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The United States Colonial Marines. Ultimate trouble-shooters equipped with state-of-the art firepower, capable of power projection across the vast expanse of deep space. They can sharpshoot a man at a thousand meters or obliterate an entire world from the safety of orbit. They reckon they are unbeatable.
But on a dirtball colony known only as LV-426 the unthinkable happened.
The Marines lost.
The Aliens Colonial Marines Technical Manual is your official guide to the equipment and organisation of the United States Colonial Marine Corps. Packed with never-before-published diagrams, technical schematics and plans, the manual takes a detailed look at the guns, vehicles and ships of the USCMC, and the men and women who use them.
A must for all Aliens fans, this book examines the technology of the film's futuristic nightmare in every detail, and tries to discover exactly what went wrong on LV-426.
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I have this book and loved it too. Just the fact that there were smart uses of tech. The towed decoy behind the dropship, or the ballute decoy you can send out from your space cruiser ship made total sense. Its less impressive now that I'm an adult and learned a that most of the stuff has been used by real world militaries since WW-2 (the towed decoy was a thing vs acoustic homing torpedoes). But, this book was great.
Absolutely, it took real world technologies and transferred them to the SF world. So I mentioned, I read about how Ramjets worked in this book, and was amazed at how accurate the descriptions were when I did some reading into real world ones. It got the concepts across well and pretty accurately.
Oh man I'm a sucker for books like this. I'm gonna have to pick this one up. Great review!
I love these type of books too, pretty much addicted to getting them whenever I see one, ending up with far too many Star Trek and Star Wars technical books for my wallets health.
Great review. I've had this book since it first came out - one of the best setting source books out there.
I'm a total sucker for this kind of book, and this is definitely among the best.
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Great book and review!
Thanks so much! Glad you enjoyed it.