Earth Hive: Aliens Book I

by Steve Perry

Book Overview

Wilks was a space marine with a near-fatal flaw:??he had a heart.??Billie was a child, the only survivor of a far-flung colony outpost.??Thrown together in the last hellish night of an alien invasion,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0553561200
• ISBN13: 9780553561203
• Release Date: September 1992
• Publisher: Spectra Books
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

A great way to start the alien novels

As my title implies, this should be the first book you read in the alien series. Earth Hive sets the stage for the two books that dirrectly follow it, Nightmare Asylum and the Female War, as well as every other alien book written by the other authors. In this book, explanation of how the Earth became completely overrun by the xenos is given. Remember the creature who became victom to the aliens in the first movie? The big elephant like creature in the chair abord the derelict spacecraft. Well this book goes into what he is and how their kind plays into this story. This is a great book, and should be read before any of the other alien books in my opinion.

A terrific book and series.

This was a great book, too bad they made Alien: Resurrection into a movie instead of this book and the ones that follow. The book did however embelish on the idea of the movies that the future is all crappy still just with certain better means of space travel, this book made the future out to be something more along the lines of Star Trek, but that all changes when Wilks is reinstated to lead a team to the Alien hive world to capture samples and bring them back to earth. The film features several interesting sub plots that include, corprate espionage, love and tragedy, and yes, the alien conquest of Earth. If you don't know already this book was written around the time that Alien 3 was in production, so certain characters in the book had to be changed and re-written, namely Wilks and Billie who were actually Hicks and Newt from the Aliens film, It's sad that this book was changed to accomodate the film, since Alien: Resurrection makes no mention of the events that occoured in the books, so this negates this series as canonical.If your a fan of the Alien film series you should definetly grab this book.

excellent

If you LOVED the Aliens(Return) movie, this book is the one for you to read. If you expected Alien3 to be a movie that somehow could act as a successor of Aliens2, but were deeply disappointed,then do read this book. Earth hive is a story that has many parallelsto Aliens2, in fact I would describe it as a clone of A2, with a slightly altered story but with all the tension, horror and 'technical' feeling you got from A2. Strongly recommendable!