A review by mferrante83
Aliens: Earth Hive by Steve Perry

2.0

I would love to rate this higher but current day me is not middle school me. This is an adaptation of Mark Verheiden's first volume of the Aliens comic series released in 1989. While the comic was initially an sequel to Aliens this novel, released of in conjunction with Alien 3, meant the characters names had to be changed (Wilks = Hicks, Billie = Newt). The plot is fine and the characterization is thin; the relations between Billie and Mitch (a colonial marine) in particular stands out as developing way too fast and the Weyland-Yutani executives are cartoonishly bad. As in my first read I was still fascinated by the Alien cult that develops on Earth.

Overall, this is an interesting bit of historical fiction but the detail and attention of the more recent Alien novels surpasses this one.