Alien: Covenant - Origins - Prequel Novel

Started by Corporal Hicks, Oct 30, 2016, 08:52:31 AM

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Alien: Covenant - Origins - Prequel Novel (Read 104,088 times)

Corporal Hicks

Oram doesn't commit to abandoning Origae-6 in Covenant. He just diverts to investigate the possibility.

Bojo

Bojo

#241
A prequel (book) based on a prequel.Oh god.


There was a fascinating super race which created us and the alien: we've seen hardly anything of them!
They would be a great subject! Sod the xenomorphs! Enough of them!

Kronnang_Dunn

Quote from: CrespiChickenStrips on Jul 27, 2017, 06:39:22 PM
David and Shaw or I don't care personally.

I bet an eye that there will be at least some chapters in the book with a little David and Shaw in them. How much? I really can't say... but since David is the focus of the prequels I expect some really interesting stuff in them.  8)

Ultramorph

The Covenant novelization seems to imply that Shaw was keeping a journal, so there's a possibility that Origins might be interspersed with entries from that. That would be pretty cool.

DorkiDori

DorkiDori

#244
^^^ indeed sir! that would be neat!


asil

Found Alien: Covenant Origins at Amazon ready for pre-order this year:

https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1785654764/ref=nosim/titanbooks-20

Ultramorph

Ultramorph

#247
For those of us with Apple devices, iBooks has a preview of Orgins at last!

https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/alien-covenant-2-official-prequel-to-blockbuster-film/id1265515401?mt=11

Not to get too excited but
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the prologue seems to be David attacking the Engineers but from an unclear perspective. "The Prophet" gets mentioned several times, including once later on in the sample. Hoping we get more of this.

Holy crap, looking at it again, I think it may be implying that the Engineers didn't all die, and that it's them sabotaging the Covenant to keep David contained.

I wonder if this will imply that this faction of Engineers sabotaged LV-223 as well?
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Corporal Hicks

Can't read it myself but re: what's in that spoiler, I'm so pleased that we might still be getting to witness that.

However,

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not sure how the Engineers trying to sabotage the Covenant would make sense...
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I'm definitely more interested in giving this a read than I was before now.

Ultramorph

Ultramorph

#249
Later on
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there's a bit where it mentions the Prophets followers get subjected to visions of what happened in the prologue if their resolve starts to come into question. Definitely seems to be the destruction on Paradise.

I do agree though, it seems a bit off for the Engineers to care about the "greater good," which literally gets mentioned at one point.
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The prologue also
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mentions creatures killing the Engineers, assuming they're xenos.
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The Prophet's first conecern is also that the creatures not reach Earth.
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SM

 :-X

Ultramorph

Ultramorph

#251
What if they went full bonkers and
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the Prophet and his acolytes are human time travelers.
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SM

Oh-tee-bee-dee.

Samhain13

Quote from: Ultramorph on Sep 08, 2017, 10:28:53 PM
What if they went full bonkers and
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the Prophet and his acolytes are human time travelers.
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At this point I wouldn't be suprised.

Corporal Hicks


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