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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN num: 9780553564419
ISBN number: 0553564412
Label: Bantam
Manufacturer: Bantam
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 296
Printing Date: August 01, 1995
Publishing house: Bantam
Release Date: August 01, 1995
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Studio: Bantam
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This time the humans are taking the offensive! Stan Myakovsky is a once-famous scientist fallen on hard times. Now he dodges spaceship repo men and dreams of the marketability of his cybernetic ant. Then a woman named Julie Lish walks into his life. She is beautiful, mysterious, and totally amoral. She is also skilled in the arts of thievery and Oriental self-defense. What's more, she has a plan so outrageous there might be one chance in a million to pull it off.
Together Stan and Julie become the most unlikely pair of pirates in the universe. With a hijacked spaceship and a crew of hardcase misfits, they're searching for the ultimate pot of gold at the end of a bloody intergalactic rainbow: royal jelly from an alien hive. The only problem is that the fortune lies on the universe's most godforsaken planet. And once they get their hands on it, the'll have to fight their way past the aliens to get off the planet alive.
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This is another book I got for my husband. He said it was okay, a lot like the movies, but that there were a lot of editing errors. If you're a fan of the films, though, you'll probably enjoy it!
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This is my very first time writing a negative review. The book itself seems a slap in the face for all fans of the Alien series.
I consider myself an avid Alien fan that has read the far superior Steve Perry books. This book has too many problem to list them all, but here are some of the sticking points for me.
1) The whole plot of the book is to steal royal jelly. I'll swallow the fact that it could be a drug and used by medical science. The problem is that royal jelly is produced to genetically change their offspring to future queens. Now I understand that this is a fiction novel, but even if it was you shouldn't collect the jelly from drone exoskeletons and they don't keep vats of it sitting out in the hive. Try to at least do some research, and have a logical thought behind your decisions for your story.
2) There are so many situations in the book that makes little or no sense, especially towards the end of the book. The extra team that is attacked by the bird creatures are then suddenly attacked by aliens? There is no description of the transition, it just happens. The ending of the book, where two people are in the exact same location and they both pass out. One person is taken to the hive, but the other isn't and wakes up? Pushing the realm of logic and reason is only okay if you explain it.
3) Too many modern references. This book is supposed to be in the future, don't insult my intelligence by referencing the Jolly Green Giant. Try and at least come up with an original thought/idea about what life is like in the future.
4) Blatant misadvertising on the front of the book. I originally bought it because I wanted to see what the author thought the Alien's home planet would be like. However, the book states almost as soon as they land on the planet that it is not the home planet of the Aliens.
5) Robot Aliens love dogs. I think this author was so distracted by the idea of robots caring and thinking that this book shouldn't have had Aliens at all. Android feelings were done in the Perry books, to a much better understanding and extent. This feels like a pale clone in comparison.
6) The very first half the book was more interesting when the author wasn't trying to shove something down our throats that he had no interest in or willingness to understand. I found that the characters to be more interesting when they were stealing art and having heists. The author seems to have had no desire to write this book in the Alien universe for no other reason than to collect a paycheck and it shows.
I could go on and on, but save yourself the trouble just don't read this book.
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god awful sums it up as quickly as possible. There is little continuity in the story line, leaving me to believe if mr Sheckley ever bothered to read his finished product. This book pasy absolutely no attention to things discovered about the aliens earlier in the series. What was impossible in all 4 of the previous books, i.e. storming into the alien "superhive", was done with relative ease by three amature's when it killed nearly an entire elite team of colonial marines in "genocide". When i read this book i wanted to tear it apart it was so frustrating, after seeing that this book was published by bantam, i am now seriously considering glueing some pieces or trash together, slapping some postage on it, and adding my name to the list of ALIENS series authors. I only hope the rest aren't this awful, but after reading the very first 4 and this being the 5th, i am going to take a break from the series, due to the absolute horridity of this book. DISGUSTING DISPLAY.
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Compared to the other Alien novels, this one wasn't the greatest. Half the book was unnecessary character development that really didn't make you feel any closer to the characters. Towards half way through book, we finally come across some action. The fights were pretty well written, but if you're looking for some blood and gore, my friends, you won't find it here. I was, to my surprise, hooked after they landed on the Aliens' planet. Non stop Alien encounters from then on. Which is what we all like to see, eh? Well, I thought that this book might turn out to be pretty good, until the last chapter -- such a major disappointment, I wanted to throw the crap I was reading in my hands outside of the window and hope my dog would find it unused. Be prepared to be shocked, ladies and gentlemen, for this might have been the most unexpected ending a book as ever had. I felt abandoned -- if that's the right word for it. But other than that, I guess I would recommend adding this title to your collection, just make sure you're prepped for the finale.
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i liked the plot and the whole story line but what happened in the end was unexpected
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