Alien: Sea of Sorrows
by James A. Moore
Audible, 2018
Remember Out of the Shadows? Same setting, only centuries in the future. Ripley's descendant is blackmailed into helping a team of mercs capture an xenomorph in the same mining colony as Out of the Shadows. There's an added element of the guy being an empath, and the aliens having a psychic hivemind, but it doesn't add much.
Less going on than the other two audio dramas, or maybe the formula is getting stale. One annoyance is that every group of marines or mercs facing the aliens have to learn for the first time, every time, about the acid for blood, second mouth, etc. It's explained by Weyland-Yutani covering up each alien encounter, but you'd think they'd want to give their own people enough intel to be able to capture one.
There's a titch of world building with a mention of corporate wars, but like most of Alien the only things that exist in the universe are the corp and the Marines.
They also brought up a plot point I wondered as a kid, and then failed to resolve it. In Aliens, Bill Paxton complains that they're on a bug hunt, which implies that the Marines know about the xenomorphs, or at least some other kind of bug-like alien. Moore has a merc say it only to follow up that they've never seen an alien.
Audio drama available on Amazon
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