Aliens: Infiltrator

A Novel

De: Weston Ochse

Narrado por: Bronson Pinchot

The official prequel leading into the upcoming Aliens cooperative third-person survival shooter video game, Aliens: Fireteam, from Cold Iron Studios.

Dr. Timothy Hoenikker arrives on Pala Station, a Weyland-Yutani facility. Lured there by the promise of alien artifacts, instead he finds a warped bureaucracy and staff of misfits testing the effects of Xenomorph bio-materials on living creatures. Unbeknownst to the personnel, however, there is an infiltrator among them whose actions could spell disaster.

Also on staff is Victor Rawlings, a former marine who gathers together other veterans to prepare for the worst. As the personnel receive a delivery of alien eggs, the experiments spin out of control, and only the former Colonial Marines can stand between the humans and certain death.

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Good Solid Alien Fun

Enjoyable, interesting characters & development of them. Great descriptions of Alien gestational stages. Definitely wide open for the next episode.

Fun story

interesting and fun, the characters don't have a lot of unnecessary hang ups that some of the books use to build it's characters.

What a thrill ride.

I loved this story, great action and great characters. This story is like a Facehugger , once it grabs you it won't let go until the very end. I am very interested to play Aliens : Fireteam Elite to see how the story continues.

all out good

this is a excellent add to the already lager world of aliens i very much enjoy the fact that it will tie in to the upcoming video game Fireteam Elite all and all its a great story told by a rather great narrator Bronson Pinchot who also has done other works in the alien universe I liked it I bet any real fan will like it 5 skulls 💀 💀 💀 💀 💀

pretty good

pretty good ... there were some illogical jumps but still good

still need 5 more words for minum woords. ...

True to form

While the story was a little bit of a Dark Horse Comics Alien Series copy, it was still great horror fun and the narrator was amazingly gifted.

A pretty good Aliens entry

A fun, but more predictable Aliens entry. It was enjoyable and the Aliens were interesting. However, I wanted to have some more action or climatic parts regarding some of the special “Xenomorphs” that were describe earlier. Still, a good read. An excellent performance.

Really good story

Amazing story! Probably one of the best books in this series. One complaint though… There better be a sequel and it better talk about the end of this book because it was pretty abrupt leaving us all on a cliffhanger.

Intriguing possibility….

Spoilers ahead!
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I think the latest outpouring of Alien books have been really enjoyable for fans of the creature and the genre. I wasn’t expecting high art or much more than rehashes with some spins, but “The Cold Forge” was an absolute rockstar entry that might very well be the next trilogy, if not movies, then in some format other than books.

It was apparent the way this ends on a cliffhanger, that *something interesting* was definitely happening on the other, unknown parts of the ship(s), but the concept of an albino Alien somehow being…”extra,” by virtue of the “black goo,” had me enthused about how the species might evolve to become even more challenging, and by that extension, even scarier.

“Alien 3” tickled that, but never really hit it out of the park, the same way “Alien: Resurrection” had some really great ideas, but the tone was kind of all over the place (but, it was certainly pretty to look at).

This book holds that kind of frustration for me. I would have given it 4 stars or more, if the albino had a payoff, but it doesn’t, not after building it up with such an intriguing possibility. Of course, the cloaking capability of the other was equally fascinating, but again, neither build up to a payoff where their unique abilities mean anything.

These stories are parables about how humankind thinks it has everything under control, until it doesn’t. They’re also parables about greed. However, one can only keep (ironically) milking the same idea (think: Jaws), before one-upping whatever came before, just pushes them into absurdity, and they lose meaning, credibility, and therefore, the ability to frighten.

Which is why this book and “Aliens: Into Charybdis” (the sequel to “Aliens: “The Cold Forge”), are so frustrating. They’re on the right path, slowly evolving the mythos into something larger and weaving in something new, fresh, and that makes the creature of collective nightmares that much more impossibly frightening.

But instead of going for that brass ring, perhaps the studio heads or whomever really holds the rights to this IP, throttle it from changing too much.

I don’t know if it’s because we’re supposed to anticipate Ridley Scott completing this film series as his magnum opus (he’s not got that much time), or what, but it’s not difficult to figure out what happens with David and the crew of “Alien: Covenant.”

Maybe the sequel to this will redeem it, but that should not be necessary, because there were already 2-3 great ideas here already.

Either wrap that old canon up, or let some new blood come in and complete a new vision of what might frighten us in the cold darkness.

Great

One of the best yet, reader is great, cool story, great characters, i would love more of these