AXP Interviews Steve Perry!

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From main AXP site:

As promised SiL has just wrapped up an interview with long time Aliens and Aliens vs. Predator novelist Steve Perry. Steve has written titles like Earth Hive, The Female War, Nightmare Asylum, Prey and Hunter's Planet, and is currently working on a new Predator title for Dark Horse this summer. Checkout a sample:

AXP: Novelisations always have a tendency to pad out the source material. Were you given relatively free rein for adding content?

SP: I mostly stuck to the storyline, but as I said, the nature of the medium is that some material that looks good doesn't always play quite as well in prose form. There was a scene in one of the comics where the futuristic version of the Coast Guard went up to blow a derelict ship up in Earth-orbit. That's very visual, but you don't want to do that -- it leaves a lot of really dangerous debris zipping by at ten miles a second and if it hits your ship, can punch holes in it. So I had them kick the dead ship hard enough so it would eventually fall into the sun. Like that.

As mentioned, up next for Steve is penning the latest Predator novel this summer, titled for now, Turnabout. To read the whole conversation with Steve visit our interviews section. Thanks to Steve and great job SiL!

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