Alien: Colony War
By David Barnett
- Release Date: 2022-04-26
- Genre: Fiction & Literature
Description
Political conflicts on Earth erupt into open hostilities between their colonies in space, with Xenomorphs as the ultimate weapon.
On Earth, political tensions boil over between the United Americas, Union of Progressive Peoples, and Three World Empire. Conflict spreads to the outer fringes, and the UK colony of New Albion breaks with the Three World empire. This could lead to a... Colony War.
Trapped in the middle are journalist Cher Hunt, scientist Chad McLaren, and the synthetic Davis. Seeking to discover who caused the death of her sister, Shy Hunt, Cher uncovers a far bigger story. McLaren's mission, fought alongside his wife Amanda Ripley, is to stop the militarization of the deadliest weapon of all—the Xenomorph.
Their trail leads to a drilling facility on LV-187. Someone or something has destroyed it, killing the personnel, and the British are blamed. Colonial forces arrive, combat erupts, then both groups are overwhelmed by an alien swarm. Their only hope may lie with the Royal Marines unit known as "God's Hammer."
Bonus Feature: An exclusive new game scenario based on the massively popular, award-winning Alien RPG from Free League Publishing!
Reviews
FANtastic
5By shazbot89This was one of the most satisfying explorations of the Alien universe. Bringing the sense of horror from the first and second movies and the strained camaraderie and sacrifice of the third; even sharing roots with Into Charybdis. Highly recommend.Take off and nuke this book from orbit
1By BwiddoesHaving read fantastic books based in the Alien universe I’m sorry to say this is nowhere near anything like those. Despite what would be an interesting premise the plot falls completely face first into idiocy, including one-dimensional stale characters and a total lack of common sense or realism, even for a science-fiction novel.
