Alien

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Overview:

Title: Alien
Author: Alan Dean Foster
Year: 1996
ISBN-10: 8845227642
Publisher: Bompiani
Price: Lit 13,000
Pages: 214
Binding: Trade Paperback
Type: Novel
Title Reference: Alien
Notes: Copyright page states: 1st edition. A dedication is printed on p. [5]. The cover image is a still from the movie Alien (1979), directed by Ridley Scott. The back cover claims that this is the book from which Scott's film was taken; the truth is the opposite: the book is a novelisation from Dan O'Bannon's script, but a number of Italian reviewers believed the claim.