A listing for a new Aliens novel has appeared on Amazon. Titan’s next Aliens novel, titled Aliens: Bishop, is on the way in October. Written by T.R Napper, Aliens: Bishop will, as the title suggests, focus on the titular artificial person from Aliens, as well as his creator Michael Bishop. Check out the synopsis below:
A direct sequel to Aliens and Alien 3―Weyland-Yutani, the Colonial Marines, and Bishop’s creator all pursue the android for the deadly Xenomorph data contained in his brain. Written by T. R. Napper, author of the acclaimed 36 Streets, whose explosive work explores the artificial intelligence and what it is to be human.
Massively damaged in Aliens and Alien3, the synthetic Bishop asked to be shut down forever. His creator, Michael Bishop, has other plans. He seeks the Xenomorph knowledge stored in the android’s mind, and brings Bishop back to life―but for what reason? No longer an employee of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation, Michael tells his creation that he seeks to advance medical research for the benefit of humanity. Yet where does he get the resources needed to advance his work. With whom do his new allegiances lie?
Bishop is pursued by Colonial Marines Captain Marcel Apone, commander of the Il Conde and younger brother of Master Sergeant Alexander Apone, one of the casualties of the doomed mission to LV-426. Also on his trail are the “Dog Catchers,” commandos employed by Weyland-Yutani.
Who else might benefit from Bishop’s intimate knowledge of the deadliest creatures in the galaxy?
While Aliens: Bishop is T.R Napper’s Alien franchise debut, he’s an award-winning author responsible for Neon Leviathan and 36 Streets. Aliens: Bishop is currently slated for release on October 24th. Thanks to Felix for the link.
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Would she care?
It's good when Bishop is onscreen. It tanks when he isn't.
The food riot scene in Karri's flashback is alright - it definitely has shades of Soylent Green, and Karri being unable to get medical or police help is somewhat reminiscent of Elysium. But then "UUUUUHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" happens.
Not gonna lie, though, it would be clinically interesting to see Karri's reaction when the Colonial Marines bomb Canberra. How would she feel about the UA then?
The Aliens not being wiped out by the end f**ks with me.
The noise is the laser, always was.
BBW also mentions that the mist gives off an electric shock when touched. Given that Kane is wearing a suit, that clearly doesn't affect him, but it still looks to me that the sharp squeal is feedback from electrical interference rather than the actual musical tone. Exposure to the mist also causes hypoxia which, again, doesn't affect Kane since he's in a suit.
It's also important to note that the example given in BBW occurs in a fully breathable atmosphere without the need for suits.
So the book just mentions the tone and Slutty added completely inaccurate commentary from misremembering the scene; got it.
Have you read my previous comment? What Badger believes about there being no atmosphere in the Derelict has nothing to do with the Building Better Worlds book. Just like I said already. We shouldn't judge a piece of media without seeing it for ourselves. Criticizing something without a good understanding of a subject based on our own biases isn't really productive IMO.
I made the same mistake with Aliens Bishop, because of the first few opinions, I thought it can't be good, but after reading it for myself, I loved it. I almost missed out on a joyful read because of that. But even more sadly, I joined the bashing of the book without reading it first. It's one thing to not want to read something cause of someone's opinion/review, but it's another thing to criticize something that I haven't experienced honestly.
Even more to the point, Ash tells Dallas the composition of the planet's atmosphere. It couldn't be more on the nose.
And you can see perspiration on the Egg Kane approaches.
I like the Queen but she's very terrestrial.
You're getting things mixed up. That reference in BBW is a nod to Alien, exactly what SiL says, we do hear the sound. It's not radio. It reacts acoustically only when the light sensor field is being passed through.
And by the way to everyone else, what the hell is this blasphemy against the Queen I'm hearing recently? Without the Queen, without Aliens, we wouldn't be talking about this on such a forum. The success and scale of the franchise would be much smaller if only Alien was made or we didn't have a sequel just as good to rival it.
The Queen is awesome, disturbing and truly alien. I love eggmorphing and I love the Queen. Both can exist complementary. But having the Alien as originally intended, with no Queen and having a super short lifecycle? Less interesting and a lot less deadly. Then having so many eggs on the Derelict wouldn't even make sense IMO.
I like my cosmic horror in Alien. But this isn't the Lovecraft verse. Alien is more science fiction than space magic. It's not an indestructible ghost. It's a horrific creature that's dangerous because even one can spawn thousands, if not more. Even one can infect everything. Can't really see that without the additions of Aliens and Alien 3. It's not a mystic force, it's the ultimate macro virus. The threat was always not letting them amass more numbers and getting them near more populated areas.
The number of the eggs on the Derelict shows this threat perfectly. There can be so many of them. Alien shows us what one can do alone. Leaving the question open as to what could a flood of them do? Aliens shows us what a swarm can do and how we got so many eggs. And that was less than 200 Aliens. We have less than 20 confirmed Aliens being killed. Heaven forbid what would happen if a more populated colony or small Earth town was infected.
More to the point, we see the laser because there's an atmosphere.
But we can hear it in Alien and see an atmosphere because of the laser.
I know what it says, "You are a good egg, yes you are."
No, that's just feedback on the radio.
Or is that a comment on how poorly written that resource is?
According to Building Better Worlds, it plays a musical note when disturbed. We don't hear it in Alien because there's no air in the hold.
I love that laser light sensor.
The whole hold is warm, not just the area under the laser.
But for me the most compelling argument is sheer numbers. There are thousands of eggs and the derelict isn't that big. There's no way there were that many crew on board.
What if the eggs weren't stored there, but were placed beneath the blue laser by an alien as one of the last functional areas of the ship, since Xenomorph prefer hot tropical temperatures for their young. We cant actually be sure they were the ships cargo.
....but yeah, that blue mist-laser thing
Egg silos and pyramids. Keep up!
I don't even know what the conversation's about.
I say "Just" because it's entirely possible some of the crew are down there. It's just not going to count for all of them.
But is it fair to suggest that, since the script went through so many changes, the fact that the eggmorphing scene was not only scripted but went beyond concept and was actually filmed and intended to be in the movie prior to tightening it up for theatrical release (thus superseding all other ideas/suggestions/concepts up until that point) and was only disregarded at the point of being edited, then it's fair to say that during filming, that was the intended origin of the eggs? Everything we see on the Nostromo reiterates what was seen on the derelict. The egg morph scene served a purpose, as did Lamberts line as set up for said scene. The movie shows (or was going to show) how an alien made eggs/reproduced. Therefore, the eggs in the derelict were once organisms. Without the benefit of sequel knowledge as an audience, if you'd only ever seen the directors cut, I think the narrative is quite clear.
Yes, and the derelict was originally going to be 'parked' on top of the underground structure, suggesting the Jockeys as more explorers who found the eggs as I recall. All Ridley's bomber comments came post-release, which is why I still feel that during production, egg morphing was the working narrative with the idea being the eggs were what remains of the derelict crew.
The only thing that may support an early bomber concept that I can see (or, perhaps inspired Ridley to start thinking that way afterwards); was Giger's image of the Alien lifecycle mural; its framed by an interpretation of Nuit (Goddess of the Night) with the egg spawning from her stomach ...and from a top view, the Derelict does resemble Nuit somewhat. [edit: which is interesting food for thought, I recall there was much discussion when the juggernaut was seen to fly 'backwards' from what we presumed in 'Prometheus' - would be interesting if Giger had actually intended it to fly with the entrances pointing downwards as if it were hanging, looking like the goddess of the night in the sky) 😅
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I can recall his bomber comments in later interviews, but it never held much water to me... the derelict as a bomber holding pathogen vases, sure, that works (and looked awesome in Covenant. But how the hell do you bomb a planet with eggs? You could *despoit* eggs, but aside from getting splashed with acid upon impact, not sure what good 'bombing'a planet with eggs would do. I mean, it could be argued that it's a bomber as per the pathogen vases, that something got out and this was the end result (eggs weren't intended as the actual weapon) but I never truly cared for the biological weapon explanation; I always felt it works better with the xeno being as old as time, it infects unsuspecting passers by, it reproduces, eggs lay dormant for centuries until the next unlucky victim discovers them, and the cycle continues... it lays in wait and leapfrogs through time/across space, spreading. The thought that these things are just laying waiting in the deepest darkest corners of the universe is more horrifying than 'pet science project' (imo) 😅