In the weeks before Aliens, wildcatters Anne and Russell Jorden survey the moon Acheron with their children Newt and Tim, unaware that Weyland-Yutani has steered them straight toward a derelict alien ship. As Colonial Marine captain Demian Brackett's small security detail arrives to protect the fledgling colony of Hadley's Hope, the settlement's slow unraveling begins, and only one of them will live to tell of it.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Placement
- Out of the Shadows — #3
- contained in The Shadow Archiveomnibus