{"id":917,"date":"2011-03-18T15:52:50","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T15:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andyparkes.co.uk\/blog\/?p=917"},"modified":"2011-03-21T07:25:04","modified_gmt":"2011-03-21T07:25:04","slug":"book-review-aliens-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andyparkes.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2011\/03\/18\/book-review-aliens-genocide\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Aliens Genocide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/1857982258\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=andstecblo-21&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=19450&amp;creativeASIN=1857982258\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 7px 12px 7px 0px; display: inline; float: left\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/g-ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/G\/02\/ciu\/98\/4d\/1eaae10e22a00734aff82210.L.jpg\" width=\"208\" height=\"341\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I picked this up ages ago on market stall selling old books. <\/p>\n<p>Aliens is pretty standard geek fare and as a teenager I was obsessed with both Aliens and Predator. I haven\u2019t read any Aliens fiction for ages so thought I\u2019d change that since book has been sat on the shelf for a while. <\/p>\n<p>The plot is focussed around a pharmaceutical company who make drugs from Alien \u201croyal jelly\u201d (gunk from the eggs). Their main product \u201cXeon Zip\u201d is a little but like Red Bull but it starts to have weird effects on certain people, turning them overly aggressive and giving them superhuman strength and speed \u2013 they call this product offshoot \u201cFire\u201d and naturally this gets the attention of the military and a mission is put together to visit the Alien \u201chiveworld\u201d and collect some more of this royal jelly. The story follows two main characters, Daniel Grant \u2013 the owner of the pharmaceutical company who tags along on the mission to get away from his \u201cbusiness problems\u201d on Earth and Colonel Alexandra Kozlowski who heads up the team of soldiers that are visit the planet. <\/p>\n<p>They don\u2019t actually get to the planet until the last third of the book which is a bit of a shame as it meant the action on the planet was actually quite short. <\/p>\n<p>When they get to the planet they discover the Aliens have split into two different variations, the regular black Aliens and these new red Aliens and the ship lands right in the middle of a war between the two factions which gives them plenty more to contend with on what was already a seemingly impossible mission. <\/p>\n<p>On the whole it was a good read but it would have been nice if the red\/black Alien concept had been explored further. <\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re a fan of the Aliens universe it\u2019s worth a read.<\/p>\n<p>You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/1857982258\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=andstecblo-21&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=19450&amp;creativeASIN=1857982258\">get it on Amazon here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I picked this up ages ago on market stall selling old books. 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