Ripley drifted into space by putting herself into hypersleep. This was after the demolition of the Nostromo in the first Alien film. Ardent followers of the Alien series understand that it took 57 years between Alien and Aliens. However, author Tim Lebbon has effectively placed this story in the middle, which bridged the timeline between these two periods. He successfully bridged the timeline gap, which makes a lot of sense for readers.
This is the third book of the Audible Original, Alien audio series. It starts where the second book ends and follows the same storyline.
Some directors may be tempted to just take up this novel to produce a straight-up audiobook. But Director Dirk Maggs has other plans. He has crafted one of the best audio production for Alien books within the past decade. He used a wide range of musical score and sound effects that correctly befits and represents the characters within the book.
While Dirk Maggs was responsible for most part of the audio production, the narrators also did an exceptionally great job on the book.
7 narrators worked on this story to make it the unique piece everyone appreciates. Laurel Lefkow voices Ripley in the audiobook while author Corey Johnson represents engineering Hooper. What is even more intriguing is the relationship between the two major characters, as they formed a clique to fight off the alien threat.
Laurel Lefkow also showed his own narrative class with near-perfect narration of the speech patterns, inflection, and tone of Allen Ripley. He represented the character absolutely well. Anyone listening will be able to correctly relate Allen’s speech pattern with his actual character role in the book.
