Aliens: Bug Hunt, the first Aliens anthology has been announced! Breaking the news via Facebook, Jonathan Maberry has revealed that he is editing a brand new Aliens anthology focusing on the Colonial Marines to be published in 2017 by Titan!
” I’m editing ALIENS: BUG HUNT, all new stories of the Colonial Marines (Titan Books, 2017) Here’s the killer lineup!
1. Brian Keene is a best-selling horror author and comic book writer. His landmark novel The Rising helped establish the genre of zombie literature.
2. Christopher Goldenn, #1 New York Times best-selling author, editor and comic book writer. His works include Tin Men, Lord Baltimore (with Mike Mignola), Cemetery Girl (with Charlaine Harris), and Aliens: River of Pain.
3. Dan Abnett is a multiple New York Times best-selling author and comic book writer who’s work includes the Gaunt’s Ghosts series, The Horus Heresy, Doctor Who, and the Guardians of the Galaxy comic that inspired the motion picture.
4. David Farland, is a New York Times award-winning author who has worked with Star Wars, the Mummy, and his own bestselling fantasy Runelords series.
5. Heather Graham Pozzessere: International best-selling author of over seventy suspense novels.
6. James A. Moore, is a best selling author of twenty-five novels including his own Seven Forges series who has also worked with Aliens, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the World Of Darkness.
7. Jonathan Maberry, NY Times bestselling author of Patient Zero, Rot & Ruin, and many other novels; anthology editor and comic book writer.
8. Keith DeCandido iis a Scribe finalist whose works include Star Trek, Supernatural, Stargate SG-1, and many others.
9. Larry Correia is the bestselling author of the Monster Hunter International series, the Grimnoir Chronicles, and the Dead Six military thrillers
10. Matt Forbeck is a New York Times bestselling author and award-winning game designer whose latest works include Halo: New Blood, the Marvel Encyclopedia, and his Shotguns & Sorcery series.
11. Mike Resnickk is a best-selling author of military science fiction, including The Outpost, The Dead Enders series, and many more; and has edited dozens of anthologies. He has won multiple Hugo Awards, the Homer Award, the Skylark Award, as well as many international awards.
12. Paul Kupperberg is a former editor in chief for DC Comics, and a prolific writer of comic books and newspaper strips.
13. Rachel Caine, New York Times bestselling author of almost 50 thriller, SF/F, and YA novels, including Ink and Bone, and the Morganville Vampires series.
14. Ray Garton, bestselling author of over sixty books and recipient of the Grandmaster Award from the World Horror Convention.
15. Scott Sigler, NY Times bestselling author of INFECTED and the ALIVE, Book I of the Generations Trilogy.
16. Tim Lebbon, is the best-selling author of Coldbrook, The Cabin in the Woods, the Noreela series of fantasy books (Dusk, Dawn, Fallen and The Island), the NY Times Bestselling novelisation of the movie 30 Days of Night, Alien: Out of the Shadows, and Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi – Into the Void.
17. Weston Ochse, USA Today New and Notable List, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of SEAL Team 666 and Grunt Life
18. Yvonne Navarro, Bram Stoker award-winning author of the Dark Redemption Series, Aliens: Music of the Spears, and seven Buffy the Vampire Slayer novels.”
Aliens: Bug Hunt, a brand new anthology focusing on the Colonial Marines, is due for release in 2017.
That extensive list of authors includes several returning veterans of Alien literature (Tim Lebbon, Christopher Golden, Dan Abnet, James Moore and Yvonne Navarro) but also welcomes an impressive 13 new names to the Alien authors club!
Aliens: Bug Hunt is currently slated for a release in 2017 but no further details are available as of yet. Keep checking back with Alien vs. Predator Galaxy for more details. Thanks to Willie Goldman for the news!
Update #1 (11/05/2016) – Keith R.A. DeCandido has shared some details about his entry in Aliens: Bug Hunt via his LiveJournal: “Called “Deep Background,” the story is about a reporter who is embedded with a group of Colonial Marines, and things do not go as planned.”
Also the release date says April 18... Surprised they'd release it so close to Alien Day, but not actually on the day itself.
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By the way, the ALIEN COVENANT prequel book is titled ALIEN COVENANT: ORIGINS.
Click the link above, takes you to the iTunes webpage, click the button to access through the iTunes app, it tries to download iTunes which I already have.
Search in iTunes app, no results.
Try it via iPhone, 'Not available in your iTunes store do you want to change?' - yes please. Search finally able to find it on ITunes store on my phone. Click Sample, 3/4 loads, button reverts back to Sample.
Think I'll wait...
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Just read it, it has
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Also, Abnett's story is called Reaper. Fingers crossed it has the Reaper aliens from that old comic.
None of the others though and unfortunately I think it is the final cover. I'll likely mention the photoshopped covers again in my review of this one.
I'm putting the final touchs on the questions to send over to Bryan later today. Thanks to those who submitted.
Great question!
Hopefully the response is that the cover is just a placeholder.
What is the range of the timeframe that the stories take place? In between any of the movies? Centuries later?
Are there any stories centered around movie characters (like how the Predator anthology is going to have the Harrigan/Garber story)?
How much freedom did the authors have in picking their subject material? Was there anything that was off-limits, or anything that was mandated that they had to include?
You beat me to it!
Well, if not an Arcturian, are we going to see any other intelligent species mentioned or met?
Scott Sigler's short is called Dangerous Prey.
Haha! I can see it in my head right now.
Please let this be a place holder, give us something by Den Beauvais or Dave Dorman. But please no more of this pathetic photoshop
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So anything part of a series, I prefer it to be a matching set. But if it's a standalone book of that franchise, then I can tolerate it. But like you said, hardbacks can be huge and take up more space than paperbacks.
Same here. Also paperbacks tend to be cheaper.
And I like the feel and even the smell of books, it's so therapeutic as I am reading in my corner.
I don't trust Electronic Media (I prefer the actual feel of a book between my fingers)