Books by Sam Burridge

My debut novel originally published on Reddit—reimagined!—is now coming to Kindle and paperback in June 2024! Read the back cover here:

ALIENS DIDN’T COME TO TAKE EARTH. THEY CAME TO TAKE US.

Max Taylor watched Korea get nuked from orbit. He watched the United Nations in New York surrender to the aliens’ demands. He watched the draft lottery call up his little brother, Richie. But Max wouldn’t let the aliens take him. He stole his brother’s ID and his place in the draft.

Now he’s on an alien shuttle leaving behind everyone he’s ever known.

Lieutenant Keene watched the mushrooms grow over Korea from his base in Japan. He popped iodine pills while the CIA briefed him on a voluntary suicide mission: join the draft, find out what he can about the aliens, and somehow get that intel home. He’s insulted that they think he’s expendable. He’s going to prove them wrong.

Now he’s on an alien shuttle leaving behind everything he’s ever known.

No one knows what the aliens want with the 150 million young men and women they took. No one knows where the aliens are taking them. But Max and Keene are certain: they’re coming home—or they’re going to die trying.