Alien - Alien 3: The Unproduced Screenplay by William Gibson
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4.0 • 5 Ratings
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Publisher Description
The first-draft Alien screenplay by William Gibson, the founder of cyberpunk, turned into a novel by Pat Cadigan, the Hugo Award-Winning "Queen of Cyberpunk."
Winner of the Scribe Award for best adapted novel.
The Sulaco—on its return journey from LV-426—enters a sector controlled by the "Union of Progressive Peoples," a nation-state engaged in an ongoing cold war and arms race. U.P.P. personnel board the Sulaco and find hypersleep tubes with Ripley, Newt, and an injured Hicks. A Facehugger attacks the lead commando, and the others narrowly escape, taking what remains of Bishop with them.
The Sulaco continues to Anchorpoint, a space station and military installation the size of a small moon, where it falls under control of the military's Weapons Division. Boarding the Sulaco, a team of Colonial Marines and scientists is assaulted by a pair of Xenomorph drones. In the fight Ripley's cryotube is badly damaged. It's taken aboard Anchorpoint, where Ripley is kept comatose. Newt and an injured Corporal Hicks are awakened, and Newt is sent to Gateway Station on the way to Earth. The U.P.P. sends Bishop to Anchorpoint, where Hicks begins to hear rumors of experimentation—the cloning and genetic modification of Xenomorphs.
The kind of experimentation that could yield a monstrous hybrid, and perhaps even a Queen.
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Customer Reviews
A bit long
Whilst it’s very intriguing to read a completely alternate take on Alien 3 that has Cold War elements, changes how the Alien life cycle works and focuses on characters other than Ripley, this book was extremely long.
It introduces so many characters that become our main team that it’s very difficult to keep remembering who everyone is sometimes, apart from Hicks, Bishop and members of the UPP, the handful of survivors all blended into one for me. I couldn’t tell who was dying or who was still alive
Very enjoyable and original in the setting and style, at the start I was getting heavily invested into characters that got killed off by the half way point, my bad.
The constant callbacks to Alien got a bit tedious as the book went on though. Especially from Hicks and Bishops perspective, Ripley one said this, Apone said that and Hudson would have said; blah blah
I’d rather be focused on the here and now
I guess I expected more from all the hype this gets