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Alien vs Gary: A Short Alien Invasion LitRPG
The aliens didn’t come to conquer. They came to see if anyone was still thinking.
It’s 2040 and humanity has outsourced its brain to AI. Most people spend their days on Universal Basic Income, scrolling immersive feeds, unable to make a decision without an algorithm holding their hand. The 1% run the machines. Everyone else is along for the ride.
Then the aliens arrive.
They don’t come with warships. They come with a “Want to play a game?” Say yes and you’re teleported inside an alien spaceship. Say no and you die—instantly, painlessly, reduced to dust. There is no third option.
Gary Holt is a 55-year-old former programmer who’s been tinkering alone in his apartment since AI took his job. When an alien knocks on his door, Gary does what no one else thinks to he invites it in, makes it coffee, and says yes.
Inside the ship, there are no rules. No tutorial. No visible stats. Just a map, a maze of shifting corridors, and an alien hunter named Bibop127 tracking Gary through every zone. Most humans don’t survive the first hour.
But Gary is a programmer. And programmers don’t panic. They debug.
As he reverse-engineers the ship’s hidden systems—discovering game-like mechanics the hard way, building allies from the wreckage of a helpless generation—Gary realizes the the aliens aren’t invading. They’re grading. And humanity is failing the test.
A near-future alien invasion meets a LitRPG with no instruction manual, Alien vs Gary is a story about what happens when a species stops thinking—and what it takes to start again.
Perfect for fans of Dungeon Crawler Carl, Ready Player One, and The Kaiju Preservation Society, as well as readers who love underdog protagonists, reverse-engineered game systems, and dry humor in the face of extinction.
It’s 2040 and humanity has outsourced its brain to AI. Most people spend their days on Universal Basic Income, scrolling immersive feeds, unable to make a decision without an algorithm holding their hand. The 1% run the machines. Everyone else is along for the ride.
Then the aliens arrive.
They don’t come with warships. They come with a “Want to play a game?” Say yes and you’re teleported inside an alien spaceship. Say no and you die—instantly, painlessly, reduced to dust. There is no third option.
Gary Holt is a 55-year-old former programmer who’s been tinkering alone in his apartment since AI took his job. When an alien knocks on his door, Gary does what no one else thinks to he invites it in, makes it coffee, and says yes.
Inside the ship, there are no rules. No tutorial. No visible stats. Just a map, a maze of shifting corridors, and an alien hunter named Bibop127 tracking Gary through every zone. Most humans don’t survive the first hour.
But Gary is a programmer. And programmers don’t panic. They debug.
As he reverse-engineers the ship’s hidden systems—discovering game-like mechanics the hard way, building allies from the wreckage of a helpless generation—Gary realizes the the aliens aren’t invading. They’re grading. And humanity is failing the test.
A near-future alien invasion meets a LitRPG with no instruction manual, Alien vs Gary is a story about what happens when a species stops thinking—and what it takes to start again.
Perfect for fans of Dungeon Crawler Carl, Ready Player One, and The Kaiju Preservation Society, as well as readers who love underdog protagonists, reverse-engineered game systems, and dry humor in the face of extinction.
88 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 22, 2026
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