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Based on manga by Yukito Kishiro, this official audio novelization to the 2018 science-fiction film, Alita: Battle Angel, features a female cyborg rescued from the scrap heap by a scientist in the 26th century.

On the shattered surface of the earth, there is a metropolis that lives amid the garbage thrown down from the inhabitants of a sky city floating above it. Welcome to Iron City. A lonely doctor specializing in cyborg repair, Ido, is doing his best to help the citizens of Iron City. Hugo, a young man surviving on a life of crime, spots the ultimate steal: an object that will unearth secrets from his own past. And Vector, the most powerful businessman in the city, has his sights set on a new technology that will change the future of Iron City forever....

Here are 16 chilling, never-before-published tales that explore every aspect of our darkest holiday, Halloween, coedited by Ellen Datlow, one of the most successful and respected genre editors, and Lisa Morton, a leading authority on Halloween. Included are stories about scheming jack-o'-lanterns, vengeful ghosts, otherworldly changelings, disturbingly realistic haunted attractions, masks that cover terrifying faces, murderous urban legends, parties gone bad, cult Halloween movies, and trick-or-treating in the future.

26° secolo. La Città di Ferro è un luogo senza speranza. Nella discarica di rottami, una giornata sta per terminare come tutte le altre quando il dottor Ido trova il corpo semidistrutto e apparentemente senza vita di una ragazza cyborg, costruito con una tecnologia sofisticatissima ormai perduta nella notte dei tempi. La convinzione che in lei risiedano l'anima e il cuore di una combattente dal passato straordinario spingono il dottore a cercare di riportarla in vita donandole un nuovo corpo e un nome: Alita.