Written by Alan Dean Foster

This was a really well-written book, not like most awful movie and TV novelizations these days. I'm guessing it was written before that turned into mass market industry.

Alan Dean Foster is actually a real writer, with real talent, so this book is worth reading even if you've seen the movie- In fact it will tell you a lot more stuff not told, or only briefly mentioned in the movie, and you get to know the other characters better, besides Ripley.

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Novels featuring Pip and Flinx

Philip Lynx (Flinx) is a fictional character, an adventurous young man with unusual qualities in a series of books set in the "Humanx Commonwealth".

* For Love of Mother-Not (1983)
* The Tar-Aiym Krang (1972)
* Orphan Star (1977)
* The End of the Matter (1977)
* Flinx in Flux (1988)
* Mid-Flinx (1995)
* Reunion (2001)
* Flinx's Folly (2003)
* Sliding Scales (2004)
* Running from the Deity (2005)
* Bloodhype (1973)
* Trouble Magnet (2006)
* Patrimony (2007)
* Flinx Transcendent (2009)

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Spellsinger is a series of fantasy novels written by Alan Dean Foster. At present the series consists of eight books, and although there was a significant gap between the writing of book six and book seven, it seems unlikely that any more will be written.

These volumes are:

Spellsinger (1983)
The Hour of the Gate (1984)
The Day of the Dissonance (1984)
The Moment of the Magician (1984)
The Paths of the Perambulator (1985)
The Time of the Transference (1987)
Son of Spellsinger (1993)
Chorus Skating (1994)