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The Complete Aliens Omnibus, Volume Two - by David Bischoff & Robert Sheckley (Paperback)

The Complete Aliens Omnibus, Volume Two - by  David Bischoff & Robert Sheckley (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>GENOCIDE <br>by David Bischoff <p/>The alien queen is dead, the hive mind left to flounder... and on a world bereft of its leader two strains of Alien divide their forces for world-shattering, acid-drenched war. On Earth, in the wake of alien infestation, athletes are flocking to humanity's Goodwill Games. But some come with a deadly new tool: a drug called Fire, distilled from the very essence of the Aliens' body chemistry. <p/>The military wants it. Pharmaceutical kingpin Daniel Grant wants it. But the only place the essential ingredient can be found is on that terrible world, convulsed by Alien holocaust. <p/>ALIEN HARVEST <p/>by Robert Sheckley <p/>Royal jelly, the most illicit of Alien by-products, is keeping Dr Stan Myakovsky alive. A once-famous scientist fallen on hard times, Stan is fighting off the repo-men and trying hard to patent the cybernetic ant that will reinstate his reputation. Julie Lish is beautiful, mysterious, and totally amoral. She has a plan so outrageous that there might be one chance in a million to pull it off. <p/>Together they make an attempt to grab the ultimate treasure--royal jelly from an Alien hive.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"As entertaining and adventurous as the movies, if not more so" - Midroad Movie Review <p/>"The novels in these Omnibuses span the width and breadth of the <i>Alien</i> universe, stretching its boundaries and giving it a marvelous depth of detail" - BookRiot<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>David Bischoff</b> writes science fiction books, short stories, and scripts for television. Though he has been writing since the early 1970s, and has had over 80 books published, David is best known for novelizations of popular movies and TV series including the Aliens, Gremlins, Star Trek: The Next Generation, and WarGames. <p/><b>Robert Sheckley</b> was a prolific short story writer beginning in 1952 with titles including Specialist, Pilgrimage to Earth, Warm, The Prize of Peril, and Seventh Victim, collected in volumes from Untouched by Human Hands (1954) to Is That What People Do? (1984) and a five-volume set of Collected Stories (1991). His first novel, Immortality, Inc. (1958), was followed by The Status Civilization (1960), Journey Beyond Tomorrow (1962), Mindswap (1966), and several others. Sheckley served as fiction editor for Omni magazine from January 1980 through September 1981, and was named Author Emeritus by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2001.

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