Alien Prototype - Tim Waggoner

[Kradan]

Thank you 

Ha. It's even funnier now. 

[Janek]

Just picked up a copy of Alien: Prototype, the synopsis and some of the reviews on here sound promising. Hope Im in for a ride.

[Janek]

Finally finished the novel. For me it was OK and I liked how deadly the Necromorph was although I do not like the name, reminds me too much of Dead Space. It was an easy read and excitement at short intervals held my interest through out. The secondary characters though, oh man they were so many and I can only remember a handful of their names and most of the deaths had minimal impact. Zula and Davis camaraderie was entertaining and I liked how their relationship was set up. All in all a good read for Alien fans, you will not regret buying it. 6.5/10

[426Buddy]

Finished it as well. My feeling were mostly the same.

I actually liked the Zula/Davis part of the story more that I expected. They still felt like the same characters I remember and I've grown to really like them both.

The alien was a bit of mixed bag. I liked how deadly it was even just as an alien. Adding the necrosis was kinda cool but also a little corny. My main gripe is how indestructible the disease made it. Withstanding pulse rifle fire was just too much of a stretch for me. But it did have some cool abilities as well.

Fun and thrilling but sorta cheesy. Like a few others have said the name Prototype didn't really fit the story for me.

I'm 100 pages into phalanx and absolutely in love with it.

[j0nesy]

i quite liked prototype, it'll be remembered as the "one with the necromorph" 

i loved phalanx! such an easy read, and i'm not a fantasy fan at all

[426Buddy]

It was 100% eggmorphing. It's pretty much said in the text, and clarified after the fact by the author.

I read through it looking for the eggmorphing clues but it's so vague about producing the egg that I can't believe anyone would catch it even hardcore fans.

It reads as if the Alien only needs a human for the egg to infect. I couldn't find where it specifies needing someone to create it. Its out looking for a potential host for its egg before the egg has been produced/morphed. Maybe morphing was the intention but I wish it was more clear and explicit on the page. Would have been a great opportunity imo.

[SM]

There was originally a different take on eggs and my notes to Fox were 'This is a great opportunity to hint at, but not confirm egg-morphing.'

Haven't read the published book to see how that panned out though.

[j0nesy]

i cannot remember exact verbiage but i read it thinking there were strong implications of eggmorphing

[Xiggz456]

It was 100% eggmorphing. It's pretty much said in the text, and clarified after the fact by the author.

I read through it looking for the eggmorphing clues but it's so vague about producing the egg that I can't believe anyone would catch it even hardcore fans.

It reads as if the Alien only needs a human for the egg to infect. I couldn't find where it specifies needing someone to create it. Its out looking for a potential host for its egg before the egg has been produced/morphed. Maybe morphing was the intention but I wish it was more clear and explicit on the page. Would have been a great opportunity imo.

I honestly thought it came across as an Alien can produce one egg (with no extra detail given). It wasn't until the interview with the author that it was clarified as egg morphing. On my second read I specifically looked for it and it still came across as just needing a host for an egg as opposed to needing a host to produce an egg.

[426Buddy]

It was 100% eggmorphing. It's pretty much said in the text, and clarified after the fact by the author.

I read through it looking for the eggmorphing clues but it's so vague about producing the egg that I can't believe anyone would catch it even hardcore fans.

It reads as if the Alien only needs a human for the egg to infect. I couldn't find where it specifies needing someone to create it. Its out looking for a potential host for its egg before the egg has been produced/morphed. Maybe morphing was the intention but I wish it was more clear and explicit on the page. Would have been a great opportunity imo.

I honestly thought it came across as an Alien can produce one egg (with no extra detail given). It wasn't until the interview with the author that it was clarified as egg morphing. On my second read I specifically looked for it and it still came across as just needing a host for an egg as opposed to needing a host to produce an egg.

That's how I took it as well, I was hoping it would be more.

[The Cruentus]

There was originally a different take on eggs and my notes to Fox were 'This is a great opportunity to hint at, but not confirm egg-morphing.'

Haven't read the published book to see how that panned out though.

Dude, don't give them ideas   

Eggmorphing is a concept that I personally find a bit too much, sure its scary and bizarre but biologically it doesn't really make sense does it.  With the Queen or even just a drone laying an egg, you got yourself a contained and plausible life-cycle.

[426Buddy]

Makes fine sense for eggmorphing and the queen to be a thing, for me anyway.

[SiL]

Eggmorphing is a concept that I personally find a bit too much, sure its scary and bizarre but biologically it doesn't really make sense does it.

Converting one biomass to another biomass is literally the foundation of life. Makes plenty sense.

[Nukiemorph]

Finally reading this one. I'm almost done and I suddenly noticed the lesions & pus on the cover. Did anyone else completely miss this? All this time, I thought they just slapped the blu-ray art on there with no effort to represent the necromorph. I'm still disappointed that they didn't commission something new, but at least it's a vague representation of the creature in the book.


Someone on Twitter posted an illustration of the creature and it's much closer to what I was picturing. Tim Waggoner liked it too.
https://twitter.com/FrankensteinBad/status/1195881417286176769?s=20

[Corporal Hicks]

Oh nice, he's the guy I commissioned to do me a Lion-Worm one. Maybe he enjoyed visualising the new creatures.