The Complete Aliens Omnibus: Volume One (Earth Hive, Nightmare Asylum, The Female War)
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The Complete Aliens Omnibus: Volume One (Earth Hive, Nightmare Asylum, The Female War)

Mass Market Paperback – January 19, 2016

Price
$10.99
Publisher
Titan Books
Publication Date
ISBN-13
978-1783299010
Dimensions
4.34 x 2 x 7.01 inches
Weight
14.4 ounces

Description

“There are facehuggers. There are synthetics. There is corporate skullduggery and there are pulse rifles...the stakes are high” -xa0Hey Poor Player“As entertaining and adventurous as the movies, if not more so” -xa0Midroad Movie Review“The novels in these Omnibuses span the width and breadth of the Alien universe, stretching its boundaries and giving it a marvelous depth of detail” - BookRiot Steve Perry is an American television writer and science fiction author of numerous Star Wars novels. Perry is a native of the Deep South, and his residences have included Louisiana, California, Washington, and Oregon. Prior to working full-time as a freelance writer, he worked as a swimming instructor, lifeguard, assembler of toys, clerk in a hotel gift shop and a car rental agency, an aluminum salesman, a martial arts instructor, private detective, and nurse. Stephani Perry is an American novelist who has written numerous Resident Evil tie-in novels, as well as several tie-in novels to popular series such as Aliens , Alien vs. Predator , Star Trek , and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine . Perry also wrote the movie novelizations for Timecop and Virus . She is the daughter of bestselling sci-fi author Steve Perry and lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband and two children.

Features & Highlights

  • Classic original fiction set in the Alien world, featuring
  • Earth Hive
  • by Steve Perry,
  • Nightmare Asylum
  • by Steve Perry and
  • The Female War
  • by Steve Perry and Stephani Perry.
  • Earth Hive:
  • Wilks was a space marine with a near-fatal flaw:  he had a heart.  Billie was a child, the only survivor of a far-flung colony outpost.  Thrown together in the last hellish night of an alien invasion, Billie and Wilks helped each other get out alive.  Thirteen years later Wilks is in prison, and Billie lives in a mental institution, the nightmare memories of the massacre at Rim seared into her mind.  Now the government has tapped Wilks to lead an expedition to the aliens' home planet to bring back a live alien.  But the competition on Earth to develop the aliens as a new weapons system is brutal.  When Wilks's team departs on their mission, a trained assassin trails them.  And what follows is no less than guerrilla warfare on the aliens' planet--and alien conquest on Earth!
  • Nightmare Asylum:
  • Wilks, Billie, and Bueller were the last survivors of a devastating assault on the aliens' home planet.  But once their retum to the solar system made them refugees once more, fleeing Earth and its alien infestation in a desperate attempt to stay alive.  Now, in an otherwise unmanned military transport, they hurtle through space.  Destination: unknown.Little do they know that the cargo they carry with them is a legacy of death that they will ultimately have to face. Nor do they know that they head toward a remote colony and military outpost.  This pocket of humanity at the very edges of space is at the mercy of a general names Spears with an agenda all his own.  Now Billie, Wilks, and Bueller face a new nightmare, and it is nothing they could ever have imagined: a gift of madness from an alien world, unbalanced mind, and the experiences of a mysterious pilot named Lieutenant Ellen Ripley.
  • The Female War:
  • Lieutenant Ellen Ripley awoke from her long journey in space with a hole in her memory and an overwhelming drive to survive.  When she meets Wilks and Billie, two battered veterans in the war against the alienss she realizes she's found two comrades in arms--and she's ready to take up the fight.  Only then does she discover the devastating secret that lurks behind her long sleep.  When she, Wilks, and Billie prepare to meet the aliens head-on to turn a powerful alien queen against her spawn in a battle intended to save Earth, that secret becomes her greatest weapon--and her greatest liability.  As the fate of Earth hangs in the balance, Ripley and Billie must come to terms with what it means to be an alien . . . and what it means to be human.

Customer Reviews

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Most Helpful Reviews

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Wouldn’t want to miss the reunion.

This is a pretty solid collection of stories, three of them: Earth Hive, Nightmare Asylum and The Female War. Together these three books are the direct sequel to the movie Aliens and the continuing adventures of Ripley, Hicks and Newt. Kind of. You have to keep in mind that these were written before Alien 3 came out, and that is the most glaring problem.

Twentieth Century Fox wants to keep continuity between all Alien properties, an admirable goal, but the only way to accomplish it now is to change either the books or the films. Guess which one they chose?

They fixed this conundrum in the laziest way possible. Since Newt and Hicks are dead in the opening credits of Alien 3 they decided to just do a “find and replace” on their names, changing them to Billie (Newt) and Wilks (Hicks). Ugh, I hate it. They should have just let the movie and literature universes be separate, like Marvel, because they have made these stories worse by doing this. Not just worse, but confusing, because now you have to mentally translate these names back to the ones you know. It’s kind of disgusting really, I don’t think I will ever read these again, although I’m glad I made the effort. I always wondered what could have been.
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Love Those Aliens!

Both stories are compelling-a great read for Alien fans!
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Great collection!

A great collection of what Aliens could have been after the second film.
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Missing pages

There were about 40 pages missing from the second book. I don’t know if it just my copy or if a lot will be like this. It goes chapter 1-8 then 18-21 then 12-25. So 9-11 are missing and 18-21 are in there twice.
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Good read, despite some spelling errors.

I'm reading it now, and I love it. The writing style, however, is a hit and miss with description and expression for me. That's not the reason I gave it 4 stars, though. There are spelling errors that throw me off and ruin the jive.
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Predictable/basic storylines with Ripley featured in the 3rd

Welp. I was hoping these would be great but alas to me terrible. I knew going in that they could be "okay", i bought it cause i figured it would be a fun read within the Alienverse after seeing my boyfriend pick up books within the Halo universe after he fell in love with the games. There is no depth whatsoever to these 3 books. Could not take this author seriously. I finished the first two and then gave up very quickly on the 3rd. Clearly a cash grab based on how new the alien movies were at the time. The writing level makes me feel as if some horny 14 year old wrote it. No substance whatsoever to the very absurd relationship between billie and the android. Honestly laughed my butt off when she found out. And then to feature Ripley in the 3rd was a mistake. It was best to leave her character out of it seeing as the 3rd book doesn't line up with the alien movies. Honestly to me this was trash and will not stay in my collection/library. I'll be working my way backwards now through books in the alien universe instead of going to the 2nd or other omnibus books.
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This book is amazing to get into the syory of the alien movies

I love this book a good start to get into the aliens story
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A poor adaptation of the original comics

A disappointing novel adaptation of a visually stunning albeit predictable comic book series. All the drawbacks of the original story, plus some new ones (eg, poor action scene narration & fixation on sexuality), with none of the positives.
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Basic storytelling

It’s okay... stories are pretty basic... fun, easy reading, just no depth
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Good start to the Alien Omnibus Novels!

Loved the Alien series and decided to start reading the novels. I’m glad I started with the Earth War series as it’s very good! The second book lags a little bit but picks back up with Female War. Loved the characters of Billie and Wilks (aka Newt and Hicks.)