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Book Review | Aliens: Phalanx (ukfilmnerd.wordpress.com)

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Hello. I'm UKFilmNerd, you can usually find me at !homevideo@feddit.uk. While I usually review films on my little blog space, I occasionally branch out and try reviewing other forms of media.

Here's a review of the book Aliens: Phalanx by Scott Sigler. It's an Aliens adventure, based on the popular film franchise, but in this story, the people under attack are a primitive type with no guns just spears.

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[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Interesting - I've read quite a few of the comics. I liked the Aliens sequel a lot better than Aliens 3. The Dredd crossovers were fun.

This feels like it had an odd genesis - "I want to write Aliens Vs Knights", "Oo cool but you can't - they'd just run riot and take over the Earth", "how about on a different world?", "with knights?", "humanity has regressed or something A Canticle for Leibowitz style", "well I don't see how it fit in the established Alien universe but if you make it entertaining enough, we'll publish it", "deal!".

Good to hear it worked out nicely.

Predator in historical times is much more practical - I still want to see a Predator: Nemesis film. Jack the Ripper, the smog shrouded streets of old London town...

[–] UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

We got Prey, which I think is absolutely fantastic, and that's historical. I think it's inspired by the final scene of Predator 2.

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 2 points 9 months ago

Indeed - Predator works much better historically and could have almost infinite interations as a lone hunter comes to Earth to challenge some skilled combatant from the past.

You let an Alien lose in Earth presumably up to at least the time of the Alien films and it's game over, man.