Alien: Perfect Organisms
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3.7 • 3 Ratings
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- £6.99
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- £6.99
Publisher Description
Some years after the events of Aliens and Alien 3— an artist obsessed with the disturbing visceral potential of the xenomorphs is pursued to an abandoned colony. Written by the much-celebrated Shaun Hamill, author of A Cosmology of Monsters and The Dissonance.
Desperate, depressed and nearly destitute, Cynthia Goodwin goes against her better judgement to keep her ship the Chariot and its crew in work: she agrees to meet with the reclusive billionaire Roman Fade.
Fade's request is unorthodox: go to the abandoned colony of New Providence and bring back his former lover, the renowned artist Corinth Bloch.
The job is rife with uncertainty. No one knows what happened on New Providence or why it is under quarantine. And Bloch may be brilliant, but he is also deranged. As Cynthia follows his path to the colony, she learns of a mind obsessed with images of dark and horrifying creatures… Of an almost religious fervour for the ultimate subject for his art… Of the drive to capture the sublime terror of the perfect organism…
Customer Reviews
Amazing Read!
I didn’t know what I was getting into this novel, coming right off the back of Alien: Cult, which I took my sweet time to read.
All I had of this was the synopsis, which sounded good, not bad or fantastic, just good.
But reading this, it’s dripping in Alien lore all over the place.
I have to say that the 4 journal entries of the Corinth Bloch character, really made me not put this book down.
Both his testimonials, and how Captain Goodwin perceives them are the real driving force behind this
Their characters are so well done, that you really feel like you’ve gotten to know them both and their lives before the events of the book.
Also, so many points to this for including Prometheus head sculpture temples- black Goo vases and mutated humans
Links to Alien Covenant: Origins and the Earthsavers Cult, Duncan Fields, Out There Be Monsters
And the account of Morse from Alien 3!!!
It really makes those films come to life more by having them weaved into this book
As a fan of the Alien franchise, I move it
However, like most of these stories, it’s always frustrating that we might not ever know what happened to the survivors…
Only a few ever seem to return in sequel books it seems