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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