Alien: Out the Shadows

Dangerous! Ripley thinks. He’s dangerous! But though this is her dream, she cannot warn the others.

And much closer, beneath clean hospital sheets, something is forcing itself from Ripley’s chest.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

TIM LEBBON is a New York Times-bestselling writer with almost thirty novels published to date, as well as dozens of novellas and hundreds of short stories. Recent releases include Coldbrook, Into the Void: Dawn of the Jedi (Star Wars), Reaper’s Legacy, and The Sea Wolves (with Christopher Golden). Future novels include Contagion and The Silence. He has won four British Fantasy Awards, a Bram Stoker Award, and a Scribe Award.

Fox 2000 acquired film rights to The Secret Journeys of Jack London series, and his Toxic City trilogy is in development with ABC Studios. Several other novels and screenplays are also at varying stages of development.

Find out more about Tim at his website

www.timlebbon.net

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ALIEN™: OUT OF THE SHADOWS

Print edition ISBN: 9781781162682

E-book edition ISBN: 9781781162699

Published by Titan Books

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144 Southwark Street, London SE1 0UP

First edition: January 2014

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. The publisher does not have any control over and does not assume any responsibility for author or third-party websites or their content.

Copyright © 2014 by Tim Lebbon. All rights reserved.

Alien™ & © 2014 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.

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