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As a deputy commissioner for the ICC, Alan Decker’s job is to make sure the settlements on LV178 follow all the rules, keeping the colonists safe. But the planet known as New Galveston holds secrets, lurking deep beneath the toxic sands dubbed the Sea of Sorrows.
The Weyland-Yutani Corporation has secrets of its own, as Decker discovers when he is forced to join a team of mercenaries sent to investigate an ancient excavation. Somewhere in that long-forgotten dig lies the thing the company wants most in the universe—a living Xenomorph.
Decker doesn’t understand why they need him, until his own past comes back to haunt him. Centuries ago, his ancestor fought the Aliens, launching a bloody vendetta that was never satisfied. That was when the creatures swore revenge on the Destroyer…Ellen Ripley.
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- Sales Rank: #126203 in Books
- Published on: 2014-07-29
- Released on: 2014-07-29
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.00" h x .92" w x 4.20" l, .81 pounds
- Binding: Mass Market Paperback
- 352 pages
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"Know your onions before diving in. If you do, you'll find ASOS a fun and rewarding book that gives you everything you've been missing in your life: more ALIEN! Can't go wrong with that." - Aint it Cool
"Moore's writing style is compelling, and the Alien narrative is one of the best seen outside of the major films from the series." - BGG
"If you are looking for a suspenseful, frightening and action packed Science-fiction story with interesting and provoking characters than this is the novel for you." - Geek Hard
"Fun, page-turning read." - Giant Freakin Robot
"This latest entry will no doubt deliver a pulse-pounding, fright-filled read for fans of the films." - Joblo
"James A Moore brilliantly captures the tone and the terror of the first films in the series and provides an interesting addition to series mythology." - Bloody Disgusting
About the Author
James Moore is an American horror novelist and short story writer. In 2003, he was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award for "Best Novel" for his book Serenity Falls. In 2006, the novella Bloodstained Oz (co-authored by Christopher Golden) was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award for "Best Long Fiction". He wrote the novelization of Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Chaos Bleeds (based on the video game written by Christopher Golden).
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20 of 25 people found the following review helpful.
Sorrowful Sameness
By V.S.
Alien: Sea of Sorrows is the sequel to Alien: Out of the Shadows, which in turn was an interquel between Alien and Aliens, but Sea of Sorrows takes place so much later in the timeline that it's also a sequel to Alien Resurrection, while in many ways feeling like a loose remake of Aliens. Still following me?
If you've read Out of the Shadows and watched Aliens, there's virtually nothing new here. I kept waiting for some shocking twist, some sort of revelation, but aside from a bit at the very end that offers a tantalizing glimpse into the next--and hopefully more interesting--book, this is paint-by-numbers Aliens stuff: The big tough soldiers go down to the remote colony and start getting picked off one by one by nasty, drooling monsters while the soulless corporate representatives pull the strings. If you're even remotely familiar with how Alien stories work, you've seen all this before, and done better.
Nearly one-third of this all-too-familiar 350-page trip is spent just getting to the main story proper. Until then, you'll be getting uncomfortably acquainted with our protagonist, Decker, the thoroughly unlikeable male lead who seemingly doesn't think anyone else is likeable either, unless they have nice boobs. All of the women he interacts with in any significant way, he either is indifferent to, hates or wants in his bed. An early scene in the book sees Decker badly wounded, barely staying conscious, but all the while still staring at the cleavage of the medic working on him, and wanting to say dirty things to her even though he doesn't have the strength to talk.
The book handles women poorly in general, seeming to go out of its way to describe various women as "attractive" and little else, which is not only feels a bit sexist but is a rather lazy way to avoid actually describing the physical features of the characters in any detail. For a series that spawned Ellen Ripley, one of the greatest leading ladies in sci-fi history, it's sad seeing the female members of the cast handled in such a flat, immature manner.
Speaking of Ripley, even she is damaged by this book, as the story foolishly elevates her and her entire family line to the status of "Destroyer," hated by the entire xenomorph race for generations. Like the bemoaned midi-chlorians that plagued the Star Wars prequels and ruined the hopes of every fan that dreamed of being a Jedi, tearing Ripley away from her blue-collar roots and making the Ripley family into some sort of race of destined warriors ruins her connection to the everyman (everywoman?) and turns her whole lineage into ridiculous superheroes.
But back to Decker. His failure as a main character radiates intensely enough to harm the story as a whole. You see, Decker is an empath, meaning he's able to sense the emotions of others--humans *and* aliens. Not only is this supernatural nonsense out of place in the grungy, realistic, tactile Alien universe, this leads to scads of awkward, blunt writing, where Decker merely *states* how other characters are feeling instead of letting the readers pick up on context themselves. It also results in a lot of panic attacks as the outside emotions overtake him. A LOT of panic attacks. A tiresome amount of panic attacks. But the most grievous sin: This power lets Decker know when the aliens are going to strike. It's difficult to get wrapped up in suspense and paranoia when the book is basically telling you, "Hey, something's about to jump out now. You should be scared."
Not that there would be much to be scared of even without the prior warning. Like in so many unfortunate video game incarnations, the aliens themselves have lost a good deal of their punch and end up as cannon fodder far too often. Sure, they still kill a lot of people, but these are not the same aliens that repeatedly forced a group of well-armed Colonial Marines into retreat time and time again back on LV-426. In the book, one battle against a massive horde of aliens is literally won by a character standing in one place and holding down the trigger on their gun until all of the aliens die. Really. The tension flies out the window when you know the heroes can just blast everything to bits with their seemingly endless supplies of ammunition.
The experience isn't completely dire, however. In a surprisingly well-done storytelling mechanic, the action is spread out across various teams working at the colony, letting events unfold from several different viewpoints simultaneously. It should come as no shock that things get a lot more riveting when the action pulls away from Decker, towards the other characters who are genuinely vulnerable and don't have alien-detecting spidey sense (even if they're still extremely thin on characterization).
Still, in the end, there's very little that makes this book worthwhile. It fails to shed much light on aspects of the Alien mythos you didn't already know about (aside from the stupid Ripley "Destroyer" thing, and a brief mention of the aftermath of the Auriga crash), and simply isn't scary enough, surprising enough, exciting enough and doesn't have interesting enough characters for it to stand on its own. If you're desperately craving some sci-fi action, no matter how trite or derivative, Alien: Sea of Sorrows is easy enough to digest. Otherwise, this is strictly for the Alien completionist who must have everything the series offers.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
the rest of the novel is pretty darn good
By Kaisersoze
Though this is the second in a new trilogy of novels set in the Aliens universe, Sea of Sorrows only ties in with Tim Lebbon's opening novel Alien: Out of the Shadows insofar as it has a common setting. But the action takes place about 300 years after the events of that novel, ensuring there are no repeat characters to follow along for the ride. Instead, we get Decker, who, as the blurb reveals, is a descendent of Ellen Ripley. This means that the Aliens harbour a particularly impressive grudge against him as they somehow know he is a descendent of Ripley - the human they identify as The Destroyer - and feel an all compelling desire to rend him limb from limb...
So, yeah. This book is basically the futuristic version of Jaws: The Revenge.
If you can manage to make your mind suspend its disbelief past this point, the rest of the novel is pretty darn good. The writing is decent, the set up is good, and the action set pieces are more varied than that of the previous novel. All the Aliens tropes are also in place: Ill-advised effort to capture the aliens by Weland-Yutani? Check. Reluctant guide who knows more than the fighting types he's going to accompany into the lair? Check. Shady bureaucrat who is only concerned with profit and his/her own safety? Check and check (there are two). Mayhem and slaughter with an increasingly small cast trying to get out of said lair alive? Check. It's like Moore took the film Aliens and wrapped it in a slightly varied outer shell of goodness, so if you liked that, you're not going to go far wrong with this.
My issues are small but significant with the primary among them being the cast is simply too large. Only a few of the mercenaries that accompany Decker down the mine shaft are detailed enough to be discernible; some have a single character trait that is meant to define them (eg. Silent Dave); others get introduced and a character point is emphasised only to go nowhere (eg. Piotrowicz and his recording of everything for money). Then there is the ending, which though it wraps up the events on New Galveston in an acceptable way, leaves several plot threads hanging. Given the next book goes back to provide more detail the aliens on LV-426, I was hoping for something a bit more final here. I can't even hope the survivors of Sea of Sorrows might tie into events of Alien: Resurrection since the dates between this book and that film don't match up (the book taking place about a hundred years after the film). Hence, some frustration on my behalf ...
Recommended to anyone who is also a fan of the Aliens universe.
3.5 Malfunctioning Mining Lifts for Sea of Sorrows.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
The bad thing about this is that so much of what ...
By Sean
This was an enjoyable read overall. But...as other readers have pointed out, no new real territory was covered. In fact, a lot of metaphorical and literal territory is tread upon again.
The book follows a basic formula set by the film franchise (particularly Aliens and Alien Resurrection): Hubris filled characters seek to destroy/capture/exploit the xenomorphs and get their hindquarters kicked in the initial phase of the operation, everything falls apart and the plot turns into a race to survive the alien onslaught and escape the colony/ship. Underlying everything is a corporate or military entity whose greed is eventually responsible for the failure of the mission and a betrayal.
The bad thing about this is that so much of what happens in this novel is very predictable. No real shockers here or any plot twists. The good thing is...well, it give a lot of what the franchise is known for and what makes it great in the first place (gruesome deaths at the claws of vicious yet crafty monsters).
In this novel, a thumbnail sketch of the premise is that Weyland-Yutani is back in business and still wants live xenomorphs for its bio-weapons division. They hire a platoon sized group of mercenaries to head out to a colonized, terraformed planet in where an ancient alien ship and city (and abandoned mining facility) has been found under the planet's surface. Caught up in all this is a minor official from the International Commerce Commission named Alan Decker, who is both a mild empathy and a very distant relative of Ellen Ripley. Decker runs afoul of the W-Y company who, wanting him for his very mild empathic abilities, "leverage" him into accompanying the mercenaries to capture an alien.
The story is pretty straightforward and, once the mission gets underway and underground, is pretty well paced. I did enjoy the story as it hit all the touchstones in the alien universe. The empathic abilities of Decker were interesting. It felt right that they were underdeveloped somewhat and no more use than basically a tripwire to warn of approaching danger. As a new ability manifesting in mankind slowly it felt appropriate that it would be wielded like an unfamiliar, unsharpened tool.
One of the things that took away from my enjoyment of the book was how little character development there was. I felt the book would have been a little better if the author had focused a bit more tightly on a select number of characters than try and span the large number of people involved in the mission and touch on many just a little. Along with Decker there are thirty-six mercenaries, a group of seven scientists examining the alien ship and a few miscellaneous W-Y and colonial representatives topside on the planet. More than 50 characters and the author names them all and drops some minor development of some of the supporting characters (just enough to barely distinguish them from each other when the slaughter begins). It felt like the author was spreading himself thinly across the cast.
Side note to this: The author makes mention a good number of times of the exact number of mercs on the mission yet by the end of the book I felt like had named more than three dozen. And I was right. A quick review of the book showed he had named forty-one. A minor issue but it bothered me like the poor editing of Alien 3 bothered fans of the films.
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