On board the spaceship "Auriga" something that is simply impossible to imagine happens - Ellen Ripley wakes up. The last thing she remembers is her own death in the fire on the prison planet Fiorina 161. And yet she lives, becoming even stronger, even more fierce... becoming OTHER. Ripley discovers that military scientists have learned to breed xenomorphs - eerie creatures with which she is now somehow telepathically connected. And now the Charioteer and its nightmarish passengers are heading straight for Earth...Based on a script by Joss Whedon, acclaimed writer E.C. Crispin has created a novel that concludes the famous Aliens film tetralogy, forever changing the saga of Ellen Ripley, the sole survivor of the Nostromo. .