Alien: Covenant - Origins

 2017

  Origin

_{Author: Alan Dean Foster}

_{Publisher:  Titan Books}

_​

Publisher's Summary

_{The Covenant mission is the most ambitious endeavor in the history of Weyland-Yutani. A ship bound for Origae-6, carrying two thousand colonists beyond the limits of known space, this is make-or-break investment for the corporation — and for the future of all mankind.}

_{Yet there are those who would die to stop the mission. As the colony ship hovers in Earth orbit, several violent events reveal a deadly conspiracy to sabotage the launch. While Captain Jacob Branson and his wife Daniels complete their preparations, security chief Daniel Lopé recruits the final key member of his team. Together they seek to stop the perpetrators before the ship and its passengers can be destroyed.}

_{An original novel by the acclaimed ALAN DEAN FOSTER, author of the groundbreaking Alien novelization, Origins is the official chronicle of the events that led up to Alien: Covenant. It also reveals the world the colonists left behind.}

Alien

                                   1979

                                  Origin

_{Author: Alan Dean Foster
Publisher:  Titan Books & Warner Books}

_​

          Publisher's Summary

_{Where was Earth?}

_{This was not their galaxy. A strange sun lit the sky with orange rays. In their long cold sleep, the seven space travellers had left their own universe behind, and now their monitor told them that on the planet revolving below them, someone was signalling for help. By space law, they must descend, explore, and render assistance.}

_{But they would carry weapons. For who could tell what being called to them — or why. All they knew was that it was Alien.}

1986

  Origin

_{Author: Alan Dean Foster
Publisher: Titan Books & Warner Books}

Publisher's Summary

_{Now there's a whole planet of them, waiting...}

_{Ripley is going back... the sole survivor of the terror that struck her space comrades years ago, she now steels herself to help lead an expedition to the hell she once escaped.}

_{For on a planet far from Earth, alien beings swarm, hungry for the human face, ready to make the human race their nesting ground. Here waits the ultimate nightmare of Alien, hundreds of times stronger, more insidious, and practically invincible.}

_{Here Ripley must re-enter a world of sudden, unspeakable horror... one that attacks without warning again and again and again.}

Aliens

Alien³

                                   1992

                                  Origin

_{Author: Alan Dean Foster
Publisher: Titan Books & Warner Books}

          Publisher's Summary

_{Here, even the wind screams. Abandoned hulks of machinery rust in the colorless landscape. Dark, oily seas beat against a jagged black shore. And the remnants of a reentry space vehicle crash into the rough waves.}

_{In it sleeps Ripley, a woman who has battled the enemy twice. It killed her whole crew the first time. The second time, it slaughtered a spaceload of death-dealing Marines. Now, on this prison planet that houses only a horde of defiant, captive men, she will have to fight the ultimate alien horror one more time.}

_{Before it rips apart a whole world...}

Alien Resurrection

1997

  Origin

_{Author: A. C. Crispin
Publisher: Titan Books & Warner Books}

Publisher's Summary

_{At the farthest reaches of the solar system, aboard orbiting space station Auriga, the unthinkable has happened.}

_{Ripley awakes. Her last memory is of her fiery death on the prison colony Fiorina 361. And yet she is alive.}

_{Her questions grow as she notices her body stronger and fiercer than she ever remembers. And she confronts the most terrifying threat of all-that she's not alone in her salvation from death's grasp.}

_{The screaming never stops...}

Prometheus

                                   2012

                                  Origin

_{Author: Joe Spies & David Lindelof
Publisher: 泰文堂}

          Publisher's Summary

No Publisher Summary Available for this book for it is written in Japanese.

2017

Origin

Publisher's Summary

DNA War

 2006

  Origin

_{Author: Diane Carey}

_{Publisher:  DH Press
Cover: Stephen Youll}

Publisher's Summary

_{SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST}

_{In an inhospitable galaxy, the planet Rosamond 6 is a rare find. With a moon, an atmosphere, and a thriving biosystem the world has all the keys necessary for human habitation. But while Rosamond 6 may look like an oasis among the stars, it harbors a fatal secret...}

_{...Rosamund 6 is infested with the murderous xenomorphic Aliens that have wiped out every life form in their path. Eager to prove her theory that the Aliens can be reasoned with, anthropologist Jocasta Malvaux has set up an observation post on Rosamond 6. But when the monsters become aware of Malvaux and her expedition, something unexpected happens: the Aliens don't attack.}

_{When Jocasta's son Rory races to the planet to save her, she won't leave. What is the secret behind the Aliens' seeming lack of concern for the humans? Are the monsters evolving? Or is it simply a matter of time before every person on the planet is in a fight for their lives?}

_{Best-selling writer Diane Carey takes you to the edge of your darkest nightmare and into the mind of a monster. The war is about to begin.}

Cauldron

                                   2007

                                  Origin

_{Author: Diane Carey
Publisher:  DH Press
Cover: Stephen Youll}

          Publisher's Summary

_{SPACE: THE MOST HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT IN THE UNIVERSE}

_{In the cargo hold of the spaceship Virginia, a hive of hibernating Aliens begins to awake. Meanwhile, on the Umiak, an elite troupe of cadets is forced into servitude by an unscrupulous captain taking the ship to a smuggler's rendezvous with the eerily silent Virginia. When the cadets unsuspectingly transport the Aliens on board, they start a battle for their lives, fighting the smugglers, the captain, and the monsters who among them.}

_{The Aliens: an opponent that sleeps, breathes, and breeds with just one goal — to kill. The war is about to begin...}

Steel Egg

2007

  Origin

_{Author: John Shirley}

_{Publisher:  DH Press
Cover: Stephen Youll}

Publisher's Summary

_{THE FIRST BATTLE BEGINS...}

_​

_{Before Ripley, there was a first encounter. Someone on Earth knew about the Aliens. Someone battled them, and survived. Aliens and humans have fought before.}

_{When a human spaceship discovers a vast egg-shaped vessel in Saturn's orbit, they zero in to investigate the anomaly. They force their way aboard, finding evidence of an ancient alien civilization of peaceful creatures, now eradicated by an unknown foe. Three teams split up to explore the ship. But already the Aliens have awoken. The first of all the battles unfolds...}

_{Best-selling writer John Shirley transports you to the origin of the nightmare, before humans knew what they were up against, or how low the odds for survival are.}

Criminal Enterprise

                                   2008

                                  Origin

_{Author: S. D Perry
Publisher:  DH Press
Cover: Stephen Youll}

          Publisher's Summary

_{CRIMINAL MINES}

_{Caught in a drug scheme gone bad, pilot Thomas Chase volunteers for a short-run mission to the planet Fantasia to save his no-good brother Pete. Everything from synthetic heroin to MX7 is cooked on Fantasia, a rock planet terraformed to hide an elaborate drug manufacturing operation in protected caves guarded by the savage Aliens.}

_{When Chase's craft touches down on Fantasia, a chain of events begins that can't be stopped. As criminals and competitors try to take over the drug empire from the dangerous kingpin, Tommy and Pete are caught in the crossfire. Outside the labyrinth of caves, Aliens scream for human blood.}

No Exit

2008

  Origin

_{Author: B. K. Evenson
Publisher:  DH Press
Cover: Stephen Youll}

Publisher's Summary

_{UNCOVERING THE TRUTH}

_​

_{After thirty years of cryogenic sleep, Detective Anders Kramm wakes to a changed world. The Alien threat has been subdued. Company interests dominate universal trade. Terraforming is big money now, with powerful men willing to do anything to assure dominance over other worlds.}

_{But Kramm has a secret. He knows why The Company killed twelve of its top scientists. He knows why the Aliens have been let loose on the surface of a contested planet. He knows that the information he has is valuable, and that The Company will do everything it can to stop him from telling his secret to the world.}

_{Haunted by memories of the brutal murder of his family, Kramm is set adrift amid billion dollar stakes... with aliens around every corner, waiting for him to make a mistake.}

Out of the Shadows

                                   2014

                                  Origin

_{Author: Tim Lebbon
Publisher: Titan Books}

_​

          Publisher's Summary

_{As a child, Chris Hooper dreamed of monsters. But in deep space, he found only darkness and isolation. Then on planet LV-178, 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 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.}

Sea of Sorrows

2014

  Origin

_{Author: James A. Moore}

_{Publisher: Titan Books
Cover: Dave Dorman}

Publisher's Summary

_{As a deputy commissioner for the ICC, Alan Decker's job is to make sure the settlements on LV-178 follow all the rules, keeping the colonists safe. But the planet known as New Galveston holds secrets, lurking deep beneath the toxic sands dubbed the Sea of Sorrows.}

_{The Weyland-Yutani Corporation has secrets of its own, as Decker discovers when he is forced to join a team of mercenaries sent to investigate an ancient excavation. Somewhere in that long-forgotten dig lies the thing the company wants most in the universe — a living Xenomorph.}

_{Decker doesn't understand why they need him, until his own past comes back to haunt him. Centuries ago, his ancestor fought the Aliens, launching a bloody vendetta that was never satisfied. That was when the creatures swore revenge on the Destroyer... Ellen Ripley.}

River of Pain

                                   2014

                                  Origin

_{Author: Christopher Golden​
Publisher: Titan Book}

_​

          Publisher's Summary

_{When Ellen Ripley finally returns to Earth, she learns that the planet LV-426 — now called Acheron — has been colonized. But LV-426 is where Ripley and the crew of the Nostromo found the original Xenomorph — the killing machine known as the Alien.}

_{Protected by the Colonial Marines, the colonists seek to terraform the storm-swept planet. Two such residents are Anne and Russell Jorden, seeking a fortune that eluded them on Earth. On Acheron, Anne gives birth to the colony's first newborn, Rebecca Jorden, also known as Newt.}

_{The wildcatters discover a vast, decaying spaceship. The horseshoe-shaped vessel is of particular interest to Weyland-Yutani, and may be the answer to their dreams. But what Anne and Russ find on board proves to be the stuff, not of dreams, but of nightmares.}

Invasion

2016

  Origin

_{Author: Tim Lebbon}

_{Publisher: Titan Books}

_​

Publisher's Summary

_{For centuries Weyland-Yutani has tried to weaponize the Aliens. Now someone has beaten them to it, sweeping through Yautja space and turning predator into prey.}

_{Faced with the overwhelming forces of the Rage, Earth envoys forge an unprecedented alliance with the Predators. Yet even the combined might of two races may not be enough to stop the carnage, as an unstoppable swarm of Xenomorphs topples planet after planet, penetrating ever deeper into the Human Sphere.}

Bug Hunt

                                   2017

                                  Origin

_{Author: Various​
Publisher: Titan Books}

          Publisher's Summary

_{When the Marines set out after their deadliest prey, the Xenomorphs, it's what Corporal Hicks calls a bug hunt — kill or be killed. Here are eighteen all-new stories of such "close encounters", written by many of today's most extraordinary authors.}

_{Set during the events of all four Alien films, sending the Marines to alien worlds, to derelict space settlements, and into the nests of the universe's most dangerous monsters, these adventures are guaranteed to send the blood racing — one way or another.}

Earth Hive

 1992

  Origin

_{Author: Steve Perry}

_{Publisher:  Bantam Books
Cover: Den Beauvais}

Publisher's Summary

_{Wilks is a space marine with a near-fatal flaw: he had a heart. Billie was a child, the only survivor of a far-flung colony outpost. Thrown together in the last hellish night of an Alien invasion, Billie and Wilks helped each other get out alive.}

_{Thirteen years later Wilks is in prison, and Billie lives in a mental institution, the nightmare memories of the massacre at Rim seared into her mind. Now the government has tapped Wilks to lead an expedition to the Aliens' home planet to bring back a live Alien.}

_{But the competition on Earth to develop the Aliens as a new weapons system is brutal. When Wilks's team departs on their mission, a trained assassin trails them. And what follows is no less then guerrilla warfare on the Aliens' planet — and Alien conquest on Earth!}

Nightmare Asylum

                                   1993

                                  Origin

_{Author: Steve Perry
Publisher:  Bantam Books
Cover: Dave Dorman}

          Publisher's Summary

_{DOOMSDAY IS HERE.}

_​

_{Earth — totally over-run by the Alien. Ain't nowhere left to go but deep space. Wilks, Billie, and Bueller, survivors, head out in search of the fragments of humanity. And a place to rest.}

_{Some hope...}

_{They shore up at a remote military outpost, prisoners of the crazed General Spears. His weapons production — Aliens. His plan: 'trained' Aliens to recapture earth.}

_{The perfect killing machine — trained???}

_{Some hope...}

The Female War

 1993

  Origin

_{Author: Steve Perry & Stephani Perry}

_{Publisher:  Bantam Books
Cover: Dave Dorman}

Publisher's Summary

_{The greatest space heroine of all time — and her incredible will to live...}

_{Lieutenant Ellen Ripley awoke from her long journey in space with a hole in her memory and an overwhelming drive to survive. When she meets Wilks and Billie, the two battered veterans in the war against the Aliens, she realizes she's found two comrades in arms — and she's ready to take up the fight.}

_{Only then does she discover the devastating secret that lurks behind her long sleep. When she, Wilks, and Billie prepare to meet the Aliens and their terrible queen head-on in a battle for Earth, that secret becomes her greatest weapon — and her greatest liability. Ripley must come to terms with what it means to be human — and what it means to be Alien...}

Genocide

                                   1993

                                  Origin

_{Author: David Bischoff​
Publisher:  Bantam Books
Cover: Dave Dorman}

          Publisher's Summary

_{THIS TIME IT'S WAR... BETWEEN THE CREATURES THEMSELVES.}

_{The Alien queen is dead, the hive mind left to flounder... and on a world bereft of its only guiding force, a schism is now taking place: two strains of Alien, formerly united by one all-powerful mother, divide their forces for world-shattering, acid-drenched war.}

_{On Earth athletes are flocking to the Goodwill Games. But some come with a deadly new tool; a drug called Fire, distilled from the very essence of Alien body chemistry.}

_{The military wants it. Pharmaceutical kingpin Daniel Grant wants it. But the only place the essential ingredient can be found is on that terrible world, convulsed by Alien holocaust...}

_{AND HUMAN GREED WILL ONCE MORE SEND HUMANITY TO HELL.}

Alien Harvest

 1995

  Origin

_{Author: Robert Sheckley}

_{Publisher:  Bantam Spectra
Cover: John Bolton}

Publisher's Summary

_{ROYAL JELLY FROM AN ALIEN HIVE — MISSION IMPOSSIBLE!}

_​

_{Royal jelly, that most illicit of Alien by-products, is keeping Dr. Stan Myakovsky alive. A once-famous scientist fallen on hard times, Stan is fighting off the repo-men and trying hard to patent the cybernetic ant that will reinstate his reputation.}

_{Julie Lish is beautiful, mysterious, and totally amoral. She has a plan so outrageous that there might be one chance in a million to pull it off.}

_{Together they make an attempt to grab the ultimate pot of gold — royal jelly from an Alien hive. This time the humans are taking the offensive!}

Rogue

                                   1995

                                  Origin

_{Author: Sandy Schofield​
Publisher:  Bantam Spectra
Cover: John Bolton}

          Publisher's Summary

_{Escape from Charon or die in the grip of the ultimate weapon.}

_{Welcome to the former penal colony of Charon, where a labyrinth of underground tunnels offer shelter to an Alien hive. Professor Ernst Kleist rules — a paranoid tyrant who sees and hears all. His speciality is making humans disappear...}

_{Captain Joyce Palmer — instantly recognizable in her yellow Harley-Davidson cap — is bound for Charon. Only she and a few hand-picked Marines can stop Kleist in his tracks. Only they can stop the professor's most insane creation — the ROGUE.}

Labrynth

 1996

  Origin

_{Author: S. D. Perry}

_{Publisher:  Bantam Spectra
Cover: John Bolton}

Publisher's Summary

_{On the space station Innominata the infamous Dr. Paul Church has built a maze of tunnels. Church is hiding the results of his latest experiments. His aim... to bring human and alien together as one being!}

_{Colonel Dr. Tony Crespi has one ambition — to work with Church, a brilliant scientist. But one by one the men on Innominata have been dying in the attempt to meld alien and man. When Crespi finds his way to the heart of the labyrinth he discovers a chamber of horrors — will he ever be able to find a way out...?}

Music of the Spears

                                   1996

                                  Origin

_{Author: S. D. Perry
Publisher:  Bantam Spectra
Cover: John Bolton}

          Publisher's Summary

_{THE ALIEN HAS LANDED — AND HE'S CALLING YOU.}

_{New York City, 2124 and the streets are swarming with Alien Jelly addicts and homeless people. High above in air-conditioned offices the powerbrokers look down with disgust. One of them — an entertainment mogul — is planning spectacular revenge on a maniac musician.}

_{Damon Eddington will shock the world with his latest opus — the Symphony of Hate — and knows that the unique sound he seeks to personify his vision of hatred is the scream of the Alien. But where and how is he going to find that elusive razor-sharp cry? The answer lies with the man who would see Damon gain his greatest desire and at the same time meet a dramatic downfall...}

_{Together in a spirit of malevolent loathing they bring 'Mozart' back to Earth and the nightmare begins.}

Berserker

 1998

  Origin

_{Author: Steve Perry & Stephani Perry}

_{Publisher:  Bantam Books
Cover: John Bolton}

Publisher's Summary

_{DEATH OR REDEMPTION}

_​

_{It is called a Berserker team — reckless, desperate volunteers recruited by the Company to destroy Alien infestations. Based on the spaceship Nemesis, it consists of three brutal ex-cons who do all the grunt work and the Berserker itself, code-named MAX: an armed and armored exoskeleton powered by the living brain of what was once a human, configured into an unstoppable killing machine.}

_{When the Nemesis is sent to a massive space station, D.S. 949, the team finds an alien hive, the largest in history, with nearly a thousand hapless humans cocooned and incubated. The team mission: to destroy the Aliens while leaving the terminal intact. The mission seems like suicide to the bug hunters and their small support staff. And that is perfectly fine for the Company... which wants no witnesses left to the terrifying secret of D.S. 949.}

Original Sin

                                   2005

                                  Origin

_{Author: Michael Jan Friedman
Publisher:  DH Press
Cover: Stephen Youll}

          Publisher's Summary

_{THE ADVENTURES OF ELLEN RIPLEY CONTINUE!}

_​

_{Nearly three centuries ago, the Weyland-Yutani starship Nostromo investigated what appeared to be a distress call emanating from the barren planet Acheron.}

_{What the crew of the Nostromo found was an alien life form — a hideous, slavering killer, quicker and more powerful than anything they had known before. Only Warrant Officer Ellen Ripley managed to escape with her life, destroying the Nostromo rather than give the monster a chance to reach Earth.}

_{But she hadn't seen the last of the breed. Now, centuries after the death of the original Ripley, her clone has taken up the fight. And she has found, with the help of an android named Call, a brutal hired gun named Johner, and a paraplegic mechanic named Vriess, that there is more to the Alien horror than meets the eye...}

_{In this all-new Ripley novel, best-selling author Michael Jan Friedman asks the unasked questions that pierce the alien mystery to its seething acid-chamber of a heart — leaving nothing in Ripley's universe the same.}