Aliens vs. Predators: Rift War

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By Weston Ochse & Yvonne Navarro

Publisher Description

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.

The planet LV-363 teems with exotic life, including a plant growing in the shadows of its deep rifts. The plant’s flower yields a valuable narcotic, and people are forced by the cartels to harvest it. When a Yautja (Predator) ship arrives for a hunting ritual, the Predators seed the rifts with Xenomorph eggs. The aliens emerge and the result is bizarre and deadly hybrids, with humans trapped between the Predators and their prey. 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.

© 2021 20TH CENTURY STUDIOS

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3.5

DossierHarlz

Created 11 days ago

“Right, bad stuff out of the way first. Possibly the worst ending to any book I’ve ever had the displeasure of reading. There are multiple grammar mistakes? Did the editor just fall asleep and passed it in a panic when they woke up? It was quite consistent at the beginning where it was about 1 grammar mistake every 5 pages. Thankfully it calmed down but then picked up a little at the end again. The predators literally just talk to each other, like they will just have conversations about anything. It’s not the worst thing in the world but they just feel like people who like to hunt a lot of the time rather than a mysterious alien race. Funnily enough the book has the same problems the AvP films did, being that they are fun but do not feel like aliens or predators. The tension is taken out of the xenomorphs and they are reduced to soulless drones rather than being individually scary, which was my issue with Aliens but at least that had the queen. Why did the predators have random ass flashbacks this didn’t help with making them too human. It all just reads a bit fan fiction-y. I wouldn’t mind them talking but describe their body language a bit more rather than the literal pages long conversations. The films don’t have subtitles for them for a reason. Except The Predator, but we don’t talk about that one… The good stuff is I did actually like the predators. They didn’t feel fully like yautja but once I got over it I did begin to appreciate them. I did feel attached to the humans towards the end. The concept of the rift wings was fun and the xenomorphs were cool in places. More stuff to complain about but spoiler warning ig. THAT ENDING. The alien and predator films generally follow a pattern where we are introduced to a team, get attached to them, then they get picked off one by one ramping up in speed until one or two are left and it’s just them for a while, narrowly escaping at the end. I assumed that’s what would happen with Enid, Fetch and Shrapnel. Now Shrapnels death was sad and annoying but felt like a true alien/ predator death, because I felt for him and for a second thought he was going to make it so I can accept that. Then I assumed Fetch would board the shuttle, know how to fly, and him and Enid could go somewhere and maybe find her kids idk. BUT SHE SHOOTS HIM. SHE JUST DOES AND ITS SO STUPID. WE SPENT THE LAST THIRD FOLLOWING HIM AND HE JUST DIES. IT IS NOT EARNED AT ALL. And then they’re just like, oh yeah Enid’s going to die but at least she has drugs! Despite the whole book being quite anti drugs. And then they make the same mistake the films did and have a chest burster come out a dead predator corpse. Wouldn’t you think that for a race that has a ritual where to become an adult you have to kill a parasite that uses you to become a stronger mix of you both, they’d have some kind of precautions with scanning for them on their ships? Especially if you are bringing back the corpses that you didn’t see die? AND NOT A SINGLE HUMAN GETS KILLED BY A PREDATOR OR FACE HUGGED. THAT IS INSANE FOR AN AVP BOOK. My absolute dream would be to adapt this into a film, change the ending and not have the predators talk so much. It was fun but infuriating to read at the same time.”

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About Weston Ochse

Weston Ochse’s military supernatural series SEAL Team 666 has been optioned for a feature film, and his SF trilogy that began with Grunt Life received praise for its depiction of soldiers at peace and at war. A veteran who served in Afghanistan, his licensed fiction includes Predator, Aliens, X-Files, Hellboy, and V-Wars. Holding a master’s degree in creative writing, Weston teaches at Southern New Hampshire University. He lives in Southern Arizona.

Yvonne Navarro is the Bram Stoker Award winning author of over twenty novels. She has written tie-ins to hit TV shows such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer and movie tie-in novels for Aliens, Hellboy, Species, Elektra and Ultraviolet. She lives in Arizona and is married to author Weston Ochse.