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Summary: This book is SOOOOOO! cool, you have too read it!!!!!
Review: It is one of the most compelling books in the Aliens series. I just love how the greedy industrialist turns into a soldier. It also shows the greed of the human spirit and the depths of our lust for profit over the value of human life.
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Summary: A good read
Review: It's always a bit diff to recommend a book if you don't know what the reader's prefs are. So if you liked the movies A1, A2 and A4, then you'll like this book. Maybe for some people's taste it starts off too slowly, that is, except of a short intermezzo right at the beginning Aliens do not show up. However, in the book's last quarter they do, and there you've got the tension you seeked for. Some new technical stuff has been invented to withstand the Alien threat, and it's a fascination read. Not as good as the first 3 books, but a good read.
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Summary: Marenies get some Roal Queen Jelly from the Queen for FIRE.
Review: The book is about a bunch of Mareins that drop off on the Alien home planet to get Roal Queen Jelly from the Mother Queen. Their are just a few prolems, 1 the Aleins split into two races, red and black (they look they same but their diffrent). The 2nd problem is that their is a tratior aboard the ship. The mareins basically have to get into the hive, fight the two types of aleins, kill the Queen Mother, steel her Roaly Queen Jelly, find the trator and get out of their as fast as they can. The Roal Queen Jelly is then going to be used for xeno-nip, or Fire. It gives humans alein reflexes and turns them into a super human. In other words they can get chopped up, wich they do, and still fight. I like this book a lot becuse it is full of ation and just about every minet some one, or some thing, is getting their head choped off.
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Summary: The newest mediocre Aliens story
Review: There isn't that much wrong with 'Aliens Genocide' that isn't wrong with the course of the whole 'Aliens' franchise, but this book seems somewhat emblematic with how tired the subject has become. Based upon the Darkhorse Graphic series of the same name, 'Genocide' occurs about a generation after the 'Female War'. (For those whose knowledge of Aliens ends with the first two flicks, an update: prior to 'Alien3' Darkhorse printed Aliens mini-series, the early ones dwelling on the main characters who survived the 2nd movie; 'Genocide' was the first comic to jettison the original characters of Aliens. The first series had Aliens finally reaching Earth due to corporate greed, governmental collusion and ' new for the franchise ' a religious cult. Ripley, who sat out the first two series, returned for 'Female War' in which she tracks down the Aliens' queen mother and, bringing her to Earth, dispatches her with nukes. As we all know, if there'' one way to be sure of anything, it involves nukes. Darkhorse began novelizing the graphic novels after Alien3 was released, and had to rework the stories to account for characters we now know did not survive Aliens.) With the queen mother dispatched, Earth's infestation problem becomes manageable. Grant, a corrupt businessman modeled on Gordon Gecko and Donald Trump, owns a pharmaceutical company that manufactures drugs based on chemicals secreted by the alien queen. When those using the drugs demonstrate an unexpected side effect ' turning them into mindless killing machines ' the military suddenly renews its interest. You guessed it. Since the mysterious 'royal jelly' can only be obtained on a planet crawling with ferocious alien bugs, it's time for greed and arrogance to override good sense and the impulse for self preservation - all other considerations secondary. For reasons never made convincingly clear, Grant decides to accompany the intrepid voyagers to the Aliens' planet. (Simply because economic ruin hangs over his head, we're supposed to think he'll easily face the possibility of hosting a chestburster? I don't think so.) The humans have technology on their side, but the aliens offer a new wrinkle ' the death of the Queen Mother has fragmented the aliens' crude society, causing the hives to war against another, but not so much that they won't tear apart anybody else they see. Worse, a saboteur has snuck aboard the expedition, threatening to end the mission'and Grant's life. That said, 'Genocide' punks out. Grant becomes the hero after an unconvincing change of heart. The saboteur is no surprise when revealed (the story telegraphs so much suspicion on one character, it's no great surprise when he turns out to be innocent.), and the moral of the story could only be appreciated by people willing to aknowledge being as amoral as the main characters of this story start out as. Where this story shows how tired the whole Alien saga has become is by not doing much scary with them ' they fight in the open, and mankind has already learned how to control them if sometimes sloppily (now they're no scarier than nuclear power). For a better story, get the Darkhorse graphic novel 'Alien: Hives' or 'Sacrifices' ' which are more compact stories run on tighter characters.
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Summary: The newest mediocre Aliens story
Review: There isn�t that much wrong with �Aliens Genocide� that isn�t wrong with the course of the whole �Aliens� franchise, but this book seems somewhat emblematic with how tired the subject has become. Based upon the Darkhorse Graphic series of the same name, �Genocide� occurs about a generation after the �Female War�. (For those whose knowledge of Aliens ends with the first two flicks, an update: prior to �Alien3� Darkhorse printed Aliens mini-series, the early ones dwelling on the main characters who survived the 2nd movie; �Genocide� was the first comic to jettison the original characters of Aliens. The first series had Aliens finally reaching Earth due to corporate greed, governmental collusion and � new for the franchise � a religious cult. Ripley, who sat out the first two series, returned for �Female War� in which she tracks down the Aliens� queen mother and, bringing her to Earth, dispatches her with nukes. As we all know, if there'� one way to be sure of anything, it involves nukes. Darkhorse began novelizing the graphic novels after Alien3 was released, and had to rework the stories to account for characters we now know did not survive Aliens.) With the queen mother dispatched, Earth�s infestation problem becomes manageable. Grant, a corrupt businessman modeled on Gordon Gecko and Donald Trump, owns a pharmaceutical company that manufactures drugs based on chemicals secreted by the alien queen. When those using the drugs demonstrate an unexpected side effect � turning them into mindless killing machines � the military suddenly renews its interest. You guessed it. Since the mysterious �royal jelly� can only be obtained on a planet crawling with ferocious alien bugs, it�s time for greed and arrogance to override good sense and the impulse for self preservation - all other considerations secondary. For reasons never made convincingly clear, Grant decides to accompany the intrepid voyagers to the Aliens� planet. (Simply because economic ruin hangs over his head, we�re supposed to think he�ll easily face the possibility of hosting a chestburster? I don�t think so.) The humans have technology on their side, but the aliens offer a new wrinkle � the death of the Queen Mother has fragmented the aliens� crude society, causing the hives to war against another, but not so much that they won�t tear apart anybody else they see. Worse, a saboteur has snuck aboard the expedition, threatening to end the mission�and Grant�s life. That said, �Genocide� punks out. Grant becomes the hero after an unconvincing change of heart. The saboteur is no surprise when revealed (the story telegraphs so much suspicion on one character, it�s no great surprise when he turns out to be innocent.), and the moral of the story could only be appreciated by people willing to aknowledge being as amoral as the main characters of this story start out as. Where this story shows how tired the whole Alien saga has become is by not doing much scary with them � they fight in the open, and mankind has already learned how to control them if sometimes sloppily (now they�re no scarier than nuclear power). For a better story, get the Darkhorse graphic novel �Alien: Hives� or �Sacrifices� � which are more compact stories run on tighter characters.
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Summary: I loved the book a lot!
Review: This book kept my attention the whole way through. In the book there are two main characters throughout the whole book. They are Daniel Grant and Colonel Alex Kozlowski. The Daniel fella is a ladies man to put it lightly. Then on the other side of the spectrum you have Alex who is kind of a manly lady. She doesnt wear any type of makeup whatsoever and doesnt care what other people think of her. In the beginning of the story it talks of how Daniel puts on a show of his money even though he is running on empty in the cash world. He used to be rich but then lost almost all of it to people who had problems with the main drug that Daniel's company was selling. The problems with the drug he is selling is that it needs alien jelly to make the product but they are right next to running out of jelly so he plans an expedition to the alien Hiveworld to either kill or capture the queen so they can collect all the royla jelly they can. Daniel Grant had not planned on going but when a man called Morton Fisk tries to kill Grant, Grant runs to the safest place he can think of. The spaceship Razzia which is goig to the alien Hiveworld. He gets onboard and they are on their way to the Hiveworld. Thats all I can say without blowing the ending. All I can say is that this book is way worth the reading. Just Read It!
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Summary: I loved the book a lot!
Review: This book kept my attention the whole way through. In the book there are two main characters throughout the whole book. They are Daniel Grant and Colonel Alex Kozlowski. The Daniel fella is a ladies man to put it lightly. Then on the other side of the spectrum you have Alex who is kind of a manly lady. She doesnt wear any type of makeup whatsoever and doesnt care what other people think of her. In the beginning of the story it talks of how Daniel puts on a show of his money even though he is running on empty in the cash world. He used to be rich but then lost almost all of it to people who had problems with the main drug that Daniel's company was selling. The problems with the drug he is selling is that it needs alien jelly to make the product but they are right next to running out of jelly so he plans an expedition to the alien Hiveworld to either kill or capture the queen so they can collect all the royla jelly they can. Daniel Grant had not planned on going but when a man called Morton Fisk tries to kill Grant, Grant runs to the safest place he can think of. The spaceship Razzia which is goig to the alien Hiveworld. He gets onboard and they are on their way to the Hiveworld. Thats all I can say without blowing the ending. All I can say is that this book is way worth the reading. Just Read It!
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Summary: Good, but doesn't match up to Earth Hive.
Review: This book was good because it gave the real feeling of how human greed can make people do stupid things, just like in Earth Hive which kicked off this entire series. Still, the action sequences involving the Aliens and their civil war weren't as descriptive as I would have liked. The twists in the plot were quite inventive, but still, I think this book could have been better. Although it is still a very good book on it's own, I think it still pales in comparison to some of the other Aliens novels.
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Summary: Knowledgable Reader
Review: 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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Summary: Knowledgable Reader
Review: 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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