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| Novelization of the 1986 film ''[[Aliens (film)|Aliens]]'' |
| Novelization of the 1986 film ''[[Aliens (film)|Aliens]]'' |
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| style="text-align: center;" | <ref>{{cite book |title=Aliens : novelization |year = 1986|url=https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/search?searchCode=LCCN&searchArg=2011658489&searchType=1&permalink=y |publisher=[[Library of Congress]] |isbn = 9780446301398 |
| style="text-align: center;" | <ref>{{cite book |title=Aliens : novelization |year = 1986|url=https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/search?searchCode=LCCN&searchArg=2011658489&searchType=1&permalink=y |publisher=[[Library of Congress]] |isbn = 9780446301398|access-date=March 29, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329192010/https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/search?searchCode=LCCN&searchArg=2011658489&searchType=1&permalink=y |archive-date=March 29, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref> |
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! scope="row" | ''Alien 3'' |
! scope="row" | ''Alien 3'' |
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| Adapted from the comic book series ''Aliens: Hive'' (also known as ''Aliens: Harvest'') (1992). |
| Adapted from the comic book series ''Aliens: Hive'' (also known as ''Aliens: Harvest'') (1992). |
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A dying man becomes involved in a plot to steal royal jelly from an alien hive, believing it to be a cure for his cancer. |
A dying man becomes involved in a plot to steal royal jelly from an alien hive, believing it to be a cure for his cancer. |
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| style="text-align: center;" | <ref>{{cite book |title=Alien harvest |series = Aliens|year = 1995|url=https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/search?searchCode=LCCN&searchArg=97812422&searchType=1&permalink=y |publisher=[[Library of Congress]] |isbn = 9780553564419 |
| style="text-align: center;" | <ref>{{cite book |title=Alien harvest |series = Aliens|year = 1995|url=https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/search?searchCode=LCCN&searchArg=97812422&searchType=1&permalink=y |publisher=[[Library of Congress]] |isbn = 9780553564419|access-date=March 30, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190330095559/https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/search?searchCode=LCCN&searchArg=97812422&searchType=1&permalink=y |archive-date=March 30, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref> |
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! scope="row" | ''Aliens: Rogue'' |
! scope="row" | ''Aliens: Rogue'' |
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Adapted from the comic book series ''Aliens: Music of the Spears'' (1994). |
Adapted from the comic book series ''Aliens: Music of the Spears'' (1994). |
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|<ref>{{cite book |url=https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/search?searchCode=LCCN&searchArg=97814473&searchType=1&permalink=y |title=Aliens : music of the spears |publisher=[[Library of Congress]] |year=1996 |isbn=9780553574920 |series=A Bantam Spectra book |
|<ref>{{cite book |url=https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/search?searchCode=LCCN&searchArg=97814473&searchType=1&permalink=y |title=Aliens : music of the spears |publisher=[[Library of Congress]] |year=1996 |isbn=9780553574920 |series=A Bantam Spectra book |access-date=March 30, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190330101702/https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/search?searchCode=LCCN&searchArg=97814473&searchType=1&permalink=y |archive-date=March 30, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref> |
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! scope="row" | ''Aliens: Berserker'' |
! scope="row" | ''Aliens: Berserker'' |
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It follows the crews of two cargo starships, the ''Virginia'' and the ''Umiak'', as an attempt to illicitly smuggle live Xenomorphs unleashes the deadly creatures upon them. |
It follows the crews of two cargo starships, the ''Virginia'' and the ''Umiak'', as an attempt to illicitly smuggle live Xenomorphs unleashes the deadly creatures upon them. |
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| style="text-align: center;" | <ref>{{cite web |title=Aliens: Cauldron (Novel) |url=https://www.darkhorse.com/Books/13-745/Aliens-Cauldron-Novel |publisher=[[Dark Horse Comics]] |access-date=July 6, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190706153211/https://www.darkhorse.com/Books/13-745/Aliens-Cauldron-Novel |archive-date=July 6, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref><br /><ref>{{cite book |title=Cauldron |year=2007 |url=https://lccn.loc.gov/2008571749 |publisher=[[Library of Congress]] |isbn=9781595821133 |
| style="text-align: center;" | <ref>{{cite web |title=Aliens: Cauldron (Novel) |url=https://www.darkhorse.com/Books/13-745/Aliens-Cauldron-Novel |publisher=[[Dark Horse Comics]] |access-date=July 6, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190706153211/https://www.darkhorse.com/Books/13-745/Aliens-Cauldron-Novel |archive-date=July 6, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref><br /><ref>{{cite book |title=Cauldron |year=2007 |url=https://lccn.loc.gov/2008571749 |publisher=[[Library of Congress]] |isbn=9781595821133 |access-date=July 6, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190706153913/https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/search?searchCode=LCCN&searchArg=2008571749&searchType=1&permalink=y |archive-date=July 6, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref> |
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! scope="row" | ''Aliens: Steel Egg'' |
! scope="row" | ''Aliens: Steel Egg'' |
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When his brother falls into debt with ruthless drug dealers, Tommy Chase is forced to take a one-time assignment piloting one of the organization's transport ships to wipe the slate clean. The journey takes him to the remote planet called Fantasia, where the dealers operate a secret drug lab kept safe by the horde of frenetic Xenomorphs that swarm Fantasia's surface. However, when the facility comes under attack from rival forces, the creatures intended to keep the operation safe become an unstoppable threat to everyone on the planet. |
When his brother falls into debt with ruthless drug dealers, Tommy Chase is forced to take a one-time assignment piloting one of the organization's transport ships to wipe the slate clean. The journey takes him to the remote planet called Fantasia, where the dealers operate a secret drug lab kept safe by the horde of frenetic Xenomorphs that swarm Fantasia's surface. However, when the facility comes under attack from rival forces, the creatures intended to keep the operation safe become an unstoppable threat to everyone on the planet. |
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| style="text-align: center;" | <ref>{{cite web |title=Aliens: Criminal Enterprise |url=https://www.darkhorse.com/Books/14-935/Aliens-Criminal-Enterprise-Novel |publisher=[[Dark Horse Comics]] |access-date=July 6, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190706170650/https://www.darkhorse.com/Books/14-935/Aliens-Criminal-Enterprise-Novel |archive-date=July 6, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref><br /><ref>{{cite book |title=Criminal enterprise |year = 2008|url=https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/search?searchCode=LCCN&searchArg=2010668004&searchType=1&permalink=y |publisher=[[Library of Congress]] |isbn = 9781595820037 |
| style="text-align: center;" | <ref>{{cite web |title=Aliens: Criminal Enterprise |url=https://www.darkhorse.com/Books/14-935/Aliens-Criminal-Enterprise-Novel |publisher=[[Dark Horse Comics]] |access-date=July 6, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190706170650/https://www.darkhorse.com/Books/14-935/Aliens-Criminal-Enterprise-Novel |archive-date=July 6, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref><br /><ref>{{cite book |title=Criminal enterprise |year = 2008|url=https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/search?searchCode=LCCN&searchArg=2010668004&searchType=1&permalink=y |publisher=[[Library of Congress]] |isbn = 9781595820037|access-date=July 6, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190707130411/https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/search?searchCode=LCCN&searchArg=2010668004&searchType=1&permalink=y |archive-date=July 7, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref> |
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! scope="row" | ''Aliens: No Exit'' |
! scope="row" | ''Aliens: No Exit'' |
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| style="text-align: center;" | <ref>{{cite web |title=Aliens: No Exit (Novel) |url=https://www.darkhorse.com/Books/14-945/Aliens-No-Exit-Novel |publisher=[[Dark Horse Comics]] |access-date=July 6, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190706171134/https://www.darkhorse.com/Books/14-945/Aliens-No-Exit-Novel |archive-date=July 6, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref><br /><ref>{{cite book |title=No exit | date=2008 |url=https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/search?searchCode=LCCN&searchArg=2009415384&searchType=1&permalink=y |publisher=[[Library of Congress]] |isbn = 9781595820044 |
| style="text-align: center;" | <ref>{{cite web |title=Aliens: No Exit (Novel) |url=https://www.darkhorse.com/Books/14-945/Aliens-No-Exit-Novel |publisher=[[Dark Horse Comics]] |access-date=July 6, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190706171134/https://www.darkhorse.com/Books/14-945/Aliens-No-Exit-Novel |archive-date=July 6, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref><br /><ref>{{cite book |title=No exit | date=2008 |url=https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/search?searchCode=LCCN&searchArg=2009415384&searchType=1&permalink=y |publisher=[[Library of Congress]] |isbn = 9781595820044|access-date=July 6, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190707130631/https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/search?searchCode=LCCN&searchArg=2009415384&searchType=1&permalink=y |archive-date=July 7, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref> |
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! scope="row" | ''[[Alien: Out of the Shadows]]'' |
! scope="row" | ''[[Alien: Out of the Shadows]]'' |
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| Set between the events of ''[[Alien (film)|Alien]]'' and ''[[Aliens (film)|Aliens]]''. The novel tells the story of a group of miners harvesting trimonite, the hardest material known to man, on the planet LV-178. Deep within the mines, they uncover the ruins of an ancient civilization infested with Xenomorphs, which infiltrate the miners' spaceship, the ''Marion''. [[Ellen Ripley]]'s shuttle, the ''Narcissus'', picks up a distress call from the ''Marion'' and docks with it, and she is left to help the miners survive the Xenomorphs as well as uncover why the shuttle seemed to dock on its own accord. |
| Set between the events of ''[[Alien (film)|Alien]]'' and ''[[Aliens (film)|Aliens]]''. The novel tells the story of a group of miners harvesting trimonite, the hardest material known to man, on the planet LV-178. Deep within the mines, they uncover the ruins of an ancient civilization infested with Xenomorphs, which infiltrate the miners' spaceship, the ''Marion''. [[Ellen Ripley]]'s shuttle, the ''Narcissus'', picks up a distress call from the ''Marion'' and docks with it, and she is left to help the miners survive the Xenomorphs as well as uncover why the shuttle seemed to dock on its own accord. |
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| style="text-align: center;" | <ref name="/Film" /><br /><ref>{{cite web |last1=Cummins |first1=Chris |date=January 28, 2014 |title=Alien: Out of the Shadows Book Review |url=https://www.denofgeek.com/us/books-comics/alien/232500/alien-out-of-the-shadows-book-review |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190706145312/https://www.denofgeek.com/us/books-comics/alien/232500/alien-out-of-the-shadows-book-review |archive-date=July 6, 2019 |access-date=July 6, 2019 |website=[[Den of Geek]] |publisher=[[Dennis Publishing]]}}</ref><br /><ref>{{cite book |url=https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/search?searchCode=LCCN&searchArg=2014661080&searchType=1&permalink=y |title=Out of the shadows |publisher=[[Library of Congress]] |year=2014 |isbn=9781781162682 |
| style="text-align: center;" | <ref name="/Film" /><br /><ref>{{cite web |last1=Cummins |first1=Chris |date=January 28, 2014 |title=Alien: Out of the Shadows Book Review |url=https://www.denofgeek.com/us/books-comics/alien/232500/alien-out-of-the-shadows-book-review |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190706145312/https://www.denofgeek.com/us/books-comics/alien/232500/alien-out-of-the-shadows-book-review |archive-date=July 6, 2019 |access-date=July 6, 2019 |website=[[Den of Geek]] |publisher=[[Dennis Publishing]]}}</ref><br /><ref>{{cite book |url=https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/search?searchCode=LCCN&searchArg=2014661080&searchType=1&permalink=y |title=Out of the shadows |publisher=[[Library of Congress]] |year=2014 |isbn=9781781162682 |access-date=March 30, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190330124049/https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/search?searchCode=LCCN&searchArg=2014661080&searchType=1&permalink=y |archive-date=March 30, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref> |
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! scope="row" | ''Alien: Sea of Sorrows'' |
! scope="row" | ''Alien: Sea of Sorrows'' |