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Aliens Books in Order

Aliens contains 16 books, published between 1990 and 2020. The first book is Earth War (1990) and the newest is Alien: The Original Screenplay (2020). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
16
Published
1990–2020
Confirmed
16 of 16 titles
Pages on record
2,494 in 9 of 16 books
Reading time
42–62 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,494 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 9 of 16 titles with a page count on record.

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Aliens is tie-in science fiction built on the Alien films, 16 catalogued books published between 1990 and 2020. Earth Hive (1992), Nightmare Asylum (1993) and The Female War (1993) form the earliest novel run, with Genocide (1993), Alien Harvest (1994), Rogue (1995), The Labyrinth (1996) and Music Of The Spears (1996) after them. Alien: The Original Screenplay (2020) is the most recent entry. Life on other planets, women soldiers and graphic novels sit among the subjects.

How many Aliens books are there?

Aliens has 16 books, released between 1990 and 2020.

Aliens Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 16 Aliens books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. Cover of Earth War, book 2 of the Aliens series (1990)
  2. Cover of Earth Hive by Steve Perry, book 3 of the Aliens series (1992)
  3. Cover of Nightmare Asylum, book 4 of the Aliens series (1993)
  4. Cover of The Female War by Steve Perry, book 5 of the Aliens series (1993)
  5. Cover of Alien Harvest, book 7 of the Aliens series (1994)
  6. Cover of Berserker by Steve Perry, book 13 of the Aliens series (1998)
  1. 2
    Earth War1990 · confirmed 3/4
    1990–
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  2. 3
    Earth Hive1992 · 278 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1992278
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  3. 4
    Nightmare Asylum1993 · 277 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1993277
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  4. 5
    The Female War1993 · 293 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1993293
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  5. 6
    Genocide1993 · 288 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1993288
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  6. 7
    Alien Harvest1994 · 296 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1994296
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  7. 8
    Rogue1995 · confirmed 3/4
    1995–
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  8. 9
    The Labyrinth1996 · 215 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1996215
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  9. 10
    Music Of The Spears1996 · 280 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1996280
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  10. 11
    Aliens: Nightmare Asylum1997 · confirmed 3/4
    1997–
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  11. 12
    Female War1997 · confirmed 3/4
    1997–
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  12. 13
    Berserker1998 · 227 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1998227
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  13. 14
    Aliens vs. Predator: Eternal1999 · confirmed 3/4
    1999–
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  14. 15
    Aliens: Fast Track to Heaven2011 · confirmed 3/4
    2011–
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  15. 16
    Alien: Phalanx2020 · 340 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2020340
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  16. 17
    Alien: The Original Screenplay2020 · confirmed 3/4
    2020–
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Aliens Books in Chronological Order

By publication date, the Aliens books run from Earth War (1990) to Alien: The Original Screenplay (2020), the sequence in the table above. No separate story order is recorded for Aliens in the book listings this catalogue merges, so publication order is the only order on record.

Where to start with Aliens

Start with Earth War (1990), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Aliens book?

Alien: The Original Screenplay (2020) is the newest Aliens book released so far.

Is there a new Aliens book coming?

No next Aliens book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Aliens at a glance

No recent titles
The newest Aliens title on record dates from 2020, 6 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
Release pace
Aliens books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length
2,494 pages across the 9 of 16 books with a recorded length, a median of 280 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Aliens books, 13 of 16, were published in the 1990s.
Attribution
Of the 16 titles, 4 are credited to Steve Perry, 3 to Mark Verheiden, 2 to Sam Kieth and 2 to Ian Edginton. A further 8 writers are credited. One title carries no credit.

What the Aliens books are about

7 of the 16 Aliens books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: science fiction is tagged on 3 of 7. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

Characters in the Aliens books

The character linked below has its own reading-order page.