Alien Omnibus [Hardcover]

Alan Dean Foster (Author)

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• Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0446671320
• ISBN-13: 978-0446671323
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,647,496 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Alan Dean Foster's work to date includes excursions into hard science-fiction, fantasy, horror, detective, western, historical, and contemporary fiction. He has also written numerous non-fiction articles on film, science, and scuba diving, as well as having produced the novel versions of many films, including such well-known productions as "Star Wars", the first three "Alien" films, "Alien Nation", and "The Chronicles of Riddick". Other works include scripts for talking records, radio, computer games, and the story for the first "Star Trek" movie. His novel "Shadowkeep" was the first ever book adapation of an original computer game. In addition to publication in English his work has been translated into more than fifty languages and has won awards in Spain and Russia. His novel "Cyber Way" won the Southwest Book Award for Fiction in 1990, the first work of science-fiction ever to do so.

Foster's sometimes humorous, occasionally poignant, but always entertaining short fiction has appeared in all the major SF magazines as well as in original anthologies and several "Best of the Year" compendiums. His published oeuvre includes more than 100 books.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Enhance your enjoyment of the Alien movies., September 13, 1999

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This review is from: Alien Omnibus (Hardcover)

This omnibus contains very competent novelizations of the first three movies in the so-called Alien Saga. Fans of the movies should not have any serious objections to the small additions Foster makes, and I for one was amused by his (?) censoring of profane language (for example, in Aliens, Ripley's famous "Get away from her, you bitch!" is given as "Get away from her, you!"). In Alien 3 we are back to uninhibited language, including liberal use of the f-word, so go figure. Those who saw Alien 3 and were confused by the sequence in which the alien pursues various prisoners through various tunnels will find the written version easier to follow. By the way, Foster has also done an excellent version of John Carpenter's movie, The Thing.