A new Alien novel called Alien: Inferno’s Fall from Titan Books is on its way next year. The news comes from a listing on Amazon with a release date of July 26, 2022. The novel is written by Philippa Ballantine with Clara Carija co-writing the story.
Clara Carija might be quite familiar in the community as she previously ran Studio Yutani and the Yutani Podcast. Philippa Ballantine is a New Zealand-born fantasy writer and author of the “Books of the Order,” “The Chronicles of Art” and the “Shifted World” series.
We’ve also got a blurb from Amazon about what the story entails and temporary cover art. Alien: Inferno’s Fall will take place at a mining planet where the black liquid from a Engineer ship transforms organisms below into Xenomorphs. A rescue team, led by marine Zula Hendrix, is sent to help the colonists.
The character of Zula Hendrix might be familiar to fans. She previously appeared in the 2019 novels: Alien: Isolation and Alien: Prototype as well as the comic books series’ Aliens: Defiance, Aliens: Resistance and Aliens: Rescue.
A gargantuan, horseshoe-shaped ship appears over the mining planet Shānmén, unleashing a black rain of death that creates Xenomorph-like monsters worse than the darkest of nightmares.
As war breaks out among the colonies, a huge ship appears over the UPP mining planet Shānmén, unleashing a black rain of death that yields hideous transformations. Rescue is too far away, and the colonists’ only hope appears in the form of the vessel Righteous Fury. It carries the Jackals—an elite mix of former Colonial Marines and Royal Marines. Led by Zula Hendrix, the Jackals seek to rescue the few survivors from the depths of the planet, but have they arrived time?
Alien: Inferno’s Fall is slated for release on July 26, 2022 – that’s just after Titan’s other novels: David Barnett’s Alien: Colony War and Aliens vs. Predators: Rift War from Yvonne Navarro and Weston Ochse.
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I don't understand where "probably" part comes from. Into Charybdis and Infiltrator may had a decent enough covers but this blew both of them right out of f**king water
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Kinda funky but I like it, reminds me of this, early 2000s.
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Macguffins usually are.
Oh my.
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Thank you, Sir! Very much appreciated!
Ridley told me to tell you "Sir, f*** you, f*** you, thank you, f*** you, go f*** yourself, sorry go on"
Ridley? That you? Thanks for stopping by, I've been enjoying your The Last Duel/House of Gucci press tour!
Thank you Hicks!! This was what I was trying to say; you just articulated it far better than I did lol
Oh, I meant "not a franchise tie-in at all and just be an original one off story in its own world" would have been a better use of the bones of that novel. Feels like it'd have been a decent if forgettable novel without the Alien stuff crammed in, but as is, it's a "meh" result.
Well I definitely like that type of Magic.
But for me, the more Alien becomes less about the Aliens, the more this IP loses its identity and subsequently becomes less special... and starts feeling like run-of-the-mill clones of other movies with their infected zombies and grotesque Thing-like abominations.
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Nah cuz the language there says "all derivative works" so they capture it all. For that, it's a question of whether a judge agrees or not...
Mind screw and creatures, huh? seems like a perfect job for Mr. Hawley.
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I just got excited that you also think that Runner was f**king with Golic's mind via telepathy ('cause that's a theory I subscribe to) ...
... but then I realised you were talking about DH comics
There are lots of things connected within the universe that I like, that I would also feel cheated by if I picked up a book with Aliens on the title and saw that it focused solely on those elements. I just feel that if you're going to shift the primary threat away from the capital-A Alien and instead focus on the side elements you're agreeing with Scott that the beast itself is cooked and we might as well move on to something new without the baggage.
Been here since the original Alien 3! It's been a part of the series so long, I'm just very used to it. It's why I have no issue with it.
It's how it is in my headcanon, but something like it should have actually been in the book IMHO.
This isn't WH40K.
But I've probably put too much thought into it because the book was boring as hell anyway, and I don't remember any exploding sheep...
I wouldn't go that far personally. It just jumped a shark with the exploding sheep. It had some truly interesting concepts with the cult and the visions - I just wished they'd have tied it into the franchise more with them being some sort of transmission from the Engineers or some other alien species that had come in contact with the Aliens.
My problems weren't about it not including the Aliens - it could have been tied in more effectively with the other alien aspects of the franchise. But it was just a meh book for me. The cult, as interesting as they were, weren't particularly effect in their attempts. Walter was barely in it. The rest of the crew was barely in it. It didn't quite fit with the film, or the promotional material. And we all wanted David and Shaw on Paradise anyway.
If it was a random alien, I'd perhaps see where you coming from a bit clearer, but it's not just any old random ET with Alien slapped on a cover. The Alien is related to the Pathogen, the Pathogen is related to the Engineers in some fashion or another. It's all still connected within the same story.
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I wouldn't cook Black Goo. I bet the smell would be horrendous
It's alien.... That can mean anything not of earth... and the black goo allows that to be anything the writers want it to be, but it's still connected to Dan o'bannon's "alien" thanks to the prequels.
I'm not, at any point, trying to convince anyone to agree with me. I'm not, at any point, saying I don't understand other people's take on the matter.
But I am genuinely surprised so many people seem to act like it's a difficult perspective to wrap their heads around.
"Alien" was the title because it was nonspecific. It applies whether it's big chap, a neomorph or anything else...
I'm not really griping on anything. I made one or two comments explaining my feelings and the rest has been mostly responding to people's direct replies to said feelings.
People are more hung up about me saying I'd like Aliens in my Aliens novels than I am at the prospect of there not being Aliens in my Aliens novels.
This is pretty disingenuous considering the title has meant the Alien character itself for most of the last 40 years.
We still don't know if there'll be zero Aliens. There could be all sorts of asspulls to get one in there - not to mention having no idea who exactly is piloting the donut.
I think they can get away with the very occasional one that inhabits that world without the monster being front and center and still use the branding to communicate to people what franchise it's related to. The "Prometheus" label is a missed opportunity yes, but it is what it is. Silly hill to gripe on imo.
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I'm not getting hung up on anything, however
This should be the first post of 'Best picture of a Black Goo' thread.
I'll be back with this tomorrow.
I think it's actually a really nice sci-fi novel. It just would have benefited from being it's own thing, frankly.
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For all its problems in story department Fire & Stone at least tried to do something new with all these crazy mutations and exploring what Black Goo might be while Life & Death I felt steped back to safe and generic "Marines vs Aliens pew pew pew".
Hope we see more of that in the future with the Alien adapting potentially useful traits into itself.
Rather than "hurr durr big animal with horns makes a big alien with horns" that I find dull.
Hope we also see this with the Neomorphs in this, with them as previously depicted taking on traits from their earliest incubation, for example the first we see developing spines to break through the host's spine.