Alien: The Official Movie Novelization
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THE OFFICIAL ALIEN MOVIE NOVELIZATION: Bestselling author Alan Dean Foster adapts Ridley Scott’s science fiction horror movie classic starring Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley.
“As timeless as the movie that spawned it.” —Den of Geek
The crew of the Nostromo, a commercial deep-space mining ship, investigates a mysterious signal. Landing on planet LV-426, they discover a massive extraterrestrial and a nest of strange eggs. They bring the Alien back to the ship which, as it grows, stalks and picks off the crew, one-by-one, until only Ellen Ripley remains.
“Foster uses the tools of his trade to translate the sparse details of a script into a lush, horrifyingly detailed haunted spaceship tale, populated by characters you’ll feel for.” —Barnes & Noble SFF blog
Alan Dean Foster
Alan Dean Foster’s work to date includes excursions into hard science fiction, fantasy, horror, detective, western, historical, and contemporary fiction. He has also written numerous nonfiction articles on film, science, and scuba diving and produced the novel versions of many films, including such well-known productions as Star Wars, the first three Alien films, Alien Nation, and The Chronicles of Riddick. Other works include scripts for talking records, radio, computer games, and the story for the first Star Trek movie. His novel Shadowkeep was the first ever book adaptation of an original computer game. In addition to publication in English his work has been translated into more than fifty languages and has won awards in Spain and Russia. His novel Cyber Way won the Southwest Book Award for Fiction in 1990, the first work of science fiction ever to do so.
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