Thoughts On – “Alien: Inferno’s Fall” by Clara Carija, Philippa Ballantine

175 words or less, thoughts and feelings that I had after reading the book

To preface, I do not keep up with the Alien series, I watch the first two.¹ I enjoyed Alien and Aliens for different reasons. The book feels like a blend between the two. There’s the horror of small underpowered family of miners trying to survive from the Xenomorphs, and the military horror of a band of Marines dealing with a new type of Xenomorph threat and AI subterfuge. The latter feels like the weaker of the two. It felt like it had a stronger story it wanted to tell though had to be delved into in the follow up book Alien: Seventh Circle. The story does take a while to get going. There is a slow burn as it introduces the memorable family that the book follows. Once the terror of Xenomorphs hit the ground, it caught me to the point where I could not put this book down. I dreamt about it and curious how it would go. I have Seventh Circle on my to read list, along with other books from the Authors.

1. For those curious, despite the small entry into the Alien series. I do enjoy the sci-fi horror in the Alien movie that is mimicked in one of my favorite gaming experiences, Alien: Isolation. I also own the Alien RPG 1^st edition from Free League Publishing to play these types of stories with friends. When I found out there were some books that had adventures at the end that tie-in with the story, I wanted to check them out. Alien Inferno’s Fall contains the adventure. “EVAC”. I may talk about the adventure itself once it’s played. I do not count these words as part of thought on the story itself, so i do not regard it breaking the weird rules i have for myself. ↩︎