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**THE ADVENTURES OF ELLEN RIPLEY CONTINUE!**

Nearly three centuries ago, the Weyland-Yutani starship _Nostromo_

investigated what appeared to be a distress call emanating from the barren

planet Acheron.

What the crew of the _Nostromo_ found was an alien life form -- a hideous,

slavering killer, quicker and more powerful than anything they had known

before. Only Warrant Officer Ellen Ripley managed to escape with her life,

destroying the _Nostromo_ rather than give the monster a chance to reach

Earth.

But she hadn't seen the last of the breed. Now, centuries after the death of

the original Ripley, her clone has taken up the fight. And she has found, with

the help of an android named Call, a brutal hired gun named Johner, and a

paraplegic mechanic named Vriess, that there is more to the alien horror than

meets the eye...

_In this all-new Ripley novel, best selling author Michael Jan Friedman asks

the unasked questions that pierce the alien mystery to its seething acid-

chamber of a heart -- leaving nothing in Ripley's universe the same._