Alien: River of Pain by Christopher Golden (audio drama)
Audible 2017
This installment runs parallel to the beginning of Aliens, especially the bloated director's cut, and covers how xenomorphs took over the planet she later visits with the colonial marines. We've got marines at various levels of competency, evil corporate scientists, and everything that's in the other Alien installments. I forgot the titles I had listened to, and had a hard time telling them apart from the plot synopsis.
A little it of fan service - they work in two "mostly"s. Golden also tries to write his way out of a plot hole which I actually never noticed and ended up making it work. Newt survives by hiding in the air vents. The same air vents that xenomorphs pretty much spend all their time in. The explanation that Newt can sneak through vents so small the aliens can't follow doesn't work either - we saw where she slept, and adult humans could get there in a low crouch.
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