Aliens: The Official Movie Novelization

Alan Dean Foster

Apr 2014 · Titan Books (US, CA)

About this ebook

In the sequel to the 1979 film Alien, Ellen Ripley is forced to return to planet LV-426, where her crew encountered the hostile Alien creature. There they discovered hundreds of eggs, and just one slaughtered everyone but Ripley. This time she's accompanied by a unit of Colonial Marines, but even their firepower may not be enough for them to survive and learn the fate of the colony known as Hadley's Hope

Ratings and reviews

Each page read was accompanied in my mind by a blank to be filled by the relevant scene from the film. A little enhancement goes a long way in this case. I distinctly recall the scene where Ripley and Newt are trapped in Medical with the two facehuggers, which in the book differs slightly from the way the film depicts it -- the resultant plot hole surprises me. A little more forethought in each scene enhances the underlying conflict by a significant order of magnitude. I'm glad to have read this.

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About the author

Alan Dean Foster is the acclaimed author of movie tie-ins for Star Wars, Alien, Transformers. He was awarded the IAMTW Grand Master Scribe Award in 2008. A best-selling science-fiction and fantasy author in his own right; the popular Pip and Flinx novels and the Founding of the Commonwealth series.