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- Shot repeatedly with handguns and machine guns.
- Shot repeatedly with a machine gun.
- Caught in an explosion.
- Shot repeatedly with handguns and machine guns.
- Tackled repeatedly.
- Crashed through multiple walls.
- Shot repeatedly with a machine gun.
- Tackled.
- Shot repeatedly in the face with a machine gun.
- Shot repeatedly with a machine gun.
- Caught in an explosion.
- Shot repeatedly with a machine gun.
- Shot repeatedly with handguns and machine guns.
- Overloaded.
- Electrocuted.
- Fell over.
- Electrocuted twice.
- Vivisected.
- Head sliced with a scalpel.
- Electrocuted.
- Fell over.
- Bone and skin grafted.
- Head sliced with three neutralizers.
- Brain grafted.
- Shot repeatedly with handguns and machine guns.
- Shot repeatedly with a flamethrower.
- Fell over.
- Punched repeatedly.
- Pushed.
1. Sawyer Orestes: Hacked up with a machete. Jason Voorhees. 2. Mara: Hacked up with a machete. Jason Voorhees. 3. Estelle: Beheaded with a machete. Jason Voorhees. 4. Dino: Hacked up with a machete. Jason Voorhees. 5. Moe Keller: Caught on fire, hacked up with a machete. Jason Voorhees. 6. Lou: Caught on fire, hacked up with a machete. Jason Voorhees. 7. Wilco: Caught on fire, hacked up with a machete. Jason Voorhees. 8. Ybarra: Caught on fire, hacked up with a machete. Jason Voorhees. 9. Fowler: Caught on fire, hacked up with a machete. Jason Voorhees. 10. Flower: Caught on fire, hacked up with a machete. Jason Voorhees. 11. Ferrell: Caught on fire, hacked up with a machete. Jason Voorhees. 12-19. Protesters: Hacked up with a machete. Jason Voorhees. 20. Security Guard: Hacked up with a machete. Jason Voorhees. 21. Security Guard: Hacked up with a machete. Jason Voorhees. 22. Security Guard: Dismembered with a machete. Jason Voorhees. 23. Corporal Linda Numinen: Mangled. Jason Voorhees. 24. Alonzo: Vivisected. Doctor Hyacinth Stein. 25. Kray: Vivisected. Doctor Hyacinth Stein. 26. Powell: Vivisected. Doctor Hyacinth Stein. 27. Doctor Hyacinth Stein: Arms ripped off. Jason Voorhees.
- It is unclear how many people were killed by Jason Voorhees at Three Mile Island.
- It is mentioned that over four dozen people were killed by Doctor Hyacinth Stein, with a named victim being LeBlanc Tousignant.
- It is mentioned that Zelda Yamaguchi was shown combat footage by Doctor Hyacinth Stein.
- It is mentioned that Mrs. Gottmund is dead.
- It is unclear how many people in the military complex were killed by Doctor Hyacinth Stein and Jason Voorhees.
Twenty-sixth century
Lynne Bowes Peter Professor Morse Waxie Anschutz Doctor Timothy Olsen Lieutenant Rena Sofira Kit Cosgrove Doctor Annunciata S. Kai Doctor Theo Shabazz Cihan Estep Doctor Gunnar Gottmund Zelda Yamaguchi Omar Wing Ramirez Gold Supreme Allah Doctor Fatima Haddad-O'Reilly Corporal Daniel V. Numinen Roz Truehart Doctor XX XY Doctor Cosi Fan Tutte Fredo Walewski Willona Ondine Devon O Jacques Derrida Salvador O'Toole Jameela Lou Jael Grace Ali Clement Krishnamurti Galina Willona
CM University Veronica Lake Ramsey County Star
| Author | Pat Cadigan |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Series | Jason X |
Release number | 2 |
| Genre | Horror, science fiction |
| Publisher | Black Flame |
Publication date | 25 January 2005 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 416 |
| ISBN | 9781844161690 |
| OCLC | 57063698 |
| Preceded by | Jason X |
| Followed by | Jason X: Planet of the Beast |
Jason X: The Experiment is a 2005 science fiction horror novel written by Pat Cadigan and published by Black Flame.[1][2][3] A tie-in to the 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.[4][5][6]
Plot
Undead cyborg Jason Voorhees, sent hurtling towards Earth II after killing almost everyone aboard the spaceship Grendel, lands in Veronica Lake. The nanites in Jason's system reconstruct Jason's decimated body, energized by radiation produced by Three Mile Island, a nearby nuclear plant that is 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 energy channeled into them by the remaining personnel of Three Mile Island. The government covers up the attack on Three Mile Island 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 soldiers; the facility is infiltrated by Lynne, who has gone undercover as an intern brought in to replace one who was secretly murdered by Stein.
Jason's paralysis is maintained via constant electrocution as he is studied by Stein, whose 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 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.
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 alongside 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 aimlessly through space, his anomalous presence noticed by an omnipotent alien intelligence known as the Most Ancient.
Publication
Author Pat Cadigan has stated she "had a great time" writing her two Jason X novels; one of the ways she met 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."[7] 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."[8]
Reception
Don D'Ammassa, in a review written for Science Fiction Chronicle, had a middling response to the novel, writing, "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."[9] 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."[10] William Hutson, co-founder of the 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."[11] 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 element is abandoned pretty early on, which is obviously not great for a Jason novel."[12]
References
- ^ "B-Books Bring Movie Killers to the Written Page". classic-horror.com. Classic-Horror. 6 December 2004. Retrieved 11 September 2024.
- ^ Stephen Jones (2006). The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 17. Constable & Robinson. Introduction: Horror in 2005. ISBN 9781845293154.
- ^ Gilliand, Blu (13 July 2018). "If Books Could Kill: Jason Voorhees in Print". cemeterydance.com. Cemetery Dance Publications. Retrieved 11 September 2024.
- ^ Beverly Baer, ed. (2005). What Do I Read Next? 2005: A Readers Guide to Current Genre Fiction, Volume 2. Gale. p. 243. ISBN 9780787690229.
- ^ Brehmer, Nat (3 January 2017). "Mr. Voorhees Goes to Washington: The Nine Weirdest Things Jason Has Done Outside the Films". wickedhorror.com. Wicked Horror. Retrieved 11 September 2024.
- ^ Cotter, Padraig (6 March 2022). "Are The Friday The 13th Novels Canon With The Movie Series?". screenrant.com. Screen Rant. Retrieved 11 September 2024.
- ^ "An Interview With Cyberpunk Legend Pat Cadigan". cyberpunks.com. Cyberpunks. Retrieved 12 September 2024.
- ^ Thornton, Jonathan (3 December 2018). "Interview With Pat Cadigan". fantasy-hive.co.uk. The Fantasy Hive. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
- ^ "Critical Mass by Don D'Ammassa". Science Fiction Chronicle. Vol. 1, no. 260. United States: Warren Lapine. February 2005. p. 33.
- ^ Lott, Rod (13 September 2005). "9 Recent Books I Just Couldn't Bring Myself to Finish, No Matter How Hard I Tried". bookgasm.com. Internet Archive. Archived from the original on 27 January 2020. Retrieved 11 September 2024.
- ^ Ferguson, Tom (4 April 2017). "Interview with Jonathan Snipes and William Hutson from Clipping". keithmcmillen.com. Keith McMillen Instruments. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
- ^ Brehmer, Nat (13 August 2021). "A Trip to Planet #666: Exploring the Wild and Weird Worlds of the Jason X Novels and Comics". bloody-disgusting.com. Bloody Disgusting. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
External links
- The Experiment title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database