Alien: Phalanx by Scott Sigler

[j0nesy]

likewise, one of my favorite universe tie-in's

426buddy:

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what did you make of zachariah?

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[426Buddy]

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You know it's funny when we first meet him and his drawings, for just a moment I thought "no way, maybe this is Origae 6 and this is the crashed Covenant and Zachariah is a damaged David!" But that was soon obviously not to be the case.

But I thought he was a great vehicle for a little exposition dump and would have liked him to live.

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[Nightmare Asylum]

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I wouldn't mind a short story prequel about Zachariah and the humans on board the ship, to be honest. Especially since they must have had some ancillary connection to the Cold Forge project, given Zachariah's knowledge of the term "Snatcher."

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[j0nesy]

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426: i didn't even think of that possibility, though i pictured zachariah resembling the david 8 model, perhaps with different hair, a la walter

nightmare: same here! i'd be interested in learning the details of the mutiny, what happened, and how zachariah played into that

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[Perfect-Organism]

I just bought it.  It's in the mail.

....along with Prototype and the blueprints.  It's an Aliens spree!

I also just bought a new book on the Citroen DS at the same time.  Love that classic car.  My all-time favourite.

[j0nesy]

do you have jw rinzler's "the making of alien"? that's an essential purchase too

[Kradan]

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I wouldn't mind a short story prequel about Zachariah and the humans on board the ship, to be honest. Especially since they must have had some ancillary connection to the Cold Forge project, given Zachariah's knowledge of the term "Snatcher."

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I had genuine fangasm when he started talking TCF stuff

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[Corporal Hicks]

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I wouldn't mind a short story prequel about Zachariah and the humans on board the ship, to be honest. Especially since they must have had some ancillary connection to the Cold Forge project, given Zachariah's knowledge of the term "Snatcher."

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I would be all over that too! Would be a nice piece for another anthology along with Alex's on the background of the eggs in Cold Forge. Be nice to have a stronger Aliens anthology.

[SM]

I was angling to have the Cold Forge eggs be from Trono (Dust to Dust).  Never got anywhere with it.

[Perfect-Organism]

do you have jw rinzler's "the making of alien"? that's an essential purchase too

I have my eyes on both Rinzler books but alas they are not on my bookshelf yet.

[Corporal Hicks]

I was angling to have the Cold Forge eggs be from Trono (Dust to Dust).  Never got anywhere with it.

Do you know off-hand - forgive me, I'm too lazy to look right now - if we got a date for Dust to Dust?

[Kradan]

Maybe this could help

Then, just for fun Chronologically!  The Date format is yyyy.mmdd
Many of these figures disagree with SM's, but I assure you, each deviation has very precise and specific reasoning behind it that I will gladly go into if anyone is curious enough. But seeing as how they're all Comic specific in-universe, they've all been Banned by Corporate Governor's decree, anyway.

2024              AvP - Eternal                                 reasoned deduction
2099              Aliens - Elder Gods (Special - b)   explicitly stated
2137.1117     Aliens - Defiance                            explicitly stated
2141             Aliens - Fast Track to Heaven        reasoned deduction
2142             Aliens - Apocalypse                        reasoned deduction
2160             Aliens - Inhuman Condition            refine this
2181             Aliens - Survival                             refine this
2193.0603    Aliens - Countdown                        reasoned deduction
2193.1031    Aliens - Crusade                             reasoned deduction
2195             Aliens - Tribes                                 reasoned deduction
2202.0315    Aliens - More Than Human             reasoned deduction
2203.1205    Aliens - Music of the Spears           reasoned deduction
2211             Aliens - Sacrifice                             refine this
2211             Aliens - Dust to Dust                       educated guesswork
2212.10        Aliens - Horror Show                      reasoned deduction
2213.11        Aliens - Salvation                            refine this
2217.0610    Aliens - 45 Seconds (Special - a)   educated guesswork
2220.0420    Life and Death - (event)                  reasoned deduction
2223             Aliens - Labyrinth                            refine this
2225             Aliens - Glass Corridor                   reasoned deduction
2271             AvP - The Web                               reasoned deduction
2295             Aliens - Dead Orbit                         explicitly stated

[SM]

I was angling to have the Cold Forge eggs be from Trono (Dust to Dust).  Never got anywhere with it.

Do you know off-hand - forgive me, I'm too lazy to look right now - if we got a date for Dust to Dust?

No. I'd started working on a update to the Bible when Steve T got canned, and was going to date it around 2179 simply in order to link it to TCF (apropos of precisely nothing).

[scottsigler]

Thank you Scott Sigler for giving us such great book and amazing Alien story.

I almost forgot to add that the characters were just fantastic. I couldn't believe that Mr. Sigler had me actually caring about 'Liyah, Brandun, and Creen within like 30 pages. 

Wow-wow-wow. I'm thrilled you enjoyed the story so much!

a review from the itunes store 

Holy crap, that's a review of PHALANX? Perhaps he didn't read to the end where

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Ahiliyah has a child

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. The religion on Ataegina is not Christianity, BTW.

[Nightmare Asylum]

The fact that there are people chanting this "Get woke, go broke" mantra weirds me out so much.

I loved Phalanx, and fond that it is right up there with White's The Cold Forge.