In Music of the Spears by Yvonne Navarro, driven to madness by his rage against the ugliness of life in Manhattan in the year 2214, a composer tries to shock the world out of its ugliness with a fiendish piece of music and an alien called Mozart. Berserker by Stephani Perry tells the story of a group of reckless, desperate volunteers recruited by the Company who are tasked with destroying the biggest Alien infestation ever discovered.