Tuesday, April 2, 2019

Tie-ins: Alien

The Alien franchise has crept along slowly but steadily for going on forty years - not bad for a series devoted to people walking slowly down humid corridors.  Many of these are available in affordable omnibus editions.

Novelizations:
1979: Alien by Alan Dean Foster
1986: Aliens by Alan Dean Foster
1992: Alien 3 by Alan Dean Foster
1997: Alien Resurrection by A.C. Crispin
2012: Prometheus by Jon Spaihts & Damon Lindelof (Japan only)
2017: Alien: Covenant by Alan Dean Foster

Continuing stories:
2005: Original Sin by Michael Jan Friedman
2006: DNA War by Diane Carey
2007: Cauldron by Diane Carey
2007: Steel Egg by John Shirley
2008: Criminal Enterprise by Stephani Perry
2008: No Exit by B. K. Evenson
2014: Out of the Shadows by Tim Lebbon
2014: Sea of Sorrows by James A. Moore
2014: River of Pain by Christopher Golden
2017: Bug Hunt (short story anthology)
2017: Covenant: Origins by Alan Dean Foster (movie prequel)
2018: The Cold Forge by Alex White

Novelization of the comics
1992: Earth Hive by Steve Perry
1993: Nightmare Asylum by Steve Perry
1993: The Female War by Steve Perry and Stephani Perry
1994: Genocide by David Bischoff
1995: Alien Harvest by Robert Sheckley
1995: Rogue by Sandy Schofield (Dean Wesley Smith and Kristine Kathryn Rusch)
1996: Labyrinth by Stephani Perry
1996: Music of the Spears by Yvonne Navarro
1998: Berserker by Stephani Perry

Because of the gaps between films, the continuity is all over the place as each film throws everything out of whack.  The crossovers with Predator will be handling separately.

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