Alien Hunters: A Free Space Opera Novel

Daniel Arenson

Jan 2015 · Alien Hunters Book 1 · Moonclipse

About this eBook

"A fun, fast-paced space adventure... as action-packed as Star Wars or Battlestar Galactica." -- Jeff Bryan, author of Ellie Jordan, Ghost Trapper

"Arenson has brought fun back to space opera. If you love Firefly or Guardians of the Galaxy, you'll dig this." -- Colin F. Barnes, author of Hollow Space

The skelkrins. Predators from deep space. Creatures of claws, fangs, and unending malice. They swarm across the galaxy, slaying all in their path. Planets burn in their wake. And now they're heading to Earth.

Raphael "Riff" Starfire commands the Alien Hunters, a group of scruffy mercenaries. Galactic pest controllers, they mostly handle small critters--aliens that clog up your engine pipes, gnaw on your hull, or burrow through your silos.

Riff and his crew have never faced anything like the skelkrins before. As these cosmic killers invade our solar system, will Riff be the one hunting aliens . . . or will aliens hunt him?

ALIEN HUNTERS -- a free space opera, alien invasion adventure for fans of Star Wars, Firefly, and Guardians of the Galaxy.

Ratings and reviews

Plasma roars in vacuum (and they say in space no one hears you scream because there's no gases to carry sound). A hulking Death-star-like ship whose form screams "villains" pursues little, cuddly, purple-skinned alien flipping manual switches. The fate of Galaxy (would we be interested in anything smaller?) hangs in balance and only Earth (as always) can save it. It's books like this that give bad name to the whole genre.

You will need several glasses of wine because this book is pure cheese. Honestly, reading the book is like reading a script for a kids cartoon. The book includes innumerous clichés such as the hero running through laundry hung out to dry and having a bra tangled around their face. The bad guys, the Skulkrim, seem to be modelled after Skelator from the He-Man Universe; pure evil with no nuance of character. The alien female princess assassin seems to be inspired by Guardians of the Galaxy princess assassin. The author seems to delight in how often they can make the reader groan. You know how there are B-Movies that are made to be intentionally bad? The movie is so bad and groan inducing that it is like a car crash you can't look away from? Well that is what this book is like. I can't tell if the author was deliberately making the book this cheesy, or it truly was by accident. I read the book and got some entertainment value out of it.

It's free, best I can say. This isn't science fiction. It's a young adult (and that's pushing it) fantasy adventure story that happens to take place in the future. Sorry to say that I purchased the followup novel before reading this. Oh well.