Erupting on the screen in a blaze of blood and guts in 1987, the film Predator quickly became a favorite, spawning a host of sequels, games, and novels. In Predator: Forever Midnight, John Shirley casts his malevolent eye upon the canon.

The year is 2117 A.D. Humanity has seized the stars, using reverse-engineered alien technology to explore the far reaches of space. On the eternally lit jungle planet Midnight, explorers are making a new world suitable for habitation. For years, humans have been safe from the sadistic extraterrestrial hunters known as the Predators, but the settlers on Midnight aren't alone: the Predators have been on the planet all along. When the ravenous creatures attack an arriving spacecraft and capture the settlers as both slaves and prey for their hunt, the humans' terraforming project takes a back seat to a new fight for survival.