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Summary: One of the best books I've ever read. A very good story
Review: I couldn't put this book down. It was very good and after this one, I had to keep going with the series and now I'm on Alien Harvest. A must read book. If you haven't read this yet, read it. Very good story and plot.
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Summary: A Mixed-Bag
Review: I didn't start reading an Aliens novel with real high expectations, and I got pretty much what I expected. I haven't read the comics upon which this book is based, so I can't tell if it's an accurate adaptation, but it was an ok story. The cover of this book is really cool; it's what led me to pick it up in the first place. Unfortunately, it's the best part of the book. As soon as you open the novel, you see that this is not Steve Perry in his best form. He constantly plugs in commas where semi-colons would be much more appropriate, and neglects to put commas where they should be, which makes many sentences read quite awkwardly. He uses very short paragraphs, often jumping from thing to thing without really going into them. This book could've gotten another star just for being well-edited. The backstory of the characters is exactly the same as the story of Aliens -- a squad of Colonial marines goes to Rim to investigate something, finds the aliens, nukes the colony (it's the only way to be sure), and there are only 2 survivors -- a marine corporal and a civilian girl. Turns out, thought, that the girls parents started the alien problem when they discovered a giant, horseshoe shaped derelict spacecraft and went to investigate...sound familiar? Also, this book spans nearly three years, most of it at the end. There are a ton of characters, multiple plotlines evolving at once. It's just too short. With another hundred or two pages, we could've gotten to know the characters, instead of just observing their actions; the neatest sequence in the book, the alien takeover, could've been shown in a lot more depth. Overall, this story is a semi-entertaining, somewhat well-written contribution to the Aliens saga, but it could've been much better.
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Summary: If you liked the movies, you'll like this book
Review: I enjoyed this book. It went right along with the original storyline from the moview. I look forward to reading the others in the series.
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Summary: Action Packed and intruiging
Review: I have always been a fan of the alien saga, but have never tried the books. So I picked up earth hive at waldenbooks, and finished in 3 days. WOW! The book was excellent, blending the terror, horror, let's go kick some but attitude of the marines, and a great story idea. Even better is the potraying of future earth. I am reading it for the second time now! AN EXCELLENT BOOK! A MUST BUY!!
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Summary: Pretty solid, what Alien coulda been
Review: I remember reading this book many years ago when it originally came out along with many of Perry's other "Aliens" based novels. From what I recall this was definitely one of the better ones. Pick it up if you were a big fan of Aliens and not Alien 3. Ok, just to clear up a little confusion. The reason the characters Billie and Wilks seem so similiar to Newt and Hicks is because they are the same characters. This novel was adapted from a series of Dark Horse comics that came out before Newt and Hicks were killed off in Alien 3. Obviously this posed a problem when they decided to release this novel in '92. So basically they just changed the names and left the story alone. So to all the people who think the characthers in this book are unoriginal, think again. This was originally a continuation of Newt and Hicks from Aliens.
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Summary: Pretty solid, what Alien coulda been
Review: I remember reading this book many years ago when it originally came out along with many of Perry's other "Aliens" based novels. From what I recall this was definitely one of the better ones. Pick it up if you were a big fan of Aliens and not Alien 3. Ok, just to clear up a little confusion. The reason the characters Billie and Wilks seem so similiar to Newt and Hicks is because they are the same characters. This novel was adapted from a series of Dark Horse comics that came out before Newt and Hicks were killed off in Alien 3. Obviously this posed a problem when they decided to release this novel in '92. So basically they just changed the names and left the story alone. So to all the people who think the characthers in this book are unoriginal, think again. This was originally a continuation of Newt and Hicks from Aliens.
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Summary: A very nice spinoff of the movies
Review: I think one of the main things this book does is show what human civilization is like in the future. It's a subject that really wasn't touched upon by the Alien movies. And it also shows what would happen if some people on earth knew about the xenomorphs. After all, just because Ripley killed what she and others thought was the last bug (at least until Resurrection came out) doesn't mean that it was the last one. The book showed the less-than-surprising way in which a corporation would react: Try to make them weapons. And it showed the horrifying way in which the equivalent of a UFO fanatic would act. Or more accurately a group of them. The characters are pretty well developed, and there is a good reason for the stock character marines for being so stock. There also some nicely done hints as to the reason laced through the book until the reason is revealed in a rather forceful way. There are a few things that could have been done better though. There seemed to be an excessive amount of cussing, but in between that, the narcotic vending machines, and the discussion of pleasure droids, it adds to the feeling that society has degraded in the future. It's a bit of a mystery how they pinpointed the "homeworld" of the aliens, especially since it obviously is a different planet from the Hiveworld in Female War. The non-xenomorph alien that pops in is also kind of a mystery, but then again it might be the species the ruined space space ship from Alien belonged to, in which case it's a nice way to tie in the first movie. And the ability of a drone to have changed into a queen seems contrary to what speculation into the movies has come up with, that even without an ovipositer an alien has a limited egg laying ability to lay a queen-baring face hugger egg along with one or two normal eggs. But these problems are pretty minimal and don't hinder the answer the book provides to another question: What would happen if some of the aliens were free on Earth?
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Summary: this is action that delivers
Review: If you like action and gore this has it all.
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Summary: excellent
Review: If you LOVED the Aliens(Return) movie, this book is the one for you to read. If you expected Alien3 to be a movie that somehow could act as a successor of Aliens2, but were deeply disappointed,then do read this book. Earth hive is a story that has many parallelsto Aliens2, in fact I would describe it as a clone of A2, with a slightly altered story but with all the tension, horror and 'technical' feeling you got from A2. Strongly recommendable!
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Summary: Great Book
Review: It was an action packed book. it was very long but was thrillin
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