Alien: The Cold Forge - Titan Books

[Perfect-Organism]

Hope we get a comic or movie of this some day.  It doesn't really move the core story forward, but it's a damn good story.  Kind of like the last Judge Dredd film.

[The Old One]

Alien's got no core story unless you mean the Derelict with the original three films that The Cold Forge is directly connected to, beyond that, it massively moves the universe forward if Plagarius Praepotens is harnessed.

[The Old One]

New book!

[Delta Echo Alpha Delta]

New book!

Exciting!

[The Old One]

I seriously can't believe it's happening so soon.

[Local Trouble]

Is it more exciting than a third prequel?

[Corporal Hicks]

Undeniably. Alex has demonstrated much more capability than Scott and co.

[Nightmare Asylum]

Started reading this today. Gonna go through this again before I pick up Phalanx, I think.

[The Old One]

As also did I.

[Nightmare Asylum]

Just finished my reread. Hadn't read it since its initial release, and I forgot just how good it really is.

[The Old One]

My only issue with it is,

Spoiler

the unexplained existence of the Eggs and Facehuggers

[close]

but considering, it's set concurrent to Aliens and Alien³ it's reasonable enough.

[HuDaFuK]

Also, as White said at the time,

Spoiler

it makes perfect sense that the characters wouldn't be told or otherwise have a clue where they came from.

[close]

I thought it would bother me going into it, but in the end I wound up not really caring.

[SM]

It was a great way to deal with the potential continuity issues and ended up being the basis for how the Amanda and Zula story was handled.

[Local Trouble]

I have finished.

[426Buddy]

and whatcha think?