Aliens: Vasquez is a 2022 novel written by V. Castro and published by Titan Books. It functions as an origin story depicting the background and life of Jenette Vasquez, her fateful mission to Hadley's Hope in Aliens, and the investigation into her disappearance. It was first released in hardback form on October 25, 2022.
As well as standard print editions, the novel was simultaneously released in audiobook format, read by Lauren Rodriguez and published by Blackstone Audio.
Publisher's summary[]
A groundbreaking Latinx Aliens novel by a rising star Latina author, featuring the fan-favorite character PFC Jenette Vasquez from the hit movie Aliens and the family she is forced to leave behind.
For the very first time, the canonical background of the breakout Aliens hero Jenette Vasquez, as well as the story of the children she was forced to leave behind as written by the rising Latina horror star V. Castro (Queen of the Cicadas).
Even before the doomed mission to Hadley’s Hope on LV-426, Jenette Vasquez had to fight to survive. Born to an immigrant family with a long military tradition, she looked up to the stars, but life pulled her back down to Earth—first into a street gang, then prison. The Colonial Marines proved to be Vasquez’s way out—a way that forced her to give up her twin children. Raised by Jenette’s sister, those children, Leticia and Ramon, had to discover their own ways to survive. Leticia by following her mother’s path into the military, Ramon into the corporate hierarchy of Weyland-Yutani. Their paths would converge on an unnamed planet which some see as a potential utopia, while others would use it for highly secretive research. Regardless of whatever humans might have planned for it, however, Xenomorphs will turn it into a living hell.[1]
Audiobook[]
Blackstone Audio produced an unabridged audiobook of Aliens: Vasquez, read by Lauren Rodriguez. The audiobook runs for 11 hours 29 minutes and was released on November 8, 2022.
Trivia[]
- Despite claiming to be the very first time Vasquez's background prior to Aliens has ever been explored, Vasquez's history was already detailed in the book Alien: The Weyland-Yutani Report and the Aliens: Bug Hunt anthology short story Blowback.
- The idea of incorporating a pyramid, as described in the novel Aliens: Vasquez, is remarkably similar to Dan O'Bannon's original concept for Alien, in which Eggs were discovered inside a similar style pyramid, later dubbed the Egg Silo. Similar pyramidic structures that contained an alien threat were also featured in the 1990 comic book short story Aliens: Advent/Terminus, the 2004 feature film Alien vs. Predator, the 2012 feature film Prometheus, and the 2020 comic book adaptation Alien: The Original Screenplay.
See also[]
- Aliens: Bishop - A similar novel that explores the history and legacy of another character from the 1986 film Aliens, Lance Bishop.
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