Aliens: Nightmare Asylum

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Aliens: Nightmare Asylum
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Paperback edition
Author Steve Perry
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Genre Science fiction
Publisher Bantam Books
Publication date
April 1, 1993
Media typePrint (Paperback)
Pages277 pp
ISBN 978-0553561586
Preceded by Aliens: Earth Hive  
Followed by Aliens: The Female War  

Aliens: Nightmare Asylum is the title of a sci-fi novel by Steve Perry, set in the fictional Alien movie universe. It is a sequel to Aliens: Earth Hive . [1] The book was published by Bantam Books on April 1, 1993.

Plot

Wilks, Billie, and Bueller are the last survivors of a devastating assault on the aliens' home planet. They are again refugees when they return to the Solar System, fleeing Earth's Alien infestation in a military transport that hurtles them through unknown space and an unknown destination.

They are unaware that the remote colony and military outpost they will approach is at the mercy of a general named Spears with an agenda all his own. Now Billie, Wilks, and Bueller face a new nightmare, and it is nothing they could ever have imagined: a gift of madness from an alien world, an unbalanced mind and the experiences of a mysterious pilot named Lieutenant Ellen Ripley.

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