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* The [[John W. Campbell]] short story ''Out of Night'' and its sequel ''Cloak of Aesir'' detail the [[La Résistance|fight]] against the occupying alien Sarn that conquered Earth four thousand years ago.
* The entire premise to ''Under Alien Stars'' by Pamela F. Service is this, as an alien race called the Tsorians showed up ten years ago, completely kicked our butts, and turned Earth into a military outpost for their empire. Slightly subverted, because even though they control the highest levels of government and crack down on rebellions, life goes on more or less like it always did.
* The final story in Asimov's classic collection, "I, Robot", is a wordy and actionless discussion about several small, but inexplicable, errors in the production and construction quotas from the (three laws compliant) [[A IsAIs]] running the world economy (to maximize efficiency and the greater good). It seems that all the errors are connected to a covert group who sees the control given to the [[A IsAIs]] as creating a [[Vichy Earth]] where humans are enslaved to machines. In the end, however, it turns out that the [[A IsAIs]] are the ones who are giving them false instructions so that they'll be demoted and stop being a threat.
* ''[[The Caves of Steel]]'' and its sequels are about the former Earth colonies who make Earth their vassal. While not violent, it is estimated that if this state continues, constant revolts and suppression will wipe out Earth's people within a century.
* This has happened in ''[[Novels of the Jaran]]''.