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Asbo Zaprudder · March 13 2012, 11:23 AM

I suspect O'Bannon was exposed to many of the stories in his youth and although he didn't consciously recall reading or seeing them, his subconscious dredged them up when he was writing Dark Star and later Alien. If I recall correctly from the introduction to the novelisation of Alien, he states Joseph Conrad as an influence - hence the name "Nostromo" - but I don't really see much of a connection other than that.

ETA: Alan Dean Foster wrote the novel so my memory is probably not too hot either.

March 13 2012, 11:23 AM	#3
Asbo Zaprudder Rear Admiral Location: Chairman of the bored	Re: the literature/sources that "Alien" (1979) borrowed from I suspect O'Bannon was exposed to many of the stories in his youth and although he didn't consciously recall reading or seeing them, his subconscious dredged them up when he was writing Dark Star and later Alien. If I recall correctly from the introduction to the novelisation of Alien, he states Joseph Conrad as an influence - hence the name "Nostromo" - but I don't really see much of a connection other than that. ETA: Alan Dean Foster wrote the novel so my memory is probably not too hot either. __________________ "It is a lonely life, the way of the necromancer... oh, yes. Lacrimae Mundi - the tears of the world." Last edited by Asbo Zaprudder; March 13 2012 at 11:46 AM.