Alien: Out of the Shadows by Tim Lebbon (Audio drama version)
Audible 2016
This entry is set between Alien and Aliens. Ripley is rescued and she is brought out of suspended animation, only to find herself facing the xenomorphs again.
A mining colony run into an ancient ship with xenomorph eggs, just like in Alien. Their ship is unable to escape and has a decaying orbit. Their only hope is to land on the planet, fight through the mines sublevels to retrieve a power cell, and return to the ship. It sounds like a video game, but Aliens had these kind of mission level progressions before video games did.
Aliens works pretty well in audio drama format, as they are more effective the less you see of them. I was distracted throughout by trying to figure out how they were going to keep the continuity with Aliens, hoping they weren't going to just cop out and erase her memory like R2D2. Guess what happens.
Available on Audible.
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