Giger's Alien

Giger, H. R. Giger's Alien. 1979. Beverly Hills, CA: Morpheus International, 1989. Text, photographs, and layout mostly by HRG and Mia Bonzanigo. Hugh Young, English trans. See copyright page for credits and complexities.

Note Giger's intention to express in the derelict ship in ALIEN (q.v. under Drama) "the biomechanical character of a space-ship built by non-humans" (24); his conception of the derelict's long-dead pilot "as one of my biomechanoids, attached to the seat so as to form a single unit" (34); the adult Alien as "insect-like and elegant" (58). See also for HRG's comments on the relation of ALIEN and H. R. Giger's Necronomicon (12 and passim)—and for the many plates and photographs.