Delta Green: Alien Intelligence [Paperback]

Bruce Baugh (Author), Bob Kruger (Author), Ray Winninger (Author), Greg Stolze (Author), John Tynes (Author, Editor, Illustrator), Blair Reynolds (Editor), Dennis Detwiller (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1998

Delta Green: Alien Intelligence is a set of eight short stories set in the world of the Cthulhu Mythos of H.P. Lovecraft. Beyond being modern updates of the pulp horror of the 1930s, these stories seamlessly intertwine the Cthulhu Mythos into modern day conspiracy theory and the myths of alien abduction and visitation.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Where the 'Delta Green' sourcebook did a superb job of fleshing out a compelling campaign world, 'Alien Intelligence' goes a step further and brings that world to life. Featured here are a number of characters and organizations first introduced in the sourcebook, given a previously-unrealized depth and resonance. Where the sourcebook indicates how a DG scenario (or "op") should be run, the items in this book convey what it must feel like to actually participate in such an op. Even for those fans of Mythos fiction who have no interest in Delta Green, this book makes for excellent reading." -- Capsule Review by Chris Womack on 04/17/98 for RPG.net

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"I unearthed a dog-eared copy of Alien Intelligence from beneath the stained pillow of a hooker in Huehuetenango. Something pulled me into the pages, and after a long night of ignoring the woman, reading feverishly, I emerged with my mind on fire, filled with the irresistible impulse to shoot anything that looked the least suspicious. As a training text for young mutants, I cannot endorse it too highly." - Lucius Shepard

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Product Details

• Paperback: 194 pages
• Publisher: Tynes Cowan Corp (March 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1887797092
• ISBN-13: 978-1887797092
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,922,892 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Superb Delta Green book, June 6, 2005

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Matthew T. Carpenter (Peoria, IL, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Delta Green: Alien Intelligence (Paperback)

Note: mild spoilers are included.

Not to keep anyone in suspense (not that anyone was in suspense), I really liked this story collection. It may be hard to come by so if you really want this title (and you should!) just be diligent.

One overall impression: this was a relatively new genre, outside of RPG for the DG crew. I found The Rules of Engagement and the first few stories of Dark Theaters to be superior. I have not read the original source book but it did not lessen my enjoyment of the stories.

John Tynes - The Dark Above: There were certain things
about this story I thought were too over the top, particularly the lead man going ballistic when he smelled a fish-like odor from a woman. Also I don't know if Forrest was a character from the source book, because you just had to accept his hardened attitude toward the deep ones half breeds. What I mean was this emotional aspect of character development wasn't as well realized as the rest of the story. Too bad, because the actual substance of the story and its imagery were terrific.

Dennis Detwiller - Drowning in Sand”: A great read!

Ray Winniger - Pnomus: Another great read!! Both of these stories epitomize the best of modern, creative mythos fiction.

Bruce Baugh - Climbing the South Mountain: An OK conventional brain robbing mythos type story in poem form. I'm not
too into mythos poetry. The very end of the narrators's poem and the memo from Delta Green were the best parts for me.

Greg Stolze - Potential Recruit: Yet another great read, this time about trying to infiltrate cult with darker connections than suspected.

Adam Scott Glancy - An Item of Mutual Interest: Perhaps
the most coventional type mythos story in the book. Enjoyable but nothing special.

Bob Kruger - Identity Crisis: Did not knock my socks off. Maybe it tried to cover a little too much ground and would have
worked better as a short novel. Still a very agreeable read.

Blair Reynolds - Operation Looking Glass: A fast paced roller coaster ride to ice the cake of this nifty anthology.

My complaints are perhaps too cantankerous. This collections beats out any of the Chaosium collections (except maybe The Hastur Cycle) for consistent overall quality. Those anthologies have too much chaff with the wheat. It tops most of the Fedogan and Bremer collections too (except Cthulhu 2000, the first place I saw Black Man With A Horn).

Essential reading for the modern Cthulhu mythos reader.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent compilation of the Delta Green worldview., June 5, 2000

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Andrew C. Johnson (Saint Paul, MN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Delta Green: Alien Intelligence (Paperback)

Rather than espouse about the concept of the 1990s Cthulhu Mythos 'Delta Green' world, let me cut to the chase. This is an excellent book, filled with the writing that Mythos fans have come to expect from Tynes, Stolze, and Dettweiler. Each story comes from a distinctly different persepctive in the morass of horror that is the Mythos, from a Nazi's attempt to harness the power of the Elder Ones to the tale of a Delta Green operation gone terribly wrong in wartime Indochina to the decent into Lovecraft's Dreamlands. I have not enjoyed a good horror yarn like this since Shadow over Innsmouth.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The most important Cthulhu fiction since Lovecraft himself., May 18, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Delta Green: Alien Intelligence (Paperback)

Cthulhu comes of age. Ignore the fact that this book is linked to an RPG - it doesn't matter. It contains some of the best Lovecraftian short stories of the last fifty years. The mythos is brought up to date with punchy, well-crafted modern short stories and all the tension and atmosphere you could hope for. The stories by John Tynes, Bob Kruger and Greg Stolze are a particular pleasure. I cannot recommend this book highly enough - it's up there with Thomas Ligotti's Songs of a Dead Dreamer as a vital read for any fan of wierd horror.