Alien: The Official Movie Novelization

By Alan Dean Foster

Book Overview

The official novelization of the famous Alien movie with Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley A crew of spaceship Nostromo is suddenly woken up from a cryogenic sleep because of mysterious signals coming... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1783290153
• ISBN13: 9781783290154
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Titan Books (UK)
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.1" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Read them all

I bought the novelizations for the first four films in the Alien series. The first three are adapted by Alan Dean Foster, and are amazing! They add a lot to each story, plus, since they're from the same author, it feels like a continuing narrative. The fourth was adapted by A.C. Crispin. It's also great (so far at least. About 3/4 through it now.) Read them all back-to-back as one complete story. It's a lot of fun! Five stars from this nerd.

Alien Review

The book Alien is a thriller by Alan Dean Foster and it has lots of twists and turns that go on inside the story. For ten months an autopilot took the crew of the Norstromo to a distant solar system to investigate an S.O.S single from an alien. The weird part is they don't know what it means so it could also be a warning to stay away. All the crew wanted was a little extra pay that now has them just wishing that they had never investigated this and had just stayed in hyper sleep. I really enjoyed this book because I think it was very well written in all ways. It is also very suspenseful and it is like things just pop out at you all directions then suddenly just go away. You also can't tell what is going to come next since it is an alien and the crew could just find him on top of a reactor.

The Pinnacle of Sci-Fi Horror!

Based on the 1979 film "Alien", this novel is one of my favorites. It is very interesting, suspensful, and dramatic. A survival story of the crew on the spaceship "Nostromo", who land on an uncharted planet to investigate what they believe to be a distress call, and bring back the most horrifying creature they've ever seen. When I first read it, I was so intrigued, I read the entire book in one sitting. You've never read a Sci-Fi novel until you've read "Alien"! That's my two cents.

Brilliant!

This was a really well-written book, not like most awful movie and TV novelizations these days. I'm guessing it was written before that turned into mass market industry. Alan Dean Foster is actually a real writer, with real talent, so this book is worth reading even if you've seen the movie- In fact it will tell you a lot more stuff not told, or only briefly mentioned in the movie, and you get to know the other characters better, besides Ripley.

Novelization of the sci fi thriller.

Even if you have seen the un-cut version of the movie, this novelization adds so much more to the story.