Title: Schlock falls off
Product review: Previous reviewer makes an excellent point: the aliens have got boring because they are nothing but schlock machines, the plots nothing but grunge-generation. Once shock and disgust wears off, nothing is really left. By contrast, Larry Niven's "The Man-Kzin Wars" have aliens - intelligent tiger-like creatures, who have a taste for human flesh but are much more than grunge-generators. They can actually interact with humans, think, and have complex characters of their own. The result is something a good deal more lastingly interesting. A Man-Kzin story, with Kzin characters like Scarface, Chuut-Riit, Traat-Admiral, the Vaughn Tiger and the Gutting Claw's Telepath, is a story you can go back to (also the science is better and the humans are a lot more interesting, too). Nobody wants to read an "Aliens" more than once unless they are a really dumb sicko.
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