling with the idea of how difficult it truly would be to **communicate** with aliens. I love both movies for their message that in a situation like this the countries of the world would need to work together, but only one of them has Will Smith punching an alien in the face and declaring, “Welcome to Earth!”    Can you tell us a little about your writing process?  [Tim Pieraccini](https://twitter.com/tjpieraccini?lang=en-gb) I always write **direct** on to the computer now, but I do sometimes make scribbly notes on paper beforehand; both these things are done at my desk, always. Any time of day will do, although I feel getting an early start – **before the world wakes up** – is a good plan.   [Angus McIntyre](https://angus.pw/) My writing process is best described as “a mad rush just before the deadline”. I used to write in a text editor, then using a simple 'distraction-free' program called **WriteRoom**. A few years ago I switched to **Scrivener** and never looked back. I may be bad at managing my time, but at least Scrivener lets me keep all the bits and pieces of my stories organised.   [S.A. Westerley](https://thatbitterharvest.wordpress.com/?__hstc=250500889.b479b22c41b4fa0e39f553dc349fb2d2.1505122813655.1521633108773.1521635142494.120&__hssc=250500889.3.1521635142494&__hsfp=1251526681) I tend to write everything on **Word** and try to avoid getting into any habits, although I prefer to write by daylight. When I need to plan longer works I'll do it with pencil and paper and, in the early stages, often stories come to me in **fragments.** In that case I write down what comes, as it comes, and try to piece the **jigsaw** together once I have a beginning and an ending.   [Stephen G. Parks](http://www.stephengparks.com/) I... have poor writing habits. I write early drafts in **quick bursts**, often three or four days long, and edit slowly. I'm not a plotter, but a **discovery writer** (or ‘pantser’ as we get called). For shorter fiction, I usually start with a specific story **twist** in mind (a ‘what if’ if you will) but I don't want to let the reader see that idea until the end. So I have to build around it, trying to subtly weave **clues.** I'll go down many dead ends before finding the core of the story. It can be frustrating, and affect my motivation, having the image of a story's shape in my head but not being able to define it in words. I'm still learning.   Jennifer Rachel Baumer I write without a plot and make notes as I go. Some novels want to be typed, others explode into blank books. I'm at my desk by **6 a.m.** unless it's warm enough to hike first. The current project gets the first three hours. If there's any energy left, secondary projects get attention. I work on way too many things at once, have no patience, really want to write everything, and lost my discipline a few years ago (which means I really am trying to write everything at once). It's kind of **chaos, with cats**. I'm working on it.   Suo Hefu In fact, I don’t know the precise answer to this. Sometimes I’ll draw an **outline** of short stories, however, the final story version is often the **opposite** of my outline. As for novels and novelettes, even the beginning part would be revised. **Tolstoy** said he can’t determine whether the characters in his stories would live or die; maybe this is the reason why I can’t explain my writing process.   ![shutterstock_393588439.jpg](https://blog.flametreepublishing.com/hubfs/shutterstock_393588439.jpg)  ***Intrigued to read the book? Alien Invasion is now available to buy through our website [here](https://www.flametreepublishing.com/Alien-Invasion-Short-Stories.html). It was released alongside the volume Endless Apocalypse, which can be found [here](https://www.flametreepublishing.com/Endless-Apocalypse-Short-Stories.html).***   Links - Missed Part 1 of this Q&A? 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