"Laurel Lefkow shines as Ripley - her mature, sarcastic tone barely concealing her raw terror at reliving a nightmare. The mix of music, sound effects, and vocals is painstakingly orchestrated - from the creaks of the ship to the subtle shifts in atmospheric tone as the characters enter different situations. Add in a diverse ensemble of voices, and this production succeeds in keeping the listener in the center of the action. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award." (AudioFile magazine)

As a child, Chris Hooper dreamed of monsters. But in deep space, he found only darkness and isolation. Then, on planet LV178, he and his fellow miners discovered a storm-scoured, sand-blasted hell - and trimonite, the hardest material known to man.

When a shuttle crashes into the mining ship Marion, the miners learn that there was more than trimonite deep in the caverns. There was evil, hibernating and waiting for suitable prey. Hoop and his associates uncover a nest of Xenomorphs, and hell takes on a new meaning. Quickly they discover that their only hope lies with the unlikeliest of saviors....

Ellen Ripley, the last human survivor of the salvage ship Nostromo.

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Durata	4 ore e 28 minuti
Autore	Tim Lebbon, Dirk Maggs
Narratore	Rutger Hauer, Corey Johnson, Matthew Lewis, Kathryn Drysdale, Laurel Lefkow, Andrea Deck, Mac McDonald
Data di pubblicazione su Audible.it	26 aprile 2016
Editore	Audible Studios
Tipo di programma	Audiobook Audible
Versione	Registrazione originale
Lingua	Inglese
ASIN	B07CNPVML1

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5 stelle		57%
4 stelle		26%
3 stelle		11%
2 stelle		5%
1 stella		2%

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Valerio Pastore

Nello spazio, nessuno può sentirti urlare...

Recensito in Italia il 30 novembre 2017

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Il ritorno di una grande saga!
Lebbon si conferma scrittore più che qualificato per narrare la scoperta di un nuovo alveare alieno…e il ritorno sulla scena di Ripley, la sola sopravvissuta dell’infestazione che decimò la nave “Nostromo” nel film ALIEN. Ogni pagina ci immerge fin dall’inizio nella tensione e nell’orrore cinematografico, ci spinge a guardarci dietro le spalle, ci fa chiedere con genuina ansia come i protagonisti sopravvivranno a un orrore senza tempo, più grande di loro.
E ai complotti della compagnia per cui lavorano.
Sembrava difficile infilare una saga tra gli eventi di Alien e il film ALIENS, ma Lebbon ha cominciato con il piede giusto!

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David Visintin

un must per gli amanti della serire

Recensito in Italia il 15 gennaio 2018

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primo libro che provo a leggere in lingua inglese. con mio piacere ho fatto poca fatica in quanto il linguaggio utilizzato è piuttosto facile. storia ambientata tra i primi 2 film. saprà intrattenervi se vorrete dargli l'occasione.

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Lucius Etruscus

Emozionante ed intenso: da leggere assolutamente

Recensito in Italia il 26 agosto 2016

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Purtroppo l'Italia si disinteressa all'universo alieno, e questo romanzo dimostra quanto si sbaglia. Appassionante dalla prima all'ultima parola: il fatto di sapere come finisca non ha rovinato un solo attimo di lettura.
Lo consiglio a tutti gli appassionati di Alien: ritrovare Ripley è sempre una fortissima emozione...

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brutto sto scherzando stupendo retroilluminazione bello

Recensito in Italia il 5 giugno 2017

come tutti gli alien anche questo mi ha veramente toccato nella su purezza del lavoro che hannk svolto loro incantevole superbo immaginario rapide

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Valerie J.

Excellent read

Recensito nel Regno Unito il 9 gennaio 2018

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Well! That was a bumpy ride. Right from the beginning Tim Lebbon racked up the tension relentlessly. It's the first time I've neared the end of a Book and found myself wanting to flick to the very end to see how everything turned out simply because the anticipation, the tension, was too much. I cannot remember an author ever making me want to do that. But I didn't. I hung on in to the end (whether or not it was bitter remains for other readers to discover for themselves).

I think you need to at least have watched the movie Alien (1979) to really appreciate this Book which is set, in time, between the end of Alien and the beginning of the movie, Aliens (1986). Ellen Ripley (of the movie) plays a key role in Lebbon's Book but the main protagonist is Chris Hooper. Our very favourite aliens, the jaw-dropping, acid-bleeding nightmares, are back causing problems.

There is plenty of violence in this and occasionally it is graphic. Mostly it is just plain tense. Some strange language but that is to be expected in a novel of this nature. I'd cuss too if one of those critters was coming at me.

I think the Book deserves 5 stars despite occasional implausibilities (even for a scifi) and I didn't care much for the insertion of several of Ellen Ripley's uneasy dreams about her daughter. I found them somewhat distracting at times.

I like Lebbon's writing style. He writes simply without his choice of language being over simple, and without talking over the head of his readers. You would need to pay attention to the details of the spaceship and other scientific elements of the story to see in your mind's eye what is happening. It's doable. Alien: Out of the Shadows is certainly not as challenging a reading as The Martian by Andy Weir (a brilliant novel which requires some scientific understanding or research to appreciate it fully.

I first became aware of Tim Lebbon when I read his Book 30 Days of Night, based on the vampire movie of the same name. Lebbon often writes Books based on movies, and I like that.

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Student of Life

A good storyline in part, but with lines borrowed from the original films

Recensito nel Regno Unito il 4 giugno 2018

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An ok read. It makes you think about what could have happened to Ripley in those 57 years between Alien and Aliens. However, I didn’t feel it really fitted that well in to the story depicted in the films. And, despite it being a stand alone book to bridge the gap (that I didn’t think was really there) between the two films, the characters within the pages of the book seem to mirror people in Alien and Aliens. Now that was a bit “off” I think, as the people in Alien are . . . (sorry - spoiler alert for those who have never seen the Alien films) . . . Dead, therefore people in the book, being different people to those in the film, probably would not use the same slang terms or even the exact terms used within the films as those deceased - unless they are family or close friends of those in the films I guess. I suppose I just felt that the copying of lines from the films was a bit tacky. But, if you love the Alien series, then this is worth a read, if only to hear about Ellen Ripley and the pesky xenomorphs some more. Maybe another title for another book there - Ellen Ripley and her Alien Adventures in LV426

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Shaun Davies

Mr Lebbon falls short this time.

Recensito nel Regno Unito il 12 maggio 2018

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Usually I am a fan of Mr Lebbons work and what he has added to the Aliens and Predator universe, I even liked the Rage trilogy.

However I found myself really struggling with the large majority of this offering and I think I know why, although speaking it out loud for the majority of diehard fans would be almost blasphemous - the problem is Ripley.

Ultimately the 'visions' about her daughter add very little to augment her character and knowing that this particular book is set between the events of Alien and Aliens we know that all of the trials and tribulations she faces are ultimately moot.

The only question mark I had was how they were going to explain her not referencing the whole experience when being questioned by the company etc. I won't spoil it but... deus ex machina.

What I will say is the Mr Lebbon does what he does best in that he does successfully add background to an absolutely fascinating universe. The underground scenes are tense and inspire horrific visions only to be quickly ripped away as we are treated to another Ripley hallucination.

I loved Bug Hunt – a series of short stories that added background to our favourite marines from Aliens but for me, this only detracts from Ripleys enigma and it’s a damn shame.

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Cj81

Lights & Shadows !!!

Recensito nel Regno Unito il 5 luglio 2019

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Well starting right off the bat this book reminded me of cold forge getting straight into character descriptions etc starting with Hooper then onto the other's also including the famous Ellen Ripley. The book was gripping and a good read and I expected nothing less that sheer brutality from the alien Xenomorphs in their quest to kill anything in their way or to make them hosts for the face huggers. Location descriptions was very well written and gave you an idea of the scope of the ship and planet they were on. If you like the aliens film franchise then give this a read as it's gritty and about human survival to the bitter end !!!

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Paul M. Feeney

Alien 1.5...

Recensito nel Regno Unito il 20 maggio 2016

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Set between the events of Alien (1979) and Aliens (1986), the deep space mining vessel Marion oversees the extraction of trimonite, the hardest and rarest material yet known, from the otherwise wasted planet, LV178. Chris 'Hoop' Hooper is the ship's head engineer and has much on his mind, not least of which is his self-enforced estrangement from his wife and children. All of this quickly takes second place, as two drop ships full of miners that have been out of contact for a couple of days suddenly return. Only one is able to contact the Marion and what they have to say (and show) is inexplicable and terrifying. The miners found something down on LV178 and it has attacked and killed most of the miners, and has also boarded the drop-ships. Panic and fear descend and one shuttle crashes into the bigger vessel, casing irreparable damage and sending them into a downward spiral to the planet. The other manages to land, but has brought with it something from the darkest nightmares.

Into this mix, comes an escape pod, automatically following the Marion's distress call. Inside, in stasis, is the one person who has met this nightmare before and survived. It is Ellen Ripley, last survivor of the Nostromo...

As a huge fan of the Alien films, certainly the first three anyway, I've always tended to avoid novelisations and books based on and in the universe. To be honest, I do this with most of the things I like. It's not that I think they'll be bad, it's just that I'm generally content with the films as the defining medium for the franchise/series. However, when I discovered that Tim Lebbon (who wrote the near perfect Coldbrook) had written an Alien novel set between films one and two, I pretty much had to check it out. Coldbrook was an excellent and fast paced read, so I knew Tim's writing would be reliable. As for the story...

I think, with this kind of franchise, with an officially sanctioned new novel set in the Alien universe, there's going to be a lot of constraints, a lot of back and forth between the writer and the company that owns the product. There must be a lot of things that are off limits, a lot of details to be hammered out before both sides are happy with the story. Add to that, the amount of detail from the films and previously published books that may or may not be 'cannon' and you have a lot of 'history' to contend with. So, it's not without a serious amount of relief that Tim pulls off what feels like an authentic entry in the Alien saga. In fact, perhaps a tiny negative is the probability that in order to fully enjoy this book, you will need to know what happened in the film Alien. Of course, it's highly unlikely that someone unfamiliar with the franchise would pick up this book. Speaking of which, very sporadically peppered through the book, there appear to be references to both the Alien films and other SF classics. I spotted what I'm sure were a few lines of dialogue (or similar) from the films, and also what seemed to be genre nods to Predator and Bladerunner... I could be wrong, though.

The action is frenetic and begins almost immediately. Most of what we see unfolds from the third person narrative of Hoop. It is he who is present when the contact with the drop-ships is re-established, and he who takes command of the ship when the Captain is killed in the initial crashes. From there, we have aliens quarantined in the surviving drop-ship, while the action jumps forward a few weeks as the survivors wait in vain hope of someone responding to their distress call. There is a response, but it turns out to be a life-boat containing one person in stasis. That person is Ellen Ripley, who is awoken thirty some years after she blew up the Nostromo and destroyed 'her' alien. Now, somehow, she has been brought to the Marion and the nightmare looks set to begin again.

The tone of the book, to me, more closely resembles the second film, mostly due to the fast-paced action and the makeshift weaponry (no pulse rifles or smart-guns - instead we have welding tools, demolition charges and other tools press-ganged into killing weapons), and also the pace of the narrative. There is the initial alien attack when the group lifts the imposed quarantine on the last drop-ship and the monsters come barrelling out; there is the inevitable trip down to the surface of LV178 to where the initial outbreak began; and then a race/chase through the mines, complete with fantastic, overwhelming and terrifying discoveries there. There a few quieter moments, but the overall feeling is one of haste, forced by outside influence and otherwise. Ripley struggles with nightmares concerning her daughter, lost to her in time and space, any respite from the alien threat is always tainted by their inevitable appearance. It's great stuff.

There is a neat explanation as to why the escape ship from the Nostromo travelled so far in space before being rescued, but I don't want to spoil the surprises... I was also aware that throughout my reading, I was constantly wondering how Tim was going to resolve the memory issue with Ripley - i.e. why in Aliens, does she not remember this episode. Well, my imagination ran riot with thoughts of alternate universes, clones and the like. The actual explanation is well realised, and works in the context of the story...although I think I'd have preferred it, if it had come about slightly differently, in a more...malicious way...but again, you'll have to read the book to find out both how and what I mean...

All in all, it's a great read and if it's slightly lacking in depth (I think this is inevitable, considering the constraints of the franchise), it more than makes up for in atmosphere, setting and pace. Very good addition to the alien series and guess what? There's another two to come, the next by James A. Moore and the third and final in the trilogy by Christopher Golden. Really looking forward to seeing where both writers take the story...

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