Alien Resurrection: The Official Junior Novelization

by Terry Bisson

The battle is on again, between a reluctantly reincarnated Ripley, and the deadliest aliens ever to hit the big screen! A top-secret military lab in deep space is the scene of a chilling experiment gone awry, as the monsters are reborn inside hijacked human bodies.

This official Alien Resurrection Junior Novelization details every chilling encounter, every explosive action sequence. Nothing is left out.

You won't miss a moment of the nonstop suspense and startling sepcial effects in the fourth hit film in the most popular sci-fi thriller series ever - starring Sigourney Weaver and Winona Ryder.

124 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1997

About the author

Terry Ballantine Bisson was an American science fiction and fantasy author best known for his short stories, including "Bears Discover Fire" (1990), which which won both the Hugo and Nebula awards, as well as They're Made Out of Meat (1991), which has been adapted for video often.

Adapted from Wikipedia.

Reviews

[Jean-Francois Boivin · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is a short, summarized novel as most "junior novelizations" are. It seems that writer Terry Bisson hadn't seen any of the ALIEN movies, when he writes such things as "leathery eggs the size of a football" (p.23), "One of the aliens exploded, staining the water red" (p.72) and "Its [the alien's] feral eyes were fixed hungrily on the [...] crew." Any fan of the franchise would know that aliens do not have eyes, their blood isn't red, and the eggs are bigger than footballs. Bisson more than likely based his book on the movie script and the novelization by A.C. Crispin and Kathleen O'Malley since a few sentences are taken straight from the later book. But overall, the book does its job of being a novel for teens. Although it is a weird choice since this was the goriest and most profanity-ladden movie of the quadrilogy.