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Predator: Forever Midnight (Paperback)

by John Shirley (Author) "A starship was falling toward Midnight.. ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 250 pages
  • Publisher: Dark Horse (7 Jun 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1595820345
  • ISBN-13: 978-1595820341
  • Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.4 x 2.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 1.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 79,513 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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The year is 2117 A.D. Humanity has seized the stars, using reverse-engineered alien technology to explore the far reaches of space. For a hundred years, the Predators, sadistic extraterrestrial hunters, have been a dim memory. For a hundred years, we've been safe. That ends now. Cast in daylight for years at a time, the almost eternally lit jungle planet known as Midnight is the home to more than a thousand colonists, explorers building a haven on a new world. But the settlers aren't alone. The Predators have been on this planet all along. When the ravenous creatures attack an arriving spacecraft and capture the settlers as both slaves and prey for their hunt, terraforming the planet takes a back seat to a new fight for survival.

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John Shirley is an award-winning cyber punk and horror author, who also co-wrote the cult-classic film The Crow
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Predator: Forget Everything, 24 Jun 2006
By K. Lanchester (UK) - See all my reviews
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I have been a fan of everything aliens vs predator for over 10 years now. After the disapointing AvP film I felt I really needed something to rekindle my interests. So I bought this and Aliens: DNA War. Let me say now, I hate this book. The author seems like the most ignorant person on Earth. There is an awful lot of canon in the AvP universe, but he seems to ignore it, re-defining the predators as how he sees fit. For example in the first predator film and most of the books, predators won't attack the unarmed. Here? Fair game, slaughter anything.
The writing style seems childish, as if the writer just found a thesaurus and went crazy with the big words when describing something. The characters are extremely weakly defined, you feel nothing for them and their actions are completly random.
Do yourself a favour, get one of the older AvP books, Predator: Concrete Jungle is one of the best. Just don't get this.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Predator fans, avoid this book., 17 Jun 2006
The Predator movies, comics and books have, over the course of nearly 20 years, established a unique and much-loved race of monsters. Sadly, that backstory is completely ignored by this book.

I'm not familiar with John Shirley's own books. Here, Shirley writes a decent 1950s/60s pulp SF story, with very heavy nods to Larry Niven's Kzinti stories. If it were a standalone novel, with its own aliens, it would merit 2 stars - a mediocre time-filler but certainly not great.

The problem is that he's working with a very well-established setting, which he completely ignores. If you're expecting the lethal, quasi-mystical warriors of the movies, forget it; the aliens in this book are stupid, fawning, temperamental creatures, who are wiped out in droves by human tricks. This seriously damages any sense of menace that might otherwise have been generated. Shirley has basically used the Predator logo to get readers to buy the book, then ignored the very things that created the fanbase in the first place.

In summary, if you're a fan of John Shirley this is an OK read. If you're a fan of the Predator series, AVOID.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Worst book I have ever read!, 22 Jun 2006
By Mr. C. J. Hateley - See all my reviews
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I pre-ordered this book about 4 months before it was published and I couldn't wait to get hold of it. The first few pages were very hopeful. I was almost trembling when I read them. Unfortunately it quickly degenerated into the most ill-thought out nonsense I've ever read. As a comedy, it could almost work, but as a tie in to my favoutire movie franchise I couldn't help but feel insulted, particularly as it's author professes to be a fan.

Highlights include the predators trying to gun down unarmed women and children; using mind control devices to turn humans into hunting dogs and later to turn them into radio-controlled toys for predator kids; predators spouting such compliments to each other as 'may a cool breeze blow across your reproductive organs, oh Devastator of Destinies'; two predators getting stoned aboard ship while their mind-controlled human pet plots to blow them up; and so many other insults to the franchise that I've thankfully forgotten half of them.

Please, I implore you; if you are a fan of the franchise, or even if you have an iota of respect for it, DO NOT READ THIS BOOK!
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1.0 out of 5 stars Yup, not a good "Predator" book at all.
I'm going to have to agree with the majority, here. And most of the other reviews detail some good reasons why this is a bad "Predator" novel. Read more
Published 12 months ago by Beedo Sookcool

4.0 out of 5 stars lots of imagination, plenty of scenarios.
these books are comic-bookish. and this one has more about it than most of its kind. John Shirley is a decent writer of this stuff. Read more
Published 13 months ago by B. J. Crossley

1.0 out of 5 stars Worst book ever
Do not buy this book, im still struggling to finsh it.
It feels like there is no relation to the predators at all. Read more
Published on 24 May 2007 by Andrew Ohare

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