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Alien: Covenant

By: Alan Dean Foster
Narrated by: Tom Taylorson
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Summary

Ridley Scott returns to the universe he created with Alien: Covenant, a new chapter in his groundbreaking Alien adventure. The crew of the colony ship Covenant, bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, discovers what they think is an uncharted paradise. But it is actually a dark, dangerous world.

©2017 Alan Dean Foster (P)2017 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

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Great addition

After seeing the film twice and liking it much better the second time and understanding it better I couldn't wait for the book to come out knowing it would have more detail in there and I wasn't disappointed.

The book is eloquently written and it really did help me understand the pitfalls of the film much better, the book drew up as much suspense as the film and like a good book I couldn't put it down... or stop listening...

Narrated well I thought, some narrators leave you with a dull thumping headache but Tom Taylorson does it justice.

I just hope the saga continues....

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The Perfect Companion

Having been slightly disappointed by the rushed feel of the movie which seemed purely driven by visceral delights this brilliantly narrated and written audio book reedresses the balance to show just how brilliant the film might have been. I would highly recommend the audio book as the perfect companion. I would also add that it stands tall on its own merits. In short - Brilliant!

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Foster does great, but underlying film is awful

Great novel by Foster, however the bad parts from the film come through. Characters are paper thin, story feels like it was made up during filming. Ignores previouse films and does its best to destroy what made the Xenomorphs great.

Foster does his best to try and fix these issues. Like trying to explain how David built his Xenomorphs using what the engineers had done previously. Unlike the film who says he created them out of thin air because he was bored.

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Better than the film!

It's astounding to hear that with a few minor tweaks already present in the book, the movie could've been significantly better!
Minor but crucial details are in this novel that go a huge way towards explaining or allowing the listeners to be more forgiving of the incredible stupidity shown by many of the crew.
Also, clarifies some details about finding / creation of the xenomorph, which would've fit better with the existing franchise lore.

My only real issue is it is set less than 100 years in the future, yet the writing is as if it was thousands of years. Conversations about "ancient" geographical boundaries in respects to countries today. Another bit has to explain what cheese was! Sorry, these people know about classical music, drink liqueur and know John Denver, but don't know what cheese was or that the Earth was made up of countries less than a hundred years ago!?! - ridiculous

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An Improvement on the Film!

I really enjoyed this book which was superbly performed by Tom Taylorson. The film was something of a disappointment, but this version fleshes out the story more so that some, not all, elements are improved upon and make more sense.

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Good book, terrible voice actor

Enjoyed the book although the voice actors female voices are horrendous!! seriously terrible!!! Made me cringe!

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Only get it if you want the whole Aliens series

This is really quite a bad audiobook. I will try to explain why without spoilers.

Story: Even though this is the first (second if you count origins) Aliens book, it came out very late in the series/movie series. Because of that, it tries to explain how the xenomorphs came about. With that, it kind of ruins/spoils the threat and mystique of the rest of the series. I say 'ruin', because it is much less scary than whatever you imagine it may be when you first saw the Aliens movie, or heard any of the later books & audiodramas in the series. It is just a run of the mill technology runs amuck origins story. Second, this is already a very short book, but the first 3 hours nothing really happens. They are spend trying to describe the human characters and their relationships. Since this is the Aliens series and none of them are called Ripley, you know they are expandable anyway. So does it really matter who they are and what their motivations may be? The characterizations themselves are bad. It is mostly descriptive: 'This is the hardass one, she was the smart one, and so on. None of the characters except maybe Daniels are sympathetic, all seem incredible incompetent and willfully obtuse. Some are downright dumb. It is just not a fun bunch to get to know. Why care about them? Why not spend those first 3 hours upping the tension and scare-factor instead of telling us about unpleasant people? There is just no adrenaline. The strength of the Aliens series is humans trying to escape, fighting a monster. Not how a particular group of people dislikes their coworkers and other petty things. Also, every plot twist is telegraphed a mile in advance, including the last, final 'shocker'. If you didn't see that one coming, you must be equally dense as some of the characters in this book.

Narration: The narrator has a pleasant reading voice, and I would happily read any regular audiobook narrated by him. But, he has two major flaws in this one. One: he can not do women's voices properly, and two; he can not do screaming people well. In both cases, he pitches his voice in a really strange, high, affected way. It sounds downright weird, kind of comical. Because most of the dialogue in the later scenes is people screaming at each other (yelling instructions, screaming that there is a monster behind the other one) it really spoils the tension and atmosphere. With both genders it just sounds like monty phyton women in a sketch yelling "spam spam spam". In the beginning of the book it is not so noticeable yet, but it really starts to grate after a while. He tries to restrain his voice so that it is not too loud, but it just sounds like spoken high pitched cartoon shrieks. The action sequences are ruined for me because of that.

Why still get this book? If it is on sale, and you are a completionist. If you start with the entire series, I would advise you to start with book 3 (based on the first movie), work to the end, and THEN read book 1 (origins) and 2 (convenant). But honestly, I could have done without this.

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Dreadful - Narrated by a synthetic

The narrator (Tom Taylorson) sounds like a robot. Reminds me of the voice program for the Amiga 500.

Avoid.

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interesting story but v/o cannot do female voices

as about voice over artist's female voices border on annoying sometimes but otherwise a good listen

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Watch the movie! This book will disappoint!

The story was essentially the same as the movie.

The Character voices where pretty awful and laughable especially when doing a female character

I would have been happy not to have listened to this.

If you have seen the movie and where hoping for some little extra snippets to fill in the blanks or expand the story I wouldn't bother with this book!

It does not feel as grand, or scenic as the film, and fails to capture the actual horror of being stranded on a planet of stuck on a ship with an alien creature.

Disappointing!

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