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Alien: Prototype
- The Alien™ Series, Book 7
- Narrated by: Sarah Mollo-Christensen
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
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Summary
When an industrial spy steals a Xenomorph egg, former Colonial Marine Zula Hendricks must prevent an alien from killing everyone on an isolated colony planet.
Venture, a direct rival to the Weyland-Yutani corporation, will accept any risk to crush the competition. Thus, when a corporate spy "acquires" a bizarre, leathery egg from a hijacked vessel, she takes it directly to the Venture testing facility on Jericho 3.
Though unaware of the danger it poses, the scientists there recognize their prize's immeasurable value. Early tests reveal little, however, and they come to an inevitable conclusion. They need a human test subject....
Enter Zula Hendricks.
A member of the Jericho 3 security staff, Colonial Marines veteran Zula Hendricks has been tasked with training personnel to deal with anything the treacherous planet can throw their way. Yet nothing can prepare them for the horror that appears - a creature more hideous than any Zula has encountered before.
Unless stopped, it will kill every human being on the planet.
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- James
- 01-12-19
(sigh) Oh dear! Fox always has to push it too far!
There is some interesting concepts here, like the Xenomorph inheriting viral traits from it's virus-carrying host. In this case creating the deadlier Necromorph. That's as much positive feedback as I can give unfortunately.
Sarah Mollo-Christensen is a good narrator, with a good range of character voices, if not a little exaggerated at times. Ultimately, she has to work with what she's got!
On it's own, Alien: Prototype is OK at best (& that's being very kind). Unfortunately, it fits so awkwardly with the wider canon of the Alien Universe, I found it impossible to like. Let me explain.....
I LOVE Alien and its lore. When I heard about Out of Shadows, that it had Ripley as a main character and sat between the Alien and Aliens movies, I was horrified (for all the wrong reasons). Then, I listened to it and was delighted to find that it fit neatly and plausibly in with the established canon. GREAT WORK TEAM - very well done!!!
I had a similar experience with the Alien: Isolation game, which features Ripley's daughter Amanda, also encountering the Xenomorph between Alien and Aliens. Again, it was actually a great story and the gameplay terrified me for all the right reasons. The audiobook isn't a patch on the game, but I was glad it was made to allow non-gamers to know Amanda's story and how it fits so well with the movie canon! INCREDIBLE TEAM - you've achieved the impossible not once, but twice, adding 2 new chapters to the Alien story between the first two movies!
But, of course, Fox can't be happy with that success and greed takes over. And here's where it starts to come apart. Fox starts trying to shoehorn an entire series of Xenomorph encounters for Amanda and friends whilst Ripley sleeps in deep space - and it's clumsy, non-sensical and I absolutely HATE it for the following reasons:
1. The Alien: Isolation audiobook (also narrated by Sarah Mollo-Christensen) introduces a friend of Amanda Ripley's called Zula Hendricks. She is a flashback character and therefore not involved with the Xenomorph encounter at all.
2. I only listen to the Alien audiobook series, so whilst I am aware Zula later appears in a comic book series called Alien: Defiance, set after Isolation, I haven't read it and there is no explanation how Zula goes from a bit part in Amanda's story to Xenomorph-battling veteran in this dreadful tale!
3. The understanding of HOW the scientists actually got hold of a Xenomorph egg is not explained at all and the inclusion of Zula in the story seems to infer that she encounters the Xenomorph again purely by chance! Which is utterly preposterous.
4. The fact other companies besides Weyland Yutani are aware and somehow have access to Xenomorph eggs, just makes a mockery of the original movie lore.
I have more, but these are my main reasons for hating this book - if you are an Alien fan, pretend this, and any other book staring Zula Hendricks as a poor Ripley stand-in, doesn't exist - check out Alien: Cold Forge instead, which sensibly picks up after Aliens, with no ridiculous or tenuous links to the Ripley family. It has incredible characters and is an awesome story in its own right, not a poor attempt to bolt onto better material like this trash.
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- Wibble
- 02-11-19
What the actual, Audible?
Yet another mono Alien book inexplicably encoded at 128kbps, resulting in a frankly unnecessarily massive half a gigabyte file, whilst the Alien audio dramas, Out of the Shadows and River of Pain, which actually would benefit from a higher bit-rate languish at a miserable sounding 64kbps.
Audible would appear to have no concept of what kind of content actually benefits from better quality. I despair.
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- Alex
- 05-11-19
Best Alien audiobook so far!
Brilliantly read!
Great descriptive writing.
Found it very easy to listen to and immerse myself in the story.
Genuinely the best Alien book so far!
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- Tw1990
- 31-10-19
pleaseeee do not buy this book
author was horrible i have him one more chance as i am a fan of alien and after the book alien isolation i promised myself not to buy another book. but i did and omg it was so bad. hardly any action all boring story and the narrator voice is tiring. DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK!!!!
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- David Cardiff
- 02-12-19
Slightly under par story for the series
In terms of the Aliens book series this for me would be on the lower side of the scale in terms of story. It has all the usual tropes of the Aliens franchise but I really felt that a lot was being left unsaid, I never really got a clear picture of The Lodge and felt that a lot of its locations were under used.
I also never got a clear understanding of how many people were still left alive by the end of the book and therefore didn't really know how bad the situation in the story had got.
I felt that character development was started and then abruptly stopped before I could get a sense of the antagonists and protagonists overall. Without spoiling the story I think one of the main antagonists really should have been a constant pressure on top of the Necromorph.
Overall it was ok, no where near the quality of the Cold Forge and others but still worth a punt if you're a fan of the Aliens series.
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- Skarinou
- 18-01-20
Worst Alien Book ever
Good narration but the story is poorly written and laid out, compared to most of the others in the series, this one is awful, don't waste your credits or money
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- faseli
- 14-12-19
Get some Dark Horse comic back issues instead.
The story is by far the least engaging of these Alien side stories. Not particularly original and there are inconsistencies with known Alien law....well maybe they aren't that well known. Also there are segments that are from the Alien POV, and no I didn't appreciate them.
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- Amazon Customer
- 01-01-20
okay
fairly good but found story and delivery a bit laborious and lacking in dynamics and depth.
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- Sega Head
- 12-12-19
Necromorph?
The first half is really well done but then they start throwing around the name Necromorph for the new alien.... THIS IS NOT DEAD SPACE!!!
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- Kareem
- 05-11-19
A good story with some new twists
A long time Aliens lover and I've read them all. really enjoyed this story and was a nice surprise how the story evolved and just how utterly lethal the necronorph was in the tale.
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