Best alien novels + comics?

Assimilated_Xenomorph

Although im a huge fan of the alien franchise, I have never actually read any of the novels or books.

Which ones are worth me buying?

ninXeno426

Hello Assimilated_Xenomorph.I haven't read to many,but some i would recommend are The Fire and Stone series.AVP:Prey is also quite good.Aliens Earth Hive,Nighmare Asylum.and The Female are a trilogy.They're both in novel and comic form.

Dr. Curt Connors

Glad somebody started this thread, I was just thinking about this earlier today. I haven't read any of the books either. Thanks ninXeno426 I shall write those down.

ninXeno426

They're all good.I'm currently reading Aliens Fire and Stone online.The Prometheus one was quite good too.

ninXeno426

Another one I have is Aliens:Alien Harvest.Haven't read it yet.

Dr. Curt Connors

Cool, writing that one down as well

ninXeno426

That would be the extant of what I've read.For comics there's plenty of sites online where you can read for free.Some books i hear come highly recommended are Out of the Shadows,Sea of Sorrow,and River of Pain.I guess they span a lot of the time between Alien and Aliens,and are official canon.

Dr. Curt Connors

@ninXeno426   Cool, thanks

S.M

Old stuff

The original Nicks & Newt trilogy Book 1, Book 2 and Earth War (before they got changed to Wilks and Billie).  Earth War can be a struggle but worth it to finish the story off.

Labyrinth

Berserker

AvP (original series)

Salvation

Sacrifice

Alchemy

Stronghold

New stuff

Anything from Fire & Stone onwards

ninXeno426

No problem Dr. Curt Connors.If there's any more i can think of I'll post them here.

ninXeno426

S.M. the guy to ask.He's read everything i think.S.M. would you recommend Newts Story?

Dr. Curt Connors

Sweet

ninXeno426

Alien:Steel egg.That one is an Alien prequel.Aliens:Original Sin is a Resurrection sequel.

Dr. Curt Connors

Ah an Alien prequel, that's pretty cool.

ninXeno426

I haven't read it either.ali81 said it was intriguing.I've been trying to get it for years.

Dr. Curt Connors

Cool, I'm gonna have to see which ones I can find.

S.M

I wasn't that fussed about Newt's Tale or Steel Egg.  Or Original Sin for that matter.  The latter is interesting for a glimpse of what the further adventures of the good ship Betty might look like, but the story didn't really do it for me.

ninXeno426

Okay.Thanks S.M.

Starlogger

I'm enjoying "Alien: out of the shadows". It appears to be a link between Alien and "Aliens" but i'm not sure it really makes sense as such. Anyone read that?

If there is anyone here that can give a "chronological" list of novels out there in the Alien Universe, I'd REALLY appreciate that. I'm not a comic fan, but, if you indicate which are comics, it might help someone else...

thanks!

ninXeno426

S.M. can probably do that for you.

S.M

Out Of The Shadows is set 37 years after Alien.  Things to more or less work out if you're willing to suspend some disbelief.

Rough book timeline (canon* and non-canon). I generally prefer the dates in the comics over the books based on them so some dates might be a bit off.

Steel Egg (mid 21st century)

Prometheus (2093)

Covenant (2104-ish)

Alien (2122)

Out of the Shadows (2139)*

Aliens (2179)

River of Pain (concurrent with Aliens)*

Alien 3 (2179)

Earth Hive (2192)

AvP: Prey (2192)

Berserker (2193)

AvP: War (2193)

Nightmare Asylum (2194)

Female War (2196)

Rogue (?)

Genocide (2217-ish)

Harvest (?)

Labyrinth (2220s)

Music of the Spears (2220s)

Cauldron, DNA War, No Exit, Criminal Enterprise (all undated from memory, but likely sometime in 23rd century)

Alien Resurrection (2381)

Original Sin (2386)

Sea of Sorrows (2496-2497)*

The Rage War trilogy (2692)*

ninXeno426

Of course that's not all canon correct?

S.M

Asterisked stuff is currently canon.

Stuff with question marks I don't have an exact date handy, but they occur around that time.

ninXeno426

Thanks again S.M. 

S.M

No worries.

Starlogger

FANTASTIC list, SM! Thank you so much!