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  • Alien: Enemy of My Enemy

  • An Original Novel Based on the Films from 20th Century Studios
  • By: Mary SanGiovanni
  • Narrated by: Shiromi Arserio
  • Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
  • 4.1 out of 5 stars (344 ratings)

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Alien: Enemy of My Enemy

By: Mary SanGiovanni
Narrated by: Shiromi Arserio
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While a moon hurtles toward certain destruction, taking with it a Weyland-Yutani bioweapons lab, talks on a nearby colony could lead to all-out war among the colonies.

Hygeia, an outer rim colony, is doomed as the moon on which it was built hurtles toward an inevitable collision with the dead planet Hephaestus. When a distress signal arrives from a Weyland-Yutani biowarfare outpost near the colony, a desperate plan is launched to evacuate the trapped scientists and colonists. Their destination: LV-846, a key United Americas colony where high-level talks are scheduled to address the galaxy-wide hostilities between the colonies. Once there, the evacuees, including a contingent of Colonial Marines, discover a plot that could plunge the colonies into all-out war. Their only hope may be an alliance with the deadliest ally imaginable.

©2023 Mary SanGiovanni (P)2023 Blackstone Publishing
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Thoroughly enjoyed.

Hit the ground running. Enjoyed the tie-in to the Alien RPG lore. Some small but enticing twists and turns building on the Alien universe 8 years after the Haleys Hope 'incident'.

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Nothing but awesome

100 % awesomeness. From the first word until the last.
I highly recommend it

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Good

I enjoyed it but felt the ending was too open ended. But hey its Alien

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Great start…epic fail

What n the whole wide world? I listened to an Aliens book. They escaped, they won. Then suddenly part 2 of the book started. They forgot they’d just escaped from Aliens. They forgot about the black goo. They forgot they had an untrustworthy piece of trash scientist with them that on multiple occasions should have been at best put into hyper sleep or at worst shot. They got a transmission about an infestation and landed anyways….lightyears from where they were going but suddenly it was exactly where they were going. No one stops them from landing, no one is around when they exit the ship, they start finding dead bodies but don’t immediately get back in the ship and leave?? They should all DIE! They ALL deserve death…except the little girl…but she unfortunately has to suffer due to the absolute stupidity of the adults she’s with. 75% of the book was good. The last 25% was so bad, I stop listening with an hour left.

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Needs to be a movie!

awesome in depth and engaging storyline. A must listen to book! Looking forward to more like this.

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Engaging from start to finish

I really liked the length and story of this one. I consume every Alien bit of media and a lot of these books have been a drag to finish, with agenda first, story second approaches. Taking up 12-16 hours of listening time with lots of filler and ineffective character building monologues.
This book had a tight story with stakes and characters I cared about surviving. The narrator also did a wonderful job of not being distracting or over the top, a few of these books have suffered from that lately. Overall, not an Alien Phallax or Cold Forge, but worthwhile and enjoyable. B+

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Better than past entries

While the narrator leaves a lot to be desired the story here got a lot better.
There wasnt this focus on political messaging but rather semblance of an actual story….I know crazy.

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More Alien Lore to enjoy!

I absolutely love all of these novels in the Xenomorph universe! My only complaint is having listened to almost all of them and wanting more! This was a great story to add to all the existing Xenomorph lore and I definitely recommend if you are a fan of Alien or Sci-fi Horror in general.

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Enjoyable and worthy addition to the universe.

Mary has a solid way of using noticeable and fully-encompassing Acts in her work. in a good way, this book left me wanting more well before it ended. I was hoping for a Trilogy along this line befote even reaching the conclusion. I am glad for how it ends, therefore.

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Loved the female protagonist

This wonderful addition to the Alien universe centers on an unstable moon. It has its own native wildlife. There are at least 2 laboratory units where completely different areas are being studied. One is, if I remember correctly, centered on a botanical study and led by Dr. Shivanne McCormick. The good doctor and her co-horts m, which include a synthetic named Camilla. The other post is funded by Weyland-Yutani, and readers can probably guess what is being studied at that site. There are also a group of the good guys - Marines! led by a man named Alec. (I’m so bad with names, please forgive me!). There is another Marine who lives with his wife and granddaughter (orphaned, I believe, by you-know-what.)

As the situation on the planet destabilizes, a disaster occurs at the Weyland site. A Dr. Faulkner (?) is the head of the project. The only 2 survivors are Dr. F and a test subject named Cora. She’s been treated with a serum which is designed to retard the growth of the little bundle of joy growing inside her.

Soon havoc breaks out at Dr. Shivanne’s unit, but through one plot device and another the group of survivors (by this time Grandpa has bit the dust) end up in a ship hijacked to reach another world. Of course, problems keep popping up, including a disaster at the world they land on.

This world was the site of a huge peace treaty meeting. But something’s wrong there - and it includes a new little addition to the universe, designed by W-Y. As the remaining scientists and Marines work to survive and escape, they meet a ship’s captain (I think) who gives Dr. Shivanne a digital file which details a new political entity which has devised another bio-weapon designed to make everyone’s lives better and brighter. There’s another synth who’s been secretly working with this group, but by the time our friends arrive she’s not on the scene anymore.

I don’t like to give too many plot details because I can end up ruining the whole experience for other listeners. But this is a great, thrilling addition to the Alien canon.

A final note - the narrator has a beautiful voice. But at times I found her melodious reading a bit soporific. I know I missed some important details due to this, which is why I gave her 4 stars.

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