The next day, an alien embryo explodes from the crewman's chest - and rapidly matures into a savage monster. While searching for the source of the signal on the moon, one of the crew members gets an alien organism attached to his face and falls into a coma. In the year 2122, the crew of the commercial freighter spaceship Nostromo sidelines their trip back home to Earth when they pick up a Distress Call from an uncharted moon. It was directed by Ridley Scott and stars Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Ian Holm, and Yaphet Kotto. the pteranodon with its 6m wingspan is estimated to not weigh more than 60 to 70 pounds.Ī cool *idea*, but depends how much science you like in your science fiction.Alien is the first film in the Alien franchise, released in 1979.
To be able to also to do any heavy lifting like carrying off the weight of a full sized man? It would be gigantic. A flying Alien would theoretically have to be pretty small with giant wings, and wouldn't have a very thick carapace. Every flying species we've ever known, going back to the dinosaurs, had tremendous wingspan to body mass ratios. Might as well accept this is going to be a dumpster fire.Īs far as flying Aliens, inherently not a terrible idea, but they're probably going to fly via Tyranid Magic, rather than physics. One half of this author team is the guy who wrote the exceedingly slow paced and blandly boilerplate Aliens: Infiltrator, and the other half is his wife, the one who wrote that absurdly stupid short story in the Bug Hunt anthology about Hicks' previously-unmentioned wife who died to the Aliens, but Hicks never mentioned anything about her or knowing of the existence of hostile, dangerous Aliens that slaughtered his entire previous squad, and instead seemed thoroughly unimpressed by the idea of another "bug hunt." *Updated to include mention of co-author Yvonne Navarro.Ĭategories: Literature News | Forum Topic You can also join in with fellow Alien and Predator fans on our forums! Predator news! You can follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube to get the latest on your social media walls. And a big thanks goes to community member felix for the ‘heads up’!
Predators: Rift War” is slated to be released on Jand is currently listed on for pre-order. Reported to be 352 pages in length, “Aliens vs.
These deadly Xenomorph hybrids-some of which possess the ability to fly-swarm out of control and may prove more than either the Yautja or the humans can defeat. The aliens emerge and the result is bizarre and deadly hybrids, with humans trapped between the Predators and their prey. When a Yautja (Predator) ship arrives for a hunting ritual, the Predators seed the rifts with Xenomorph eggs. The plant’s flower yields a valuable narcotic, and people are forced by the cartels to harvest it. The planet LV-363 teems with exotic life, including a plant growing in the shadows of its deep rifts. When the Predators choose LV-363 for a hunt and seed it with Xenomorph eggs, the result is bizarre alien hybrids and humans trapped between the Predators and their prey. Now Weston Ochse and Yvonne Navarro are back, this time putting a new spin on the creatures’ iconic clash. Weston recently penned the “Aliens: Fireteam Elite” video game prequel novel called “Aliens: Infiltrator”, in addition to having his own short stories in “Aliens: Bug Hunt” and “Predator: If It Bleeds”. She also wrote “Reclamation” for “Aliens: Bug Hunt”, and has a new short coming out in “Aliens vs. Navarro has written for Alien as far back as the original Dark Horse novelizations, having wrote “Aliens: Music of the Spears”. Predators: Rift War”, this new novel is being written by husband and wife writing team Yvonne Navarro and Weston Ochse who are no strangers to our favorite franchises. A war is coming! Titan Books has just announced a new novel currently in the works that promises to delve further into the ongoing battle between our two favorite iconic creatures: Alien versus Predator!