We’ve just uploaded an interview with John Shirley, the man behind the love-hate Predator Forever Midnight – I’m a lover myself. He talks about his previous novel Forever Midnight and his upcoming Alien novel, Steel Egg:
“AvPGalaxy – The Hish and the Yautja were very different. The Yautja followed the samurai style culture the comics created while the Hish were based more off the movie Predators. What sort of research did you put into creating the Hish?
John Shirley – Why these aliens would have a Samurai style culture I don’t know. My job was to write a tie-in TO THE MOVIES. Not a tie in to somebody’s comic book version. I simply watched the movies and imagined the race as it might be in a way I thought was entertaining and a bit amusing and exciting. The movies and the “bible” were my research. Again I was told that little was known about them so I assumed that was true. That left little to research.”
I touched a lot on the idea of the Hish, a feature of the novel which caused some stir in the community. You can read the full interview here.
As for Leona you mean the actress Maria Francessica Garcia Banana Fana Mi my mo........the spanish lady with the huge title of name was a good point. Predator 2 showed all the aspects of honor, by not hunting anyone without a gun, with a child, or a child as in the first film to a degree. Also been shown in the most recent Predator game CJ (kinda wish I kept it ) and to a lesser degree in the AVP games (depends if you want to be a bad blood or not .) LOL about Scar, I just took it as we get a cool closeup of what the Preds look like with modern technology. (I like the Preds face ) All the Preds were male, I think it was said somewhere in the Unrated version it was a symbol of their manhood. at least in Hunter's Planet kept the Yautja aspect though, most fans didn't care for it, I simply enjoyed it. As for the Yautja, being on such a long hiatus in the novels and comics, probably took a break from hunting anything worthy, until they found out their other( brother or sister w/e) race was running the show, that doesn't fly too well with any Yautja Clan Elder I would think, epecially with the all the rules the Hish have broken with one book. Now about that Flesh and Blood book, perhaps one of the authors could include that as well........ 
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