History Literature / AlienOutOfTheShadows

** A small but important detail is the harpoon gun Ripley used when killing Kane's Son, which got wedged under the hatch of her escape shuttle, and it can still be seen stuck there in the opening of ''Film/{{Aliens}}'', thus people coming and going inside the ship as described in this novel should've removed it.
** A major source of complication is that Ripley's escape shuttle has only one hypersleep chamber meaning that an escape attempt with more than one individual is very hard, even though in the original movie it's observable that the ''Narcissus'' has two cryotubes.

* AudioPlay: The trilogy has been adapted into "Audible Original Audio Dramas," with score, sound effects, and a pretty impressive cast bringing the stories to life. These include Creator/AlexanderSiddig as Doctor Reese, Creator/RutgerHauer as Ash, and Laurel Lefkow doing a nearly-flawless impression of Creator/SigourneyWeaver as Ellen Ripley.

* DungeonCrawling: Ripley and the ''Marion'' crew venturing through then mines, derelict, and alien city is basically one of these, complete with random encounters.

* INeedAFreakingDrink: Hoop makes sure to grab a bottle of bourbon for his last-ditch plan to escape the ''Marion''. "Heavy, impractical, and absolutely necessary." Even when dropping the bottle would easily save him from being blown out into space, he hangs on to it.
-->''Fuck you!'' his mind screamed. ''Fuck you! If I survive, I'm going to want a drink!''

* InsectoidAliens: The Xenomorphs are repeatedly compared to eusocial insects, not only due to their exoskeletons but their hive-building behaviour and caste system - the ''Marion'' crew encounter and kill a young Queen, and the mercenaries hired by Weyland-Yutani in ''Sea of Sorrows'' encounter a fully-grown one.

* MythologyGag: In ''Out of the Shadows'', Dallas is referred to as Ripley's lover. A deleted scene had Ripley propositioning Dallas for sex, because she "just needs a release." Ridley Scott had also intended to make it explicit that pretty much everyone on the ''Nostromo'' had been sexually involved with pretty much everyone else on the ''Nostromo'', [[EveryoneIsBi regardless of gender]] (Ash being the obvious exception). The ''Marion'' crew make a few half-joking references to passing the ridiculous amount of time they'll be spending in Ripley's very cramped shuttle by having lots of sex ([[TheMedic Kasyanov]] even packs contraceptives for the trip [[spoiler:when it's down to just her, Hoop, and Ripley]]).

** In ''Sea of Sorrows'', one of the mercenaries examines a dead Xenomorph and declares it to be "[[Franchise/{{Predator}} an ugly motherfucker]]."

* DungeonCrawl: Ripley and the ''Marion'' crew venturing through then mines, derelict, and alien city is basically one of these, complete with random encounters.

** When Ripley sees the inside of the ''Samson'' she tells the crew of the ''Marion'' that's how the ''Nostromo'' was starting to look. This implies that the most notable added scene of the Director's Cut, Ripley finding Dallas cocooned to the wall as the Alien started building a nest, happened.

** A small but important detail is the harpoon gun Ripley used when killing Kane's Son, which got wedged under the hatch of her escape shuttle, and it can still be seen stuck there in the opening of ''Film/{{Aliens}}'', thus people coming and going inside the ship as described in this novel should've removed it from there.