Last year Jonathan Maberry revealed that he was editing an Aliens anthology for Titan books called Aliens: Bug Hunt. Back in July, Bryan Thomas Schmidt revealed that he was also going to be editing a Predator anthology for Titan.
Titan hasn’t officially announced it yet though. They’ve left that in the capable hands of Alien vs. Predator Galaxy! We can now exclusively reveal the cover art and line-up for Predator: If It Bleeds!
“Seventeen brand new, never before seen stories—exclusive to this collection—featuring the Predators throughout space and time. Based entirely on the original films, novels, and comics, PREDATOR: IF IT BLEEDS (a quote from the original movie) reveals the Predators stalking prey in 12th Century Japan, 9th Century Viking Norway, World War I, Vietnam, the Civil War, Hurricane Katrina, and the modern day, as well as across the far reaches of future space.”
Predator: If It Bleeds, a brand new Predator anthology novel from Titan Books and Bryan Thomas Schmidt, due for release October 17th.
If It Bleeds will feature stories written by returning Predator authors Tim Lebbon (The Rage Wars), John Shirley (Forever Midnight) and both the legendary Steve and Stephani Perry (Turnabout, Prey, War). Aliens: Bug Hunt editor Jonathan Maberry is crossing franchises and picking up a pen alongside If It Bleeds’ editor Bryan Thomas Schmidt. You can check out the full author and title list below!
- DEVIL DOGS by Tim Lebbon
- STONEWALL’S LAST STAND by Jeremy Robinson
- REMATCH by Steve Perry
- MAY BLOOD PAVE MY WAY HOME by Weston Ochse
- STORM BLOOD by Peter J. Wacks and David Boop
- LAST REPORT FROM THE KSS PSYCHOPOMP by Jennifer Brozek
- SKELD’S KEEP by S. D. Perry
- INDIGENOUS SPECIES by Kevin J. Anderson
- BLOOD AND SAND by Mira Grant
- TIN WARRIORS by John Shirley
- THREE SPARKS by Larry Correia
- THE PILOT by Andrew Mayne
- BUFFALO JUMP by Wendy N. Wagner
- DRUG WAR by Bryan Thomas Schmidt and Holly Roberds
- RECON by Dayton Ward
- GAMEWORLD by Jonathan Maberry
Alien vs. Predator Galaxy recently spoke to Tim Lebbon after the last Rage Wars book was published and he told us a little about what to expect in his short story, Devil Dogs: “I’m writing a DevilDogs/Akoko Halley story for that anthology. It’s set before the Rage War and takes place when she’s a Captain, during her early life in the Colonial Marines.”
Predator: If It Bleeds is due for release on the 17th of October and is available to pre-order on Amazon (UK/US) and other retailers now.
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Or will this be one where Corporal Hicks asks them questions and forwards some of our own questions as well? The type that is posted on the site news."
I might be willing myself to do some kind of Ask thing but my authors will do short interviews, and I have to prescreen the questions for Fox but I believe Hicks said he'll let you all submit some.
It'll likely be this one. I'll open the floor to questions in the Bug Hunt thread when we're ready to go.
Thanks! Already Pre-ordered Bug Hunt myself.
I wonder if the authors may have a thread for them. Like Steve Perry had "Ask Steve Perry" and so did John Shirley with "Ask John Shirley", they are in the archives now and fans used to go to the threads to ask the authors questions which they would then answer and have a chat with the community.
Or will this be one where Corporal Hicks asks them questions and forwards some of our own questions as well? The type that is posted on the site news.
Either way, I am excited to hear what they have to say.
Hell yeah, we need some more Harrigan.
Pre-ordered, looking forward to this immensely.
Just gotta wait until October...
I'm much more excited for this (and Bug Hunt, the Aliens book) than the last round of novels purely because they promise to be so much more diverse.
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I'm also curious about that! Maybe "Super Predators are the Hish" will be made official canon.
I am excited to see how the Yautja and Hish-qu-Ten get reconciled.
Hurricane Katrina? Gotta admit, its a random but curious choice of location to me.
Ha! Awesome
Meanwhile, I read all the novels, three graphic novel omnibuses, and several AvP novels and comics to prepare and we may miss stuff but I tried very hard for some continuity and to use my story to connect with the films. Perry and Lebbon connected with EU.
This book may yet include another surprise, pending agreement, as it is the 30th anniversary of the franchise...
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Understood. Hope that's the case! It'd be amazing if you managed to get Jeff VanderMeer for one as well. His Predator novel is probably my favourite! Is there much interest in doing additional anthologies?
I know Bryan addressed this but I vaguely remember John Shirley talking about trying reconcile the 2 concepts when he actually heard about the Yautja. To be honest, it's probably a better move sticking with the Yautja as a lot of Predator fans are really drawn to that.
Really curious to see where your story goes! Predator has never really had any flowing through-lines with the films so that'll be really fun to see a semi-sequel.
Awesome! I am so excited for this novel!
A story with Harrigan and Garber is a great idea, looking forward to it.
Wow.
Besides Lebbon's prequel to Rage War, Steve Perry writes a sequel to his novel Turnabout. And my story stars Danny Glover's Mike Harrigan in Brazil and features Adam Baldwin's Garber too.
For me, i am really looking forward to this.
Super excited to pick this up.
I feel your pain, I just don't understand why they can't use actual original art. Titan is an odd company though imo.
Really excited to get both this and bughunt thats for sure.
Great list of authors though. Fantastic job having the Perry's back! I had though Nathan Archer was supposed to be writing a short so a little disappointed to not see his name there. Lots of great authors though. Really interested to see all these.
Better than the Bug Hunt cover, looks good.