Alien: Into Charybdis
A Novel (The Alien™ Series, book 9)
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Narrated by:
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Shiromi Arserio
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By:
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Alex White
About this listen
The critically acclaimed author of Alien: The Cold Forge takes listeners to a rogue colony where terror lurks in the tunnels of an abandoned Weyland-Yutani complex.
“Shy” Hunt and the tech team from McAllen Integrations thought they’d have an easy job - set up environmental systems for the brand new Hasanova Data Solutions colony, built on the abandoned ruins of a complex known as “Charybdis”. There are just two problems: The colony belongs to the Iranian state, so diplomacy is strained at best, and the complex is located above a series of hidden caves that contain deadly secrets. When a bizarre ship lands on a nearby island, one of the workers is attacked by a taloned creature, and trust evaporates between the Iranians and Americans. The McAllen Integrations crew is imprisoned, accused as spies, but manages to send out a distress signal - to the Colonial Marines.
©2021 Alex White (P)2021 Blackstone PublishingWhat listeners say about Alien: Into Charybdis
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- Anonymous User
- 20-04-2024
Excellent Aliens story
Well written, fast paced and highly enjoyable! Set well within the Alien Universe. Narration was excellent.
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- Chris Hogg
- 01-03-2021
Excellent
Alex knocked it out of the park again with this venture in to the Alien universe.Perfectly put together and very well read by Shiromi.
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- Jo
- 28-08-2022
Genuinely diferent angle on the Alien series
Enjoyed the book. Storyline got me in. Enjoyed the journeys of the lead characters. The single paragraph Epilogue didn’t make any sense. Maybe I missed something
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- eri
- 03-10-2024
my new favorite aliens novel!
i loved the story it was exciting and also sad and its now my new favourite! love the continuity!
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- Anonymous User
- 07-03-2021
That was Excellent
Fantastic! i was suprised by this novel, i really enjoy alien novels but this one had a few great twist. it had all the things i love in an alien novel, horror, suspense, action, and intrigue. it really fits well into the alien universe.
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- Declan piggott
- 11-02-2024
Tension and twists
Great story with interesting twists that keep you on your toes throughout the well paced story
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- Mark
- 07-11-2021
good, not great
overall enjoyed this in patches, started well but struggled to finish. love the alien franchise but as this story progressed the aliens themselves became more and more peripheral.
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- Amazon Customer
- 23-11-2022
good sometimes but...
At its best the techy IT dimension adds some level of realism to the story, the author must be from an IT background (although not sure we'd be using the same IT protocols and hardware such as "server racks" in 200 years time! The story starts with an interesting premise, an Iranian colony has been established on a far away planet, US colonial marines arrive on a secret mission and you can imagine the geo-political implications. A hapless group of newly arrived independent US contractors who are there for a maintenance contract are caught up in the machinations (throw back to the Iranian US hostage crisis) If the story stopped right there it would have been genuinely original however gratuitously throwing in franchise xenomorphs into the story without enough care for suspense and mystery ends up degrading the story unfortunately. There is a tipping point in the story where I didn't care what happened to the main characters which is always a bad sign. The villain is psychotic OTT but also funny sometimes , "I'm going to hand you your c@ck back to you in a hotdog roll". Also the story doesn't allow the unique elements to develop except as a wafer thin stereotyped background. The Marcellus is an interesting addition (but NO spoilers). Overall the story had potential to be much better , the Cold forge is a superior story in my opinion and with a better villain.
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- Nathan chapman
- 08-03-2022
Not quite "cold forge"
New story blended with hints to the previous "Cold forge". (No spoilers)
All in all I enjoyed the book. I have listened to it twice now. It had some great ideas, but never gripped me quite like "cold forge" did.
The writer enjoys giving us a snarky female protagonist, which I dont mind. As they usually are in for a hell of a ride.
This story, although it had some good characters, missed the mark with the human antagonist. Cold forge's Dorian was just fantastic and made the Novel a masterpiece. So for me, that set the bar pretty high and Charybdis did not quite measure up in that department.
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- David
- 04-03-2021
Thank you, Alex!
I wish I could give this book more than 5 stars. Alex writes another love letter to the alien universe and includes amazing references that only the biggest alien fans would recognise. Alex ties these novels so well into the franchise! There's the Prometheus, the UPP, Siegson and more.
He also keeps you guessing who will survive...
I hope there's another novel coming!
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