Predator South China Sea

Started by Corporal Hicks, Jul 06, 2007, 11:27:36 AM

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Corporal Hicks

Corporal Hicks

It's the name of Jeff VanderMeer's new Predator novel and once I've finished reading this outline, I'll let you know more about it. From what I've read so far, it's about pirates - modern pirates - and a lot of it's based on ships in the sea and on a big game island.


Darkness

Darkness

#1
Sounds a lot like Robert Rodriguez's P3 script.

Post the outline, Mr Secretive.

Corporal Hicks

Corporal Hicks

#2
 :o Don't want me spoiling it for people do you?

Doesn't look like the script at all. It's modern day after all.

Darkness

Darkness

#3
Seems silly to me. Would have been better if it was in the past.

How does a Predator get on to a ship?

Corporal Hicks

Corporal Hicks

#4
How would he have gotten onto that ship in the P3 script?  :-\

Darkness

Darkness

#5
He was already on there from when it set off.  At least, that's what I thought. This outline sounds like there'll be lots of ships in the middle of the sea.

SiL

SiL

#6
Tease! :P

Corporal Hicks

Corporal Hicks

#7
I'm writing a Predator novel for Dark Horse and editor Victoria Blake, from a detailed synopsis I provided to them. The novel is due in January 2008 and will be published in 2008. Set in the South China Sea, the novel features an ex-Khmer Rouge colonel, a Thai pirate, a huge transplanted African crocodile, and a Romanian crime boss, among other things. Oh, yes, and a Predator.

http://www.jeffvandermeer.com/2007/06/11/predator-novel-sold-to-dark-horse/

Kimarhi

Kimarhi

#8
They just had to throw in a crocidile.

Wtf mate.  Wtf.

Darkness

Darkness

#9
 Little Synopsis: http://www.jeffvandermeer.com/2007/07/31/some-predator-synopsis/#more-98

QuoteSomewhere in the South China Sea, between Thailand and Indonesia...

Sukhon Dithakar and her crew of fellow pirates (aboard an old but fast converted fishing vessel, registered to Liberia) can see their target: a product tanker out of Singapore, loaded with computer parts. Sukhon's younger sister Suchin had gone on ahead the night before in the pirate ship's heavily-armed speed boat to launch a sneak attack, a tactic that has worked well in the past.


Now, however, Sukhon sees the speed boat tied up next to the tanker, empty, and no signs of life on board the tanker, either. Sukhon suspects a trap, but has no choice but to send a few of her men. Soon, looking grim, they wave her aboard from the deck of the tanker.

Sukhon comes aboard to find everyone on the tanker horribly murdered, including her men. Some heads are missing, as well as some spines. It's not even clear how the wounds have been caused–it's no weapon she's familiar with, and she's familiar with a lot of weapons. There's no sign of Suchin above-deck. Below deck, she finally finds Suchin, dead in the same horrible way, right next to her a woman with a baby, the woman insane and babbling from the experience: "A demon. A demon came." The woman is untouched. From the signs of struggle, Suchin put up a fight. There is a fleck of strange blood on the floor–and curled in Suchin's left hand is a jagged piece of odd metal. Sukhon takes the metal with her. It burns her hand, but she doesn't care.

Why my sister? she keeps thinking. And what exactly happened?

Sukhon is used to violence–it's what she does, ripping off freighters and tankers from the coast of Thailand, to the boundary with China. But even though she has to be tougher than any male pirate captain, she's never seen anything like this...

Back on the main deck, she looks out across the water...and sees a path of dead marine life behind the freighter. Great White sharks, manta rays, smaller fish. She remembers that the night before she and her first mate Virote had seen a strange light traveling across the sky, heading for the most remote part of the South China Sea. At the time, she'd thought nothing of it–there was always something odd in the night.

Her first mate Virote comes up beside her. "Do you see it, too?"

It's early enough that there are still stars in the sky to orient her.

"Yes," she says. "The trail of the dead is pointing in the same direction as the light we saw."

"...right to the Island."

There's nothing else out this way except the island ruled by the Khmer Rouge veteran; the island with all of the specially stocked wild animals. Sukhot has met Rath Preap, the ex-Khmer, three or four times. He lets them resupply at the island in return for them leaving his operation alone.

"If he had anything to do with this..."

"He had nothing to do with this. This is something else. A visitation by a demon," Virote says softly. "Are you sure you want to do this?"

Sukhon knows Virote would follow her into Hell, if necessary. The question is: Will the rest of the crew?

"Yes," Sukhon says. And then: "She was my sister, Virote."

Corporal Hicks

Corporal Hicks

#10
Lol. That's right out of his outline.  :P

MattTaz

Here's the description I sent in to the publisher at their request. It's devilishly hard to describe your own book, so I think they generally ask for this so they have something they can kind of knead and finesse and react to. So it's rough and kinda lame, but it does describe the novel. Really, somehow, the final description's gonna need to convey that I was trying to summon the essence of Sam Peckinpah and Joss Whedon while writing this. I'm sure Dark Horse will come up with something cool.

Jeff


On a remote South China Sea island, a hunt is underway...but not the hunt the participants expected. Ex-Khmer Rouge Colonel and lodge owner Rath Preap knows something odd is going on–security fences have been cut and big game animals run amok, surveillance cameras reduced to white snow, members of his small private army disappearing...Is it a demon or one of his own men?

The hunters...
John Gustat, billionaire entrepreneur, haunted by a secret and the owner of a mysterious black box. Nikolai and Marikova, supposedly part of the new class of wealthy Russian oil aristocracy, but a little too proficient with a knife and a sniper's rifle. A Romanian ex-professional wrestler turned mobster who knows Gustat is hiding something. A South African arm's dealer. A disgraced rock star who really doesn't want to be there. A Washington D.C. liquor baron. And a Thai pirate captain out to avenge the murder of her sister...

Full-on battles in old temple ruins. Deadly African crocodiles. A secret Thai military base. A strange alien virus. Double crosses and last stands. Love and death in the tropics.

Something is beginning to hunt the hunters. Something that has endured a thousand battles on a hundred worlds. Something entirely too familiar to the mysterious John Gustat...

This time, it's personal. [like, all the other times, it was "just business" - Jeff]


Corporal Harrison

Corporal Harrison

#12
yer it looks good, i would have prefered one in the past aswell.

Bishop2

Bishop2

#13
Quote from: Darkness on Jul 07, 2007, 03:43:30 PM
Sounds a lot like Robert Rodriguez's P3 script.


Is that floating around online somewhere?

As for this novel... hmmm, fresh blood.  He's never done a media tie-in book, let alone a Predator or Alien novel.  I hope he brings something good to it... hopefully manages to adhere to the f**king movies, too.  :P

Space Disc Jockey

Space Disc Jockey

#14
Yeah, I would really like to read the Rodriguez "Predators" script.

When I saw "The Island" title, I thought it was going to be some kind of "Lost" or "Survivor" with a Predator.

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