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Alien: Out of the Shadows

By: Tim Lebbon
Narrated by: Jeff Harding
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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.

©2016 Tim Lebbon (P)2016 Audible Studios Fantasy Fiction Science Fiction Scary

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Certainly some enjoyable parts to it. But the flashbacks to Amanda get annoying after a while. Also Ripley's voice doesn't suit her character.

Not bad, not great

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I expected too much of this book and was very disappointed. It is shoe horned into the Alien timeline and regurgitates the same story lines with only a small attempt at originality. I found the narration deeply annoying as the narrator goes up at the end of a sentence, completely destroying any tension in the scene. I do not recommend this book.

Disappointing

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Fairly predictable story which felt like it rehashed tropes from the movies rather than create original storylines. The narrators attempts at female voices were jarring too. That said it was entertaining and I did listen through to the end.

Not bad, not great

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An interesting idea to have a story between the first two Alien films. The idea as to why Ripley ends up on the Marion is certainly plausible, however I'm not sure the results of this were played out to their complete end.

Ripley's waking nightmares quickly become tiresome and are really just there to provide an excuse for the 'blank slate' result at the end.

The idea of another race and the civilisation of that race was definitely interesting and something I would like to see progressed further, and especially their interactions with the Xenomorphs.

Definitely better than the 'radio play' version.

Interesting idea

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The book lived up to expectation but had a constrained ending, taking away some shine

Enjoyable, if somewhat limited thriller

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One of these let's put this in the time line where it does not fit, but we will solve it by making it pointless in the bigger scheme.
Great story that becomes pointless, because it was all just a "dream".

Good single story, but bad in the bigger story

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I've listened to the prequel to Covenant, Covenant and the original film novel back to back over the last week. The others I've finished in a couple of days each with hours of solid listening, all thoroughly enjoyable even though I'm very familiar with the films they're based on they were still engaging. Not so this abomination. I've had to take a break from it often, sometimes mid chapter. All criticism of the narration is entirely justified. The only aspects punctuating a largely monotone delivery are awful female voices, Ripley (recognised as not just a feminist icon but a brilliant action film protagonist regardless of gender) is reduced to a breathy, girly voice, as are other characters (even a certain male one) and, as others have stated, the horrible upward inflection. This serves only to irritate and distract from the writing itself. Speaking of the writing, much of the story is a repetition of either "he said" or "she said". A randomly selected two minute sample will largely sound as follows: Monotone blaaaahh blaaahh blaaah *sudden upward inflection* blah. "Blah blah" he said, *breathy girly voice* "blah blah blah" she said, "blah blah" he said,"blah blah" she said, "blah" he said, "blah blah" she said. and so forth. The audio drama adaptation helmed by Dirk Maggs, however, is excellent. Get that instead and don't bother with this. I've since removed any other books narrated by Jeff Harding from my wishlist, including the other two in this series.

Bad Narration

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I got about a third of the way through this book and had to give it up. The narration sucked all the life out of it. This weird upward inflection, in a monotonous tone with every sentence sounding the same as the previous one, drove me crazy. I went instead to the Audible version with actors. It was excellent – 10 episodes and really worth a listen.

Awful narration put me off

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I enjoyed the full cast dramatisation very much. But, this was actually better. You get crucial inner monologues and the full cast version of this changed the story significantly in places.

The voice actor is really good too.

Better than the dramatisation

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I really liked the story and the characters but I think it would have been better without the addition of Ripley.... I spent the whole time wondering how the author was going to get around explaining exactly how these events fitted into the existing timeline, only to be eventually somewhat disappointed by it. Not the best Alien book but certainly not the worst.

Good story but doesn't quite fit

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