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Alien: Covenant

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Alien: Covenant

Auteur(s): Alan Dean Foster
Narrateur(s): Tom Taylorson
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Ridley Scott returns to the universe he created with Alien: Covenant, a new chapter in his groundbreaking Alien adventure. The crew of the colony ship Covenant, bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, discovers what they think is an uncharted paradise. But it is actually a dark, dangerous world.

©2017 Alan Dean Foster (P)2017 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Aventure En lien avec un film, série, jeu vidéo Fantastique Fiction Fiction de genre Science-fiction
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I enjoyed the movie and I enjoyed the Novel. I hope we get the third story.

It’s Alien

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The book was amazing, it was like watching the movie in HD. The narrator had me on the edge of my seat the whole time, I loved it

I give the book 10/10

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overall, it's very enjoyable and better than the movie. But it's a flawed story to begin with. Well read and full of energy and enthusiasm. Very enjoyable audio book. that said, distressed females sound like Mickey mouse. it's distracting. pulls you out of the story. but because most of the read is excellent, it's not a deal breaker. not for me. maybe for you? you've been warned.

Distressed females sound like Mickey Mouse.

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Everything is great until Tom has to do some distressed female dialogue. Here he sounds awkward and borderline awful, no offense to him! The narrator actually has a great voice most of the time and does a great job overall with the performance. Aside from this one distracting aspect this is a great listen! Just like the movie but novelized.

Tom Taylorson

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The story is really good, but the narrator somehow managed to make the characters’ voices come alive in a good way

Great story and even better narration

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Differences between the movie and the book. Performance is 4 stars. A Must Listen for Alien Fans craving more Alien Lore.
New Adaptions and hybrids by The Aliens results in a more formidable and deadly opponent….

Good Alien Universe Adaption

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The story is the same as the movie but some details help flesh it out a bit.

The reader is fine for general narration and male characters and even the female characters are fine until he has a situation where they're in distress, need to yell, or even raise their voice. At that point it's jarring how badly he handles those and it tears you out of the experience.

Worth the listen, just be mindful of that tripping point.

Lovey story, issues with narrator

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I gather that there's a film on which this novelization is based.. but I've never seen it. If this interpretation is accurate, however, it's undeniably fun.
First of all: I love the entire Alien(TM) concept: a super-aggressive armored insectile creature with organic acid for blood that uses host species to gestate its horrible, murderous young? Yes, please.
Alan Dean Foster does a nice job of building on that paradigm - although not flawlessly - in this book version of a Ridley Scott concept. The story follows the crew of a starship - loaded with 2,000 colonists in hypersleep - awakened next to a dead (xenomorph-devastated) world by an unforeseen solar storm. The book is fun, rollercoaster-ride action-packed, and philosophically contemplative. It also reaches a bit too high for "literature" status, unfortunately - failing to recognize that it's *supposed to be* a silly romp. Foster reaches a smidge too high.

As to presentation: This might be the best reading performance that I've heard from Tom Taylorson. He's undeniably professional in every project that he joins, but his interested tone in narrating this book is truly outstanding. "Distressed females sound like Mickey Mouse" is funny-'cause-it's-true, but the voice-acting overall is impressive.

Altogether, I give 'Alien: Covenant' 8 stars out of 10. Some of Foster's character development is pedestrian and the exploration of synthetic vs. human distinctions is occasionally boring, but I am thrilled that I found the book in the 'Plus' catalog. Even when they ask for a Credit, it will be worth it for 'Alien' fans.

[Note: this story largely follows fights with an almost albino variant that lacks the acid blood adaptation of the template organism - no, I never saw the film, but I like the idea. The things are still terrifying]

Great "Alien" Story

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I watched both the movie and heard this book and, having enjoyed both, found that the audiobook was better than the movie.

Better than the movie

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Very well read, decent story. Slightly different ending from the movie? It's been a while. Good nonetheless

Pretty good

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