The Alien Quartet: A Bloomsbury Movie Guide

This book details many different aspects of the Alien films: the different directors, the making of the films, the themes, the actors, the tensions on the set-indeed, everything anyone could possibly want to know about them. Written by the great film critic, David Thompson, the book is also a passionate, quirky, and very funny as well as informative.

About the Author: David Thompson, born and educated in London, now lives in San Francisco. He writes regularly for both the U.S. edition of Esquire and the Independent on Sunday in London. He is also known for his biographies--Showman: The Life of David O. Selnick and Rosebud: The Story of Orson Wells--for three remarkable 'fictions' that are derived from the screen--Suspects, Silver Light and Warren Beatty and Desert Eyes--and for A Biographical Dictionary of Film, which is now in its third edition. His most recent book is Beneath Mulholland, a collection of essays, and he is also the author of 4-2 (from Bloomsbury), a memoir on growing up as a soccer fan, based on the 1966 World Cup final.

The Book of Alien

In 1979, a movie was released that was to capture the imagination of the world, and become a science fiction classic — Alien. 25 years later, the Alien franchise is stronger than ever!

The Book of Alien is the definitive companion to the movie, which celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2004. Taking you right behind the scenes of the production, there are interviews with the key people involved, including legendary designer HR Giger and director Ridley Scott.

Lavishly illustrated with scores of stunning design paintings, production art and film stills unpublished elsewhere, the book covers every creative stage of the landmark film.

Aliens: Alien Harvest - Pocketbook

This time the humans are taking the offensive! Stan Myakovsky is a once-famous scientist fallen on hard times. Now he dodges spaceship repo men and dreams of the marketability of his cybernetic ant. Then a woman named Julie Lish walks into his life. She is beautiful, mysterious, and totally amoral. She is also skilled in the arts of thievery and Oriental self-defense. What's more, she has a plan so outrageous there might be one chance in a million to pull it off.

Together Stan and Julie become the most unlikely pair of pirates in the universe. With a hijacked spaceship and a crew of hardcase misfits, they're searching for the ultimate pot of gold at the end of a bloody intergalactic rainbow: royal jelly from an alien hive.

The only problem is that the fortune lies on the universe's most godforsaken planet. And once they get their hands on it, the'll have to fight their way past the aliens to get off the planet alive.

Aliens: DNA War - Paperback

In an inhospitable galaxy, the planet Rosamond 6 seems to have everything needed for human habitation: a moon, an atmosphere, a thriving biosystem. But although it looks like an oasis, it harbors a fatal secret: murderous aliens bent on wiping out every life form in their path.

Anthropologist Jocasta Malvaux is eager to prove her theory that the aliens can be reasoned with, so she sets up an observation post on Rosamond 6. Amazingly, when the monsters become aware of Malvaux and her expedition, they don't attack.

What's the reason behind the aliens' seeming lack of interest in the humans? Are they evolving? Or are they simply lying in wait?

Expanding on Ridley Scott's classic film, "Aliens: DNA War" continues the chilling saga of the intrepid men and women who fight to stay alive against an opponent that sleeps, breathes, and breeds with just one goal: to kill.