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Alien: Prototype

Written by: Tim Waggoner
Narrated by: Sarah Mollo-Christensen
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When an industrial spy steals a Xenomorph egg, former Colonial Marine Zula Hendricks must prevent an alien from killing everyone on an isolated colony planet.

Venture, a direct rival to the Weyland-Yutani corporation, will accept any risk to crush the competition. Thus, when a corporate spy "acquires" a bizarre, leathery egg from a hijacked vessel, she takes it directly to the Venture testing facility on Jericho 3.

Though unaware of the danger it poses, the scientists there recognize their prize's immeasurable value. Early tests reveal little, however, and they come to an inevitable conclusion. They need a human test subject....

Enter Zula Hendricks.

A member of the Jericho 3 security staff, Colonial Marines veteran Zula Hendricks has been tasked with training personnel to deal with anything the treacherous planet can throw their way. Yet nothing can prepare them for the horror that appears - a creature more hideous than any Zula has encountered before.

Unless stopped, it will kill every human being on the planet.

©2019 Alien and Aliens TM & © 2019 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation (P)2019 Blackstone Publishing

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Not bad

Despite what many of the other reviews claim: this title wasn't bad. It is true that Waggoner's ability to create characters is seemingly limited by comparison to Alex White's latest contributions to the Alien franchise; but, the book was still entertaining. It was interesting to witness the deadliest killing machine in sci-fi history reach a whole new level of dangerous. Solid enough book.

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Almost perfect

Really good, but suffered from unnecessary woke details in some scenes. Didn't follow the rules of Chekovs gun; if it doesn't add anything to the story, don't include it. Early on a character is described as being trans, for quite literally no reason. Zula also blames a lot on racism/sexism despite it never coming up; and characters have good reason not to trust her judgement based on backstory.

Horror was good, the alien being mutated was a more unique premise. Was also very neat to see some scenes on its perspective. Though some of its actions and biology aren't consistent with established Alien lore.

Overall it was a good experience, the parts that were actually Alien fit mostly well; but some failings on either the Author or Editor keep it from being perfect. I'd likely listen to one of the other Alien audiobooks like Out of The Shadows before coming back to this.

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An Exciting Variation

Just when you think you have the Xenomorphs figured out... they throw us another curve ball.

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I love this story and the narration, amazing.

The story is awesome as always but this narrator is so talented. Love her work. Thankyou!

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Enjoyable

The story was more enjoyable than expected compared to other books in the series. Good overall action.

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awesome

I really liked the way it explains s out the alien and how and why it is the way it is

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Not a lot of surprises

A typical book of this variety. Quite predictable but still entertaining enough to take your mind off the world for a while.

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Just average.

No main characters.
Descriptions of what the alien is doing always seemed unclear.
Not a terrible book.
But only memorable for the hybrid type of alien.

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I got to chapter three and realized I had no idea what was going on because the narrator is so monotonous I zoned out. shes quite robotic and there's no emotion which made interactions with Xenomorphs boring.

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ok scifi horror story, BAD Alien story

This was a rough go thru. Not from Sarah reading it, she did a fantastic job. Tim should never write another Alien novel again. He did a poor job explaining the Xenomorphs abilities and made up alot of facts that earnt part of the Alien lore. apparently the Xenomorph can just make eggs out of thin air. They aquire the dominant traits of its host, not diseases or anything like that. Also using the term Necromorph is taken from Dead Space. Keep calling it a Xenomorph. The only thing that was written well was the see thru wall in one of the colonists rooms. But even that was done half assed and could have been more scary and dramatic. Good thing this was a free listen because I would want my money back.

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