Blowback is a short story written by Christopher Golden. It was first published in the 2017 anthology Aliens: Bug Hunt, edited by Jonathan Maberry.
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Blowback is a prequel to Aliens. It follows Corporal Dietrich and her unit as they are dispatched to a toxic world to eliminate the indigenous lifeforms that have been killing Weyland-Yutani scientists there to harvest a vital chemical.