Aliens

The Official Movie Novelization

By: Alan Dean Foster

Narrated by: William Hope

Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins

Publisher's summary

Returned to Earth, Ellen Ripley learns that a colony has been established on LV-426, the planet where the crew of the Nostromo found the original Alien.

But contact with the colonists has been lost, so she must accompany a unit of colonial marines to discover their fate. And to destroy any Aliens found on the planet known as Acheron.

This is a groundbreaking sequel by science fiction legend Alan Dean Foster, with the wonderful characters and rapid-fire action that make Aliens one of the greatest science fiction films of all time.

©2014 Alan Dean Foster (P)2015 Audible, Ltd

Book & film almost identical to one another

The film fallowed the book quite well I'll say I liked it my self

loved it

loved it one of my favorite books will read again in the future 😀 😊

Wtf

No swear words! That was the only disappointing thing about it! It made the story!!

Good Listen

Solid 3.5. First, it is oddly bizarre that the thought it necessary to cut out all of the profanity considering both the movie and other novelizations are riddled with it. It helped humanize the characters and gives morseverity to the situation. It was also weridly distracting.

Once you get oast that, it eas a prety decent regurgitation of the film with some bonus background and interactions with the protagonists.

This wasn't a bad listen at all. It got me through my first quiet afternoon in a long while.

A Personal Fave,Read by Lt. Gorman no less…lol!

I have a Leof this Universe 1st of all.1st Time I saw H.R. Giger’s Brilliant Masterpiece Book of Artwork “The Necronomicon”I was blown awayIf I catch word of any Artistic Xenomorphic Endeavors in the Proverbial Pipeline. I will rabidly devour any quotes worth of scrap usually just hoping it’ll be enough to not distinguish but maybe Tamper the 5-Alarm Blaze that began Long Ago as A 5Yr. Old Child who Fell madly in Love w/Sci-Fi & Horror Film’s(I have a similar affinity for Michael Myers dat began @4or5yrs. old. I still do actually..lol!)Btw,Don’t say Your Mother must’ve been terrible or sum Crap like dat bc She’s Hr8 & didn’t allow Me 2 watch the film’s (in her presence..heh)Said She saw me Hidden behind a Slat backed Chair Watching Halloween thru said Slats!She turned it of & returned 2 the kitchen.(5min later)She came back & Halloween was Back on the Tele & 4-5yr old Sean is behind the slat back chair enthralled but obviously feeling just safe enough the Me.Myers or Giger’s Bio-Mechanical Nightmare’s Couldn’t Hirt me Through My giant Slat backed Chair!lol! Fun story that My Mum tells every prospective GF she’s ever Met.Point of my oversharing is to point out exactly how Deep It goes into the O’Bannon-Universe 4 Me. I will read&/or wtach Anything/Everything released! But Mr.Dean Foster’s books are Truly Fantastic Additions that Helped in Fleshing out the Lore of the Alien otself & the Human Animals that are as Equally Predatory as said Alien ever has been.So Mr. Fosters Novelizations are Roughly the Green-lit Shooting Script,As I said Fleshed out quite a bit more though which imo makes it better for a Human like Myself who’s Imagination is so overwhelming and not too gr8 @ shutting itself down.So the more Details about The Aliens & the Company & the relationships to the Cybernetic Science Officer whose honestly just as Shady as Any Humans that work @ Billion$ Manipu-Tech Corporations.So bottom line Great Novelization that adds something to the Stories As Well!!Plus,Lt. Gorman of The “Aliens Nest-The Lt. Freezes scene.“Apone talk to me?”William Hope is imo better doing his Multiple Variations on his Own Voice then he is in any Film I’ve seen him in,Just Great Stuff imo!! Give it a try,Do it…Do it..

Rock n' Roll... Nostalgia for Fans of the Movies

In space, no one can hear you scream... On LV-426 there is plenty of that going on, plus pulse weapons, motion sensing trackers (one sound the movie uses dramatically well), smart guns, scampering of the spider-like alien parasites, & always entertaining banter between space marines. Similar to 'The Force Awakens' & novelizations they produce a few small twists & differences mainly due to readers ability to read/hear the characters own thoughts or additional descriptive depth. This book follows that route but for me 'Aliens' is a classic movie that helped sci-fi with its believable E.T. & viscerally terrorizing way these creatures produce young... The 1st movie had me grabbing my abdominal area reflexively for weeks after. But here, in this 2nd installment the reader see's what a platoon of hardened marines fare in a close encounter. Much more action, diff. Interactions between characters including Ripleys development, & consideration of the 'bigger picture'... What if a ship with a bunch of eggs survived a crash onto earth? Like the movie, the book is one you keep around to review for fun every so often! Well worth the credit if your a fan of franchise.

The real director's cut

If you liked the movie, you'll love this. Great background on colonists and marines. Fun!

It's PG-13 Aliens. No harsh language.

It's adds to the story and it's really faithful to the movie but it doesn't have any of the cursing like the original.

great story

I iwish they did this book like the others with multiple characters voices but overall it's still a great listen. fills in some parts that are not in the movie

Awesome performance of an awesome novel

Aliens is probably my favorite movie, and I read the book too, so I thought I knew what to expect. But William Hope's reading brings a range and color that adds a whole extra layer, even if you know the story already inside and out. He is not only an excellent actor (something that we could see little of, when he portrayed Gorman in the movie), but makes fun and quite accurate impressions of some of the characters, especially Bishop and Hicks. Also drinking game for you: have a shot when the word "instrumentation" is used... I never realized how much Foster loved this phrase. This audiobook is a must have for every Alien fan.