Aliens: No Exit (Aliens (Dark Horse)) [Mass Market Paperback]

B. K. Evenson (Author)

Book Description

Series: Aliens (Dark Horse) | Publication Date: October 28, 2008

After thirty years of cryogenic sleep, Detective Anders Kramm awakens to a changed world. The alien threat has been subdued. Company interests dominate universal trade. Terraforming is big money now, with powerful men willing to do anything to assure dominance over other worlds. But Kramm has a secret. He knows why The Company killed twelve of its top scientists. He knows why the aliens have been let loose on the surface of a contested planet. He knows that the information he has is valuable, and that The Company will do everything it can to stop him from telling his secret to the world. Haunted by memories of the brutal murder of his family, Kramm is set adrift amid billion dollar stakes . . . with aliens around every corner, waiting for him to make a mistake!

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 13 and up
  
• Mass Market Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Dark Horse; 1st Dark Horse Books Ed edition (October 28, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1595820043
• ISBN-13: 978-1595820044
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #480,238 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not the best, but entertaining and a good Aliens story., February 3, 2009

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K. Atkins "Military SF Lover" (Pittsburgh, P.A,) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Aliens: No Exit (Aliens (Dark Horse)) (Mass Market Paperback)

I love the Alien universe, and I always look at the bookstore for the newest books on it. So I saw a new book called Aliens: New Exit, and grabbed it up without any idea what it was about. The cover art looked promising, though.
I found it to be fun. There were three things that drove me crazy, though: firstly, the author always called the creatures Aliens, capital A. No one calls them that, people! They are refered to as generally by things, militarily by xenomorphs, and religiously as demons. Or simply aliens, not Aliens. The reader can call them Aliens, but never can the characters.
Secondly, I thought it was stupid the Aliens were known of publically. The feel in the films is that Weyland-Yutani will quiet it all, hush-hush, all witnesses killed. Now everyone knows about them!
Lastly, the characters were kind of stereotypical, especially Bjorn. I liked him a lot, all the same.
Overrall, it was enjoyable, but if you see it and, say, Steel Egg, Earth Hive, Nightmare Asylum, and The Female War, this should be last on your priority list in my opinion.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An alien book with an Interesting "Kick", August 10, 2010

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TastyBabySyndrome "Matthew Lewis, author of M... ("Daddy Dagon's Daycare" - Proud Sponsor of the Little Tendril Baseball Team, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Aliens: No Exit (Aliens (Dark Horse)) (Mass Market Paperback)

This story is a bit different than most of the Aliens stories you run across because it approaches things differently. aliens are not the threat they were when the books first started out, but they are no lightweights that can be kicked around like some empty soda can. No, people have adapted to them and have learned to fight them, and people have also learned to leave the beasties alone. Along with this are the companies that make money because there are Aliens - and these companies are getting bigger because people are learning more every day. Now imagine you went to sleep 30 years ago, when the Aliens were a horror, and woke into this company-ran world. you would not only be surprised but you would also be happy. Or would you be happy? I guess that depends on who you are and what you know - and the person we follow here knows a little too much. He has a secret, a few of them to be truthful, and those secrets could not only hurt some companies but could also cripple much of the goodwill that has been built between companies and people. So, what would a company do? Well, it is pretty, has an inner mouth, asnd doesn't like its food to not scream before it eats it.

While this book has had mixed receptions, I thought it was a good creation because it worked off an interesting premise. Things had fallen into the hands of the humans, companies knew how to control the worlds a bit better, and they used the Alien as something to make profit off of. I also like the human we follow around - if anyone has had a hand in blowing holes in company you see that person here. Sure, ripley was a powerhouse but ripley had seen first contact and LV-426. This secret, while perhaps not so horrible, is still a big no-no in the "good" and "evil" pamplet that the companies may just skim.

So, will you like this? an alien fan would like the read but someone else might want to do a little checking first. I personally liked it and would gie it a 5 if it didn't have a lot of minor problems - still, it did have its minor glitches. The devil is here, the devil is there, the devil is mrore human than people care.
Aliens are instinctually what they are, after all, but humans - humans are different. Ask the main character of this book; he can tell you what humans are like.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good characters and storytelling, some plot holes though, June 11, 2010

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C. Madden "Blake Madden" (Dayton, OH) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Aliens: No Exit (Aliens (Dark Horse)) (Mass Market Paperback)

The overall story here is good and the writing is solid. Lots of action, good dialogue and narrative, likable characters, and the backstory of the main character was really outstanding. I would have given it four stars, but there were a couple of points that really bugged me.

**SPOILER ALERTS**

I assume the ending was a cliffhanger for another book, but I hated how abrupt it was.

Also, I simply can't understand why "The Company" staged a fake alien infestation, only to have to elaborately kill the inspectors who would quickly figure out that it was staged. Why not create a real infestation? The inspectors would have verified that the infestation was real, and Weyland-Yutani would have been guaranteed to have caused a stock-price panic for their competitor. Weyland-Yutani had access to aliens (they had their own farm planet) and they didn't seem too concerned of containment because they brought the aliens to the planet just to kill the inspectors. This just seemed like a big plot point that didn't make a lot of sense.