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.”
The kinda of firepower on display in that scene makes it pretty obvious they aren't fighting prisoners who don't even have access to firearms.
Nothing to say it's not some other random planet simply inspired by the look of Fury.
LITERALLY MAN!
It might be some kind of new alien beast.
Or it could be an technological and intelligent alien race that is hostile, just like River of Pain and Incursion mentioned in one lines. Finally those one lines may be turned into a story!
Maybe even Arcturians show up finally. After so many mentions and that "there are plans for them" hint.
IT'S HAPPENING!
YYYEEESSSS!!!!!!!!!
The history of the facility is covered quite deeply in ADF's Alien 3 novelization. I have vague memories of them talking about the discovery/habitability of the planet in there.
It probably a moon when the suns are setting. Might be a mountain, though nothing that big can be seen when the EEV is crashing.
Thanks for sharing that, SM, that was really interesting.
Btw, is that a moon in the scene where we see the horizon and makeshift crucifix? Its gotta be right?
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limited. Plant life consists of algae, moss, and a primitive
type of salt grass. The acidic oceans support plankton and a
few rudimentary fishlike species; on land, there are insects
and arthropods. One of these arthropods—an ectoparasite
similar to pediculus humanus capitis (head lice) but
extremely resistant to treatment—is carnivorous and is
drawn to the keratin found in mammalian hair. Inhabitants of
Fiorina 161 were forced to continually shave all body hair.
WYR - pp129
Oh yeah.
Also Out of the Shadows mentions some space fleas that infest human ships. And we see this weird bug in Alien: Resurrection, in the alternative intro.
Maybe the fleas of Fury could've come from another world by taking a ride on human ships.
Funny, I'm pretty sure you just stated it. Isn't that enough?
Nowhere specifically from memory. Though they do seem to have a marked lack of airlocks.
Wouldn't Fiorina be relatively ideal for mass colonization?
Without reading the thread you linked, I could come up with a couple scenarios off the top of my head. Maybe, being an already-habitable planet, Fiorina is one of the "older" colonies (as in, more time for the Company to pollute it, f**k it up, and then bail), or perhaps it's at the crossroads of popular trade routes which make it a convenient dumping ground (or conversely, it's at the ass-end of nowhere, making it unappealing for long-term colonization).
Or like you said, terraforming planets with mining opportunities might be more appealing and profitable than colonizing already-habitable planets that just have real estate and not much else.
Where was that stated? I'm curious.
I always thought the flea problem was something that humans could've brought along with them from another world. Like how we accidentally spread rats all over Earth from their native countries.
Didn't it have indigenous life? That would seem to indicate it was naturally habitable.
As I said in an old post, it was always strange to me that a (by our current standards) rare gem of a planet like Fiorina wouldn't be massively colonized, given its atmosphere and gravity were obviously suitable for long-term human habitation.
Then again, it seems to me that the entire planet was the company's private property and not some cooperative effort between Weyland-Yutani and Colonial Administration like LV-426 was.
Hell, maybe artificially engineered "shake and bake" colonies end up being preferable to human settlers than naturally habitable but otherwise unattractive shitholes like Fiorina.
(I'm being facetious)
I assume he means Fiorina having a naturally-breathable atmosphere.
So, you want them to go back and digitally give them holograms and laser guns...?
Not to mention being able to carry on with a good-sized snake in your chest.
I always rationalized "sounds" in space of the Alien movies to be ship radios picking up the sounds as it does scientifically make sense to me.
I'm curious about blast waves. Would there be a blast wave after a ship explodes? I heard that if you detonate a nuke in space, there's no blast wave due to a lack of atmosphere and air, so if nukes were involved in a space battle, it'd either be a direct hit or you'd just be unlucky and be caught in the explosion the moment it happens or something.
But in Alien, when the Nostromo explodes you see the Narcissus shook by the blast wave. Similar thing happened in AvP2010 when the Marlowe gets blown up by the Predators, the blast wave smacks your drop ship and eventually something slams into Rookie's head and knocks him out.
Maybe it could be due to some tachyon drive rupture or other technobabble reasons why the blast waves are so violent in the Alien universe when it comes to explosions in space.
By sound in space I take it you mean the Nostromo exploding? That's used for dramatic effect (and the movie came out two years after Star Wars). Faster-than-light travel and artificial gravity are also nonsense concepts, but they're likewise used for storytelling purposes.
The impossibly small size of LV-426, on the other hand, isn't.
It begs the question, why accept the number just because a character speaks it, especially when that number is contradicted by on-screen evidence and basic common sense, and is so easily fixed?
Also what did you mean by "breathable fury"?
But hearing sound in the conventional sense of actual molecules vibrating? No, we wouldn't hear that.
Shit, if you really wanted an explanation for the Nostromo's explosion sound, you could handwave it as literally being the Narcissus' radio receiver picking up the radio frequency waves caused by the blast.
But I've seen some sources say there's sound in space. You can even check out recordings of noises on youtube.
However, I don't know if we'd actually hear an explosion in space.
As for breathable Fury, I don't see how that's an issue in a world with atmospheric processors.
To be really fair, the beacon's deactivation was never addressed openly in either of the films..
But hey, to each their own I guess. It's all fiction after all.
There's a particularly funny comic about an Imperial veteran several decades after Endor, sitting in a bar and telling his story of how the vicious, savage Ewoks methodically dismantled his stormtrooper squad, and he ends his story with "the only thing that lets me sleep at night is the knowledge that the Ewoks all burned in hell when the Death Star's debris rained down on their forest", and another bar patron chimes in and says, "Uhh the Rebel fleet intercepted all of the debris, the Ewoks are fine, dude." And the Imperial veteran has this thousand-yard stare on his face. It's pretty great.
The DS2 debris interception gets mentioned in a couple other EU sources, too.
I really wish the WY Report had used some critical thinking and independent thought rather than slavish, dogmatic adherence to "the source material", because not only did it goof up LV-426's size, but it similarly goofed up LV-223 while it was at it (1400km diameter, lol). And LV-223 can't even be blamed on "the source material", since the WY Report was fabricating the number from whole cloth.
At least with the WY Report it can easily be chalked up to a typo "in universe".
Much easier than trying to defy science with bullcraponium. The idea of the planet actually being that small is dumb, just move the decimal like the Tech Manual did.
What does SM say about it?
I don't recall the SW EU ever addressing the inevitable physical consequences of the DS2's explosion over Endor.
Surely you can come up with a better reason?
Likewise, LV-426's size got addressed too: Lambert mis-spoke.
Again, surely you've got a better reason?
Like it's not even like the 12,000 number is a fan construct, it comes from a canon source and specifically addresses an error in the movie. Blindly accepting the movie's number "just cuz" is like the pinnacle of fanboyism and cognitive dissonance.