<Li> Alien: The 35th Anniversary Edition (Blu - ray, 2014), released to mark the 35th anniversary of the release of the film, containing both a Blu - ray and a Digital HD copy, a reprint of Alien: The Illustrated Story and a series of collectible art cards containing artwork by H. R. Giger related to the film . The disk itself is the same as the respective disk on the 2010 Anthology Blu - ray release, and contains MOTHER mode, despite the lack of the required bonus disk . A reprint of the novel by Alan Dean Foster was also released, along with reprints of all other novels, with the Alien Resurrection novel available as of May 2015 . </Li> <Li> The Alien Universe box set was released exclusively through Wal - Mart on April 18, 2017, and included four limited edition poster cards designed by the Mondo art company . </Li> <P> Several novelizations of each of the six films and some comic books as well as original canonical novels based on the franchise have been released . The original novels include Alien: Out of the Shadows, Alien: Sea of Sorrows, Alien: River of Pain, marketed as the Canonical Alien Trilogy and the short story collection Aliens: Bug Hunt . Out of the Shadows and River of Pain were adapted into audio dramas in 2016 & 2017 respectively released on the Alien Day of the respective year . Alan Dean Foster published Alien: Covenant--Origins, a novel set between the events of Prometheus and Alien: Covenant </P> <P> Dark Horse Comics published a line based on the franchise . </P>

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