The complete Aliens Versus Predator franchise
Aliens! Predators! Humans.
One of these things is not like the others.
- Skeld’s Keep
- Tie-in short story by S. D. Perry, published in 2017 in Predator: If It Bleeds.
Date specified in story. - Three Sparks
- Tie-in short story by Larry Correia, published in 2017 in Predator: If It Bleeds.
Date implied in story, but must occur between 1192 and 1199. - Prey
- The 2022 film on streaming. Date in film.
- Isla Matanzas
- Tie-in short story by Steven L. Sears, published in 2022 in Aliens Vs. Predator: Ultimate Prey.
Date specified in story. - Stonewall’s Last Stand
- Tie-in short story by Jeremy Robinson, published in 2017 in Predator: If It Bleeds.
Date specified in story. - Buffalo Jump
- Tie-in short story by Wendy N. Wagner, published in 2017 in Predator: If It Bleeds.
Date not specified in story, but takes place in the Old West era. - May Blood Pave My Way Home
- Tie-in short story by Weston Ochse, published in 2017 in Predator: If It Bleeds.
Date specified in story. - Blood and Sand
- Tie-in short story by Mira Grant, published in 2017 in Predator: If It Bleeds.
Date specified in story. - Homestead
- Tie-in short story by Delilah S. Dawson, published in 2022 in Aliens Vs. Predator: Ultimate Prey.
No date specified in story, but appears to take place during the Dust Bowl era. - Recon
- Tie-in short story by Dayton Ward, published in 2017 in Predator: If It Bleeds.
Date specified in story. - The Pilot
- Tie-in short story by Andrew Mayne, published in 2017 in Predator: If It Bleeds.
Date not specified in story, but must take place during the 1980’s and seems to precede Predator. - Predator
- The 1987 film on Blu-ray.
- Predator 2
- The 1990 film on Blu-ray.
Aliens Vs Predator- The 2004 film on Blu-ray.
- Aliens Vs Predator: Requiem
- The 2007 film on Blu-ray.
- Storm Blood
- Tie-in short story by Peter J. Wacks and David Boop, published in 2017 in Predator: If It Bleeds.
Date specified in story. - Predator: Turnabout
- Novel by Steve Perry, published in 2008.
Implied to take place at roughly the time of publication. - Predators
- The 2010 film on Blu-ray. The dating of this film is unclear, but it has been assumed to take place in the year of its release.
- Kyōdai
- Tie-in short story by Jonathan Maberry and Louis Ozawa, published in 2022 in Aliens Vs. Predator: Ultimate Prey.
Follows Predators. - Tin Warrior
- Tie-in short story by John Shirley, published in 2017 in Predator: If It Bleeds.
Date not specified in story, but must precede The Predator: Hunters And Hunted. - The Predator: Hunters And Hunted
- Novel by James A. Moore, published in 2016.
Official prequel to The Predator; implied to take place at roughly the time of publication. - Rematch
- Tie-in short story by Steve Perry, published in 2017 in Predator: If It Bleeds.
Implied to take place at roughly the time of publication. - The Predator
- The 2018 film on Blu-ray.
Implied to take place at roughly the time of release. - The Hotel Mariposa
- Tie-in short story by David Barnett, published in 2022 in Aliens Vs. Predator: Ultimate Prey.
Date not specified in story, but implied to take place in this year. - Below Top Secret
- Tie-in short story by Chris Ryall, published in 2022 in Aliens Vs. Predator: Ultimate Prey.
Date not specified in story, but implied to take place in this year. - Predator: Stalking Shadows
- Novel by James A. Moore & Mark Morris.
Takes place from 1997 (the conclusion of Predator 2) to shortly before Predator: Hunting Grounds. - Predator: Hunting Grounds
- The game for PlayStation 4.
- Drug War
- Tie-in short story by Bryan Thomas Schmidt and Holly Roberds, published in 2017 in Predator: If It Bleeds.
Date implied in story. - Abuse, Interupted
- Tie-in short story by Yvonne Navarro, published in 2022 in Aliens Vs. Predator: Ultimate Prey.
Date implied in story. - Gameworld
- Tie-in short story by Jonathan Maberry, published in 2017 in Predator: If It Bleeds.
Date not specified in story, but must take place during the early colonization of the Sol system. - Predator by Ed Brisson, vol.1: Day of the Hunter
- Reprints Predator #1-6 (October 2022 – March 2023).
Date specified in story. - First Hunt
- Tie-in short story by Bryan Thomas Schmidt, published in 2022 in Aliens Vs. Predator: Ultimate Prey.
Date not specified in story, but must take place during early colonization outside of the Sol system. - Prometheus
- The 2012 film on Blu-ray.
Prometheus is possibly also canonical in the Blade Runner universe. - Alien
- The 1979 film on Blu-ray.
- Jonesy: Nine Lives on the Nostromo
- Tie-in comic by Rory Lucey, published in 2018.
Parallels the events of the movie from the point of view of the cat. - Alien: Isolation
- The 2014 game for Xbox 360. (Also available for PS4, PS3 & Xbox One.)
- Alien: Blackout
- Mobile phone game released in 2019, follows the events of Isolation.
- Aliens: Defiance, vol.1
- Reprints Aliens: Defiance #1-6 (April 2016 – October 2016).
- Aliens: Defiance, vol.2
- Reprints Aliens: Defiance #7-12 (December 2016 – June 2017).
- Alien: Prototype
- Tie-in novel by Tim Waggoner, published in 2019.
- Alien: Resistance
- Reprints Aliens: Resistance #1-4 (January 2019 – April 2019).
- Alien: Out of the Shadows
- Tie-in novel by Tim Lebbon, published in 2014.
- Aliens: Vasquez
- Tie-in novel by V. Castro, published in 2022.
Concludes in this year - Alien: Echo
- Tie-in young adult novel by Mira Grant, published in 2019.
- Reclamation
- Tie-in short story by Yvonne Navarro, published in 2017 in Aliens: Bug Hunt.
Date is approximate, but this story must occur before the film Aliens. - Blowback
- Tie-in short story by Christopher Golden, published in 2017 in Aliens: Bug Hunt.
Date is approximate, but this story must occur before the film Aliens. - Broken
- Tie-in short story by Rachel Caine, published in 2017 in Aliens: Bug Hunt.
Date is approximate, but this story must occur before the film Aliens. - Exterminators
- Tie-in short story by Matt Forbeck, published in 2017 in Aliens: Bug Hunt.
Date is approximate, but this story must occur before the film Aliens. - Indigenous Species
- Tie-in short story by Kevin J. Anderson, published in 2017 in Predator: If It Bleeds.
No date specified in story, but occurs during the early days of human colonization of space. - Alien: River of Pain
- Tie-in novel by Christopher Golden, published in 2014.
Occurs shortly before Aliens. - No Good Deed
- Tie-in short story by Ray Garton, published in 2017 in Aliens: Bug Hunt.
Occurs during River of Pain but is best read after. - Aliens
- The 1986 film on Blu-ray.
- Dark Mother
- Tie-in short story by David Farland, published in 2017 in Aliens: Bug Hunt.
Occurs during Aliens but is best read after. - Alien 3
- The 1992 film on Blu-ray.
- Zero to Hero
- Tie-in short story by Weston Ochse, published in 2017 in Aliens: Bug Hunt.
Date is approximate, but this story must occur after the film Aliens. - Deep Background
- Tie-in short story by Keith R.A. Candido, published in 2017 in Aliens: Bug Hunt.
Date is approximate, but this story must occur after the film Aliens. - Empty Nest
- Tie-in short story by Brian Keene, published in 2017 in Aliens: Bug Hunt.
Date is approximate, but this story must occur after the film Aliens. - Darkness Falls
- Tie-in short story by Heather Graham, published in 2017 in Aliens: Bug Hunt.
Date is approximate, but this story must occur after the film Aliens. - Planting and Harvest
- Tie-in short story by Mira Grant, published in 2022 in Aliens Vs. Predator: Ultimate Prey.
Date is approximate, but this story appears to occur after the film Aliens. - Blood and Honor
- Tie-in short story by Susanne Lambdin, published in 2022 in Aliens Vs. Predator: Ultimate Prey.
Date is approximate, but this story appears to occur after the film Aliens. - Better Luck to Borrow
- Tie-in short story by Curtis Chen, published in 2022 in Aliens Vs. Predator: Ultimate Prey.
Date is approximate, but this story appears to occur after the film Aliens. - Film School
- Tie-in short story by Roshni “Rush” Bhatia, published in 2022 in Aliens Vs. Predator: Ultimate Prey.
Date is approximate, but this story appears to occur after the film Aliens. - Scylla and Charybdis
- Tie-in short story by E. C. Myers, published in 2022 in Aliens Vs. Predator: Ultimate Prey.
Date is approximate, but this story appears to occur after the film Aliens. - The Cold Forge
- Tie-in novel by Alex White, published in 2018.
Has a first chapter that takes place in 2179, but the majority of the book takes place the following year. - Chance Encounter
- Tie-in short story by Paul Kupperberg, published in 2017 in Aliens: Bug Hunt.
Date is approximate, but this story appears to occur after the other Bug Hunt stories. - Hugs to Die For
- Tie-in short story by Mike Resnick and Marina J. Lostetter, published in 2017 in Aliens: Bug Hunt.
Date is approximate, but this story appears to occur after the other Bug Hunt stories. - Dangerous Prey
- Tie-in short story by Scott Sigler, published in 2017 in Aliens: Bug Hunt.
Date is approximate, but this story appears to occur after the other Bug Hunt stories. - Into Charybdis
- Tie-in novel by Alex White, published in 2021.
Date specified in story. - Aliens: Dust to Dust
- Comic by Gabriel Hardman & Rain Beredo, published in 2019.
Date is approximate, but this story appears to occur a few years after Alien 3. - Colony War
- Tie-in novel by Alex White, published in 2021.
Date specified in story. - Alien: Inferno’s Fall
- Tie-in novel by Philippa Ballantyne, published in 2022.
Date specified in story. - Alien: Enemy of my Enemy
- Tie-in novel by Mary Sangiovanni, published in 2023.
Date specified in story. - Deep Black
- Tie-in short story by Jonathan Maberry, published in 2017 in Aliens: Bug Hunt.
Date specified in the story as ten years after Alien 3. - Aliens Vs. Predators: Rift War
- Tie-in novel by Yvonne Navarro and Weston Ochse, published in 2022.
Date not specified in story, but appears to take place in the late 22nd century. - Prometheus: The Complete Fire and Stone
- Comic reprinting Prometheus: Fire and Stone #1-4 (September 2014 – December 2014) & Omega (February 2015); Aliens: Fire and Stone #1-4 (September 2014 – December 2014); Alien vs. Predator: Fire and Stone #1-4 (October 2014 – January 2015); & Predator: Fire and Stone #1-4 (October 2014 – January 2015).
- Aliens Predator Prometheus AVP: The Complete Life and Death
- Comic reprinting Prometheus: Life and Death #1-4 (June 2016 – September 2016) & Final Conflict (April 2017); Aliens: Life and Death #1-4 (September 2016 – December 2016); Alien vs. Predator: Life and Death #1-4 (December 2016 – March 2017); & Predator: Life and Death #1-4 (March 2016 – June 2016).
- Aliens: Dead Orbit
- Date given in story.
- Alien: Resurrection
- The 1997 film on Blu-ray.
- Carbon Rites
- Tie-in short story by Jess Landry, published in 2022 in Aliens Vs. Predator: Ultimate Prey.
Date is approximate, but this story must occur after the film Alien: Resurrection. - Night Doctors
- Tie-in short story by Maurice Broaddus, published in 2022 in Aliens Vs. Predator: Ultimate Prey.
Date is approximate, but this story appears to occur after the film Alien: Resurrection. - Alien: Sea of Sorrows
- Tie-in novel by James A. Moore, published in 2014.
- Devil Dogs
- Tie-in short story by Tim Lebbon, published in 2017 in Predator: If It Bleeds.
Date not specified in story, but must proceed Spite. - Spite
- Tie-in novel by Tim Lebbon, published in 2014.
Occurs shortly before The Rage War. - The Rage War, Book 1: Predator – Incursion
- Tie-in novel by Tim Lebbon, published in 2015.
- The Rage War, Book 2: Alien – Invasion
- Tie-in novel by Tim Lebbon, published in 2016.
- The Rage War, Book 3: Alien Vs Predator – Armageddon
- Tie-in novel by Tim Lebbon, published in 2016.
- Last Report from the KSS Psychopomp
- Tie-in short story by Jennifer Brozek, published in 2017 in Predator: If It Bleeds.
Date is speculative, but based on the fact that Predators appear to be commonly known at the time the story takes place. - Aliens: Phalanx
- Tie-in novel by Scott Sigler, published in 2020.
- Another Mother
- Tie-in short story by Scott Sigler, published in 2022 in Aliens Vs. Predator: Ultimate Prey.
Date specified in story. - Note: the Aliens Vs Predator films are not considered canonical in the Predator universe due to conflicting details between them and Predators. A Viewing Order for that universe can be found here. In addition, due to conflicts with Prometheus, the AVP films are also not canonical in the Aliens universe. A Viewing Order for that universe can be found here.
Hello, first of all, thanks for this list. I just recently got back into the whole Alien universe, and I really like to read/view stories in their own internal chronology. So again, thank you for this resource. There are a couple of things I’m curious about:
I’m guessing that this hasn’t been updated in a while? I’ve noticed that it doesn’t include the film Alien: Covenant or the Life and Death comic series, the latter of which follows Fire and Stone. Also there is another comic series called Alien: Defiance which I haven’t read yet, so I don’t know where it fits in. Covenant is main fly in the ointment here because, unfortunately, it basically eliminates all of the Predator films from the canon. It establishes that the Xenomorph as we know it is not created until the year 2104, making it impossible to exist in all the Predator movies, not just the AVP titles. Bummer, but it was Scott’s call, so there it is. Don’t know if this affects the Rage War novels, as I also haven’t gotten to those yet.
Also a question: Is there a reason the list doesn’t include the large set of Alien novels that begin with Earth Hive? I know they had to change the names of Hicks and Newt since they got killed off in the Alien 3 film, but it still seems like they should get a mention, and they had a lot of interesting material. Anyway, again, thanks.
Hi Sam, you’re very welcome. I love doing this site. It has been a while since the last update, but that’s largely due to there not being a lot of new stuff to add/
I think I’ve covered everything there, but if I missed something, let me know. And you’re welcome 🙂
Hey, Sam here, back with hopefully some helpful info.
Finished Alien: Defiance, which was pretty good. It takes place in 2137 and seems to be roughly concurrent with the events of Isolation, but not in any important way. Only real relation is a flashback moment in which the main character reveals that Amanda Ripley used to be her doctor. I can get the IGNs to you if you want (it comes in two volumes), but you shouldn’t have any trouble finding them. I got mine from Amazon.
Life and Death is out now in volumes, which is how I prefer to read them, too. Same format as Fire and Stone: four volumes and a fifth extended length conclusion. I haven’t read them yet, but my impression was that they take place shortly after F&S. On a side note, I was having trouble finding the conclusion to F&S, so I went ahead and bought the full collection of it, and I do not recommend to anyone going that route as it is a huge tome. Seriously, you could kill a man with it. When I got the package in the mail, I accidentally dropped it transferring it to the passenger seat of my car, and it broke part of the center console. Yes, that actually happened.
Lastly, just a thought. I don’t know who gets to decide what is and isn’t canon, but it seems to me that it’s actually Ridley that screwed up and broke his own rules. The original alien we know from the older films shed its skin like an insect or snake as it grew, but in Covenant they just grow with an ever expanding epidermis. However, this can still work in the universe, as David states that the eggs to which he exposes the crew are “perfected”, and in the book (and I think the deleted scenes) he shows Oram a dead egg of Engineer design which he used as a blueprint. So the two different versions could be just exatly that: two slightly different designs of the same organism. It would seem to me that this possibly makes the version found on LV-426 the original Engineer model, and therefore of indeterminate age, which makes their occurrence in the Predator universe entirely possible, and maybe even for AVP as well. I don’t remember what the conflict was between the Alien and AVP universes, but if it’s just timeline, that eliminates that. Not that I really care either way, I’m perfectly happy leaving the AVP movies out as I found them to be pretty crap, especially Requiem where my guess is that they blew their budget on the Predalien costume and couldn’t afford lighting. I mean, I know the films are supposed to be dark, but not so much that I feel I have to watch the movie in braille.
Anyway, just wanted to pass on that info about the comics volumes and ramble a bit. Apologies for the latter. Hope you have happy holidays, and remember: they mostly come out at night… mostly. Cheers!
Hi Sam – sorry to take so long, the holidays got in the way. Thanks for the info about Aliens: Defiance, I’ve added that here and on the Alien page. I like your theory – it resolves the inconsistencies very well 🙂
A note on Alien: Covenant, I believe that it could be considered canonical to the Aliens vs. Predator universe. The film could be interpreted two ways, one of which is that David creates the Xenomorphs and one in which he attempts to replicate the Xenomorphs. Based on the events of Aliens vs. Predator, the second option must be considered the correct interpretation for the AVP universe. This link, https://www.alien-covenant.com/topic/48700, explains the reasons why David isn’t the creator, though Ridley Scott could have changed his mind.
To solve the Charles Weyland and Peter Weyland issues is easy. Charles Weyland ran Weyland Industries. He got lung cancer. Around October 3-6, 2004 (from the official Weyland timeline), Peter Weyland got an award for solving lung cancer at the age of 14. Literally days later on October 10, 2004, Charles Bishop Weyland dies after attacking a Yautja who was going to let him live because he wasn’t impregnated with a Xenomorph, but had enough and murdered him. We can infer that these Weylands had a family connection, whether it be uncle and nephew or they’re cousins, and Peter Weyland was trying to save him, which pushed him to technological heights at the age of 14. In 2012, when he was of age and 21/22 years old, he took over and rebranded the company the Weyland Corporation, as seen in Prometheus.
Ridley Scott may have said that David creates the Xenomorphs, but I personally don’t believe he’s reliable. The Protomorth is apparently pretty much invincible, making the classic Xenomorph redundant, and he implies Blade Runner and Alien may indeed share a universe. As awesome as that would be, it’s simply not the case.
If we take him at his word, though, he could be doing the Obi-Wan Kenobi from a certain point of view perspective. Unlikely as this is, it’s possible he meant that the exact particular breed of Xenomorph as seen in Alien was put there by the android, while the actual species is a separate thing entirely.
The most likely scenario in my opinion is that there are two universes: the AVP universe, including all the 12 Alien/Predator films, and the Alien universe, including the 6 Alien films with the possible inclusion of the 3 Blade Runner films.
Oh right, and you may wish to include the newly released comic series Predator: Hunters, that also makes a bunch of classic Predator stories canonical to the 2014 Prometheus: Fire and Stone reboot. Also the series Aliens: Resistance and Aliens: Rescue, sequels to Aliens: Defiance. The mobile game Alien: Blackout is a sequel to Alien: Isolation. The 40th anniversary short films may also be canonical, but that’s up for debate.
Just some additional games:
2020 – Predator: Hunting Grounds (upcoming)
2030 – Predator: Concrete Jungle
2079 – Aliens: Colonial Marines: Status Interrupted (during Alien³, best played after/100% canon, more than Isolation)
2079 – Aliens: Colonial Marines (100% canon, more than Isolation)
2189 – Aliens Versus Predator
2231 – Aliens Versus Predator 2
2??? – Aliens vs Predator
For more novels and comics released, I usually visit the AVP wiki Alien (Franchise), Aliens vs. Predator (Franchise) and (Franchise) pages.
The inclusion of Prometheus on this page is actually an error on my part. As for the rest, well, I rarely include upcoming material unless I already know what will be in it (e.g. a book reprinting comics I’ve read as single issues), and in general, I try to avoid including games because very few games have a canonical story in them – most have branching plots and multiple possible endings. What I’ve tried to do in the case of Aliens, Predator and Aliens vs Predator is to create chronologies that treat them as franchises first, universes second.