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Alien: Isolation

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The action-packed official adaptation of Alien: Isolation and a revealing look into the lives of Ellen Ripley and her daughter, Amanda Ripley.

The product of a troubled and violent youth, Amanda Ripley is hellbent to discover what happened to her missing mother, Ellen Ripley. She accepts an assignment with a Weyland-Yutani team being sent to retrieve the Nostromo flight recorder from space station Sevastopol, which they find out of control due to a Xenomorph that was brought there with the recorder. A conspiracy unfolds, revealing ever greater threats - including an entire Xenomorph hive. Over the course of the novel, Amanda’s history is revealed beginning with her childhood. Her father Alex’s battle with alcoholism caused her mother, Ellen Ripley, to sue for divorce. Ellen was forced to take off-world assignments, ultimately leading to her assignment aboard the Nostromo. Left behind, Amanda became determined to find out what happened to her mother, learning more and more about Ellen and the events that led up to her disappearance. Along the way, Amanda develops a fast friendship with Colonial Marine Zula Hendricks (from the Alien: Defiance Dark Horse series).

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lots of familiar twists and turns. hidden company agendas are people screwing eachother over for a god damnit percentage.

great book. thoroughly enjoyed it.

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Alien Isolation (the game, released in 2014) was and remains the most faithful and successful game-based interpretation of the world of the alien movies, specifically the 1979 original, with some fantastic world-building and genuine tension. The adaptation here is faithful to the story beats of the game, but fails to really drive home what made them memorable in the first place. The reading is decent. The story is most effective when filling in on the characterisation of the Ripley family prior to the events of Alien (1979). These flesh out what would other be rather cliche and perfunctory retellings of characters that are, inevitably, secondary to gameplay.

Faithful to a fault but lacks atmosphere

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Great story - I'm too chicken to play the game (which looks great but for me too scary!) so I love that they've done a high quality novelisation so us Alienverse fans can stay in the loop with the story of Amanda Ripley. Even better, it's available as an audiobook with a great performance. Go grab it, folks!

Great stuff!!

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Most of the best parts of the story are overlooked but I did enjoy the back story into Amanda.

Play the game

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Story was good, narrated well (could listen to her all night)0, although needs better variety of accents.

One of the better ones

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