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Alien 3

The Official Movie Novelization

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Alien 3

By: Alan Dean Foster
Narrated by: Peter Guinness
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About this listen

Fury 161 is a wretched planet - a penal colony and an industrial complex manned by violent prisoners. When an escape pod from the USS Sulaco crash-lands there, Ellen Ripley appears to be the only passenger left alive.

Then inmates begin to die, all at the hands of another survivor - a creature which encounters Ripley and spares her life! Desperate to know why, she seeks out an answer - and discovers terror unlike any she's ever known.

Science fiction master Alan Dean Foster returns to the Alien universe to reveal the ultimate destinies of Ellen Ripley and her eternal foe, the xenomorph known as the Alien.

©2014 Alan Dean Foster (P)2015 Audible, Ltd Adventure Fiction Genre Fiction Movie, TV & Video Game Tie-Ins Science Fiction Scary Funny

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It's nice to get that little bit of extra narrative to support the pictures in your head. Alan Dean Foster does a great job. I loved the phrase "Inimical simultaneity" very much.
Peter Guiness is particularly excellent narrating and a perfect choice as he played Gregor in the film. He has a wonderful voice and a beautiful rhythm. Perfect diction, I could listen to him reading the phone book.
I wonder how he felt narrating his own demise?

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I really enjoyed this, it's a good reproduction of the movie's storyline (the Assembly Cut version) with plenty of extra detail and good characterisations. Alan Dean Foster is a bit of a hack and some of his word choices are a bit, well, odd but Peter Guiness's narration is superb, absolutely spot on,

Suprisingly good

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The story feels a little on the thin side, compared to previous entries in the series. But, still enjoyable. It will be interesting to compare this to Alien III, the film that never was.

A little thinner

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I hate a lot of Alien3. It doesn't help it that I love Aliens. And my favourite character's role is, well, marginalised. No spoilers here.

But, the book makes a lot more sense as to why Paul McGann's character gets top billing in the film, as well as offering more of the motivations to what people are thinking.

That said, it does remind you that the two most interesting characters are removed from the plot too soon, and Ripley does feel a little bit of an afterthought until the finale, which feels a little bit undercooked compared to the screen.

Worth your time though.

Beats the film...

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As a long time fan of Alien 3, i've watched the movie dozens of times and read the book several times too, so naturally I was curious to see how the audiobook held up.
Overall, it was good - my only complaints are that some scenes did not have suitable pauses between them and that was a little jarring. Like a scene would end and the next would begin almost instantly without pause. Secondly, the narrator did not capture Ripley right - his version seemed too melodious an imitation.
Yet saying that, his narration of Superintendent Andrews was spot on, almost uncanny - so good and bad points there.
The story follows the 'Assembly Cut' version of the movie and overall does a good job of it. The bad points do not spoil the enjoyment of the listen enough to not recommend it. Try it. 😊

Stasis interrupted, fire in cryogenic compartment.

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