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Alien 3

The Unproduced Screenplay by William Gibson

by Pat Cadigan
William Gibson
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The first-draft Alien screenplay by William Gibson, the founder of cyberpunk, turned into a novel by Pat Cadigan, the Hugo Award-Winning “Queen of Cyberpunk.”
William Gibson’s never-before-adapted screenplay for the direct sequel to Aliens, revealing the fates of Ripley, Newt, the synthetic Bishop, and Corporal Hicks. When the Colonial Marines vessel Sulaco docks with space station and military installation Anchorpoint, a new form of Xenomorph appears. Written by Hugo Award-winning novelist and “Queen of Cyberpunk” Pat Cadigan, based on Gibson’s never-produced first draft. 
The Sulaco—on its return journey from LV-426—enters a sector controlled by the “Union of Progressive Peoples,” a nation-state engaged in an ongoing cold war and arms race. U.P.P. personnel board the Sulaco and find hypersleep tubes with Ripley, Newt, and an injured Hicks. A Facehugger attacks the lead commando, and the others narrowly escape, taking what remains of Bishop with them. 
The Sulaco continues to Anchorpoint, a space station and military installation the size of a small moon, where it falls under control of the military’s Weapons Division. Boarding the Sulaco, a team of Colonial Marines and scientists is assaulted by a pair of Xenomorph drones. In the fight Ripley's cryotube is badly damaged. It’s taken aboard Anchorpoint, where Ripley is kept comatose. Newt and an injured Corporal Hicks are awakened, and Newt is sent to Gateway Station on the way to Earth. The U.P.P. sends Bishop to Anchorpoint, where Hicks begins to hear rumors of experimentation—the cloning and genetic modification of Xenomorphs. 
The kind of experimentation that could yield a monstrous hybrid, and perhaps even a Queen.
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    August 31, 2021

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      • ISBN: 9781789097535

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      December 21, 2021
      After the film Aliens (1986) was a smash hit, the studio began planning a follow-up. One of the writers who turned in a draft script for the third Aliens movie was William Gibson, the SF writer credited with launching the cyberpunk genre. While his version of Aliens 3 never got made, his script did get turned into a graphic novel and an audio production, both in 2019. Now comes this full-length novel, written by cyberpunk author Cadigan. The story, as concocted by Gibson, follows on from the end of Aliens: the ship containing the survivors of that film winds up at a massive space station, and mayhem ensues, with a large cast of characters and lots of running and screaming. Some of Cadigan's choices might irk hardcore Aliens fans (such as referring to Ripley as a "crazy cat-lady"), but overall it's a solid entry in the Aliens tie-in series that expands the fictional universe in a meaningful way and offers readers a chance to reacquaint themselves with some favorite characters.

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