Alien: Isolation The Novel Bursting January 2019!

[The Old One]

Isolation expansion pack.

[HuDaFuK]

According to DeCandido, "it will be about 2/3 an adaptation of the game, 1/3 Ripley family backstory."

From his Twitter.

[Perfect-Organism]

That's cool.  Ellen Ripley obviously knew the crew of the Nostromo beforehand, so maybe we'll get to see them hanging out before their fateful journey..  of course some Ripley family intrigue will be a fun read...

All this retroactive novelization gives me hope we will get a good Prometheus novel with fully expanded background, along with Shew's journey to the Engineer homeworld.

[Frosty Venom]

Sounds like we'll get some scenes of young Amanda and motherly Ellen.

A story following David and Shaw post-Prometheus is NEEDED.

[HuDaFuK]

I hope DeCandido has remembered Ripley's husband's name was supposed to be Alex

And that Amanda's middle name is supposed to be Tei

[Perfect-Organism]

Yes, it would be great if they remembered details like that and validated the odd bits of existing lore..

I would love to see a last supper scene with the nostromo crew right after Ripley bids farewell to Amanda...

[Xenomrph]

I hope DeCandido has remembered Ripley's husband's name was supposed to be Alex

And that Amanda's middle name is supposed to be Tei

Where are those details from? The supplemental crew manifest stuff from 'Alien'/'Aliens'?

Also did Isolation (the game) get those wrong?

[Perfect-Organism]

If It did, i don't want to know..

[HuDaFuK]

Where are those details from? The supplemental crew manifest stuff from 'Alien'/'Aliens'?

Also did Isolation (the game) get those wrong?

Her father's name is from Out of the Shadows. Tei comes from the novel adaption of Female War.

I don't recall either being contradicted by the game.

[SM]

Yes to the former.  The latter hasn't come up.

[Xenomrph]

Where are those details from? The supplemental crew manifest stuff from 'Alien'/'Aliens'?

Also did Isolation (the game) get those wrong?

Her father's name is from Out of the Shadows. Tei comes from the novel adaption of Female War.

I don't recall either being contradicted by the game.

Easy handwave on the father's name being contradicted: first name + middle name.

[Corporal Hicks]

Where are those details from? The supplemental crew manifest stuff from 'Alien'/'Aliens'?

Also did Isolation (the game) get those wrong?

Her father's name is from Out of the Shadows. Tei comes from the novel adaption of Female War.

I don't recall either being contradicted by the game.

If I remember rightly didn't Female War also say she was a test tube baby and Ripley had no husband?

[SM]

Original Sin said Amanda was a journo, which has about the same amount of merit.

[Corporal Hicks]

That pesky EU. 

[The Old One]

I don't know about the rest y'all but I picture test-tube human babies in Alien.