XENOMORPH TIMELINE
Alien Resurrection (Novelization) is a book released in 1997. Its story takes place in 2381, right after Alien Resurrection (2381). In the Alien books timeline, it comes after Aliens: Infiltrator (2202) and before Alien: The Blueprints (around 2381).
"Alien Resurrection" is the official novelization of Jean-Pierre Jeunet's 1997 film, written by A. C. Crispin and Kathleen O'Malley and first published by Warner Aspect in November 1997. Titan Books reissued it in 2015.
The story picks up 200 years after Ripley sacrificed herself for the sake of humanity. Her former employers long gone, this time it is the military that brings her back through cloning, aboard the research ship Auriga, to extract the Alien queen growing inside her. During the process her DNA is mixed with the creature's, and when the Aliens escape, Ripley must decide where her loyalties lie.
Parts of the book are told from the point of view of the clone, the Queen and other Aliens, and they make it clear that all of them share Ellen Ripley's memories.
A. C. Crispin and Kathleen O'Malley's novelization of the fourth film. Two centuries after her death, a cloned Ripley wakes aboard the Auriga, where scientists breed Aliens. Parts of the book are told from the point of view of the clone and of the Aliens.
Credits : A. C. Crispin (Author) Kathleen O'Malley (Author)