Alien

My latest book from the library is Alien: The Official Movie Novelization by Alan Dean Foster.

Everyone will remember the movie on which the book is based: Alien ...

a 1979 science-fiction horror film directed by Ridley Scott and written by Dan O'Bannon. Based on a story by O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett, it follows the crew of the commercial space tug Nostromo who encounter the eponymous Alien, a deadly and aggressive extraterrestrial set loose on the ship. The film stars Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton ....

It was met with critical acclaim and box office success, winning the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects, three Saturn Awards (Best Science Fiction Film, Best Direction for Scott, and Best Supporting Actress for Cartwright), and a Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, along with numerous other nominations. It has been consistently praised in the years since its release, and is considered one of the greatest films of all time. In 2002, Alien was deemed "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress and was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.

I wanted to see the movie when it first came out. My sister was too scared to go with me, so I went with our friend Steve. My favorite character in the movie was the captain of the spacecraft, Dallas, played by Tom Skerritt. Sadly, he was one of the earliest of the crew to be eaten by the alien. In this scene below, the crew is searching the ship for the deadly creature, last seen as the size of a small lizard. Little did they know that it had quickly grown in size ...



And there's a cat ... Jonesy. Here's a scene in which one of the crew members is searching for the cat (don't worry, Jonesy is one of the two survivors by the end of the film) ...



This is right where I am in the book, so still some scary stuff ahead :)