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David Gerrold's War Against the Chtorr (about invasion by an alien ecology) is a sci-fi series worth checking out. Gerrold twists a lot of conventional genre elements around to comment on both sci-fi in general and more specific and weighty issues: A Matter for Men is partly about a soldier's sexual-identity crisis (the Chtorr are huge carnivorous pink worms--talk about your less-than-subtle symbolism); A Day for Damnation has a lot to do with religion; etc. I think the books are currently out of print, but you can find old copies at used bookstores fairly often. Plus I think they'll all be rereleased when the fifth book comes out (soon, allegedly).
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