It wasn’t until I read Foster’s novelization, however, that I full understood everything my young eyes had seen. At this point, I had already seen Scott’s film on VHS – after begging my mother to rent it from the local video store. “Kane, answer me,” Dallas’ voice came from above, but from down below, there was no reply.Īlan Dean Foster‘s novelization of Ridley Scott’s 1979 film Alien was the first full-length adult science fiction novel that I remember reading. Must get it off! It was pushing at his mouth, tight around skull, tube down throat, can’t breathe… The faceplate was dissolving! The creature was through the plate. The weaving tube in the palm’s center was stroking the glass. Too late! The thing’s fingers gripped his faceplate. Then, the ovoid sprang at him, exploded at him with the energy contained in that coiled tail. And the eye moved it stared right back at him.
Disgusting! But if that was an eye and not some slimy excrescence… he moved closer to take a look. There, on the back, was a dim, convex shape like a glazed over eye. Something like a short tube protruded from the palm and something like a tail was coiled beneath the base of the hand. The thing looked like the hand of a skeleton with many fingers curled into the palm.
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