
Alien 3
The Official Movie Novelization
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Narrated by:
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Peter Guinness
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By:
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Alan Dean Foster
Fury 161 is a wretched planet - a penal colony and an industrial complex manned by violent prisoners. When an escape pod from the USS Sulaco crash-lands there, Ellen Ripley appears to be the only passenger left alive.
Then inmates begin to die, all at the hands of another survivor - a creature which encounters Ripley and spares her life! Desperate to know why, she seeks out an answer - and discovers terror unlike any she's ever known.
Science fiction master Alan Dean Foster returns to the Alien universe to reveal the ultimate destinies of Ellen Ripley and her eternal foe, the xenomorph known as the Alien.
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Peter Guinness reprises his efforts from the first book in the series and submits a passable performance.
Gotta Love Those Double-Y Chromo Boys
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The great part about these novelizations is that I can already see the characters. I know them and have know them for years. This book made me have all the feels. The beginning was tragic, yet again, and Ripley is set on another quest to kill aliens. Thank goodness she is more determined than ever but the beginning of this really made me feel for her.
Not having an idea of this book made it all the more scary. I was on the edge of my seat wondering where there danger was going to come from. Surprisingly there are quite a few characters in this that are heroic and even outshine the marines! I was worried at times but at others so glad that Ripley had some of these individuals around her. Although, she gets herself into quite a few messes in this one. Being on a prison world filled with me, what else would Ripley do?
This book held up to the first two, which is surprising. The second is still my favorite but the plot twists and the things that happen in this one were not foreseen. Brilliant work, yet again, by Peter Guinness. His voice lets the listener fall into the story and forget that there is a real world around them. The terror is really felt when the alien shows its ugly head!
Not my favorite of the three but still on par with the first. Great storytelling and very good narration.
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Brilliant work, yet again
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Narrator
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A decent adaptation
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Good narrator, but the story was okay
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I don't know. Maybe I'm just on an Alien kick. But this book is much better than I remember the film being.
Like the first two books, author Alan Dean Foster (working from a screenplay) opens by introducing us to dreamers. In this instance, we have the sole survivors of the alien attack on colonial planet LV-426: Ellen Ripley, Newt, Corporal Hicks and the android Bishop. They are in cryonic stasis aboard the dropship Sulaco en route to Earth.
But, of course, this is an alien novel. So something has to go wrong. And that something is an alien facehugger that has hitchhiked and is now attempting to break into the passengers' cryotubes. A fire erupts and the escape pod crash lands.
Ripley revives on a refinery planet that doubles as a penal colony. She's the only woman these men have seen in years, and she's alone. For some reason, her fellow passengers didn't survive. Ripley has to find out why, and the evidence she finds aboard the pod suggests that she hasn't escaped the predatory alien nemesis after all.
Her doubts are soon put to rest when prisoners start disappearing.
Alan Dean Foster keeps a tight control on the storyline and the many characters. He, unlike poor director David Fincher who had to deal with numerous rewrites and studio interference while making the movie, knows where this drama is headed and knows how to ratchet up the tension. The scares aren't as big in the third book, but Ripley gets an alien encounter that's a real screamer.
British narrator Peter Guinness is back from Alien: Book One and he's a winner. Aliens was narrated by an American. He's good too, but I like having a single reader narrate a series.
Much Better Than I Remember
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My least favorite movie, book was better.
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Good
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Much better than the film.
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Ripley has been ended
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