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Original Title:	Alien
ISBN:	2290011150 (ISBN13: 9782290011157)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Alien Movie Novelizations #1, Alien Chronological Order #2
Characters:	Ellen Ripley

Alien (Alien Movie Novelizations #1)

Alan Dean Foster

Paperback | Pages: 270 pages

Rating: 4.09 | 17083 Users | 419 Reviews

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Title	:	Alien (Alien Movie Novelizations #1)
Author	:	Alan Dean Foster
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 270 pages
Published	:	March 29th 1979 by Grand Central Publishing (first published 1979)
Categories	:	Science Fiction. Horror. Fiction. Aliens

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Greatest book in the whole frickin' universe!!! (of course, having read it over 30 years ago this won't be a highly detailed review...)

Now,I was 11 years old when Alien came out. My mom wouldn't let me see R-rated flicks at the time and most older friends & cousins were afraid of my mother so they wouldn't take me either. I couldn't fathom such a cruel existence - a Monster-Movie junkie being denied access to the latest, and possibly greatest, creature flick of all time. Torture. When some hair-lipped usher nabbed me trying to sneak into a matinee showing at the Lincoln Mall I still refused to accept defeat. But I had to take a new tack.

Not too far down the hall from the cinemas was Walden Books, one of my favorite loitering spots; even got locked in the store one night while sitting on my ass reading stuff. Walden's had the next best thing to a 16mm reel of Alien: a whole section devoted to print paraphernalia of Alien.* They had one hell of a licensing juggernaut for a movie kids weren't supposed to see on their own. Action figures, trading cards, playing cards, comic books, posters, pop-up books, place mats, picture books and one novel (written after the fact). Those last two got me as close as I ever was going to get to the movie until it came out on VHS (which would be contingent on ma getting us a VCR...)

I gorged on the novel in a weekend and I pawed through the picture book in the store so many times I had a pretty good visual of Alien in my head when I decided to start lying to my sixth grade classmates and claim to have seen the movie. Of course, the book was a fleshed out, literary realization of Dan O'Bannon's, et al, screenplay. Which meant that it had events and dialog which didn't actually occur in the film. Which also meant I referenced "scenes" which kids who had actually seen the movie didn't remember.

Naturally this all led to puzzled looks and accusations that I hadn't seen Alien at all. Backed into a corner, I defended my falsehoods by accusing them of covering their eyes cause they were chicken; or that they were in the bathroom barfing during the scenes in question. Then I took a bus back to the Lincoln Mall cinemas, bought a ticket to some lame "Benji" sequel and took another stab at sneaking into Alien. Success this time - I was in!!! Forgot to pee, however, but there was no way I was going out to the restroom and risk not getting back in. When it was all over I felt like things were going to rupture out of me too. But I was going back to school on Monday with a rock solid impersonation of John Hurt hatching that space bug out of his chest.

As for the book itself - best literary experience I'd had at that point in life; even better than "How to Eat Fried Worms" or The Hardy Boys stuff.

*Walden Books was also where I first experienced the Rocky Horror Picture Show...

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4.7/5I'll keep this brief, as there really isn't much to say about this film or its novelization that hasn't been said already.Alan Dean Foster's novelization of Alien is top-tier. While I've only read maybe a dozen or so novelizations, I'd have to say that this one's among the strongest so far. The differences between the film and the novel are mostly minor, with a couple scenes that were omitted from the theatrical film or all versions of the film entirely. These "lost scenes" make the

If you ever want to see how much movie novelizations have changed in the last forty years, you can't go wrong with Alan Dean Foster's work. Pick up his adaptations of the most recent Star Trek movies and you'll find what is essentially just the script reformatted to prose form -- and not just any script, but the final draft continuity script. No deleted scenes, no character development based upon production notes, and certainly no original input from the author.But go back to the novelizations

It literally only got interesting on page 171...Tragic considering how great the movie is.



Worth a read, well, the first part at least. Out of 270 pages, the first half comprises of the first twenty minutes of the movie. And, to be honest, this is the best part of the book! Overall, the characters are far better developed in the movie and the alien itself isn't described at all (plus, we all know the plot), but the exploration of the alien ship is fantastic; it's intriguing and suspenseful. These scenes are almost from another story - there is a mystery and danger that I never felt

Greatest book in the whole frickin' universe!!! (of course, having read it over 30 years ago this won't be a highly detailed review...)Now,I was 11 years old when Alien came out. My mom wouldn't let me see R-rated flicks at the time and most older friends & cousins were afraid of my mother so they wouldn't take me either. I couldn't fathom such a cruel existence - a Monster-Movie junkie being denied access to the latest, and possibly greatest, creature flick of all time. Torture. When some

Edit- just re-watched the movie and it made me appreciate the book even moreGreat read for the fans, this one mostly fleshes out the crew of the Nostromo and doesn't add much else. My favorite part was the scene that took place from Jones the cats POV lol