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Alien Books in Order: Every Novel by In-Universe Year - Vertical View

This list places every Alien novel, novelization and anthology in the order its story takes place. Each entry shows the in-universe year and the release date. The current Titan Books novels come first. Older novels such as Aliens: Earth Hive and Aliens: Nightmare Asylum follow in a separate legacy list, as they sit outside today's canon. Switch to the detailed view to read the synopsis of each story.

See also: Which Alien books are canon?

Older Alien novels (legacy)

These 24 stories come from the older expanded universe, outside today's canon (how the site defines canon). They are listed in story order.

  1. Aliens: Steel Egg (2007), set around 2090
  2. Alien: Tales of Terror (1991), set in 2122
  3. Jonesy: Nine Lives on the Nostromo (2018), set in 2122
  4. Perfect Organism: An Alien: Isolation Companion (2024), set in 2137
  5. Cyberantics (1992), set in 2172
  6. Aliens: Bug Hunt (2017), set around 2179
  7. Alien 3: The Unproduced Screenplay by William Gibson (2021), set around 2183
  8. Aliens: Berserker (1998), set around 2192
  9. Aliens: Tribes (1992), set around 2192
  10. Aliens: Earth Hive (1992), set around 2192
  11. Aliens: Nightmare Asylum (1993), set around 2194
  12. Aliens: The Female War (1993), set around 2194
  13. Aliens: Alien Harvest (1995), set around 2195
  14. Aliens: Rogue (1995), set around 2198
  15. Aliens: Music of the Spears (1996), set around 2203
  16. Aliens: Genocide (1993), set around 2213
  17. Aliens: No Exit (2008), set around 2218
  18. Aliens: Labyrinth (1996), set around 2223
  19. Aliens: Criminal Enterprise (2008), set around 2250
  20. Alien Resurrection: The Official Junior Novelization (1997), set in 2381
  21. Alien: Augmented Reality Survival Manual (2017), set around 2381
  22. Aliens: Original Sin (2005), set around 2381
  23. Aliens: DNA War (2006), set around 2385
  24. Aliens: Cauldron (2007), set around 2500