Alien: Uncivil War coming in 2024.

Started by felix, Oct 17, 2023, 04:49:56 AM

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Xenomania96

I didn't mind the setting but I just finished Alien: Echo so I wasn't excited about another dome over a colony. I imagined it looking similar to the colony from the comic Alien: Revival, but the comic mixed traditional wood structures with futuristic metal buildings.
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When I read that the transport ship was stored in a wooden barn I was thinking - This barn must be like the size of a football stadium to house a ship carrying almost a thousand people.
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The WY cult I also take some issue with. I like the idea of a cult but I think it's silly that people would form a cult around a corporation. Especially one that caused as much suffering as Weyland-Yutani. The book tries to explain this as the cult trying to return to the company's original values but...why? Who would care in this point in time? How would rebuilding Weyland-Yutani benefit anybody in the universe? In 200 years are we going to have terrorist cells who view Elon Musk as a religious figure trying to restore the glory of Tesla? Maybe the book is trying to make a point of people who follow cult of personality billionaires but that doesn't make it any less silly to me.

Vrastal

Its probably one of the worst Alien books to be written. It would be ok as a thriller with just a few tweaks but the aliens dont show up for 95% of the book, so as an alien book it falls flat.


jacobo1122

Sadly, it's another one of those "read and forget" Titan Alien novels. It didn't hurt me during reading, but I wasn't thrilled at any moment and probably I won't remember much from it soon. It's unfortunate, because it introduces some interesting ideas, but barely explores them. Also Aliens have almost nothing to do in it. And I even would like some novels without Xenomorphs, but they are present here, they just seems unimportant and they don't have any real agency. Honestly, I would prefer that they weren't in the story at all, maybe then there would be time to explore some other plot points further. Like Chris' growing affection for android. Being in mourning after loss of his wife, but noticing that his android nanny is new mother figure for his daughters and developing feelings for her, was really fascinating, just as Alexia's point of view and her developing emotions, but it wasn't explored enough and ended in the most interesting moment for them. Also father trying to abandon his violent past to take care of his daughters, people trying to break from USM and build themselves an utopia set on rotten and violent fundation, sorry state of Earth, events taking place after Resurrection. The ideas were here, but none of them was developed properly and they just don't have time to breathe. Instead, we got two od Aliens running and killing and eating couple od people, useless point of view of some Marines that came on the colony to just die, and too many brawls between Chris and basicly everyone who looked on him the wrong way. I'm starting to think, that we won't get any true banger from Titan anymore. Maybe they should bring Alex White back...

Retropocalypse

Quote from: jacobo1122 on Sep 04, 2024, 10:29:56 AMSadly, it's another one of those "read and forget" Titan Alien novels. It didn't hurt me during reading, but I wasn't thrilled at any moment and probably I won't remember much from it soon. It's unfortunate, because it introduces some interesting ideas, but barely explores them. Also Aliens have almost nothing to do in it. And I even would like some novels without Xenomorphs, but they are present here, they just seems unimportant and they don't have any real agency. Honestly, I would prefer that they weren't in the story at all, maybe then there would be time to explore some other plot points further. Like Chris' growing affection for android. Being in mourning after loss of his wife, but noticing that his android nanny is new mother figure for his daughters and developing feelings for her, was really fascinating, just as Alexia's point of view and her developing emotions, but it wasn't explored enough and ended in the most interesting moment for them. Also father trying to abandon his violent past to take care of his daughters, people trying to break from USM and build themselves an utopia set on rotten and violent fundation, sorry state of Earth, events taking place after Resurrection. The ideas were here, but none of them was developed properly and they just don't have time to breathe. Instead, we got two od Aliens running and killing and eating couple od people, useless point of view of some Marines that came on the colony to just die, and too many brawls between Chris and basicly everyone who looked on him the wrong way. I'm starting to think, that we won't get any true banger from Titan anymore. Maybe they should bring Alex White back...
This echoes my sentiments entirely.

Titan haven't published a good Alien title since Into Charybdis - everything has been average to poor since. Bring back Alex!

"Did quality control just drop sharply while I was away?" - Alex White, probably.

jacobo1122

Quote from: Retropocalypse on Sep 05, 2024, 06:52:25 AMThis echoes my sentiments entirely.

Titan haven't published a good Alien title since Into Charybdis - everything has been average to poor since. Bring back Alex!

"Did quality control just drop sharply while I was away?" - Alex White, probably.

Infernos Fall is exception for me. It was last novel that brought something new and was very good read, despite some flaws. And I like Bishop even, though it was just decent, nothing exceptional, but maybe because of lacking quality of other novels I enjoyed it more than I should. But yeah, everything else was from just avarage and unispiring(Enemy of My Enemy, Uncivil War, Vasquez) to downright awful (Colony War, AvP Rift War)

Russutja of the HOTU Clan

I finished this a couple of weeks ago. It's a very basic, simple story. But I liked it! I liked Chris Temple as a character and genuinely felt tense when I thought his girls were going to die. Alicia was also a real cool take on the Synthetic (Really started to feel a little Blade Runner there)


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