The story is available in various formats, including a highly-rated featuring a full cast on Audible . Alien: Out of the Shadows - Goodreads
: To preserve the timeline of the films, Ripley's memories of these horrific events are wiped by the ship's medical pod.
: Most of the crew is whittled down by the aliens during the mission. A scientist named Sneddon sacrifices herself to kill a Xenomorph just as a chestburster emerges.
During the chaos, the Marion picks up a distress signal from the Narcissus , the escape shuttle carrying . Ripley is brought aboard, but her arrival is complicated by the fact that she has unknowingly been kept in stasis for decades by Ash , the malevolent synthetic from the Nostromo whose AI consciousness survived and uploaded itself into her shuttle's systems. Desperate Escape
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