Alien

The Official Movie Novelization

By: Alan Dean Foster

Narrated by: Peter Guinness

Alan Dean Foster is the acclaimed author of movie tie-ins for Star Wars, Alien and Transformers. He was awarded the IAMTW Grand Master Scribe Award in 2008. He is also a best-selling science fiction and fantasy author in his own right, including the popular Pip & Flinx novels and the Founding of the Commonwealth series.

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

Peter Guinness rules

Guinness makes this audiobook a proper pleasure to listen to. Foster's language is rich. The book is not as brilliant as the filmatization, but Guinness really brings it to life. Pure chilling joy.

Good to refresh the movie

I love this Alien series and I've watched the movie several time. This book is practically like living the story another time.

I definitely prefer the audible originals made with sounds and different voices though.

In space, no one can hear you cheering

Enriches the movie wonderfully. Beautifully well-written and answers questions the film doesn't have time for.

Wordy

I like the subject matter and the storyline, but there’s too much explanation and description. It takes away from the telling of the story. The movie had the right amount of “Wordiness” !

Great novelization of the first Alien movie

This is my 4th Alien book and I loved it. This is a novelization of the first movie, which I haven't seen since around the time it came out. The story still shocks. We get sucked into the characters, some of which you might like more than others. I did scream a few times and got scared even when I remembered the basics of what happened.

The narration seemed a little flat in the beginning, but I felt that it lent itself to the action of the book. The narrator's sometimes very calm demeanor was good as a backdrop to the terrors that were about to happen. I plan to listen to a lot more of the Alien books. If you're listening I suggest "Alien: Out of the Shadows" by Tim Lebbon. That book was dramatized and scared the bejesus out of me. It's my favorite so far, and this is my second favorite. It really holds up after all these years!