Quote from: SM on May 30, 2017, 02:56:25 AM
Absolutely it is. It's the same as in Sea of Sorrows when Decker muses on his grandfather telling him a ship crashing into Paris. It's a mistake, but there is a way of overlooking it if one wishes, because it's one characters mistaken point of view, and not the omniscient narrator.
That's a fair way to look at it. I guess I just don't want to make concessions, not that there's anything wrong with that. I just prefer to hold professionals accountable, and when you get paid to write within a licensed property with a fanbase, you should at least have an entry-level familiarity with, and/or some level of respect for the property. So I probably take it too personally when I see blatant errors and chalk it up to a lack of respect for my beloved saga. Because I see James Moore's mistake in Sea of Sorrows as an indicator that he's never participated in fandom beyond watching the DVDs, I get annoyed.
It just frustrates me for Titan to have paid a number of writers who clearly don't have enough of an interest in Alien for there to be any heart at the center of their stories. Instead of interesting human conflicts in many of these, there are just references to Aliens by dropping in characters from the film, or set pieces usually involving some other type of monster. There is more to science-fiction writing than dumb tie-in references and 'action' scenes. There are plenty of qualified writers who would contribute to an anthology such as this for free. It would be awesome for them to do another anthology, but solicit submissions contest-style. I recently saw it done with CHUD, in fact.
