Was it because the author struggled with the right wording on describing the unique creature right? Writing error and accidentally leaving that description out despite the many chances to include it? Did they want to leave that particular surprise for the movie buffs, what? It bugs me. Ash eagerly dishes out revelations and theories about the being’s abilities and superiority, but when it comes to the adult’s alien appearance, it’s ridiculously vague.
Weird, right? The author goes into detail about the egg, the facehugger alive and dead. Oddly the alien’s appearance isn’t discussed hardly at all. Ash was well done and further fleshed out. I cared more about Parker and Brent reading about them. Dallas is as likeable in written form as the flick. She is flatter, bitchier, and her arrogance irritated me as well as the crew. The chase scenes were great and made sense (in other words, they weren’t in trouble because they were acting stupid like some stories rely on, they were acting with intelligence but happened to be up against something stronger than they.)Īnd of course, there was no underwear showdown!Ĭharacter wise, Ridley was less likeable. Mother plays a smaller part, especially at the end. There wasn’t as much suspense and impact. Overall the deaths in the book were lackluster to the movie though. Creepiness was laid on thick as Kane explores the chambers in written form that daunting climb down seemed longer in length, it’s suspense richer.Īfter the first half, the book starts changing small things from the movie, which is fine. I think this was due in part to the author taking such time to detail the structure and how truly alien it was, emphasizing this fact further than the movie did.
In written form, I was able to appreciate the impressiveness and uniqueness of the ship much more than when staring at it on the screen. The scene where Lambert, Dallas, and Kane explore the alien vessel and find the chamber is especially eerie and great. After page forty or so, my interest finally shipped off. This didn’t work for the beginning, though, as reading about drug out technical aspects of landing, planning the course, and positioning lasted far too long and bored me. The book stays pretty faithful to the film. I won’t go into the details of the story – what’s the point? If you don’t know the story of Alien, rent it immediately or miss out. Created from a screenplay, they turned around and made the movie, then made the book off the movie/screenplay – one rarely thinks of this book offspring when they hear the word “Alien.” The movie is better too, but for fans of the series, especially completionists, this spawned book is a good addition to the shelves. So if you're Alien fan, love all the movies, even the fourth installment, I immensely recommend that you take some of your precious time and devour Alan Dean Foster's book and revive all the feelings that you've had when you've seen the movie Alien and the Alien creature for the very first time. That said, the book trilogy does not disappoint, it brings Alien creature back to life and is equally scary and terrifying to read about it as it is to watch it. The Alien creature scared the bejesus out of me, and I still wanted to see it again and again, for I knew back then that I was watching a masterpiece and not just some science fiction movie with some less known actors and actresses. You wanna hear an undeniable fact ? Alien trilogy is absolutely and undoubtedly the scariest science fiction horror trilogy ever written, ever created, and ever told ! I remember how scared I was when I saw the Alien for the very first time, and how scared I was when I saw the Alien for the second, and for the third time.