Aliens: Bishop

A Novel

De: T. R. Napper

Narrado por: Alex Boyles, Eunice Wong, Shiromi Arserio, Nancy Wu, Pun Bandhu, Tim Campbell

A direct sequel to Aliens and Alien 3—Weyland-Yutani, the Colonial Marines, and Bishop’s creator all pursue the android for the deadly Xenomorph data contained in his brain. Written by T. R. Napper, author of the acclaimed 36 Streets, whose explosive work explores the artificial intelligence and what it is to be human.

Massively damaged in Aliens and Alien 3, the synthetic Bishop asked to be shut down forever. His creator, Michael Bishop, has other plans. He seeks the Xenomorph knowledge stored in the android’s mind and brings Bishop back to life—but for what reason? No longer an employee of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation, Michael tells his creation that he seeks to advance medical research for the benefit of humanity. Yet where does he get the resources needed to advance his work. With whom do his new allegiances lie?

Bishop is pursued by Colonial Marines Captain Marcel Apone, commander of the Il Conde and younger brother of Master Sergeant Alexander Apone, one of the casualties of the doomed mission to LV-426. Also on his trail are the “Dog Catchers,” commandos employed by Weyland-Yutani.

Who else might benefit from Bishop’s intimate knowledge of the deadliest creatures in the galaxy?

©2023 T. R. Napper (P)2023 Blackstone Publishing

Interesting Character Development for Bishop

An entertaining listen for fans of Bishop and the characters spawn from the aliens film entry. That film has certainly opened so many new possibilities to further mine with the elements of humanity, AI, futuristic military and the further agendas of weyland yutani and its pursuits of the xenomorph. Would love to see them continue the stories of these characters in later installments.

Maybe the best of these books

This novel isn’t a world builder, the way many of these Alien books are. But it’s definitely got the action expected of the Marine Corps series. It’s exciting to watch the interplay between various characters, many women, of the Marines along with members of the Chinese space force “alliance.”

Various members of the military forces are highlighted and come across as nicely fleshed out, especially when one considers the limitations of the plot parameters explained of these book. The relationships grow and change over time and after different events they share.

I really enjoyed meeting Bishop’s creator and the idea of one mind shared between two androids - although the portrayal seems a little simplified if compared to what I would expect of such a complicated idea. But the scenes with Orthos and Bishop show the way Michael Bushop’s madness progressed over the years between his creation of Bishop and Orrhos. I was further disappointed by the narration in the scenes containing Orthos and Bishop. Their voices were too similar. I would have preferred to seen a reflection of Bishop’s sensitivity and the humanity he’d developed. I loved, absolutely, LOVED the line, “You could say please.”

The epilogue leaves us with a nice potential segue into a sequel. I hope there will be one, although I don’t know when this was written or if a sequel is already available.

I’m definitely going to search for more novels written by this author!

betrayal

interesting take on what happend to Bishop and the lone survivor at the end of Alien 3

Interesting enough but nothing very original

Relies heavily on references and similarities to the whole "space marines vs alien" thing. I finished it but it didn't leave me wanting more.

Hard to follow

Like the story line but a bit much going on, more than the Bishop story line here. A bit hard to follow but overall a good listen, worth the credit.