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Alien: Resurrection - The Novelization [Mass Market Paperback]

A. C. Crispin (Author), Joss Whedon (Author)
4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)


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Seafort Saga December 1, 1997
At the farthest reaches of the solar system, Ellen Ripley awakens on board the space station "Auriga". Her last memory is of her own fiery death. And yet she is somehow alive. Ripley discovers that her "resurrection" is a result of an incredible experiment which has altered both her and the creature she has been carrying. To combat the incalculable alien menace, she teams up with a renegade band of space smugglers.

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  • Mass Market Paperback: 276 pages
  • Publisher: Aspect (December 1, 1997)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0446602299
  • ISBN-13: 978-0446602297
  • Product Dimensions: 4.2 x 0.8 x 6.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 4.6 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #665,068 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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HOW TO FIND ME:
My web page is www.accrispin.com
My blog is http://accrispin.blogspot.com/ - it's actually Writer Beware's blog.

My Facebook page is A.C. Crispin -- look me up! I enjoy interacting with my readers.

My Twitter address is @anncrispin. I tweet about pirate facts, writing tips, and reports on my booksignings and appearances.

ABOUT ME:

Hi, Amazon.com readers! I'm Ann Crispin, aka A.C. Crispin.

Seasons Greetings! StarBridge is now available on Kindle!

My holiday "present" to everyone is that the StarBridge Series is finally going to be available as electronic editions! Over the past five or six years, I've gotten dozens of requests from my readers who have wanted to complete their collection of StarBridge books by reading them on their e-readers.

Now, thanks to Ridan Publishing, StarBridge, Book One is available in all major e-book formats on the Ridan website and right here on Amazon.com for the Kindle. The first three StarBridge Books, StarBridge, Silent Dances, and Shadow World, will be out before the Christmas holiday, and the remaining four, Serpent's Gift, Silent Songs, Ancestor's World, and Voices of Chaos will be following early in the New Year.

I can't tell you how thrilled I am about this. StarBridge has always been near and dear to my heart.

If the e-editions do well, there may be MORE StarBridge adventures to come...I'm talking brand-new, original stories. So please...check them out!


Also, still available if my Pirates of the Caribbean prequel book, The Price of Freedom. Not to make to big a deal of it, but the hardcover would make a heck of a good present for any fan of PotC. Remember, books keep on giving long after the holidays are over.

The Price of Freedom is the first full-length novel written in the Pirates of the Caribbean universe aimed at adult readers. It's a prequel to the POTC films, and tells how Jack Sparrow first became Captain Jack Sparrow. It tells how he first encountered Cutler Beckett and Hector Barbossa, and why he left Shipwreck Cove. Jack also meets some unusual ladies in the book. And, since it's a Pirates of the Caribbean story, there's also treasure and magic!

The Price of Freedom is available in both hardcover and Kindle versions. If you're familiar with my other books, I've done for Jack Sparrow what I did for Han Solo and Sarek --this novel is his backstory.

Check out that cover art. Neat, huh? You can get a closer look on my website. You can also read five excerpts from the book there. Here's the link:

http://www.accrispin.com/projectp.htm

My interests? Books, reading, writing, pirates, Pirates of the Caribbean (natch!) and helping aspiring writers avoid writing scams. I'm the Chair of SFWA's Writer Beware -- www.writerbeware.com -- and if you're an aspiring author, you really should visit our website. There are lots of hungry sharks out there on the internet these days, posing as literary agents and publishers. Getting published is hard enough these days, without getting ripped off while trying. Writer Beware is free, we're all volunteers. Come check us out, and you can avoid the scam literary agents and publishers that want to separate you from your hard-earned money.

I'll be checking back to this page, so if you have questions, post them, and I'll reply as soon as I can.

-Ann C. Crispin




 

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars An above average novelization, but flawed, October 14, 2003
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This review is from: Alien: Resurrection - The Novelization (Mass Market Paperback)
Most novelizations of films are little more than breathless descriptions of what happened on screen. They had more of a place years ago when people did automatically buy videos or DVDs, and once your favorite film left the cineplex, you might not see it again for years...so the novelization would let you "relive" the film. That's not necessary anymore, so the only function they can have is to fill-in information that might have been left on the cutting room floor.

A.C. Crispin makes a sincere effort with "Alien Resurrection", and it doesn't read too badly. It does fall short of a real novel in it's dramatic structure and characterization. She makes a token attempt to fill in backgrounds, even first names, for characters who in the film often are killed off before we get a chance to know them. (Personally, I think this is a flaw in the movie, as we can't possibly care about the death of a character we have barely been introduced to.)

Since the novelization came out at virtually the same time as the film was released, I am guessing that it had to be written before viewing the finished film and that it is largely based on older versions of the script and maybe rough cuts of the movie. There are numerous deviations from the finished film, none of them cosmically important but if you enjoy certain bits of dialogue -- especially some of the very humorous throw-away lines -- it is disconcerting to see them stated differently or clipped or just dropped entirely.

What I was hoping for WAS that the novelization would fill in some of the critical information gaps in the film -- especially Call's motivation in joining the smuggler crew of the Betty and heading out to the Auriga to destroy the alien breeding experiment. This is confusingly told in the film. If Call is so concerned about the Betty crew, why doesn't she do something to prevent them from ever kidnapping the cryo-sleepers BEFORE they reach the Auriga? Why does she allow all the cryo-sleepers to be impregated and killed? Wouldn't it have been simpler for her to have joined the crew of the Auriga and sabotaged the experiement from within the military? Anyways, I will have to live with the ambivalence (or Joss Whedon's slightly wobbly, undercooked script) because the novelization provides no real answers.

Still, most novelizations I have read are complete and utter dreck and this one definitely is not. I think it's a serious attempt to create a companion piece to the film. I just wish the author had stuck with the details a little more clearly.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The Best of The Best, August 31, 2000
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"crutchesb" (KILLEEN, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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I have to agree with the majority of the people.This is an excellent book.My goodness it tops the movie 100%.To be in the minds of the aliens was chilling.I was so sad when the book ended.It's good to see people enjoying it as much as I did.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Great read, December 16, 1997
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This review is from: Alien: Resurrection - The Novelization (Mass Market Paperback)
I can only reiterate what has already been written . This is a great novelisation . His intertwining of aspects of previous movies was fantastic. I loved Sigourney Weavers characterization of Ripley in Resurrection and I probably enjoyed it more after reading subtext that is included in this book. Her performance seemed even more on target and it was perfect to begin with . This book is a must read for fans of the series. Intelligently written . It's based on Joss Whedons screenplay , but Crispin makes it feel original.
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