Alien - A Novel

This novelization by Alan Dean Foster adapts the 1979 science fiction horror film, which Dan O'Bannon wrote. Its story follows the seven-person crew of the Nostromo, a commercial freighter that is brought out of cryogenic sleep after receiving a set of distress calls from a remote world.

While exploring that world, one of the crew members is attacked after entering the wreck of an unidentified alien vessel. The ship then turns toward home, and the crew believes the worst is behind them, though the threat they have brought aboard has not yet shown itself.