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| name = Jason X: The Experiment |
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| author = [[Pat Cadigan]] |
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| country = United Kingdom |
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| language = English |
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| series = ''Jason X'' |
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| release_number = 2 |
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| genre = Horror, science fiction |
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| publisher = [[Black Flame (publisher)|Black Flame]] |
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| pub_date = 25 January 2005 |
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| media_type = Print ([[Paperback]]) |
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| pages = 416 |
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| isbn = 9781844161690 |
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| preceded_by = [[Jason X]] |
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| followed_by = [[Jason X: Planet of the Beast]] |
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'''''Jason X: The Experiment''''' is a 2005 science fiction horror novel written by [[Pat Cadigan]] and published by [[Black Flame (publisher)|Black Flame]].<ref> {{cite web|url = https://classic-horror.com/newsreel/b_books_bring_movie_killers_to_the_written_page.html|title = B-Books Bring Movie Killers to the Written Page|date = 6 December 2004|website = classic-horror.com|publisher = Classic-Horror|access-date = 11 September 2024}} </ref><ref> {{cite book|author = [[Stephen Jones (author)|Stephen Jones]]|title = [[The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror|The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 17]]|year = 2006|publisher = [[Constable & Robinson]]|isbn = 9781845293154|at = Introduction: Horror in 2005}} </ref><ref> {{cite web|url = https://www.cemeterydance.com/extras/if-books-could-kill-jason-voorhees-in-print/|title = If Books Could Kill: Jason Voorhees in Print|last = Gilliand|first = Blu|date = 13 July 2018|website = cemeterydance.com|publisher = [[Cemetery Dance Publications]]|access-date = 11 September 2024}} </ref> A tie-in to the ''[[Friday the 13th (franchise)|Friday the 13th]]'' series of American horror films, it is the second in a series of five ''[[Jason X]]'' novels published by Black Flame and acts as a sequel to the 2001 film ''Jason X'' and its 2005 novelization, which was also written by Pat Cadigan and published by Black Flame.<ref> {{cite book|editor = Beverly Baer|title = What Do I Read Next? 2005: A Readers Guide to Current Genre Fiction, Volume 2|year = 2005|publisher = [[Gale (publisher)|Gale]]|isbn = 9780787690229|page = 243}} </ref><ref> {{cite web|url = https://wickedhorror.com/top-horror-lists/mr-voorhees-goes-washington-nine-weirdest-things-jason-done-outside-films/|title = Mr. Voorhees Goes to Washington: The Nine Weirdest Things Jason Has Done Outside the Films|last = Brehmer|first = Nat|date = 3 January 2017|website = wickedhorror.com|publisher = Wicked Horror|access-date = 11 September 2024}} </ref><ref> {{cite web|url = https://screenrant.com/friday-13th-novels-movies-canon/|title = Are The ''Friday The 13th'' Novels Canon With The Movie Series?|last = Cotter|first = Padraig|date = 6 March 2022|website = screenrant.com|publisher = [[Screen Rant]]|access-date = 11 September 2024}} </ref> |
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== Plot == |
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Undead cyborg [[Jason Voorhees]], sent hurtling towards Earth II after killing almost everyone aboard the spaceship ''Grendel'', crash lands in Veronica Lake. The [[Nanorobotics|nanites]] 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 [[graduate student]] and reporter for the ''Ramsey County Star''. 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 [[super soldier]]s; the facility is infiltrated by Lynne, who has gone undercover as an intern brought in to replace one who was secretly murdered by Stein. |
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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 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 [[Vivisection|vivisected]] 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 pushes a [[panic button]], signaling the military to "sterilize" the facility before she is murdered by the Jasons. The rest of the complex's staff, made aware of Stein's crimes and Jason's destructive capabilities through Stein's hacked files and information provided by Lynne, resuscitate everyone taken from Three Mile Island, including Sofira. |
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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 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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== Publication == |
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Author [[Pat Cadigan]] has stated she "had a great time" writing her two ''[[Jason X]]'' novels; one of the ways she met [[Black Flame (publisher)|Black Flame]]'s required number of words was by coming up with "an explanation as to why [[Jason Voorhees]] was always killing people for having sex."<ref> {{cite web|url = https://www.cyberpunks.com/an-interview-with-cyperpunk-great-pat-cadigan/|title = An Interview With Cyberpunk Legend Pat Cadigan|website = cyberpunks.com|publisher = Cyberpunks|access-date = 12 September 2024}} </ref> In response to potential criticism over having authored ''Jason X'' 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 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."<ref> {{cite web|url = https://fantasy-hive.co.uk/2018/12/interview-with-pat-cadigan/|title = Interview With Pat Cadigan|last = Thornton|first = Jonathan|date = 3 December 2018|website = fantasy-hive.co.uk|publisher = The Fantasy Hive|access-date = 13 September 2024}} </ref> |
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== Reception == |
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[[Don D'Ammassa]], in a review written for ''[[DNA Publications|Science Fiction Chronicle]]'', had a middling response to the novel, writing, "[[Pat Cadigan|Cadigan]] manages to provide an exciting story, mostly by avoiding the clichés of the film, but her original work is obviously much better than this."<ref> {{cite magazine|title = Critical Mass by Don D'Ammassa|magazine = [[DNA Publications|Science Fiction Chronicle]]|location = United States|publisher = [[Warren Lapine]]|date = February 2005|language = English|volume = 1|issue = 260|page = 33}} </ref> Rod Lott of Bookgasm included ''The Experiment'' in his 2005 article "9 Recent Books I Just Couldn't Bring Myself to Finish, No Matter How Hard I Tried."<ref> {{cite web|url = http://www.bookgasm.com/news/whatnot/9-recent-books-i-just-couldnt-finish/|title = 9 Recent Books I Just Couldn’t Bring Myself to Finish, No Matter How Hard I Tried|last = Lott|first = Rod|date = 13 September 2005|publisher = [[Internet Archive]]|website = bookgasm.com|accessdate = 11 September 2024|url-status = dead|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20200127130436/http://www.bookgasm.com/news/whatnot/9-recent-books-i-just-couldnt-finish/|archivedate = 27 January 2020}} </ref> William Hutson, co-founder of the band [[Clipping (band)|Clipping]] and a fan of Cadigan, has commented positively on her two ''[[Jason X]]'' 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."<ref> {{cite web|url = https://www.keithmcmillen.com/blog/interview-jonathan-snipes-william-hutson-clipping/|title = Interview with Jonathan Snipes and William Hutson from Clipping|last = Ferguson|first = Tom|date = 4 April 2017|website = keithmcmillen.com|publisher = Keith McMillen Instruments|access-date = 13 September 2024}} </ref> Nat Brehmer of [[Bloody Disgusting]] felt elements like the depiction of life on Earth II and the creation of a clone of [[Jason Voorhees]] with the power to assimilate the dead were handled in an "anticlimactic" way and concluded, "The [[Slasher film|slasher]] element is abandoned pretty early on, which is obviously not great for a Jason novel, while the environmental plot takes over."<ref> {{cite web|url = https://bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/3677807/trip-planet-666-exploring-wild-weird-worlds-jason-x-novels-comics/|title = A Trip to Planet #666: Exploring the Wild and Weird Worlds of the ''Jason X'' Novels and Comics|last = Brehmer|first = Nat|date = 13 August 2021|website = bloody-disgusting.com|publisher = [[Bloody Disgusting]]|access-date = 13 September 2024}} </ref> |
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== References == |
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* {{ISFDB title|id = 158072|title = The Experiment}} |
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