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Originally Posted by raketenjagdpanzer
Yeah, that was cyberpunk author William Gibson's treatment of an Alien3 draft. His take was that VERY early on, Ripley is injured by trigger happy Chinese soldiers who board the Sulaco when it, on autopilot, drifts into Chinese "space". They find Bishop and IIRC the inside of his hypersleep chamber is described as being like a terrarium - beaded with water and steam. As soon as they crack it open, its revealed an egg had developed in there (the how and why is explained later) and it is taken off. The Chinese rebuild Bishop, Ripley (comatose due to the weapons fire) is put in the infirmary, Newt is stuck in an office somewhere and Hicks bands together with some less-than-communistically-correct soldiers to rescue her once it comes clear that due to some around-fucking by Chinese scientists the Xenomorphs can now reproduce by virus. If you get the Alien "goo" on you, you'll turn in to one.
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I've watched Aliens @ least 50 times and Gibson's Sprawl Trilogy is probably my favorite Sci-Fi work ever. The idea of a Gibson-penned Aliens sequel (instead of the disappointing one that ended up getting made) is mind-blowingly awesome. I've never read/heard about this before? Why didn't it go through?