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Jason X: The Experiment

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235:. Jason goes on a rampage at the plant, butchering dozens of its staff as well as protesting environmental activists before being left stunned when his nanites are overloaded with excess energy channeled into them by the remaining personnel of Three Mile Island. The government covers up the attack on the plant and takes the survivors and the inert Jason into custody, but Lynn escapes with help from a sympathetic guard, Lieutenant Rena Sofira. The survivors, who are kept in drug-induced comas, and Jason are brought to a secret underground military complex run by Doctor Hyacinth Stein, an unethical scientist who believes she can reverse-engineer Jason's regenerative powers and nanite-enhanced physiology to produce 256:
rocket launched by Sofira and Master-Sergeant Black Carol before he, the Stein creature, and Corporal Daniel V. Numinen, a guard who was also infected by Jason's cells and nanites, are taken into military custody along with Sofira and Carol. Lynne and a few others who escaped Stein's facility, now fugitives wanted by the authorities, go on the run as Jason drifts through space, his presence noticed by a nigh-omnipotent alien intelligence known as the Most Ancient.
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by Stein. After Stein tries and fails to graft the victims' tissue to Jason, a swarm of Jason's nanites, having overcome their paralysis, move from Jason's body to the corpses of the interns, which they reconstruct into a lesser copy of Jason. A recovered Jason and his doppelganger attack Stein, who
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The second Jason, possessed by Stein's mind after assimilating her body, kills and devours people, while Doctor Omar Wing, a scientist whose bloodstream was contaminated by Jason's cells and nanites, morphs into a third Jason. Wing, his consciousness dwindling, forces Jason into a waste disposal
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novels and other media tie-ins, Cadigan declared, "When people are done going to the gallery, and they've finished all the required reading, they've studied up on everything, they take their cues from popular culture." Cadigan further commented, "They're fun and they remind me what I like about
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Jason's paralysis is maintained via constant electrocution as he is studied by Stein, whose disgruntled staff thwart her attempt to use the survivors of Three Mile Island as test subjects for her experiments with Jason. A guard and three interns, at the behest of one of Stein's suspicious
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writing. And they reinforce lessons to me about narrative momentum and narrative structure. There are things that have to be different on the page rather than on the screen."
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novels, stating, "They are really silly and feel very tossed off, but it's kind of amazing. I really love when really good sci-fi writers write tie-in stuff." Nat Brehmer of
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manages to provide an exciting story, mostly by avoiding the clichés of the film, but her original work is obviously much better than this." Rod Lott of Bookgasm included
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in Jason's system reconstruct Jason's decimated body, energized by radiation produced by Three Mile Island, a nearby nuclear power plant being visited by Lynne Bowes, a
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subordinates, break into Stein's laboratory to acquire a sample of Jason's DNA. Jason kills the guard after being briefly unfrozen by Stein, while the interns are
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in his 2005 article "9 Recent Books I Just Couldn't Bring Myself to Finish, No Matter How Hard I Tried." William Hutson, co-founder of the band
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element is abandoned pretty early on, which is obviously not great for a Jason novel, while the environmental plot takes over."
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was always killing people for having sex." In response to potential criticism over having authored
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with the power to assimilate the dead were handled in an "anticlimactic" way and concluded, "The
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and its 2005 novelization, which was also written by Pat Cadigan and published by Black Flame.
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felt elements like the depiction of life on Earth II and the creation of a clone of
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What Do I Read Next? 2005: A Readers Guide to Current Genre Fiction, Volume 2
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novels published by Black Flame and acts as a sequel to the 2001 film
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series of American horror films, it is the second in a series of five
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and a fan of Cadigan, has commented positively on her two
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Index


Pat Cadigan
Black Flame
Paperback
ISBN
9781844161690
OCLC
57063698
Jason X
Jason X: Planet of the Beast
Pat Cadigan
Black Flame
Friday the 13th
Jason X
Jason Voorhees
nanites
graduate student
super soldiers
vivisected
panic button
Pat Cadigan
Jason X
Black Flame
Jason Voorhees
Don D'Ammassa
Science Fiction Chronicle
Cadigan
Clipping
Jason X
Bloody Disgusting

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