Título: Alien 3: The Unproduced Screenplay by William Gibson
Autor: Pat Cadigan, William Gibson
Sinopse: 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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Contexto da obra
Como livro em inglês, esta obra costuma ganhar também uma camada própria de interesse editorial e linguístico. “Alien 3: The Unproduced Screenplay by William Gibson”, de Pat Cadigan, William Gibson, publicado pela editora Titan Books, em 2022 e com 432 páginas, integra a categoria Livros em Inglês. Por isso, o interesse da obra tende a se ampliar quando o leitor considera também a relação com a língua em que ela circula.
Editora: Titan Books
Páginas: 432
Ano: 2022-12-06
Edição: Media tie-in
Linguagem: en
ISBN: 1803361131
ISBN13: 9781803361130
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Titan Books apresentam uma forte inclinação para narrativas que exploram o fantástico, o terror e a ficção científica, frequentemente ambientados em universos sombrios e repletos de mistérios. A experiência de leitura costuma envolver um ritmo tenso e envolvente, com histórias que misturam elementos sobrenaturais, como criaturas alienígenas, vampiros e forças ocultas, e tramas que desafiam a realidade, como clonagem, possessão e guerras cósmicas. O catálogo sugere obras que transitam entre o suspense investigativo e o horror psicológico, com personagens que enfrentam dilemas morais e situações extremas, muitas vezes em cenários urbanos ou futuristas.
