Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #582017 in Books
• Published on: 1999-11-26
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 112 pages

Amazon.co.uk Review
While their respective film careers have supposedly ended, the ferocious monstrosities of the Predator and Alien movies have found comfortable homes in comic books--a fine repository for their stylish mix of science fiction and horror. Both species implacable, ruthless and visceral, you have to pity the poor souls who wind up in the middle of their grisly, flesh-strewn rucks. Which they inevitably do, unfortunately for them, but a necessary hook elevates the stories above endless death and destruction without depth.

In Eternal, stopping these hideous beasts becomes a secondary priority--not until they have offered up the secrets of immortality. In future Tokyo, mysterious techno-billionaire Gideon Suhn-Lee has built his fortune (and long life) on the technology he divulged from a crashed Predator spaceship (excellent hunters, bad pilots) 700 years ago. Now, he searches feverishly for eternal life, while creating mass-produced alien weaponry. However, maverick journalist Becca Shaw is on his trail, as well as a group of Predators. To make matters worse, Lee's search for immortality has led to an ill-advised opening of some Alien eggs. The strong human element here makes this more than a mere concoction of shocks and ultra-violence. With Gideon, we have an obsession that makes him become a Predator, but with an all too human naiveté of the unknown. He won't be the last. Tight plotting and suitably gritty art ensures that this will be a good read for those who like their sci-fi dark and bloody. --Danny Graydon

Synopsis
Gideo Shun Lee is 700 years old, due in no small part to harvested Predator DNA spliced with his own. But when he mistakenly lands a cache of Alien eggs, the stage is set or a showdown.

Customer Reviews

Ignore the chump..
This book is well balanced in both species and the aliens and predators are both shown well at what they do to live, and that the predator is more interesting because knowone has actually bothered to do it before. Aliens have been looked into too much making them boring and uninteresting. The storyline is tention building and on the edge of your seat type action. A must if you like this sort of thing.

Good but lacking in substance
The storyline of the book is interesting: the concept of this character who is eternal. But the aliens are reduced to near unimportance, and the predators aren't really interesting at all - the involvement of either is actually unimportant to the storyline. The setting is also unclear; references to this war happening in the early 21st centruy are made, which would mean that the aliens got to Earth before Ripley in ALIENS and this seems a bit unusual. The technology of the other books in the series is also an interesting aspect that this book neglects. In all, a good read with excellent art but really only for true fans (which is why I enjoyed it! ).