History Literature / AliensStevePerryTrilogy

** The "military instant cornbread," apparently the same as that supplied to the ''Sulaco'', has become famous. Or infamous.

* HotterAndSexier: Mostly from Billie, but there are several parts in all three novels where things get a bit racy. Less so in the third, perhaps because Steve Perry was writing it with his daughter.

* TemptingFate: Colonel Stephens is less than happy about Wilks being assigned to the mission to the Alien homeworld, and complains to Orona about. Orona basically tells him to shut up and deal with it, and notes that Wilks has been bumped to Sergeant and put in charge of loading supplies for the mission. "How much damage can he do there?" Orona asks. Cut to Stephens finding the [[TheresNoKillLikeOverkill plasma rifles and chargers]] Wilks requisitioned. . .
* TheresNoKillLikeOverkill: Wilks thinks so. For the mission to (what is believed to be) the Aliens' homeworld, he requisitions plasma rifles and chargers. Colonel Stephens overrules him, citing that Wilks' own testimony states standard pulse rifles chop up Aliens just fine, and "I won't jeopardize my mission by splattering potential specimens all over the countryside with weaponry designed to stop tanks."

* TheParanoiac: General Spears. Constantly monitors his own troops for signs of disloyalty, and provides punishment for such by making them hosts for the Aliens he's breeding. [[SelfFulfillingProphecy This leads to one on-page desertion attempt, as well as a full-blown mutiny while Spears is away dealing with the deserters.]] He has a special communication channel to his base, designed only to transmit clearly if something is wrong, and a backup stealth flyer to travel back to his base undetected. He ticks the "Cynically Suspicious," "Jerkass," "Control Freak," and "Self-Important" criteria.

* MayDecemberRomance: By the end of the third books, Wilks and Billie are on the verge of a full RelationshipUpgrade. Whether this is sweet or [[{{Squick}} squicky]] depends on how you feel about both the age difference and the ParentalSubstitute vibes.

* MagicalSecurityCam: ZigZagged. Orona watches Salvaje and his followers raid the Company facility studying the Alien through footage pieced together from various sources, many of which were destroyed during the fight. There's jumps, missing time, and poor sound, but good enough angles and resolution to pick out Salvaje himself, as well as provide suitably dramatic description of the event.
** Thanks to his extreme paranoia, Spears has hidden cameras all over his base that play it completely straight, even able to track the same subjects across multiple cameras without missing a beat.

* HelloNurse: The psychologist who tells Wilks about Doc Holliday. He notes she's very pretty, and he would have tried to sleep with her under other circumstances. . . then, as she keeps [[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness prattling on, debates trying to sleep with her just shut her up.]]

* FreudWasRight: The Alien psychic communications delivered in dreams tend to be sexual, involve a mother, or once both.

* FourStarBadass: General Spears, despite being an [[TheNeidermeyer utterly]] [[TheSociopath despicable]] [[BadBoss human]] [[TheParanoiac being]], is an exceptionally dangerous opponent, a FrontlineGeneral who is consistently a step or two ahead of everyone who opposes him. Except his "tame" Aliens.

* DesignerBabies: General Thomas A.W. Spears. The "A.W." stands for "artificial womb," and he was part of a government project to engineer better soldiers. They certainly succeeded on that count, Spears is a very formidable foe. Mostly because he's utterly paranoid and a total sociopath.

* BaldOfEvil: Spears, once he takes his hat off, is bald as an egg. See below for the evil.

A trilogy of novels adapting the Creator/DarkHorseComics [[Franchise/{{Alien}} Aliens]] comics ''Book One'' (or ''Outbreak''), ''Book Two'' (or ''Nightmare Asylum''), and ''Earthwar'' (or ''The Female War''), also available in collected form as "The Complete Aliens Omnibus Volume 1". The novels greatly expand on the events from those comics, as well as performing a minor {{Retcon}}. The original comics had followed Hicks, Newt, and eventually Ripley in a new Alien-related adventure, but had the misfortune to be published between ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' and ''Film/Alien3''. The novels change the comics characters to SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitutes Wilks (Hicks), Billie (Newt), and a highly-sophisticated android who only ''thinks'' she's Ellen Ripley. The novels involve both the Company and government attempting to secure Alien specimens for their own uses, these efforts [[GoneHorriblyRight going horribly right]], a mission to the Aliens' home planet (not really), an Alien-occupied Earth, a visit to a military outpost with an insane general breeding the Aliens as his personal footsoldiers, and finally a visit to the Aliens' ''real'' homeworld in a last-ditch effort to save Earth. And lots of dead humans, Aliens, and androids along the way.

* {{Narcissist}}: Spears, much like SelfDemonstrating/DoctorDoom, insists on recording every combatsit he finds himself in, convinced the military historians of the future will find them priceless treasure troves of tactical wisdom.

* {{Narcissist}}: Spears, much like SelfDemonstrating/DrDoom, insists on recording every combatsit he finds himself in, convinced the military historians of the future will find them priceless treasure troves of tactical wisdom.

* ShoutOut: Steve Perry couldn't resist one to his own ''Literature/MatadorSeries'', having Wilks use "Emile Antoon Khadaji" as an alias and noting he got it from a book he once read.

* GeneralRipper: Thomas A.W. Spears. See DesignerBabies, TheNeidermeyer, IControlMyMinionsThrough, and TheSociopath for details.