Re: (ReacTor) Five Stories About Aliens Attempting to Govern Humans

James Nicoll wrote:

Five Stories About Aliens Attempting to Govern Humans
 Maybe conquering humans is a bad idea?
 https://reactormag.com/five-stories-about-aliens-attempting-to-govern-humans/
 

Two that have been discussed here earlier are Dickson's "The Way of the Pilgrim" and Silverberg's "The Alien years".
In the former we convince the Aliens that we are not worthy of their rule, in the latter the Aliens leave for reasons of their own. Despite a plethora of plucky J. W. Campbell types and a Heinlein clone, we do not force them to leave.
In Steven Baxter's future history earth is occupied twice.  The first group runs away when a human's action implicates them in something the Xeelee might disapprove of.  In the second  case a human  tricks the occupiers onto an action that renders their home world uninhabitable. They leave Earth, but harbour a resentment against humans that lasts to the heat-deal of the universe.  Some people just can't let go.
While "The Interpreter" by Brian Aldiss is one of his minor novels, it has a unique solution to alien occupation.  In the large empires of human history there were often pockets which were effectively independent of the central government for reasons of poverty (not worth taxing) remoteness, or intractability.  While others wage a hopeless war against Nul, the central character works to achieve this status for Earth.  Our backwater planet in in the empire, but not of it.  And empires don't last forever.
William Hyde