Alien: Covenant – The Official Movie Novelization Review

There are certain names that you just associate with Alien. The obvious ones being the likes of Ridley Scott, James Cameron, Sigourney Weaver, H.R Giger. However, for the fans out there who like to read the novels the names Steve Perry and Alan Dean Foster are just as intertwined with the series. For those who might not have ventured into the expanded universe, Alan Dean Foster was responsible for the novelizations of Alien, Aliens and Alien 3.

After the bad experience he’d had writing Alien 3, Alan Dean Foster turned down the opportunity to work on Alien Resurrection and hasn’t worked on an Alien novel since 1992. So when I saw he would be writing not only the novelization for Alien: Covenant but a completely original tie-in, I was pretty damn excited.

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