Aliens: Genocide is a 1993 novelization of the comic book series of the same name, written by David Bischoff and published by Bantam Books. As Earth rebuilds following the devastating Alien-Earth war, Xenomorph Royal Jelly has become a highly potent performance-enhancing drug known as Fire. The demand for Fire drives businessman Daniel Grant to launch another expedition to the Xenomorph home world, seeking to recover more of the precious substance. What the expedition finds is a planet gripped by monstrous civil war.