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Cyberantics
Cyberantics is presented in a hardcover, illustrated children's book format. The project includes specific information that is intrinsically tied to many of the events found in the Aliens: Hive series. The ant featured as the main character of Cyberantics is also a character in Aliens: Hive. The two stories interrelate, and by reading both Cyberantics and Aliens: Hive the reader's understanding of the concepts in both stories is deepened. However, both this book and the comic series can be read and enjoyed on their own.
Cyberantics features comments on the text, a biography of the "author" (another character in Hive). and an ersatz bibliography. Written by Stanislaw Mayakovsky (AKA Jerry Prosser) and illustrated by Rick Geary.
Cyberantics features comments on the text, a biography of the "author" (another character in Hive). and an ersatz bibliography. Written by Stanislaw Mayakovsky (AKA Jerry Prosser) and illustrated by Rick Geary.
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56 pages, Hardcover
First published March 31, 1992
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Jerry Prosser
96Ìýbooks3ÌýfollowersJerry Prosser is an American comic book writer and editor, best known for his work with Dark Horse Comics where he helped create the Comics' Greatest World line and worked on licenced properties such as Aliens and Predator.
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July 2, 2021
Cyberantics is probably one of the strangest tie in books to the Aliens franchise. I don't think anything else like this has been done. This is effectively written as a children's book by an author that is a character found in an Aliens comic book series. Back when this was originally released it was published alongside the comic at the time as a "companion" piece. I've gone back in my re-reading trek and read this as a sort of prequel to . I don't think it really matters which you read first, to be honest.
Cyberantics is published pretending to be an annotated re-edition of a book written by Stanislaw Mayakovsky (an integral figure in the invention of key features of androids... sorry artificial persons). There was, obviously, no real first edition ever printed, this is the first edition. However, this book acts as if it is written in universe by one of the main characters that shows up in the Hive comic book series. Cyberantics through it's annotations provides a much deeper background for this character and alludes to their "unknown disappearance" from the scientific community, which is where the Hive story steps in.
In the Hive comics we meet a small cybernetic ant built by Mayakosvky named Ari. In Hive she's not the main focus and sort of along for the ride, but with Cyberantics we get insight into her creation and early life. Remember, in universe this children's book was written by Mayakovsky before he disappeared. This book outlines her creation and first adventures with an ant hive. Mayakovsky created her to infiltrate and observe an anti hive for scientific purposes. Mayakovsky also wanted to push the limits of technology in doing so.
As you maybe be able to guess Hive deals with a cybernetic Alien undergoing a similar mission. Cyberantics is really cool in the way it sets us up to delve into that story! I'm not sure how confused people were with this publication, because there's nowhere that truly points to it being in the Aliens universe, so people might have read it as something totally different. However, as an in universe curiosity, I actually think Cyberantics is a pretty cool little book. It's one of those things that I've only just recently learned about even, as I tried to compile all the material from these early days of Aliens, which I owned most of already, but there were some odds and ends like this one that even I was blissfully unaware of. So, if you're a big Aliens fan or at least enjoyed the "Hive" comic series, then this is actually a pretty neat little book to have around.
Cyberantics is published pretending to be an annotated re-edition of a book written by Stanislaw Mayakovsky (an integral figure in the invention of key features of androids... sorry artificial persons). There was, obviously, no real first edition ever printed, this is the first edition. However, this book acts as if it is written in universe by one of the main characters that shows up in the Hive comic book series. Cyberantics through it's annotations provides a much deeper background for this character and alludes to their "unknown disappearance" from the scientific community, which is where the Hive story steps in.
In the Hive comics we meet a small cybernetic ant built by Mayakosvky named Ari. In Hive she's not the main focus and sort of along for the ride, but with Cyberantics we get insight into her creation and early life. Remember, in universe this children's book was written by Mayakovsky before he disappeared. This book outlines her creation and first adventures with an ant hive. Mayakovsky created her to infiltrate and observe an anti hive for scientific purposes. Mayakovsky also wanted to push the limits of technology in doing so.
As you maybe be able to guess Hive deals with a cybernetic Alien undergoing a similar mission. Cyberantics is really cool in the way it sets us up to delve into that story! I'm not sure how confused people were with this publication, because there's nowhere that truly points to it being in the Aliens universe, so people might have read it as something totally different. However, as an in universe curiosity, I actually think Cyberantics is a pretty cool little book. It's one of those things that I've only just recently learned about even, as I tried to compile all the material from these early days of Aliens, which I owned most of already, but there were some odds and ends like this one that even I was blissfully unaware of. So, if you're a big Aliens fan or at least enjoyed the "Hive" comic series, then this is actually a pretty neat little book to have around.
September 1, 2020
A companion piece to Jerry Prosser's ALIENS: HIVE series, presented as a in-universe children's book from 2172, written by Stanislaw Mayakovsky. This is supposed to be the later reprint edition published after 2197 and annotated by Prosser. It also includes a 4-page biography of the author, and a bibliography that mixes real works of the past and fictitious works of the future.
October 24, 2009
This was the book that started my love affair with Rick Geary! I love his clean lines and ability to show expressions simply.
January 27, 2013
I love Rick Geary but this one was not for me.
February 7, 2016
Incredible book. As a biologist I simply loved the way the author inserts scientific info (including the annotations) into the story. Great book for kids to approach science.
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