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"Aliens Earth Hive"
After reading S.Perrys 'Earth Hive' I found myself wanting more, and before I knew it I had worked my way through 8 aliens books, 3 AVP books and 3 Predator books. From the first page of the first Aliens book I was hooked and I must admit nothing has ever been able to grab my mind and keep me thrilled and the need to keep me reading.

From a small age I have never really been interested in much reading, but being a fan of the Aliens movies and receiving the first 3 aliens books as gifts, I thought to myself that I would take the time and read them, and I am not regretting this decision.

The story is quite simple, humanity has fallen into a world of greed, living for the wants of life, not the needs. And during these sorrowful years we find ourselves in hell, as the beginning of the war for Earth begins. Alien eggs are stolen from a science facility and spread across the globe, and within a year man has to live in space stations and almost unhabitable planets.

Each of the books follows an almost linear pattern of story telling, we are introduced to almost doomed individuals and their growing struggle to live in a world and space inhabited by monsters. The books themselves originate from Graphic novels that would be inspiration for the books, and each page you can see this. The description jumps out at you, as each Xenomorph attack does, and you want to turn the page to see who lives, who dies and who, well becomes a lifeless host for the aliens.

S.Perry started with a great read, and with the help of his daughter who joined him and wrote her own stories, was met up with many other writers, and each one did a great job, bringing likable and hated characters, and the stories that would make you just hope that Earth would not be taken over by these creatures. But with each of the novels, you learn that man itself is far worse in nature than these creatures.

Thank you for all the authors who would write the books that would make me wish to continue the series and I hope to see on the bookstore shelves, one more story that would take me to a world where power and greed outways the growth of such a devastating species.

Earth Hive began it all, read it, it will scare you into reading the others...!

"A chilling sequel to Aliens"
Aliens: Earth Hive is a break neck paced, chilling thrill ride that will leave you horrified. Though most writers have struggled to bring the quick timing of the Aliens movies into book form, Steve Perry seems like he was born for the challenge.

This book serves as an alternate sequel for Aliens. The scared marine that is obviously Hicks is called Wilks here, and Newt is called Billie. Ripley is left out because it would be hitting too close to the original. Still, there's no doubt that Hicks and Newt these characters are. Wilks' face and chest were burned and scared with alien blood, Billie's flash back to her parents being taken by aliens perfectly mirrors Newt's memories from the aliens extended edition word for word of dialog.

Ten years after their encounter, Billie and Wilks are forced by the government to face the aliens again, this time of the aliens own home world. While they're facing that nightmare, people back on earth are having nightmares of their own, dreaming of the alien monsters. What no one knows is one of the monsters has been smuggled to earth, and soon disaster follows.

As a fan of the second movie, Aliens, I happen to like this sequel better than Aliens 3. It's gritty, scary, and very human all at the same time. I highly recommend it to fans of the movies and sci-fi fans in general.


" AWSOME BOOOOK!!!!!!"
this book was one of my favorite books Ive ever read it had all the elements i like in a book plenty of action lots blood good plot. What happens in the book is a group of space travlers encounter an alien species thats bread to kill. Ounce the travlers get back to earth no one believes them that they actshily foot this creater.The book then leads to the surviveers going to the alien planet sorry about my spelling.

"There's Definitely Better Out There"
While it is a light enough read that I could finish it w/ ease, EARTH HIVE is, too me, a well-executed series of mistakes. Firstly, in my understanding, the reason "Billie" and "Wilks" have such similar backstories to Newt and Hicks is because of they originally WERE Newt and Hicks, in the original ALIENS comics, which have been collected in the graphic novel ALIENS: BOOK 1: OUTBREAK. After Alien3 killed the characters off, though, they had to have a name change to avoid continuity problems. This would be the first of this book's numerous flaws.

Second is the amount of subplots. Apparently, there wasn't enough material between the six comics to fill a novel, and Mr.Perry had to "fill in the holes". As I have not read OUTBREAK I am unaware if the entire plotline concerning the assassin Massey was even in the original series, or if the Space Jockeys made any appearences. Worse, this book's one interesting idea (an alien-worshipping religious cult, explained in ALIENS: APOCALYPSE--THE DESTROYING ANGELS) is ruined by the fact that the author spends so much time setting it up all to a very unsatisfying subclimax- that is, a conclusion to the subplot.

Third is the pacing. Because of all these unnecesary and almost random events, the actual story is on the last thirty pages or so. Perhaps worse is the fact that the events of the first two-hundred pages occur over apparently a few months, and then years go by in the last seventy.

And, as if that weren't enough, the author sees fit to fill some pages with tens of pointless dream-ending chapters that contributed nothing to the overall story.

Don't get me wrong. There are some great ALIENS and PREDATOR books out there. This just isn't one of them. If you want to read the remaining entries in the otherwise-excellently-written Aliens Trilogy, I advise you to buy the ALIENS graphic novel OUTBREAK. It's far superior to this sad excuse for a book.

"stupid people who don't know Caracters"
Well this book is the best Aliens book ever but that's not the point because people think the wilk's is hick's from aliens 2 but he is not and billie is not newt Because in the book they tell you it is not them because a guy say's that we have a missing woman wwho went with a squad and left with a half of an android and a little girl. now that ring's a bell huh it is from the movie that hick's is dead in number 2 of aliens show just push yes that this helped and that you well like this book and the rest like number 2 and 3.So if i mest this up i'm sorry but there are people in this world who are just relley relley STUPID