The Complete Aliens Omnibus, Volume 6
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And the court martial, along with the digital footage, was classified. UNIC took all the video. Later, Corgan heard that The Company paid off some people, and took it from UNIC.
There were no appearances on talk shows; there were no medals. UNIC had decided it was all to be a secret. They were to tell no one.
Corgan didn’t mind. He didn’t want to think about it, if he didn’t have to.
Nate. Beresford. Julie. All the others… those eyeless alien countenances… the dead warriors on the tables… the screams…
Corgan closed his eyes. Then he felt a pressure on his arm, fingers caressing his biceps…
And he smiled.
What the hell. There were ways a man could forget…
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
DIANE CAREY is a best-selling science fiction writer with more than forty-five novels to her credit, including nine New York Times bestsellers for her Star Trek work and several number one chain bestsellers. She holds the distinction of having written many of the episode-to-novel adaptations of seminal Star Trek episodes, including the novelizations of the finale for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and the premiere of Star Trek Enterprise and has gained a reputation for her care and attention in expanding and extending the rich backstories of the characters she works on. An avid sailor of historic tall ships, Carey lives in Michigan with her husband, writer and computer programmer Greg Brodeur and children Lydia, Gordon, and Ben.
JOHN SHIRLEY is the author of numerous novels and books of stories, including the novels Demons, Crawlers, Cellars, Wetbones, City Come A-Walkin’, Eclipse, A Splendid Chaos, the Bram Stoker Award–winning Black Butterflies from Leisure, and the rather notorious collection Really Really Really Really Weird Stories from Nightshade. He was one of the original cyberpunk writers with William Gibson, Rudy Rucker, and Bruce Sterling. He was co-screenwriter of The Crow, has written scripts for television series and cable movies. He was lead singer and songwriter for various bands including the punk band SadoNation, the post-punk band Obsession (Celluloid Records), and the post-cyberpunk band The Panther Moderns. MP3s of his work are to be found through links at the fan-created website www.darkecho.com/JohnShirley. His blog is at www.johnshirley.net. He writes lyrics for the Blue Oyster Cult, including songs on their new album Curse of the Hidden Mirror.
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THE COLD FORGE
By Alex White
With the failure of the Hadley’s Hope, Weyland-Yutani has suffered a devastating defeat—the loss of the Aliens. Yet there’s a reason the company rose to the top, and they have a redundancy already in place. Remote station RB-323 abruptly becomes their greatest hope for weaponizing the Xenomorph, but there’s a spy aboard— someone who doesn’t necessarily act in the company’s best interests. If discovered, this person may have no choice but to destroy RB-323… and everyone on board. That is, if the Xenomorphs don’t do the job first.
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ALIENS
BUG HUNT
Edited by Jonathan Maberry,
featuring stories by Paul Kupperberg, Dan Abnett, Rachel Caine, and many more
When the Colonial Marines set out after their deadliest prey, the Xenomorphs, it’s what Corporal Hicks calls a bug hunt—kill or be killed. Here are eighteen all-new stories of such “close encounters,” written by many of today’s most extraordinary authors.
Set during the events of all four Alien films, sending the Marines to alien worlds, to derelict space settlements, and into the nests of the universe’s most dangerous monsters, these adventures are guaranteed to send the blood racing—
One way or another.
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THE RAGE WAR TRILOGY
By Tim Lebbon
Predator ships stream into human space in unimaginable numbers. The Colonial Marines, controlled by Weyland-Yutani, respond to the incursion, thus entering…
THE RAGE WAR
This terrifying assault by the Yautja cannot go unchallenged, yet the cost of combat is high. Predators are master combatants, and each encounter yields a high body count. Then when Lt. Johnny Mains and his marines—the VoidLarks—enter the fray, they discover an enemy deadlier than any could imagine…
This epic trilogy crosses between Predator, Alien, and AVP!
Predator: Incursion (The Rage War #1)
Alien: Invasion (The Rage War #2)
Alien vs. Predator: Armageddon (The Rage War #3)
The universe will forever be changed.
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