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Alan Dean Foster is the acclaimed author of movie tie-ins for Star Wars, Alien and Transformers. He was awarded the IAMTW Grand Master Scribe Award in 2008. He is also a best-selling science fiction and fantasy author in his own right, including the popular Pip & Flinx novels and the Founding of the Commonwealth series.
- Sales Rank: #8835 in Audible
- Published on: 2015-12-10
- Released on: 2015-12-10
- Format: Unabridged
- Original language: English
- Running time: 548 minutes
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26 of 28 people found the following review helpful.
Better than I feared, worse than I'd hoped
By Ana Mardoll
Alien (Film Novelization) / 0-446-82977-3
The film novelization of "Alien" is pleasantly well-written from a technical standpoint; the book possesses correct spelling, grammar, and punctuation, which cannot always be said for film novelizations. The characters are largely true to their counterparts in the movie, and both the expanded dialogue and the internal thoughts of the crew have a ring of the genuine to them.
This novelization was apparently based on an extremely early transcript of the screenplay and there are several noticeable differences between the film and the book, which is slightly disappointing if you read film novelizations as a companion to flesh out the film more fully. Most notably, the dead alien with the chest-burst rib cage is missing - a very jarring omission which had me flipping back and forth, wondering where it had got to - and a great deal of the final plot with Ash's betrayal is different, with Ash deliberately and openly interceding to save the alien from being shot out an airlock.
Even considering the omissions, there is a great deal here for fans of the movie to enjoy. The alien facehugger is described very nicely, with frequent allusions to its 'skeletal hand' appearance. (The final form of the alien is described almost not at all, however, presumably due to vagueness in the written screenplay.) The internal thoughts of the crew are fleshed out nicely, with a particular emphasis on Ripley of course, but with flourishes that greatly humanize Dallas and Parker in particular. There is foreshadowing of Kane's ultimate demise, with a mysterious black 'blotch' on the medical scanner over Kane's lungs, and Ash explains how the Company had known that the alien was there (having picked up and translated the warning via long-range scans), and had substituted Ash for the previous science officer right before the Nostromo's regularly scheduled trip, in the hopes that they would pick up an alien and 'accidentally' bring it back to Earth, bypassing the questions and quarantines that a direct mission would have generated. There is also a very nice included scene that was eventually (and in my opinion, unfortunately) cut from the film, where Ripley discovers a cocooned Brett and Dallas, and is forced to euthanize her former friend.
The most disappointing aspect of this book, however, is that the pacing is excessively slow and dull, particularly in the beginning. Even the first few pages crawl painfully, as Foster "introduces" each cryo-sleeping crew member by describing their dreams and discussing whether they would be candidates for 'professional dreamers' and whether their dreams are restless or ordered, pleasant or painful, hazy or distinct. The writing style is what I would deem 'experimental' and I think it might have even worked well if Foster had felt comfortable including more physical detail, but since he was trying to match a movie that apparently hadn't finished yet, details like the appearance of the crew, the ship, the planet, and the alien are kept to a minimum, leaving only the heavy speculative prose.
If you're a die-hard fan of the series, this book is worth checking out, but just factor in the slow-pacing and don't expect too much. For what it is worth, I am now reading Foster's sequel Aliens, and so far the author seems to have corrected all the writing 'mistakes' in "Alien", indicating either growth on the part of the author, or a more complete screenplay source, or both. So if there's a chance that you might read the entire series of alien film novelizations, I recommend starting with this one and just remembering that they get better.
~ Ana Mardoll
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
scary
By Eric D. Black
I was eleven, I think, when Alien came out. Being a die-hard nerd kid and into Star Trek, Star Wars, and all that, I begged and pleaded my parents to take me to this movie. They refused, saying I was too young, but we had a long-standing tradition in our family of the kids being allowed to read anything we could get our grubby little hands on, even though movies, television, and music were under tight parental control.
So, my dad let me read the book.
It scared the living crap out of me, and I have nightmares to this day about it.
Some years later, when I did eventually rent and watch the movie, it was no big deal. I found it kind of silly, actually, and HR Geiger's images never particularly bothered me. I was probably sixteen by then. Was the book really that much scarier than the movie, or did it have the effect on me that it did because I was so young? You have to understand, when I read the book, I had no idea what the plot was, had never seen any pictures of Geiger's monster, and the only image I had for the whole thing was the ominous cracking egg on the front cover. That egg, if you didn't already know, bears no resemblance at all to the pods in the movies. If anything, it looks like it's about to hatch a radioactive chicken, but that can be pretty scary stuff to an eleven-year-old with an active imagination.
And that is where Foster shines in this adaptation. He lets your imagination run wild. The pacing of the book is slow, but that kind of sucks you into that world. If the monster just jumps out at you in the first page, it's not as scary. He lets the suspense build, and when the monster does arrive, he never shows it to you, never offers a physical description. He lets you come up with that, and the monster in my head was much worse (to me) than anything Geiger could do.
None of you reading this, probably, will start from the blank slate I did back then, so you are unlikely to have the same experience I had reading this book. In our media-saturated culture, it may not be possible to duplicate that experience. More's the pity.
I'm ordering this for my own son, who is thirteen and has never seen any of the movies. I think he is too young for them, but I will let him read the book...
30 of 35 people found the following review helpful.
Two words: Paragraph Breaks
By Amazon Customer
ADF did a good job with the novelization so far. I'm about halfway through it. The reason it's taken me so long?
Whomever edited the Kindle version should be fired and their credentials nullified. If you look down the left side of the text, there are NO empty lines to indicate paragraph breaks. None. It is immensely frustrating to try and keep track of where you are, visually, while reading this text. There have been plenty of moments where I've almost given up so far.
For the love of God, fix it in a new edition.
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