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The Incorruptibles

John Hornor Jacobs

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In the contested and unexplored territories at the edge of the Empire, a boat is making its...

Battle Beyond the Stars (1980)

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Kind of a sci-fi version of "The Magnificent Seven". A band of miscreant mercenaries are procured to...

The Old Guard (2020)

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Action fantasy based on a comic book. A covert team of immortal mercenaries are suddenly exposed and...

Violent night (2022)

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An elite group of mercenaries break into a family compound on Christmas eve taking everyone hostage....

Die Hard 2 (1990)

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Bruce Willis is back as John McClane in this action-packed sequel. Forced to battle mercenaries who...

Triple Threat (2019)

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A hit contract is taken out on a billionaire's daughter intent on bringing down a major crime...

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David McK (3425 KP) rated Alien: Sea of Sorrows in Books

Nov 20, 2019

The second - although I read/listened to it third - in a new(ish) series of Canonical Alien stories, this one is set even further in the future than the previous entry (Alien: River of Pain) and follows a descendant of Ellen Ripley, Alan Decker, who is an empath and who is forced to join a team of mercenaries investigating a dig on the planet known as New Galveston: a dig that has unearthed something that is probably better left forgotten …

Yep, Weyland-Yutanio is at it again, sending in a team of unprepared and ill-advised soldiers (or, here, mercenaries) in an attempt to gather a 'specimen' alive: a team that, of course - with a few exceptions - finds itself completely outclassed by the Xenomorph, who are here shown to hold a particularly impressive millennial-old grudge against 'The Destroyer', one Ellen Ripley (or her descendants).