Fury 161 is a wretched planet – a penal colony and industrial complex manned by violent prisoners. When an escape pod from the USS Sulaco crash-lands there, Ellen Ripley appears to be the only passenger left alive. <br> <br> Then inmates begin to die, all at the hands of another survivor. A creature which encounters Ripley, and spares her life! Desperate to know why, she seeks out an answer – and discovers terror unlike any she’s ever known. <br> <br> Science fiction master Alan Dean Foster returns to the <i>Alien</i> universe to reveal the ultimate destinies of Ellen Ripley and her eternal foe, the xenomorph known as the Alien.