Alien: Alan Dean Foster

With a crew of seven and a cargo of two billion tons of fossil fuel, the deep space tug Nostromo crawled across the outer reaches of the galaxy. Within, the computer guided the ship and the humans slept - until Nostromo's scanners picked up a garbled distress call from a remote and long-dead planet. And all the technology of the future cannot shield them from the nightmare of today...for on that planet something stirred...Contains 8 pages of colour stills from the film of the same name.