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Alien 3
- The Official Movie Novelization
- Narrated by: Peter Guinness
- Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
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Summary
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.
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- JRo
- 28-12-22
Better then the film I think
I thought this was better then the film as there were aspects in this audiobook that wasn’t in the film.
These extra parts explained a number of holes in the film and made it a better listen to.
If you’ve seen the film then listen to this and it’ll explain a number of things.
Good listen
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- Fin
- 29-06-21
Big time Alien Fan Here
Yep…. You literally couldn’t ask for more from this. It’s the movie novelised. Great narrator, some bits are slightly fleshed out. Really enjoyed it. Will definitely listen again.
There are some Alien novels I wasn’t a fan of but this isn’t one of them.
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- Bob
- 16-03-21
Great retelling of the Film.
I always liked Alien 3, but the dodgy effects in places do distract from the tension the film tries to build. Audio book may be the best way to enjoy this story.
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- Adam Smith
- 15-07-19
loved it
really enjoying listening to all the alien audiobooks keep me wanting to read more and looking forward to the next instalment and more of them including crossovers
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- Toadjuggler
- 04-06-17
Suprisingly good
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,
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- dee
- 18-09-20
Tense and exciting!
This is based on the Alien 3 screenplay, so no real surprises, but it is still exciting.
The narrator struggled with Ripley's voice and when attempting male US voices. However, he was ok when sticking to a variety of male English voices.
I enjoyed this, but not much as the dramatised Alien stories on Audible.
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- Dr Craig Morley, MBBS, PhD
- 17-01-22
A good deal better than the film
This novelization of the film surpasses it by a great deal. Although Aliens 3 is considered a less than stellar sequel to the first two films, the book is much improved. In the book we get to see much more of the prison operations and the stories of the prisoners themselves. This as well as the details of their lives and the religion of 'the brothers' makes much more sense in the book than the film where it seems more trite. I think this is one of those times where one should read the book and then watch the film, if you want to watch the film. This is one book where you could skip the film if you wanted to.
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- Tim
- 17-05-22
a better audio book than a film.
a good listen! the story makes a far better audio book than the film was.
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- Anonymous User
- 11-12-22
Good adaptation
This was a decent adaptation, as with most alien books, I find the interaction with the humans more interesting than the action with the alien. This book did a good job of describing the 'world' and broadening the perspective.
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- Lupine 99
- 29-10-19
Stasis interrupted, fire in cryogenic compartment.
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. 😊
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