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Aliens: Hive is an original comic book story based on the Alien movie series. Main character Stanislaw Mayakovsky once wrote a book called Cyberantics about a cybernetic ant he designed to infiltrate a hive to gain knowledge about the inner workings of the ant culture. Now a beautiful young thief has approached him to use his experience and expertise to create a cybernetic alien to sneak into an alien hive and steal the rare and valuable alien jelly. This is a fresh take on the Aliens mythos with creepy Kelley Jones artwork.
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Stanislaw Mayakovsky once wrote a book about the cybernetic ant he designed to infiltrate an Alien hive in order to gain precious knowledge about the species. Now, a beautiful young thief has approached Mayakovsky to use his experience and expertise -- not in the pursuit of scientific knowledge, but in the pursuit of the Alien Queen`s precious jelly. The mission is a perilous one, but the motives are compelling . . . Formerly collected as Aliens: Hive, this newest remastered Aliens Library Edition features an introduction and gallery by Kelley Jones!
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Aliens Love Puppies!.......2005-10-13
NOTE: This Book is also entitled Harvest, confusing alot of people. Harvest has a few additions to it that allow it to be the re-release it is, but I'm still partial to the cover of this lovely baby. I'm reviewing Hive and it'll show up on both, so you know you have the right one when you get the picture of the alien with the dog. That said, to begin:
All the Aliens Graphic Novels, distributed by Dark Horse, can be insulted if taken out-of-context and looked at on a one-on-one basis. Still, when thrown into a timeline and looked at as pieces telling the saga of a beast that is, in a sense, more terrifying than anything with Earthly comparisons, its a beautiful beast to behold. In stories like Labyrinth, for instance, you see what contact with Aliens can do to the human psyche and just how frail humans really are, and in additions by people like Mike Mignola you see the human side of the equation. In Hive you are thrust into a world where Aliens are understood to a point and where the item that allows them to become "Hive Mothers," Royal Jelly, has become THE narcotic of choice. Accordingly, you have a perpetual goldrush with people willing to take a variety of chances just to have something that is worth vast amounts of money and that makes its user feel better than escapism has ever imagined being. Take that and add in see the ways that people try to get to that payload and you have Hive.
As far as a creative complex, the art leaves something to be desired and there are slow place sin the story. Still, for some reason, I'm drawn to the notion of the Alien and this book made me alot happier than many of the others. Perhaps its because it not only adds in little scenarios of trying to raid a hive but comments on the Alien itself, trying to add an understanding of what the Alien is. Or maybe I just like watching people die because of their own stupidity when they mess with something beyond their wildest nightmares.
If you want to check out the Graphic Novels, start with Earth Hive and start working outward. These have been going on for years and you'll find alot of stuff you like/ dislike, and some of the stories are fringe tales at best. Unlike others here I liked this story, however, and am giving it a four out of five because I liked what it did. I just wish the art would've given me a little more.
I am sorry I really gave it 0 stars!.......1999-10-15
BAD ART,BAD STORY,BAD CHARACTERS ! DONT GET THIS BOOK
Aliens fans: you might want to skip this one!.......1999-04-11
After reading practically all other Aliens novels and comics, I find this one too drawn out, too much unnecessary plot and not enough involvement of the aliens themselves. The book delves too far into the woman thief's past and the feelings of the main character, Stanislaw. I was too bored three quarters into the book and couldn't even bear to finish it.
It was a great comic with great art........1999-04-08
It is about a sientist who once wrote a book about ants. He has built a robot alien. He has crashed on a planet full of aliens. I like this book because it is an action packed comic with great art and a good story.
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ALIENS: Alien Harvest
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This time the humans are taking the offensive! Stan Myakovsky is a once-famous scientist fallen on hard times. Now he dodges spaceship repo men and dreams of the marketability of his cybernetic ant. Then a woman named Julie Lish walks into his life. She is beautiful, mysterious, and totally amoral. She is also skilled in the arts of thievery and Oriental self-defense. What's more, she has a plan so outrageous there might be one chance in a million to pull it off.
Together Stan and Julie become the most unlikely pair of pirates in the universe. With a hijacked spaceship and a crew of hardcase misfits, they're searching for the ultimate pot of gold at the end of a bloody intergalactic rainbow: royal jelly from an alien hive. The only problem is that the fortune lies on the universe's most godforsaken planet. And once they get their hands on it, the'll have to fight their way past the aliens to get off the planet alive.
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Information and/or Misinformation Extraordinaire.......2007-04-24
Alien Harvest is a rather large bulky paperback book
containing plenty photographs and News' clippings, that
detail some interesting abilities of multi-dimensional inter-
dimensional intra-dimensional quasi-dimensional Intelligences,
to do whatever They please in full view of the EuroRussian
military in North America, for which that military cannot,
and dare not, do anything about the Intelligences' activities.
We were, and still are, concerned with the amount of pollution
or tainted poisonous misinformation that has been purposefully
induced into the subject, by the human military and their
MULTI-TRILLION Dollar/Ruble World War Criminal industries,
perhaps to deceive the public into believing they have
some amount of control or influence over the situation.
Based on our own encounters or experiences with UFO Intelligences,
we find too much "science" and human/hominid portayal of Aliens
within Alien Harvest, for it to be entirely believable.
So we question whether Alien Harvest, like the World Conspiracy
of the New World Order, is just another item of misinformation
in the Giant World Cover-Up on this type of subject.
To quote a few passages in A.H. that DO show SOME credibility
in its chapters, to closely correlate with our own ACTUAL
encounters with Advanced Intelligences, we offer these:
Page 29:
"The feed lot was well lighted. About 4 a.m., the cowhands
saw three 'human-like figures' glide over the feed lot fence."
..."the gliding figures could not be found. What really
puzzled the cowhands was the mud. It had been raining so the
ground was soaked. But there were NO (emphasis ours) footprints
in the feed lot and none leading up to the fence."
"Around the same time, two girls from Sterling (Colorado)
told the sheriff they fired a .22 at a 'hairy beast'
who walked into their yard. The bigfoot-type creature ran off.
Investigators found four branches burned off in the area where
the creature ran, but NO (emphasis ours) tracks."
Page 70:
..."object turned first into a 'ball shape' and then transformed
into a 'square shape'. The whole thing shot straight up out of
sight in less than a second."
Page 71:
..."mutilator's cut was perfect cell to cell,
NO (emphasis ours) broken cell walls."
Page 106:
..."the calf rose vertically, stopped crying and 'suddenly
disappeared as if behind a curtain'."
So A.H. is NOT entirely misleading based on the inclusion
of these "Stranger Than Science" descriptions of
ACTUAL Alien abilities.
However, in some other parts of the book we find only
slight hints of awakening or awareness of WHY these things
could be occurring.
Examples:
Page 42: (Linda quotes herself)
"I told him it made me angry. The cruelty of it, the arrogant way
the bodies were left to be found. Why?"
and later, an extract from a hypnosis interview on Page 51:
"it has to do with somehow nuclear waste or testing, causing
a change in chemical composition (atomic structure?) of something."
But never is it revealed that the EuroRussian World military is
itself quite devastating to Mother Earth, while reaping its
TRILLIONS of Dollars and Rubles into massive mountains of
Golden War Profits, to include the forcible attempted theft
of Middle Eastern Oil and plenty War-For-Profit over and through
the Jungles of South East Asia for economies run by War Criminals.
We offer only what we have ourselves have discovered
to counter any "strangeness" or misinformation in Alien Harvest:
We have met Advanced Beings, sometimes called Intelligences,
Who have the Ability to perform incredibly detailed, complex
surgery on very small microscopic portions of our brains,
at one point in Space and Time, and then, at another point
in Space or Time, the SAME Creatures or Advanced Beings, can
materialise a GIANT UFO, of any shape, substance, colour
or other characteristic, that could be SEVERAL HUNDERED
METRES in diametre... a type of their own choosing!
Thus, we know that UFO's are energy forms the Ziongon
("Pentagon") will NEVER be able to capture or interface with,
in a way that appeases the greedy possessive Human ego,
so intent on World conquest and domination.
Alien Harvest rates a worthwhile THREE out of FIVE.
Mute evidence.......2002-12-16
Linda Moulton Howe was SW America-area reporter when the cattle-mutilation craze hit. Occurring over the period of 10 years beginning with the end of the war in Vietnam and petering out by Reagan's 2nd term, the cattle-mutilation epidemic filled the news media with reports of mysteriously killed and mutilated cattle. Not only was the prairies dotted with dead cows, but certain parts had been removed with allegedly artificial preceision, while the blood was either gone or mysteriously diluted. Who (or what) was behind the killing/mutilations, and just why they were dotting the SW with cut-up carcasses (and whether these deaths and the mutilations themselves weren't really the work of normal predators whose handiwork was distorted by mass media and mass hysteria) are just a the basic mysteries underlying the craze. The three prime suspects for the epidemic (again, assuming that there was an epidemic to be caused) were the government (your friendly military-industrial complex, working day and night on cutting-edge bio-warfare technology; today we'd say it was corporate-level conspiracy), satanists (they're devious and dark, but can't afford their own cattle) and aliens (they've come 10 billion light years to experiment on us, but always forget to clean up their trash!). Linda Moulton Howe falls into that group that's chosen the latter. Now I'm not going to try and debunk the idea of intelligent extra-terrestrial life visiting Earth, or even joke about how oxymoronic it is for intelligent life to visit Earth, but I can never get past the cheat that underlies any ties between UFO theory and just about anything else here on Earth - it's a cheat because it's too easy! Since aliens are, by definition, unknown to us, they're vague, amorphous, and can suit any theory. (They're experimenting on cows to prepare bio-waepons against us; they're preparing new technology to help us; they're conspiring with the government; they work in secret to avoid the government.) UFO's are easy culprits once the process of elimination has removed any plausible motive or opportunity that links the offense to humans. UFO's may sell more papers, but most of those are tabloids; if somebody could tie the phenomenon to a big corporate perp like Dow, and especially in these post-ENRon days, that would totally beat anything the UFO-conspiracy theorists could think up. The usual explanations seem a tad to convenient: cows are being experimented on because their physiologies are so close to our own - but the same could be said for rodents and other small animals used in testing everything from pharmaceuticals and cosmetics to bio-warfare. Also, there's no explanation for why the animals are left out in the open by these advanced aliens. That's not only sloppy but - should the aliens decide to remove other animals form the same herd - a guarantee that the newer harvested cows could be contaminated by exposure to cows already experimented on.
There's nothing particularly wrong "Alien Harvest" that isn't wrong with similar work - it's compelling, but again relies on that same willingness to summarily accept theories that aren't solidly established and then jump to aliens as the only reasonable cause. The story conspicuously lacks objectivity, with the authors having little question of their beliefs. Instead of "Harvest", I'd recommend "Mute Evidence" by Kagan & Summer, a comprehensive survey and investigation of both the mutilation craze and the sub-culture it spawned. "Evidence" actually details Moulton Howe's ascension to the UFO community, and manages to avoid the expected condescension when detailing why it remains on the fringe.
A Disturbing Look At A Grim and Baffing Topic.......2000-11-04
Linda Moulton Howe has courageously persisted in a topic that has been ignored by the mainstream press. Her personal interviews, documentation, photographs, and personal experiences all qualify her as one of the premier UFO investigators in the world. Like her co-author, Jaques Vallee, she is a visonary in a field dominated by crackpots and willfully ignorant skeptics.
Read this book and you'll never feel quite the same driving in the American West by night. If even one percent of her allegations are true (and her witnesses in the main seem pretty reliable) we have something very troubling happening right beneath our noses.
Very Thought Provoking.......1999-06-22
After ordering and reading ALL of Linda's books, I have to say that anyone who reads, and really READS, and discounts all of the accounts of other realities happening all around us, has their head in the sand.
I find her books informative, very scientifically researched, and well written.
Like Linda, I had my 'grounding' in physical sciences, UNTIL my eyes were opened. It seems that now, I tend to read all I can get my hands on, about things NOT neven mentioned on the 'news'. I have tossed out newspaper and television news, because of their narrow point of view, and perhaps, control by God only knows who.
I recommend any or ALL of her work , as being at the very least VERY thought provoking !
Essential reading for Human Beings..........1999-03-28
I am done with volume 1 and volume 2; now about 1/3 through volume 3 of Linda Moulton Howe's encyclopedic alien tomes. I have to say at this point, not only does a HUGE amount of it parallel in "anecdotal" and documentary evidence (as well as SOME "hard" evidence) what the Cassiopaean's have been saying, but what the C's have been telling about "inside info" and "motives" and so forth provides a HUGE key to understanding the confusing elements that Linda MH has collected and made no real attempts to sort and explain, admitting that it is almost impossible considering the proven abilities of the beings to completely screen and manipulate our thinking processes.
But, we can't just take the words of ANY of these beings at face value, not even the C's. Somehow, there has to be a way to the center of the maze and back out again.
Yes, what the Cassiopaean's say DOES tend to be confirmed by this amazing and thorough research... yes, it does SEEM to make sense of it ... BUT, could it be more of the "mind manipulation" ? And, if so, is it due to just simple "overlay" of mental controls, or actual "time travel" to "set things up" so that the information SEEMS to be confirmed????
And, on the other hand, if it is due to time travel manipulations of history and so forth, then the picture is still somewhat bleak - only we have a couple of things that may be in our favor... the STS tendency to take the path of least resistance and "laziness," and the "wishful thinking."
Now, if any of you decide to get these books, let me warn you that they are FULL of photographs that are pretty grim and disturbing. They are also full of photos of actual military documents released through the FOIA and others that were obtained by other less standard means. There are complete transcripts of interviews and a few "hypnosis sessions," and so forth.
Colin Wilson wrote the forward, in which he says: "I have never read a book that excited such a powerful series of reactions in me. Again and again, I found myself thinking: 'If this is true, then we are all asleep. Something tremendous is going on, something that is going to affect every human being on this planet sooner or later, and we still go on living as if we were in the comfortable security of the Victorian age.'
"The question that keeps returning to me is: Why, if all of this is true - or only half true - can so many people ignore it? Why have skeptics such as writere Philip Klass and the late astronomer Carl Sagan asserted that UFO's are some kind of hysterical delusion?
"The answer to that question, I have concluded, is that we all need a sense of security, the feeling that we can get on with our lives without too much anxiety. So, we tend to ignore things that do not immediately affect us.
"If you take these cases individually, each one can be subjected to skeptical analysis and, if not dismissed, at least reduced to a minus on the credibility scale. [...] But once the total picture is grasped, it is overwhelming. Nitpicking criticism leaves it unaffected. And that total picture tells us that something very strange is going on, and very important. [...] "There are certain things that I find very hard to accept. For example, the notion that the aliens can travel backwards in time. It has always seemed to me that time travel is an impossibility. It would involve obvious paradoxes... "Like Linda Moulton Howe, Jacques Vallee and John Keel and everyone else who has studied the UFO phenomenon, I find myself trying to formulate a general theory that encompasses a mass of utterly confusing and contradictory information. [...]
"When I try to look at the whole phenomenon, I come back to my most basic intuition which has been at the heart of all my work since 'The Outsider' in 1956: that there is something oddly wrong with human consciousness. Although we have evolved further than any other animal on the face of the earth, it is at the cost of an absurd narrowness which means that we look at reality throught the long end of a telescope, failing to see the wood or even leaves because we can only focus on individual trees. Our evolution in the past twenty-five thousand years has been incredible, yet it has been largely wasted in the sense that we take it for granted and go plodding on dully. We see the world from a worm's eye view, when we urgently need a bird's eye view.
"Studying the UFO phenomenon, particularly as it is expressed in Linda's books, has made me clearly aware of one thing that I had formerly grasped only vaguely: that, far from being the most intelligent species in the universe, human beings are not really so far ahead of the cows who graze in our meadows. [...] Our greatest need at this point in our evolution is to change our intellectual viewpoint - to recognize that we are not alone in the universe and that we ought to be making far more vigorous use of the intelligence we DO possess. Our narrowness hypnotizes us into passivity. [...] "The UFO phenomenon is gradually forcing us to accept that there ARE other realities and dimensions, and that we cannot continue living like cows ruminating in a field. ... what is now happening is demanding out attention with a persistence that cannot be ignored and will become more persistent until it gets our full attention.
"For anyone who has so far managed to sleep through the increasing furor about UFOs, I cannot recommend a better alarm clock that Linda Moulton Howe's book."
And, I have to say "amen!" to that!
It's easy to fluff off the Cassioipaean's because, after all, it IS channeled and highly suspect. But, you can't go through page after page of photographs that have not been published in other media, to SEE the evidence, to see the documents, to hear the stories directly (in print)... and NOT realize that something is going on here that we really need to get a handle on.
But it takes work and committment... not a job for crybabies, either. There is NO FREE LUNCH in the universe... no "salvation" without WORK! And, in the case of what is ahead for us, or even all around us and ever present, either one wakes up and works, or they ARE LUNCH!
No kidding!
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needs to be re-qualified.......2006-08-16
This book may be written at a fourth grade level; however, the topic and the way that the information is presented is incredibly political. It was listed as appropriate for a fourth grade reading but I found both the pictures and passages to be extremely biased and not appropriate for use in a fourth grade classroom. This topic and information, I believe, would be better presented at an 8th grade and above level, where students developmentally are able to think outside of the box and form their own opinions about subjects such as these. Please consider changing the age bracket on your book review.
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An Alien Harvest
Manufacturer: Linda Moulton Howe Productions
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Makes theology accessible to a wider audience, introducing readers to the core doctrines of the Christian faith and encouraging them to connect belief with everyday life.
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Created for Community!.......2007-02-27
Are you struggling to understand how theology is practical to Christian living? Have you had a hard time putting life into perspective? Many authors have a difficult time making theology practical to the common man. Grenz wonderfully accomplishes this task and gives the church a proper understanding of God's purposes for his creation. We were created for community!
Grenz begins by discussing the importance of theology and how it should be more than mere head knowledge. Application must be made and that application ought to change our lives for the better of God's good purposes.
Grenz gives a simple and concise synopsis of the Christian faith. Who is God--Father, Son, and Holy Spirit? How do we understand and communicate who he is? What does it mean to be created in his image? What did the Fall really do to community? What exactly did God do to restore that community? Why did he do it this way? What does it mean to say that the church mirrors the community of God? Grenz beautifully tells the story of God... the story of his community... the story of our faith.
Why "community"?
Grenz writes, "because the focus on community encapsules the biblical message, it stands at the heart of the theological heritage of the church, and it speaks to the aspirations and sensed needs of people in our world today. In short, as we realize that we are created for community, we are in a position to connect Christian belief with Christian living."
This is the second time I have read this book. The first time was in college. This last time through was better than the first! I have really been able to catch Grenz's vision of trinitarian community. Trinitarian unity is the archetype for the church. I believe that being involved in a house church has helped me to better grasp "community". In the institutional church I had a very difficult time envisioning "community." It was actually kind of strange to even talk about community in that setting. It's not a natural setting for human relationships to be bound together in trinitarian love.
Grenz was truly a blessing to Christ's church. His writings will continue to stir the hearts and minds of readers for years to come.
* For a lengthier version of this book... get "Theology for the Community of God" (1994) also by Grenz.
I recommend "Created for Community: Connecting Christian Belief with Christian Living" to new Christians and all those needing an introduction to theology and the Christian faith. It is perfect for small groups.
Theology for the Everyday Believer.......2005-09-16
Before reading this book, I thought of theology books as boring, and difficult to understand and not applicable to the everyday believer who was not going to Bible school.
Grenz's "Created for Community" has changed my mind. I am excited about the content as now it gives me some words to help explain my Christian beliefs & a deeper longing to know Christ.
It is a must read for every Christian or those wondering what the Christian faith is all about.
consistent and effective.......2005-09-14
Stan Grenz was one of the most fluent and also readable writers and theologians of our time. And he "lived it". The topic of community is an easy topic to wax eloquent about, but Grenz makes it practical and real.
Best Book on Theology.......2005-02-18
This is a wonderful Theological Study Resource. Grenz does an excellent job displaying differing viewpoints, showing which one he believes most correct, and allowing the reader to make a decision based on his own experience. This is an absolute must read for every church member seeking to deepen his/her faith in Jesus and in the Triune God!
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