History AlienAbduction / Literature

* Creator/KirBulychev's ''Literature/HalfALife'' has the crew of an exploration ship find a derelict alien vessel floating in space. Aboard, they find the diary of a woman abducted in 1956. Since the diary is incomplete, they have to investigate and try to find out what happened to her. [[spoiler:She was killed while attempting escape with a group of friendly aliens. The aliens have built a statue in her honor to recognize her sacrifice.]]

* ''Literature/MyTeacherIsAnAlien'': Peter Thompson voluntarily allows his alien teacher to kidnap him at the end of the first book, jumping aboard the space ship as he's escaping. He gets to recount what happened to him afterward when he reappears at the start of book 3.

* Creator/IsaacAsimov's "Literature/WhatIsThisThingCalledLove": The [[FantasticAnthropologist alien researcher]] kidnaps two people from a train station to demonstrate [[WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove how humans engage in reproduction]].

* Creator/DanielPinkwater's ''Literature/SlavesOfSpiegel'': Steve Nickelson is abducted by SpacePirates, who have him and everything in his Hoboken restaurant wrapped in aluminum foil, shrunk in size and taken to the planet Spiegel for the pirates' great interplanetary cook-off. Steve sends in a report to the Flying Saucer Club of Hudson County, New Jersey, who pronounce his report to be totally inauthentic since all aliens are either LittleGreenMen or blobby eye stalk creatures, not "fat people," and nobody has ever heard of a planet named Spiegel. When the SpacePirates then find out about Steve's assistant, Norman Bleistift, and kidnap him too.

* The disappearance of Oberon Navarro in Adam R. Brown's ''Literature/{{Alterien}}'' fits this trope. Strange people, Oberon later learns are aliens, took him from his home and returned him completely changed and without any memory of his life.

** In ''The Brass Dragon'', the protagonist initially can't remember the last year of his life, but unexpectedly finds that he now knows a lot more about mathematics than he used to. [[spoiler: He and his alien companions were trapped on Mars for most of that year, since they had to wait for an enemy ship to be available to ambush for transport back to Earth. They passed the time by teaching the protagonist a lot of math.]] She also co-wrote ''Hunters of the Red Moon'' with her brother Paul Edwin Zimmer, in which the protagonist, who is sailing around the world alone, is kidnapped off his boat by the Mekhar (who trade in slaves, and were expecting more people to be on the boat).
* K.A. Applegate's ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' features the Skrit Na, a species that seems to be the basis of "TheGreys". As an Andalite protagonist explains in their first appearance, the Skrit Na basically go around in their weird, saucer-shaped ships, abduct people from other planets and either do weird experiments on them or put them in zoos on their home planets. Interestingly, ''nobody knows why,'' making the Skrit Na the {{Cloudcuckoolander}}s of the galaxy. In this particular instance, the plot kicks off when the Andalites board the Skrit Na ship and rescue the two human teenagers whom they abducted, then try to bring them back to Earth.
* In ChristopherBuckley's novel ''Literature/LittleGreenMen'', alien abductions are the work of a top-secret U.S. government agency which had been manufacturing evidence of alien activity since 1947, and didn't start doing abductions until UFO sightings, crop harvesting and cattle mutilations had lost their novelty value. The [[AnalProbing rectal probing]] and egg harvesting only started because the abductees seemed to demand it. Actual LittleGreenMen aren't used any more because of the difficulty of obtaining midgets with security clearances.

* ''Communion'' by Whitley Strieber. Allegedly based on a true story; made into a movie starring Creator/ChristopherWalken; helped establish jokes about [[AnalProbing rectal probes]] (to Strieber's dismay).
* ''Literature/ThePuppetMasters'' by Creator/RobertAHeinlein. The titular aliens have been abducting humans for years, possibly centuries, as part of the plan to conquer Earth. It turns out that the protagonist's LoveInterest was abducted from a human colony on Venus as a child; this provides a key to the eventual defeat of the invasion.
* In ''Slaves of Spiegel'' by Creator/DanielPinkwater, Steve Nickelson is abducted by SpacePirates, who have him and everything in his Hoboken restaurant wrapped in aluminum foil, shrunk in size and taken to the planet Spiegel for the pirates' great interplanetary cook-off. Steve sends in a report to the Flying Saucer Club of Hudson County, New Jersey, who pronounce his report to be totally inauthentic since all aliens are either LittleGreenMen or blobby eye stalk creatures, not "fat people," and nobody has ever heard of a planet named Spiegel. When the SpacePirates then find out about Steve's assistant, Norman Bleistift, and kidnap him too.
* Although Pratchett hasn't seen fit to pull this off on ''{{Literature/Discworld}}'' (yet), one of his footnotes does poke fun at this trope, remarking that so many aliens seem to hang around isolated backwoods roads, waiting to abduct humans, that they keep screwing up and abducting one another. Oh, and Bigfoot.
** FromACertainPointOfView, Pratchett has indeed used this trope on the Discworld, only he's remembered that the original abduction stories were [[TheFairFolk Elvish Abduction]] stories.
* Similarly, the monster of Kim Newman's "Literature/AngelDownSussex" is obviously a by-the-book abductor alien. However, it's also an EmpathicShapeshifter, and the story's set in Edwardian times before such urban legends became widespread. Consequently, different people encounter it as a succubus, one of TheFairFolk, or whatever else the earlier equivalent would have been.
* In ''Angry Lead Skies'', Garrett's associate and housemate [[spoiler:the Goddamn Parrot]] gets abducted by "silver elf" aliens, to the detective's considerable delight.
* A [[NatureSpirit non-scifi variant]] happens in Creator/AlgernonBlackwood's "The Wendigo".
* ''Literature/TheTumbleweedDossier'' by Creator/SugarRayDodge was written on the premise of "aliens abducting vampires."
* Happens to the protagonist in Ancient Baghdad in Andrey Belianin's ''The Thief of Baghdad'', who is snatched by a TractorBeam while running away from the sultan's guards. The guards, seeing the hateful thief taken by Saint Hyzr's Chariot, assume he's gone for good. The thief, who is actually a modern-day man transported into the past by a genie, whose spell also caused LaserGuidedAmnesia, breaks away from the short grey aliens and forces them to engage in conversation. They use their telepathy to tell him that they are agents of an interstellar union, made up of various races. They are scouting Earth before announcing their presence and integrating humanity into the galactic community. They claim they wish to eliminate racial, religious, and sexual differences among humans. When the thief hears about the latter, he decides to show the aliens why humans enjoy their sexual differences.
* In ''Literature/MrBlank'', [[spoiler: Mina]] is abducted by aliens. Though in that world, the aliens (referred to as Little Green Men despite being of the modern Grey variety) are one of any number of conspiracies that secretly control the world. Other groups want power, the LGM just want to kidnap and probe.

* ''Literature/{{Mindwarp}}'': The disappearance of Todd Aldridge is a major background event, and the other kids struggle to avoid his fate.
* ''Intruders'' and all of Budd Hopkins' catalog apparently are real life narrations of alien abductees's experiences. Mostly jogged and brought to the surface via hypnosis.
* ''Literature/{{Tunnels}}'': The Styx, [[UltraTerrestrials although they come from within the Earth]] and not from Outer Space, routinely do these to people who discover their secret city and scientists whose knowledge they desire.
* ''Literature/Area51'': These were actually faked by Majic-12 to keep people in the dark about what's really going on. People abducted are implanted with {{fake memories}} which make it appear real.
* ''Literature/MyTeacherIsAnAlien'' Peter Thompson voluntarily allows this to happen to him at the end of the first book, jumping aboard the alien Boxholm's space ship as he's escaping. He gets to recount what happened to him afterward when he reappears at the start of book 3.

** In ''The Brass Dragon'', the protagonist initially can't remember the last year of his life, but unexpectedly finds that he now knows a lot more about mathematics than he used to. [[spoiler: He and his alien companions were trapped on Mars for most of that year, since they had to wait for an enemy ship to be available to ambush for transport back to Earth. They passed the time by teaching the protagonist a lot of math.]]
** She co-wrote ''Hunters of the Red Moon'' with her brother Paul Edwin Zimmer, in which the protagonist, who is sailing around the world alone, is kidnapped off his boat by the Mekhar (who trade in slaves, and were expecting more people to be on the boat).

* ''Intruders'' and all of Buddd Hopkins' catalogue apparently are real life narrations of alien abductees's experiences. Mostly jogged and brought to the surface via hypnosis.

* Similarly, the monster of Kim Newman's ''DiogenesClub'' story "Angel Down, Sussex", is obviously a by-the-book abductor alien. However, it's also an EmpathicShapeshifter, and the story's set in Edwardian times before such urban legends became widespread. Consequently, different people encounter it as a succubus, one of the FairFolk, or whatever else the earlier equivalent would have been.