Aliens novels chronology

[Everlasting Undead]

Can you tell us where exactly in AVP War where Machiko recalls events in Hunter's Planet?

Absolutely not, it's been quite a few years ago when I read those books (I guess they were my first books in the series). I only remember that in Hunter's Planet were told some facts I missed taht I found in War when I read it, the details are quite a bit foggy.

Just finished re-reading War - It doesn't mention anything about what happened in Hunter's Planet - I've just started on Hunters Planet again, and it briefly mentions in the first or second chapter that Machiko chose to go against the hunting pack she was running with when they attacked a mining colony... which is slightly different to the Bhunda survey station mentioned in War, though is a similar premise, I suppose.

[Katarn84]

I just finished my A & P book collection, with criminal enterprise.
I'm quite disappointed by this book... if you buy a book with Aliens wrote on it, and the xenomoprh on the cover, then you find a book about drug dealers, ex cops looking for revenge and two brothers that shouldn't be where they are, with the Aliens posing just as guard dogs you can't be anything but disappointed. Especially if the author place sex any other page to get the pages required...

By the way, I think this also should be pre-invasion, since Tommy and other characters had never seen an Alien. Even if apparentrly Neo-Pharm and Grant know about those beasts.

[Xenomrph]

Can you tell us where exactly in AVP War where Machiko recalls events in Hunter's Planet?

Absolutely not, it's been quite a few years ago when I read those books (I guess they were my first books in the series). I only remember that in Hunter's Planet were told some facts I missed taht I found in War when I read it, the details are quite a bit foggy.

Just finished re-reading War - It doesn't mention anything about what happened in Hunter's Planet - I've just started on Hunters Planet again, and it briefly mentions in the first or second chapter that Machiko chose to go against the hunting pack she was running with when they attacked a mining colony... which is slightly different to the Bhunda survey station mentioned in War, though is a similar premise, I suppose.

Hunter's Planet definitely takes place after War, even though the book was released first. War starts with Machiko still with the Predators and ends with her leaving them, and HP has her having been away from the Predators for some time (I don't remember how long). Therefore, HP happens after War ends.

[SM]

Does she leave them again at the end of HP so she's not with them in the new comics?

[Xenomrph]

She never joins them in HP.

[SM]

Oh, right.  Misread.

[Xenomrph]

I'd have to re-check the new AvP comics, but doesn't it pick up 10 years after War or whatever? HP would have been in that gap somewhere - I don't member if HP gives any concrete hints as to how long it's been since she left the Predators, but it had seemed like a couple years from what I recall.

[happypred]

hunter's planet and war are alternative sequels to prey

shorty is a different character and dies different deaths in hunters' planet and war

[predxeno]

Can you tell us where exactly in AVP War where Machiko recalls events in Hunter's Planet?

Absolutely not, it's been quite a few years ago when I read those books (I guess they were my first books in the series). I only remember that in Hunter's Planet were told some facts I missed taht I found in War when I read it, the details are quite a bit foggy.

Just finished re-reading War - It doesn't mention anything about what happened in Hunter's Planet - I've just started on Hunters Planet again, and it briefly mentions in the first or second chapter that Machiko chose to go against the hunting pack she was running with when they attacked a mining colony... which is slightly different to the Bhunda survey station mentioned in War, though is a similar premise, I suppose.

Now that I think about it; I think it was mentioned somewhere in the War novel that the Bhunda station did do some mining.

hunter's planet and war are alternative sequels to prey

shorty is a different character and dies different deaths in hunters' planet and war

Or maybe Machiko didn't really kill Shorty in War, she just thought she did.

[Kimarhi]

Kind of hard to fight with no hands even if he did survive. 

HP doesnt mention him as a kickboxer in HP.

[predxeno]

It's indicated in Predator 2 novelization and AVP Prey novel that Predators have the technology to regrow lost limbs.

[Xenomrph]

Holy shit, I don't even remember that. Nice catch!

[Kimarhi]

HP was the only story aside from the DHpres Alien/Pred novels that didn't have a comic forbearer.  Thus, I disregard it in favor of War, which WAS the original sequel to AvP.

[Xenomrph]

Yeah, but it did have an original plot (even if it cribbed a couple things from War, like the Queen capture and the Shorty fight) so I never really saw a reason to disregard it, personally.

Not saying you aren't allowed to ignore it, haha, just giving my opinion on the book.

[Corporal Hicks]

But then how would Ellis fit into all that? There's no mention of him in Hunters Planet and that'll be years between War and Three World War. I always got the impression in 3WW that they'd been together for a while, obviously long enough for a relationship to develop.

It's been a while since I read the book but I can remember disliking it. Strongly. It might be worth re-reading the trilogy.