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Alien: Isolation

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Alien: Isolation

By: Keith R.A. DeCandido
Narrated by: Sarah Mollo-Christensen
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The action-packed official adaptation of Alien: Isolation and a revealing look into the lives of Ellen Ripley and her daughter, Amanda Ripley.

The product of a troubled and violent youth, Amanda Ripley is hellbent to discover what happened to her missing mother, Ellen Ripley. She accepts an assignment with a Weyland-Yutani team being sent to retrieve the Nostromo flight recorder from space station Sevastopol, which they find out of control due to a Xenomorph that was brought there with the recorder. A conspiracy unfolds, revealing ever greater threats - including an entire Xenomorph hive. Over the course of the novel, Amanda’s history is revealed beginning with her childhood. Her father Alex’s battle with alcoholism caused her mother, Ellen Ripley, to sue for divorce. Ellen was forced to take off-world assignments, ultimately leading to her assignment aboard the Nostromo. Left behind, Amanda became determined to find out what happened to her mother, learning more and more about Ellen and the events that led up to her disappearance. Along the way, Amanda develops a fast friendship with Colonial Marine Zula Hendricks (from the Alien: Defiance Dark Horse series).

©2019 Keith R. A. DeCandido (P)2019 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Adventure First Contact Genre Fiction Movie, TV & Video Game Tie-Ins Science Fiction
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Well that was interesting. I have to admit, I stayed for the plot, not the girl. She was kinda annoying at times and a bit of a snob to be quit honest. The plot was pretty good tho. But what the heck was that ending?!

What?!

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In terms of getting the important plot points from the game across, this novel isn't bad. I also liked the flashback bits it added.
However... Every single scene containing actual aliens is described in a very boring and absolutely not terrifying way. How the author describes its head as "crested" also tells me, that he didn't know a single thing about the lore or the game. The Alien in the game is a drone, and doesn't have a crest but an alongated smooth head.
Another thing that put me off was the apparent lack of knowledge about physics. If you push off a rotating object in zero G, you'd have to take into account the rotation when targeting something you want to reach.
And if I understood it right, there's also a scene where someone changed orbit in an EVA suit around a gas giant to then completely circling the thing to reach something... Like, it took a few minutes or something so... Uh...
Well, no.

Author seemed clueless

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I played the video game before and was really excited of it. I thought it may would be funny to recap the story due to the audiobook. It was absoloutly worth it ! Great story!

Thrilling

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Ein gutes Hörbuch, mit leider zu vielen Zufällen und zu wenig Alien Gefährlichkeit. Verstecken ist schwierig und zu oft hilft der Zufall anstatt clevere Planung. Gute Unterhaltung aber Shadows ist noch bessere Alien-Unterhaltung mit neuem Lore.

Gut, mit kleinen Einschränkungen.

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I really love the Game, so I thought it might be nice to have this audiobook. If you've played the Game to completion, then it's all in there already, and you find little new content. This book drilled one message into my mind though, which is: "This message and any attachments are confidential, privileged and protected. If you are not the intended recipient, dissemination or copying of this message is prohibited. If you have received this in error, please notify the Sender by replying and then delete the message completely from your system." ^_^ If you haven't played the Game, or never finished it for any reason, then get this Audiobook. It's fun to listen too. The performance of the Voice Actress is really good in my opinion.

Nice enough… :)

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