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Message: <blockquote data-quote="overgeeked" data-source="post: 9885143" data-attributes="member: 86653">I read Vaults of Yoh-Vombis yesterday. It’s a Lovecraftian horror short story by Clark Ashton Smith. Archaeologists on Mars explore some ruins and find more than they bargained for. I gotta say I wasn’t impressed. The monster was kinda neat. The writing was really awkward and stilted.I just finished Aliens: Female War, by Steve Perry, the third in a trilogy of novelizations based on Dark Horse comics. This is the stuff they started writing between the release of Aliens and Alien 3. So Hicks is renamed Wilks and Newt is renamed Billie. The writing is good. I enjoy the adaptation. Fast-paced and very visual as you’d expect. The plot was really annoying. In the first two books [ISPOILER]Earth is overrun by xenomorphs[/ISPOILER]. Which is fine. No complaints there. And now Ripley, Wilks, and Billie have a plan. [ISPOILER]Go to the xenomorphs’ homeworld, kidnap the queen mother, transport her back to Earth, drop her near this one bunker with a nuke…wait six months…in the hopes she gathers all the xenomorphs into that one place, then nuke the entire site from orbit, it’s the only way to be sure.[/ISPOILER] No, I’m not exaggerating any of that. Oh, and just for giggles, apparently [ISPOILER]Ripley is an android.[/ISPOILER]Sigh.I like trash. I like dumb trash. But that’s a level of stupid that could only be accomplished by committee.</blockquote>