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Alien: Colony War

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”.

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I found this audiobook to be quite enjoyable. The tone is both familiar and different to other instalments, which gives the story an interesting pace, but ultimately the underlying thread common to all Alien stories - humanity, blinded by avarice and arrogance, meddling with a force it cannot understand - is the sticky resin-coated thread that binds this book to the rest of the franchise.

The execution of the plot is particularly fascinating, as it tells on itself a few times, especially when the author posits via an in-character voice that buffoonery is no accident - in the middle of a story in which the saying 'Best of British to you!' makes a common appearance. Likewise, the presentation of this tale is quite intentional. Even the xenomorphs are presented in ways both new and old, an entirely suitable factor for a species which claims genetic drift as a feature rather than, ahaha, a bug. Honestly, as a lifelong fan of the franchise, my only real issue with the text is a relatively minor one: the author could stand to keep in mind a few more synonyms for the word 'said,' especially as such repetitions become painfully obvious in audiobook form.

Shiromi Arserio is an excellent narrator with a talent for accents - vital in a story of people caught between multiple governments and cultures - and I found myself quite captivated throughout. Brilliant performance.

Enthusiastic addition to the franchise

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Liked the Britain angle. Good reveal at the end. Would have liked it to be more suspenseful.

Ok I guess

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Absolutely loved Into Charybdis and Cold Forge, but this is derivate trash filled with one dimensional characters and a really dumb plot. This wasn't written by someone who values the source material and doesn't value your time.

Really pathetic

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Characters and villains are cookie cutter and boring

It's very preachy woke (if you are into that type of thing). Tons of references to Evil Brexiters & Boris Johnson is the bad guy etc

The Aliens are treated as cannon fodder

But the cardinal sin, for an Alien novel, it just isn't scary at all

It's a lousy book

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Difficult to finish because the writing is extremely amateur. The dialogue between characters is over-dramatic, lazy, ambitionless. The outline of the story itself is decent, though there could have been a little more ‘colony’ to live up to the title ‘Colony Wars’. I think the bones of the story make a great addition to the series, but the writing belly-flopped.

Crappy writing.

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