Aliens: Nightmare Asylum

Another great book written by Perry. In this one, a military glutton has plans to make his own army of Xenomorphs to reclaim earth. On his military installment (the nightmare asylum) the two characters from the first book end up fighting for the lives again. They are not just fighting the aliens that the madman is "making", but also fighting his soilders as well. This was a great book as a sequel to Earth Hive, and should be read by fans of the books.

This book was a lot better then the first one. I like the story line. It was a little borring at serten times. But, most of the time it was a very good book. I think Spears got what he desrved, at the end of the book

i LOVE the alien films.my 2nd best book ever

The premise of the story isn't anything special: Someone wants to use the aliens as a weapon. But there are two differences between General Spears and some of the other people who want to do the same: 1) Spears wants to use the aliens to fight the aliens. 2) Spears is one screwed up . . . well the rest of this would probably be censored. People interested in psychology should pick up the book, especially those interested in abnormal psyche. He's a control freak, sadist, a narccist of sorts, and to top it off, he thinks he's a messiah! Getting to look at Spears's thoughts and a few past experiences really shows how messed up this guy is and really works well to build up a strong emotional reaction to the man. He's not completely insane: His plan does make sense and its possible to relate to him because of that. Which means that a reader is also more able to feel revulsion when they see which screws are missing in his head. He's developed in such a way that he's crazy, but not too crazy for someone to have sympathy or anything.The characters from the first book are also further developed pretty nicely but the spotlight is pretty firmly on Spears. Which brings the problem with the book that others have reported: The attention isn't on the aliens. If Nightmare Asylum wasn't set in the Aliens universe, it might have been better received. But as it stands, the book is a good look into the human aspect of the human vs. alien war.And be sure to reread the book after reading Female War. The stuff Bueller says about the future of synthetics is great foreshadowing to the nature of a character in the 3rd book.

The second book of the alien trilogy book series, Aliens:Nightmare Asylem, brings us once again with Wilks, Billie, and Bueller as they land on an unknown planet they read life forms from. This is the Nightmare Asylem. First off, i loved the emotion in this book. It definitely gave me more of that than book 1. Sure, action is great, but love and emotional characters are very touching. That's probably what i like best in this book. Book1:Action, Book2: Emotion. What I didn't like in this book had to be the villian, Thomas Spears, the leader of this "Nightmare Asylem", where he is breeding Aliens to use for his own personal conquest. He was evil, and you didn't like him for it. I found myself saying, "com'on! Die Spears!" And i was rooting for the good guys. That's great talent on the part of Steve Perry who wrote Spears' character so well. But still, in alien books and movies, aren't the main enemy's supposed to be, well, the Aliens? They werent in this book. When they did appear, I would sit more comfortably and get ready for some great action. When they were battling Spears, I found myself leaning down again cause his battle scenes weren't as fun to read as the Alien scenes. You should Buy this book though. It's a great follow up, even though it doesn't quite match up with it's book 1 counterpart. YOU WONT BE DISAPPOINTED!