There are many things to love about the Alien series besides the drooling “perfect organism” at its center — the tenacious female heroines, the fascinating relationship between humans and the robots they create in their image, and the depiction of capitalism as its own bloodthirsty monster.
Also appreciated by many fans is the future tech cooked up by the franchise’s many screenwriters — imagine living in a gravity-infused luxury space liner like the Prometheus or recovering from decades of hibernation in Aliens‘ floating space city. The creative inventions of the Alien universe are a small antidote to the relentless nihilism that seeps out of every pore of its imagined world like toxic black goo. Putting aside that existential dread for a moment, here is the Alien tech that makes us excited for the future — and what to expect in the upcoming TV series, Alien: Earth.
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Alien (1979): Cryopods
Sigourney Weaver in “Alien.”
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