Books like Aliens by Alan Dean Foster
Ellen Ripley survives an encounter with an unknown alien lifeform that decimates her ship, the Nostromo, 57 years earlier. When she awakens from hypersleep, her account of a "xenomorph" is dismissed as fantasy. Her former employer, Wayland Yutani, eventually requests her expertise to accompany a squad of Colonial Marines back to LV‑426, the harsh planet that she had visited before. There, Ripley and the marines find a terrifying, alien presence that challenges their understanding of the threat.
First publish date: 1986
Genre: Science Fiction/Military Science Fiction
Authors: Alan Dean Foster
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