The first-draft Alien screenplay by William Gibson the founder of cyberpunk turned into a
novel by Pat Cadigan the Hugo Award-Winning "Queen of Cyberpunk." William Gibson's
never-before-adapted screenplay for the direct sequel to Aliens revealing the fates of Ripley
Newt the synthetic Bishop and Corporal Hicks. When the Colonial Marines vessel Sulaco docks
with space station and military installation Anchorpoint a new form of Xenomorph appears.
Written by Hugo Award-winning novelist and "Queen of Cyberpunk" Pat Cadigan based on Gibson's
never-produced first draft. The Sulaco --on its return journey from LV-426--enters a sector
controlled by the "Union of Progressive Peoples " a nation-state engaged in an ongoing cold war
and arms race. U.P.P. personnel board the Sulaco and find hypersleep tubes with Ripley Newt
and an injured Hicks. A Facehugger attacks the lead commando and the others narrowly escape
taking what remains of Bishop with them. The Sulaco continues to Anchorpoint a space station
and military installation the size of a small moon where it falls under control of the
military's Weapons Division. Boarding the Sulaco a team of Colonial Marines and scientists is
assaulted by a pair of Xenomorph drones. In the fight Ripley's cryotube is badly damaged. It's
taken aboard Anchorpoint where Ripley is kept comatose. Newt and an injured Corporal Hicks are
awakened and Newt is sent to Gateway Station on the way to Earth. The U.P.P. sends Bishop to
Anchorpoint where Hicks begins to hear rumors of experimentation--the cloning and genetic
modification of Xenomorphs. The kind of experimentation that could yield a monstrous hybrid
and perhaps even a Queen. ALIEN 3 TM & (c) Twentieth Century Films. All rights reserved.
