Alien: Uncivil War

A Novel

De: Brendan Deneen

Narrado por: Austin Rising

War will always find a man like you.

This ALIEN story begins where most end: with a xenomorph loose on a damaged spaceship hurtling through space. Once a highly decorated marine, Chris Temple, a recently widowed single father to two young daughters, Jane, 11, and Emma, 8, is onboard. Despite his particular set of skills, Chris doesn’t get involved in the fight with the alien, instead focusing on keeping his children safe as the ship comes in for a crash landing.

The family land safely on an idyllic outpost planet, where Chris is told that the ship has been destroyed beyond recognition and nothing could have survived the crash. That’s only the first lie. Chris and his daughters love their new life, but something doesn’t feel right. Chris is a paranoid type, but just because he’s paranoid, doesn’t mean he’s wrong.

There are nasty surprises in store as Chris investigates the web of lies and conspiracies. After leaving a ruined Earth, it seems Chris and his daughters have crash-landed on a planet on the verge of all-out civil war. Chris will have to call on the battle skills he never wanted to use again in order to protect his daughters, deal with violence-hungry marines, and battle the xenomorph that’s killing people regardless of which side of the civil war they’re on.

©2024 Brendan Deneen (P)2024 Blackstone Publishing

Same as the Rest.

Not much going for it in the aspect of Aliens themselves but an overall good book regardless

it's an original story with new characters

The narrator was amazing! He really brought the characters to life. I do wish the story was more focused on the xenos, however. Overall, I did like the book.

Love it!

Great storyline. Left wanting more. Expect the unexpected. listened to it over and over. highly recommend it

Couldn’t tell if the narrator was AI or the writer

The story feels like something written to hold on to a license or something. I appreciate Titan producing alien content, but it doesn’t feel like there is a hear or real passion behind this novel. After being pleasantly surprised by Bishop, which originally seemed like nostalgia bait, this just feels like someone typed “Write me an Alien novel” into chat GPT. Admittedly this could also be because the audiobook narration gave a similar impression, except when doing some insane voice work anytime the kids talked. I don’t know though, if some of that was on the part of the mixing/recording studio because there was something going on with a that made everyone sound kind of nasally. I own almost every entry in this franchise in audio and text format, and this one really made me feel like I needed to stop that habit.

More Aliens, please!

I rated this story a 4 because I felt that the storyline needed more aliens. The opening scene grabs your right away but then we don’t hear from the aliens until about the middle of the the story. After that, they only are mentioned a handful of times.