![]() With cancellation imminent, they look to the infamous haunted Hotel Mariposa to save their series – but they find an Alien and Predator. It revolves around a small production crew that are filming a reality show in the vein of Ghost Hunters. Hotel Mariposa essentially boils down to being a haunted house story set within an Alien vs. ![]() When the shorts went off script and tried something different, where those familar beats and moments were outshone by uniqueness.ĭavid Barnett’s The Hotel Mariposa is the earliest example of this. One of the things I really love about anthologies is the freedom they can offer writers to experiment, to do something out of the norm for the Alien and Predator franchises and it’s those stories in Ultimate Prey that shone for me. Predator story-beats making a lot of them feel samey as you progressed throughout the book. Now while I consider the majority of the shorts to have been well written, there were a lot that tended to follow very typical Alien vs. And the majority of the shorts could quite easily be foundations for something I would quite happily love to see fleshed out into full length novels. Of Ultimate Prey’s 15 short stories there were only 2 I didn’t enjoy, a handful I absolutely loved, with the remaining stories all being solid enjoyable reads. Predators: Ultimate Prey fall on this scale? I’m happy to say on the positive side. There wasn’t a single short in that I didn’t enjoy. However, later that year in October, we also got Schmidt’s Predator: If It Bleeds. The rest were varying degrees of poor to just okay. There was one short I was truly and bitterly disappointed with. Of the anthologies 18 short stories, I enjoyed only a small handful. Maberry’s Aliens: Bug Hunt was released in April of 2017, and I am not particularly a fan of that book. It only makes sense to reunite the two for the crossover’s first ever anthology. Predator: Armageddon in 2016.īringing the Aliens and Predators back together for a new anthology book are editors Bryan Thomas Schmidt and Jonathan Maberry, both of whom had previously edited an individual anthology for the separate series. Predators: Ultimate Prey hit the shelves on the 1 st of March 2022, it had been nearly 5 years since the crossover had last featured in the prose format, when The Rage War concluded with the release of Alien vs. The reason for this is we both did world-building and continuity consultation on the book, that boiled down to being asked “does this work?” or “how do we make this work?” We had no say over if our suggestions were implemented, nor did we have any influence over the stories or plots.) Both Adam Zeller and I are in the acknowledgements of this book and it is also dedicated to us both. (Before I start, I just wanted to add a little disclaimer regarding our involvement in Aliens vs. Including a new story written by Jonathan Maberry and Louis Ozawa (“Hanzo” from the movie Predators) as Hanzo’s brother faces the eternal threats of both the Yautja and the Xenomorphs. ![]() Predators movies, graphic novels, and novels, these are the ultimate life-and-death struggles. Inspired by the events of the original Aliens vs. Sears – Jonathan Maberry and Louis Ozawa. ![]() Myers – Scott Sigler – Maurice Broaddus – Chris Ryall – Bryan Thomas Schmidt – Steven L. Lambdin – Jess Landry – Yvonne Navarro – E.C. Here the ultimate hunters, the Predators, pitted against their ultimate prey, the Xenomorphs from Alien, with humans caught in the middle! Taking place on Earth and in distant space, these tales have been crafted by a who’s who of today’s most talented authors of the fantastic:ĭavid Barnett – Roshni “Rush” Bhatia – Curtist C. Fifteen new and original stories for a first-of-its-kind anthology, set in the expanded Aliens vs.
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