With Alan Dean Foster’s Alien: Covenant – Origins just over 2 weeks away from release, and Bryan Thomas Schmidt’s anthology, Predator: If It Bleeds, due for release mid-October, Titan are now listing a new Alien book for release April 24th 2018!
Currently titled Alien: The Cold Forge, Titan’s new Alien book is a return to the novel format. Aside from the title and the release date, there’s no additional official information about the book. However, thanks to the sleuthing work of Ultramorph, we know that Alex White will be writing the novel and we’ve also got a synopsis:
“This was announced at DragonCon, but I’m excited to tell you more! Alex White is writing an ALIEN novel for Titan Books.
THE COLD FORGE is about Blue Marsalis, a scientist with ALS who hopes experiments on xenomorphs will lead to a cure. It goes… not well. With test subjects gone rogue and a Weyland-Yutani mercenary sent to kill her, her only defense is a robot she controls remotely with her mind. It’s a tense psychological thriller with two compelling, morally complex leads (Blue and the hitman), and I’m very excited about it!”
Cover art for #2 of Aliens Series 2 (later retitled Nightmare Asylum) by Den Beauvais.
The above comes from a social media post by Connor Goldsmith, a Literary Agent and Alex White’s bio on his Twitter account confirms he is writing the novel. Alien: The Cold Forge is currently available to pre-order on Amazon (UK and US). Thanks to felix and Ultramorph for the news.
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Ill Echo Huda's thoughts on Hadley's being a deliberate attempt to follow up on the Nostromo. I prefer that it's a coincidence. Although a big one at that
Hmmm...I wonder if this is going to be following on from River of Pain in terms of Hadley's Hope being deliberately there to follow up on the Nostromo mystery?
It's why everyone was dumping buckets of icy water on their heads a couple of years back.
https://bnccatalist.ca/ViewTitle.aspx?id=10990860
Thanks Hicks.
This is what Steven Hawking has.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amyotrophic_lateral_sclerosis
This is becoming increasingly interesting.
I thought the bulk of the story in Labyrinth was disappointingly generic, but there's no denying that hive flashback is the single greatest thing to come out of the EU.
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Been having a couple of exchanges with Alex on Twitter. He says if you like Labryinth, you'll like Cold Forge!
https://twitter.com/alexrwhite/status/908324204998647809
What kind of Wikia editor are you?!
Yeah, I'm getting No Exit vibes. That book would have been amazing had it not descended into madness for the last third of the book. Hopefully Cold Forge will avoid that!
Sweet!
Thanks.
I'm portuguese.
Thanks for the finds felix and Ultra. Currently frontpaging this up now.
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Writer seems to be Alex White:
https://mobile.twitter.com/alexrwhite?lang=en
Searched on Facebook and found a public post from Connor Goldsmith, who seems to be a literary agent:
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