An omnibus edition of Alan Dean Foster's Alien science-fiction trilogy. While a computer guides their space tug, the crew of seven humans sleep - until scanners pick up a distress call from a remote dead planet. All the technology of the future cannot shield them from the nightmare of today.
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Alan Dean Foster is the author of many SF adventures, the Spellsinger fantasy series and a number of film and TV tie-ins - including the hugely popular Alien novelizations.
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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.
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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Must-have item for the hardcore fan and very good reading for the average,
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This book contains the novelizations of the three first movies, all written by Alan Dean Foster (not as I first thought that the book of "Alien" came first than the movie). "Alien", was not 'based on the screeplay by...' (meaning that is based upon the story, but not the film) as the other two, being a little different from what the movie is. "Aliens" and "Alien 3" are based upon the movie, in spite of that the third one actualy is a little different from the movie itself in some aspects (for example, the alien in this novelizations does not offspring from a dog), resulting that "Aliens" is the one most very loyal to the movie.
This book is a must have for the hardcore fan of "Aliens", since it goes around other aspects that would be difficult to show in the films. It is also a great reading for the average fan, since Alan Dean Foster is such a talented writer. And besides, are three books in one.
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