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Alien: Colony War

Written by: David M. Barnett
Narrated by: Shiromi Arserio
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Political conflicts on Earth erupt into open hostilities between their colonies in space, with Xenomorphs as the ultimate weapon.

On Earth, political tensions boil over between the United Americas, Union of Progressive Peoples, and Three World Empire. Conflict spreads to the outer fringes, and the UK colony of New Albion breaks with the Three World Empire. This could lead to a Colony War.

Trapped in the middle are journalist Cher Hunt, scientist Chad McLaren, and the synthetic Davis. Cher, seeking to discover who caused the death of her sister, Shy Hunt, uncovers a far bigger story. McLaren’s mission, fought alongside his wife, Amanda Ripley, is to stop the militarization of the deadliest weapon of all—the Xenomorph.

Their trail leads to a drilling facility on LV-187. Someone or something has destroyed it, killing the personnel, and the British are blamed. Colonial forces arrive, combat erupts, then both groups are overwhelmed by an alien swarm. Their only hope may lie with the Royal Marines unit known as “God’s Hammer”.

©2022 David Barnett (P)2022 Blackstone Publishing

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I love a good alien story, but this one's a miss

it feels like they are trying to inject a whole new set off problems into an already problem rich universe. there was still so much more to explore with the corporatocracy filled hell space that is the aliens universe, the conflicts that the author seems to be lining up are just your usual nation states beefing in space. I will probably hold off any future aliens books until I know if this timeline is going to continue or not. hopefully we see a shift to more corporate war crimes and less historical cosplayers claiming to be nations in the future of the series.

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A Missed Opportunity

The story’s conflicts depend on stupid people doing stupid things, which is a frustrating proposition for a reader.

Like many novels set in the Alien universe, this one comes across as an extended set up for a future instalment, rather than a satisfying and encapsulated story.

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A pale imitation of Alex White

If you think that the pinnacle of human society was the British Empire, or that journalists are some kind of virtuous god-kings, or even if you love incredibly ham fisted modern political commentary; then this book is for you.

If however, you enjoy a good Aliens franchise book, with an original premise that keeps you on the edge of your seat; give this a hard pass.

Some of the character work between main characters is quite good at the end, but the bulk of this story is a tiresome critique of recent political events that will age this book significantly as time goes on. Retconning in a sibling for Cheyenne Hunt from Into Charybdis was a poor choice given the lack of mention in that far superior work of writing.

I really think they should have brought Alex White back on for this, or even one of the authors from the mid 2010's trilogy. This author (who happens to be a British journalist, imagine that) really missed the mark and used his opportunity of writing an Alien novel, to instead use it as a vehicle to write his own commentary where Xenomorphs just happen to be present.

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