/lit/ - Literature

>>19870145
Has anyone read lit on the Alien series? I know of comic-style novels that explore a different canon than the films but the more cartoonish it gets the less interested I become. Although a meta analysis of the series and not within the fiction, Alien and Philosophy looks like a pretty interesting read. Whenever I consider the original film, I foremost remember the synth's description of the xenomorph as, "the perfect organism...A survivor... unclouded by conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality." The conversation with the dying synth in general was always profoundly though provoking and this specific line has always had a particular electricity to it, unavoidably calling to mind Nietzsche and his concept of will to power. Its interesting to view the xenomorph as humanity's foil in this sense, being the antithesis to its perceived shortcomings in moral mediocrity. Any discussion of the Alien series is welcome.

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