What I found was amazing about this book was that although it covered a large swath of epic events such as the infestation of earth and a visit to the home-world and an encounter with the original elephant-nosed Alien, the book never fails to be very personal and rooted in the lives of the main characters. From Stephens, to Massey, to Salvaje, and to Hicks and Newt, each character is given just the right amount of character development to make them compelling and believable. It is not easy to make such an epic tale so personable, but Verheiden and Nelson did it. How I wished 25 years ago that this was the direction that the next Aliens film would take, but all is not lost. There is still time to do a story with Ripley, Newt, and Hicks, though it would be great if it tied in seamlessly to the epic Prometheus prequels. Tick tock, tick tock.
Quote from: HuDaFuK on Nov 17, 2015, 02:40:04 PM
Quote from: Perfect-Organism on Nov 17, 2015, 02:33:22 PMI do hope they actually re-use the original blue cover that was designed by Mark A. Nelson.
There's literally a picture of the cover art at the start of this thread, and it's not that.
And you know for a fact that there is no slip cover that goes over this? I would actually be surprised if they just put out a book like this with a black and white hard cover. While that is one of the best pictures of the Alien in the book, iconic in fact, I don't think that a black and white cover like this is particularly attractive. I doubt that they will re-use the old blue cover, but I hope they don't lust leave the black and white cover for the book. It really needs a better slip cover.
Actually one of the few disappointing things about the Fire and Stone hardcover was that a slip cover was not included. That seems like an unusual practice for a hard-cover volume. I hope that is not the case with this Aliens Book One reprint. But it will be a blast to see this as over-sized.
