Ever since H.G. Wells’ The War of The Worlds hit the airwaves, humanity has become terrified alien invaders, unaware of the fact that aliens might just be terrified of us. To the objective and extraterrestrial observer, human beings are horrifying. For all our guises of civility – our business suits and cappuccinos and adult coloring books, we’re nothing more than a bunch of angry primates with the power to smash atoms and the gall to use it. The fountain pen that recorded human history was dipped in blood, and woe to any species that comes across us when we finally take to the stars. If extraterrestrials are expecting to meet the better angels of our nature upon first contact, they should give these 10 sci-fi books where humans are the bad guys a gander – so they know what they’re really in for.
