XENOMORPH TIMELINE
Alan Dean Foster is the acclaimed author of movie tie-ins for Star Wars, Alien and Transformers. He was awarded the IAMTW Grand Master Scribe Award in 2008. He is also a best-selling science fiction and fantasy author in his own right, including the popular Pip & Flinx novels and the Founding of the Commonwealth series.
The crew of a commercial spacecraft encounters a deadly lifeform after investigating a mysterious transmission of unknown origin.
Alien (Novelization) is a book released in 1979 that takes place in 2122 in the Alien timeline. In the Alien books timeline, it comes after Alien: Covenant (Novelization) (2104) and before Aliens: Bug Hunt (2122).