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Title: Aliens: Genocide by David Bischoff ISBN: 0-553-56371-8 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 December, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.4 (15 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: as far as actual writing goes, this is the one
Comment: As far as the actual banter of the author, this one actually entertained me. The first three books didn't not have that much action with the aliens, most of the alien action was centered around the all too predictable dreams. I think steve perry tried to fool the reader into thinking the dreams were real way to many times, taking a lot of dignity away from his writing style. Bichoff however never at any point insulted my intelligence, and all of his plot twists were on point, and at no point did the story lose continuity. By continuity i mean having information be stated early in the book, and then having that information magicaly changed later on in the book to best suit the authors attempts to continue his work. i.e. from alien harvest: the 3 people take shelter from the killer storm inside the alien hive, and once it gets too thick and they decide to run out of the hive, the storm is magically passed or lightnened or who knows. The characters are good, the plot is logical and it stays realistic as far as the previous three base the series to be, and there is a great deal more colonial marine banter and action. To agree with an earlier review, if you like A2, this book will suit you the very best.
Rating: 2
Summary: Horrible book.
Comment: This was a terrible book. I couldn't even finish it, I forced myself to read through about 3 quarters of the way and all it did was bore me. Why do all these books have to be more about the military than the aliens? This book was in no way imaginative, it wrote off Billy, Wilks and Ripley like they were nothing. They make drugs out of alien corpses and "royal jelly" all of this sounded interesting enough but even the three quarters of the book I read through they still hadn't even encountered an actuall live alien except for one flashback that started the book off and setting up the Kozlowski character. Speaking of characters, this book had no characters of any interest, they all seemed to be characters from the films with names of the actors from the movies. It had an nice little action piece that could have been really suspenseful where a soldier goes berzerk on the designer drug called Xeno-Zip (it's made of alien stuff, hence the name) and he becomes a one man war machine and rips apart an entire base and all it's soldiers, this would have been almost suspensful and entertaining but it wasn't, this was highly due to that fact that the characters were so lifeless it really didn't matter whether they lived or died. It was a sad attempt at a follow up to the fantastic Earth Hive series. I'll never understand. Do yourself a favor and not buy this book.
Instead try the Earth Hive series for good aliens novels.
Rating: 4
Summary: Knowledgable Reader
Comment: This is in responce to the "horrible book" review. All of the Aliens novels writen in association with Dark Horse Publishing (Dark Horse Comics) are adaptations of comic book miniseries previously published by DHC. If you don't like the comics, then don't by the books. They follow the comics exactly with only room to elaborate on thoughts and "gaps" in the series. I for one can vouch that Aliens: Genocide was a great comic miniseries and find it hard to believe that this novel is horrible. Sure it may have more "military stuff" in it than the first three novels (which were also adapted from the Aliens miniseries; Aliens (V0l. 1), Aliens (Vol.2), and Aliens: Earth War), but that is because Aliens: Genocide is the story of the military using the aliens saliva to creat a "super-steroid" for their marines. This is why the novel consentrates on the military.
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Title: Labyrinth (Aliens) by S. D. Perry, Kilian Plunkett, Jim Woodring ISBN: 0553574914 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 March, 1996 List Price(USD): $5.50 |
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Title: Rogue (Aliens) by Sandy Schofield, Ian Edington ISBN: 0553564420 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 November, 1995 List Price(USD): $5.50 |
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Title: Music of the Spears : Aliens Series by Yvonne Navarro ISBN: 0553574922 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 September, 1996 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: The Female War : Aliens, Book 3 by STEVE PERRY, STEPHANI PERRY ISBN: 0553561596 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 July, 1993 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Alien Harvest (Aliens) by Robert Sheckley (Adapter), Jerry Prosser ISBN: 0553564412 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 August, 1995 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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