Alien

The Official Movie Novelization

By: Alan Dean Foster

Narrated by: Peter Guinness

Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins

Publisher's summary

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

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.

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.

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” !

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.

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!

Amazing!

I love the Alien franchise, I’ve seen all of the movies and there have been some hit and Miss mostly the newer ones are bad but the the original 3 are classics and now that I get to listen to the books it’s amazing!

Wonderful

As a huge fan of Alien I loved hearing the early script format of the movie. A few differences between the novel and movie obviously, some are for the better. If you have any interest in hearing what could of been listen to this. Also look into the story behind the writing of this Novelization. It is interesting for sure. Also the dude who left a low score because the last hour is just an advertisement for Aliens needs to grow up and get over himself. Sorry you can't skip the last hour. Acting like they CUT segments to fit the advertisement. The story ends when the story ends regardless of an Ad. Looking at his review it's clear he doesn't know what a Novelization is and is infact, not a "Big Fan".

Old memories

I remember seeing this in the theater with my family. My brother talking my mother into allowing me a 6 year old to participate. He said it was “a space movie like StarWars.” Oh yeah, it was a space movie but nothing like StarWars. I didn’t become a fan of Alien until I was 8. By then I had realized there are monsters in the dark but they are not from space. I am such a fan, I have every single type of copies of VHS, DVD, and BlueRay. I even have an old beat up LP as well as an old beat up sleeve from an “LaserDisc!” I also have all the art books even the horrific dreams pertaining to Geigers art. Lego? Got it! 1/12 model? Got that too. Trust me, I love this franchise. Even the crappiness of the recents to III and IV. But the book saved the day for #3. Why am I blabbing like this about a book and linking in all my fandom? One reason, I honestly can’t stand the books of recent. The ones that claim to stay on canon. The ones that claim to care about the franchise. No, they don’t. I have listened to every single extensions the Alien franchise on Audible and I can tell you 90% are not for the fandom, and they are not for people that just want a scary story pertaining to the scariest franchise in history. That’s not just my opinion, FACT CHECKED. Well, there is that whole Jaws thing, but maybe the first. I can tell you as well, the new pile of “$4!7” that’s for sale or free, depending on your account preferences, is political woke garbage that’s about as scary as Chucky stalking Barbie at The Magic Kingdom. On a Wednesday nite. In the summer. And yes, I have listened to every one of them from beginning to end just so I hear every bit of garbage that others commented on. And honestly, I guarantee, these crap stories that get four or five stars across the board and only have a sentence or two that’s about as vague and boring as the expositions that makes up 75% of these horrifically written paperweights. So do yourself a favor and get Alien! Next Alien 3 is not bad. But, you can tell voiceovers by some of the original cast is a little hard to listen due to whom ever recorded that one didn’t have a de-esser. Yes it hurts sometimes but the story isn’t as bad as the rest.
Stepping off my soap box, now the reason to listen to this. It’s worth it. Tails the original and voiceover is good. This one follows the directors cut, somewhat, but still amazing. While your at it, follow it up with Aliens. Not tea bag! Naughty bag at all. Another actor from the main franchise lending his chops and yes he is a professional voiceover actor.
So there you go. The reasons to and to not listen to these books. I’m not even going to get into the most recent abomination that’s supposed to follow up to the new “ALIEN FireTeam!” Ugh! Just miss it. Fireteam not too bad…thus far! Did I mention I have all the original games from the franchise as well? Well, I don’t. I skipped a couple of recents just because they too were peppered with the same woke political crap that’s plagued everything. EVERYTHING!

just a great listen

the film and this recording were just about one and the same. loved the unnatural music set in at perfect timing for spine tingling effect.

Joe

Very will written and narrated. Looking forward to reading the next series of books.