Back in September we first learnt of Titan’s new original Alien novel, The Cold Forge. Titan Books have left the official unveiling of the books cover in Alien vs. Predator Galaxy’s capable hands!
“With the failure of the Hadley’s Hope, Weyland-Yutani has suffered a devastating defeat—the loss of the Aliens. Yet there’s a reason the company rose to the top, and they have a redundancy already in place. Remote station RB-323 abruptly becomes their greatest hope for weaponizing the Xenomorph, but there’s a spy aboard—someone who doesn’t necessarily act in the company’s best interests. If discovered, this person may have no choice but to destroy RB-323… and everyone on board. That is, if the Xenomorphs don’t do the job first.”
We spoke briefly with Alex White in September who told us that if you like Aliens: Labyrinth then Alien: The Cold Forge is definitely going to appeal to you!
Alien: The Cold Forge is currently slated for release just before Alien Day 2018, on the 24th of April 2018. The novel is available to pre-order on Amazon (UK and US). You can also follow Alex White on Twitter or check out his official website.
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My review is up now.
I'll hopefully be chatting to Alex tomorrow night so any questions please throw them my way.
Not read it yet.
Yeah I'm about half way through my second read and it's even better this time.
Spoilers - srsly...
The characters are all interesting - even if they're not likeable. His villain is just so f**king horrendous that I just wanted to reach into the page and smash his head in myself (in a way that his writing as so great at doing that). His "hero" is not so much a hero but also really interesting. What he does with the Alien is also a very nice twist and something actually new. I really loved this.
https://scifibulletin.com/books/tie-in-fiction/alien-review-4-the-cold-forge/
Thumbing through it now, there’s a reference to
Also, they experiment trying to impregnate a chimp with a xeno, so maybe we’ll get some animal hybrids.
https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=26NTDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT354&dq=alien+cold+forge&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjFtc-i2JjaAhXLpI8KHTtMDnsQ6wEIKTAA#v=onepage&q=alien%20cold%20forge&f=false
Meh, I'm of two minds about it. I like that they're seemingly trying to tie the books into each other a little more closely, but on the other hand I thought setting up the colony specifically to try and find Aliens was pretty ridiculous.
I'm digging the post-Hadley's Hope angle.
I hope they all do. For the record I didn't really like Sea of Sorrows, but I think if we were to get an audio play where the characters have fairly distinguishing voices, it might work well. The problem with that book to me was that all the characters felt indistinguishable and generic. By contrast, the film Aliens made every marine a different flavor. (Except maybe those with smaller roles like Wierzbowski, Crowe, Dietrich). With very distinct voices, I suspect Sea of Sorrows might come out very good..
Granted, but from what I gather, this follows fairly soon after the events of Aliens. I can't recall when Rege War took place. It left that sort of delible impression upon me.
In truth, one could expect that a situation similar to Alien Isolation's Amanda Ridley would happen. Every one of the Marines has family after all. They would all be trying to find out what happened. We got to see Vasquez's little sister in the original ACM comics if I remember correctly...
Van Leuwen
Morse
Bishop II + his crew
Adventures of Jones
But that's about it.
The survivors of Alien: Resurrection already have their story continuation in Original Sin (it's actually quite good, they should write a sequel).
I imagine it's just a gaff. Could always try tweeting Alex to ask?