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Alien: Inferno's Fall

An Original Novel Based on the Films from 20th Century Studios

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Alien: Inferno's Fall

By: Philippa Ballantine
Narrated by: Julienne Irons
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A gargantuan horseshoe-shaped ship appears over the mining planet Shānmén, unleashing a black rain of death that creates Xenomorph-like monsters worse than the darkest of nightmares.

As war breaks out among the colonies, a huge ship appears over the UPP mining planet Shānmén, releasing a horror that yields hideous transformations. Rescue is too far away, and the colonists’ only hope appears in the form of the vessel Righteous Fury. It carries the Jackals—an elite mix of former Colonial Marines and Royal Marines. Led by Zula Hendricks, the Jackals seek to rescue the few survivors from the depths of the planet, but have they arrived on time?

©2022 Philippa Ballantine and Clara Carija (P)2022 Blackstone Publishing Adventure Fiction First Contact Genre Fiction Movie, TV & Video Game Tie-Ins Science Fiction Solar System Military Mining

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I really enjoyed this one.
Ignore the people who say it is the same. They all are to a certain extent.
This one had a few new twists and sets the series just for an interesting new direction.

Really enjoyed this one

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The synthetic daughter of Davis is an excellent character and horror and tragedy abound as mysteries unfold and survivors try to elude the various xenomorphic mutations . ..an imaginative world and future with lots of descriptive pleasure. I am there with the Jackels (marines) , then deep in the mines , but no face huggers or queen .,so a bit more promethius than Alien . Thanks for an expressive interesting escapist read

Enjoyable night time listening

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Part way through chapter 7 whilst driving, I realised once again I didn't know what was going on.

Mid-Mid-Mid-Hi-Loooooooow
Mid-Mid-Mid-Hi-Loooooooow
Mid-Mid-Mid-Hi-Loooooooow

That's all my mind would hear, the narrator's repetitive speech pattern, often through characters spoken words stopping the differentiation.

There were moments showing what she was capable of, when there was hurrying or swearing in anger. It would break the sleep spell, but I'd be lost as to what happened up to that point.

obviously capable, but called it in that week and defaulted to 'putting the kids to bed' voice.

I can't comment much on the story.

Didn't finish, repetitive pattern narration

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Have listened to all the A&P books, this is just full of modern day politics. I'm expecting more from an alien book, so far the worst by far.

Disappointing

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Inferno's fall picks up on the 'border bombing' events developed in Free Leagues excellent RPG series, and also loosely ties up with 'Colony War' and 'Into Charybdis'. This overarching plot is by far the books greatest asset as it teases to reveal more about the enigmatic engineers.

Unfortunately, whilst there are plenty of interesting ideas the writing is only so-so, and in places skirts with fan-fiction. Sections of the novel do show promise, particularly the middle act where the inevitable horror erupts, but sadly, a selection of mainly poor and stereotypical characters mixed with cheesy inconsistent action sequences unpin most of the the potential.

To surmise, though there are a scattering memorable moments, it's the second disappointing Alien novel in a row, perhaps slightly weaker (though less misguided) than Colony War.

A final note on the narration, whilst I found it bareable after a while, Juliette Iron's delivery and emphasis is rather strange, try before you buy.

For hardcore fans only...

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Loved this, the whole story to the and the inclusion of the let’s say ‘beings’ got me hooked as there isn’t much lure in other books.

Great book

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As a fan of the series that has gone over all other book, this is a mediocre one, in some details:
- Starts with a bit of interesting world building, got me interested where it can go, and then it falls flat. This could have been so much better, I can’t express how disappointed I felt at the end by the story, there is a good element at the end, but overall a letdown. Also why in the world the focus is now more on the terrible Prometheus story-line, than on aliens. How can you run out of idea how to make Aliens interesting, the Prometheus should be forgotten.
- The reader was so monotonous, that this is one of the best books to put you to sleep, honestly this could have been done better by a random person.
- And on a note, once again to many references to current culture and countries, as per a review of a previous book, the world would have changed in the future

Not impressed

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Great to follow Zulu and her continuing storyline. The new characters are well written. Can’t wait for the next instalment.

Excellent

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I didn't realise how many Alien books there are. I really love alien to the point where I collect memorabilia so I suppose this review is relevant to people like me who have seen the film's many many times. So if you have an love for the film series then you will love this book. what is best about it, without a doubt, is that it takes into consideration the new films i.e. Prometheus and Covenant. It has a lot of "artificial people" (androids/robots) and it's just very well read and constructed. It's an alien thing so you of course get all the normal monsters plus the new ones, and there is a leaning towards the topic of AI generally. I really enjoyed this as it transported me back to the alien universe without the inconsistencies that are in the books that were written before Prometheus and after Ressurection. I've got every single alien title on Audible and this is the best so far. Great fun listening to it on an early night - preferably on a stormy dark night. it's a bedtime read and not one for the car as you can't concentrate on the book and the road. There's a lot of content and detail you will miss if you are only partially listening and it's a waste of a good book to do anything other than plan your listening time and really get into the atmosphere the fans of the alien franchise love.

very good for fans of Prometheus or Covenant.

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Good storyline & strong characters throughout. I enjoyed hearing more about Z Hendricks. I’m hoping they write sequel - love the sound of the Jackels

Will definitely listen again

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