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David McK (3731 KP) rated Alien: Sea of Sorrows in Books

Nov 20, 2019  
Alien: Sea of Sorrows
Alien: Sea of Sorrows
James A. Moore | 2019
6
7.0 (2 Ratings)
Book Rating
The second - although I read/listened to it third - in a new(ish) series of Canonical Alien stories, this one is set even further in the future than the previous entry (Alien: River of Pain) and follows a descendant of Ellen Ripley, Alan Decker, who is an empath and who is forced to join a team of mercenaries investigating a dig on the planet known as New Galveston: a dig that has unearthed something that is probably better left forgotten …

Yep, Weyland-Yutanio is at it again, sending in a team of unprepared and ill-advised soldiers (or, here, mercenaries) in an attempt to gather a 'specimen' alive: a team that, of course - with a few exceptions - finds itself completely outclassed by the Xenomorph, who are here shown to hold a particularly impressive millennial-old grudge against 'The Destroyer', one Ellen Ripley (or her descendants).
  
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Brian Raferty recommended The American Friend (1977) in Movies (curated)

 
The American Friend (1977)
The American Friend (1977)
1977 | Crime
8.0 (2 Ratings)
Movie Favorite

"A fantastic adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s captivating Ripley books, with the action shifting to New York City and Hamburg (both filmed beautifully by Repo Man’s Robby Müller). Come for the seventies-noir setting, the art-world intrigue, the cameos from the likes of Nicholas Ray; stay for the entertaining Wenders interviews on the Criterion edition, in which he regales us with how he managed to tame both Dennis Hopper and the late, great Bruno Ganz."

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David McK (3731 KP) rated Alien: River of Pain in Books

Jul 21, 2019  
Alien: River of Pain
Alien: River of Pain
Christopher Golden | 2019
7
8.0 (2 Ratings)
Book Rating
The second (or is it third? Audible has it 2nd, but I've also seen it called #3? Maybe 3rd produced, but 2nd set?) of - currently - 3 canon Alien novels, this takes part largely alongside the early parts of the movie Aliens, cutting back and forth between Ripley and the inhabitants of the colony of Hadley's Hope.

Remember I said alongside the start of Aliens? To put that into context, this is - largely - filling in the gaps in the movie, between the point at which Ripley's escape pod is picked up, and the arrival of the Marines (and Ripley, and Burke) to that colony, after all communication with it is lost. As such, there are several scenes in here which are lifted straight from that movie, with some - slightly - expanded upon.

It also gives a reason why Newt is the only survivor found hiding in the air-ducts ("They mostly come at night. Mostly"), why there's Alien Face-huggers in jars in the colony, why the marines are so hyped up when we first meet them in the film (they're just back from R&R), and even why Newt's family went out prospecting in the first place.

Worth a read/listen? Yes, although I have to say that there are elements of this that reminded me quite a bit of the 90s comic/novel "Aliens: Nightmare Asylum" - especially in some of the characters - and that it just seems weird, now, that the presence of Marines on the planetoid, pre Ripley and co, are never mentioned at all!