Story Name: Stonewall’s Last Stand by Jeremy Robson Mixed in with the violence and action is quite a hard look on the liberties humanity feels like it can take. Actually, even then, the feeling remained. Right up to the appearance of the Yaujta. Thoughts: This one read very much like an aliens story. What is it about?Ě squad off colonial marines are tasked with a retrieval mission on a remote research station. Four stars, give me more stories!Īs a short story collection, it would only be fair to give thoughts on each story, so here goes: Overall, highly entertaining for the Predator fan. Retired LAPD + flaming Brazilian gay guy spouting butchered action movie one-liners vs Predator. Too much for a short story, even with the cute ending. Hurricane Katrina vs Predator vs Megawolf vs Military - the writing was everywhere. There was even a story with a female Predator! Oddly, I’d never thought about this. There were also several clever stories of people using the Predator to their advantage: My favorite stories were the Predator through history: Predator is one of my favorite movies so I had to read this the second it came out! I was not disappointed, this was a consistently good time. If you’re a Predator superfan, I’d say that it’s absolutely worth wading through the lackluster material in “If It Bleeds” to get to the good stuff all others probably needn’t bother. That’s not to say all of the stories are duds – I’d say I thoroughly enjoyed at least half of what’s in here – but still: that still leaves 228 pages of a 456-page anthology that’s less than stellar. I suspect it has something to do with the fact that, for all of the variety in settings that the stories may have – including stories set in the far-flung future, 9th century Norway, Vietnam, and even Hurricane Katrina – the basic beats of almost all of these shorts come down to essentially the same basic narrative beats: character encounters Predator character and Predator face off off character defeats Predator. Anderson, Mira Grant, John Shirley, and Jonathan Mabberry, among others, ultimately leave me feeling so…meh? The promise inherent in a “Predator” anthology would seem to be sky high…so why did “If It Bleeds,” which is comprised of 16 short stories by the likes of such greats as Tim Lebbon, Steve Perry, Kevin J. He’s also the author of the bestselling nonfiction book How To Write A Novel: The Fundamentals of Fiction.īryan can be found online at Facebook, on Twitter as and and via his website. Martin's Griffin, 2017), Predator: If It Bleeds and Infinite Stars And Infinite Stars: Dark Frontiers both for Titan Books, 20.Īs editor, he has edited books for Grail Quest Books, Wordfire Press, Delabarre Publishing and authors including Andy Weir's The Martian which hit number 6 on the New York Times Bestsellers list in 2014, Alan Dean Foster, Mike Resnick, Frank Herbert, Todd McCaffrey, Tracy Hickman, Angie Fox, Leon C. He edited the anthologies Space Battles: Full Throttle Space Tales #6 for Flying Pen Press, Beyond The Sun for Fairwood Press, Raygun Chronicles: Space Opera For a New Age for Every Day, Shattered Shields with coeditor Jennifer Brozek (Baen, 2014), Mission: Tomorrow (Baen, 2015), Galactic Games (Baen, 2016), Decision Points (WordFire, 2016), Little Green Men-Attack! with Robin Wayne Bailey (Baen, 2017), Monster Hunter Files with Larry Correia (Baen, 2017), Joe Ledger: Unstoppable with Jonathan Maberry (St. His short stories have appeared in Tales of The Talisman, Straight Outta Tombstone, The X-Files: Secret Agendas, Predator: If It Bleeds, Decision Points and many more. His children’s books, 102 More Hilarious Dinosaur Books For Kids and Abraham Lincoln: Dinosaur Hunter- Land Of Legends appeared from Delabarre Publishing in 2012. His debut novel, The Worker Prince received Honorable Mention on Barnes & Noble Book Club’s Year’s Best Science Fiction Releases for 2011. His fourth novel, Simon Says is a page-turning near future thriller. LAST REPORT FROM THE KSS PSYCHOPOMP by Jennifer BrozekĭRUG WAR by Bryan Thomas Schmidt and Holly Roberdsīryan Thomas Schmidt is a national bestselling author and Hugo nominated editor of adult and children’s speculative fiction. MAY BLOOD PAVE MY WAY HOME by Weston Ochse STONEWALL'S LAST STAND by Jeremy Robinson Based entirely on the original films, novels, and comics, PREDATOR: IF IT BLEEDS (a quote from the original movie) reveals the Predators stalking prey in 12th Century Japan, 9th Century Viking Norway, World War I, Vietnam, the Civil War, Hurricane Katrina, and the modern day, as well as across the far reaches of future space. An anthology celebrating the 30th anniversary of the PREDATOR franchise, IF IT BLEEDS includes seventeen brand new, never before seen stories-exclusive to this collection-featuring the Predators throughout space and time.
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