Dates
- Cover date
- February 1992
- Pages
- 36
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Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- Untitled · 26 pages
Entrepreneur Julian Lish has persuaded Dr. Stan Mayakovsky, who is dying of cancer, to come with her on an expedition to a planet where they can gather the Alien queen's jelly, making them all rich and providing Mayakovsky with enough jelly to alleviate his constant pain. The jelly is much sought after as it has different euphoric effects on different humans. With them is the doctor's creation, an android Alien, which they hope to be able to sneak unnoticed into the queen's hive and retrieve the jelly. The landing craft, with Norbert the android Alien, sets down on the planet's surface.
Publisher’s description
Stanislaw Mayakovsky once wrote a book about the cybernetic ant he designed to infiltrate a hive in order to gain precious knowledge about the species. Now a beautiful young thief has approached him to recreate his experiment by designing an Alien to infiltrate an Alien hive to gain something else precious: the Alien Queen Mother's royal jelly, the galaxy's most valuable commodity.
Reprinted in
Aliens: Hive Collection (1993), Aliens Omnibus (2007), Aliens: The Original Years Omnibus (2021), Aliens Epic Collection: The Original Years (2023)