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When the Colonial Marines set out after their deadliest prey, the Xenomorphs, it's what Corporal Hicks calls a bug hunt - kill or be killed. Here are fifteen all-new stories of such "close encounters", written by many of today's most extraordinary authors. Set during the events of all four Alien films, sending the Marines to alien worlds, to derelict space settlements, and into the nests of the universe's most dangerous monsters, these adventures are guaranteed to send the blood racing - one way or another.

Following on from Closed for Repairs, I was hoping for a year to enjoy all the things I had lost. A quiet year. That was not to be. The very act of recovery sparked a whole series of challenges and these started immediately. This book traverses a very eventful and fraught year. I had my mind back but how things have changed.

My brain served me though very well throughout my life. Until one day in 2015 it didn’t. I first suffered an extreme, sustained mania that did not switch off for two months no matter how tired or medicated I was. Then, after the mania stopped, so did my brain function. It was like a light that burns so bright it burns itself out. I could no longer think, talk, or even understand what was going on. I was just an observer to the world, seeing but not comprehending.