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| Author | Alex S. Johnson |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Series | Jason X |
Release number | 4 |
| Genre | Horror, science fiction |
| Publisher | Black Flame |
Publication date | 29 November 2005 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 416 |
| ISBN | 9781844162734 |
| OCLC | 61879352 |
| Preceded by | Jason X: Planet of the Beast |
| Followed by | Jason X: To the Third Power |
Jason X: Death Moon is a 2005 British science fiction horror novel written by Alex S. Johnson and published by Black Flame.[1][2][3] A tie-in to the Friday the 13th series of American horror films, it is the fourth in a series of five Jason X novels published by Black Flame and is set in Moon Camp Americana, a reformatory for wayward girls that is attacked by undead cyborg Jason Voorhees.[4][5][6]
Plot
The New American Republic commandeers a space freighter to track down Jason Voorhees, an undead cyborg last sighted on a research station orbiting Planet #666. Upon finding Jason, nanotech spiders capture him, bring him aboard the freighter, and murder everyone else on the ship before delivering Jason to Elysium, the moon of Earth II. Elysium contains a hidden laboratory run by Doctor Armando Castillo, an unstable one-eyed scientist and necrophile hired to experiment on Jason by the Teknopriests, the mind-linked cabal that runs the NAR. Also on Elysium is Moon Camp Americana, a newly opened "finishing school" for the teenage daughters of the NAR's political elite, like April Carlson, a senator's delinquent daughter who was arrested after she and her friends hijacked a sky car and went on a narcotics binge through New Rose City. The goings on at Moon Camp Americana are to be documented and televised by a transgressive "art porn" director named Roger Bordeaux and his assistant, Lisa Foxx, while the camp itself is overseen by Helga Van Schmerz, a sadomasochistic lesbian Nazi who has been in and out of cryogenic suspension since World War II.
The Department of Public Disinformation, not fully trusting Castillo, recruits Juan Jimenez "JJ" Gonzales, a conspiracy theorist whose parents were killed by Castillo, to keep tabs on Castillo, who has begun murdering the campers and staff of Moon Camp American to acquire fresh bodies for his experiments with Jason. Castillo dresses as Jason during his killing spree, which he is assisted in by a zombie-like clone of Jason's mother, Pamela. As Van Schmerz tortures and brainwashes the Moon Camp Americana girls, who are to be judged in an "Extreme Beauty" contest by the Teknopriests, Castillo works to find ways to clone or control Jason. After Jason escapes and runs amok, murdering hundreds, among them April and Lisa, he is blown apart by a WMD called the Berzerker. Castillo rebuilds Jason and attempts to fuse him with his deranged A.I. assistant, Major Tom. JJ kills Van Schmerz to save Amanda Cartwright, a teenage rabble-rouser who infiltrated Moon Camp Americana after secretly contacting JJ, who taught Amanda to stay in touch with him through an altered state of consciousness known as Akasha.net.
Jason goes on another rampage, murdering Castillo, and is exposed to the time-space warping drive kernel of a spaceship, which splits him into his pre-cyborg self and Überjason. Überjason fights and absorbs his past self and is flung into a wormhole by Amanda and JJ, who have celebratory sex with Castillo's android dominatrix, Pinkie 3K. Jason is bumped out of the wormhole by London Jefferson's abandoned space shuttle, which had earlier been sucked into the same vortex while fleeing Planet #666. Jason is deposited on the barren surface of Elysium and makes his way to the nearby Moon City, the inhabitants of which he begins slaughtering, as a copy of Jason's essence is revealed to exist within Major Tom back in the abandoned Moon Camp Americana.
Publication
Nancy Kilpatrick, author of the previous Jason X novel Planet of the Beast, had planned on also writing the proceeding book, but Black Flame had already commissioned Alex S. Johnson to author the next Jason X novel, Death Moon.[7][8] Death Moon was Johnson's first published novel and, while acknowledging the "mostly terrible reviews" it received, Johnson still feels he did "a pretty damn good job with it despite being limited by the parameters of the movie series."[9]
Reception
Don D'Ammassa, in a dual review of Death Moon and Friday the 13th: Hate-Kill-Repeat written for Science Fiction Chronicle, felt Hate-Kill-Repeat was better written and more plausible than Death Moon, but that Death Moon was more amusing and intriguing than Hate-Kill-Repeat.[10] Nat Brehmer of Bloody Disgusting opined that author Alex S. Johnson's style of writing made it difficult to know what was happening throughout most of Death Moon, but enjoyed the novel regardless, concluding, "I'm not sure this book would be half as memorable if it were remotely digestible or made a lick of sense."[11]
References
- ^ "B-Books Bring Movie Killers to the Written Page". classic-horror.com. Classic-Horror. 6 December 2004. Retrieved 9 October 2024.
- ^ "Jason X: Death Moon - BW&BK Scribe to Publish First Novel". bravewords.com. Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles. 29 April 2005. Retrieved 9 October 2024.
- ^ Stephen Jones (2006). The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 17. Constable & Robinson. Introduction: Horror in 2005. ISBN 9781845293154.
- ^ 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 9 October 2024.
- ^ Gilliand, Blu (13 July 2018). "If Books Could Kill: Jason Voorhees in Print". cemeterydance.com. Cemetery Dance Publications. Retrieved 9 October 2024.
- ^ Cotter, Padraig (6 March 2022). "Are The Friday The 13th Novels Canon With The Movie Series?". screenrant.com. Screen Rant. Retrieved 9 October 2024.
- ^ Sellers, Christian. "Exclusive Interview: Nancy Kilpatrick". fridaythe13thfilms.com. Friday the 13th Films. Retrieved 10 October 2024.
- ^ "Interview: Jason X Novelist Nancy Kilpatrick". fridaythe13thfranchise.com. Friday the 13th Franchise. Retrieved 10 October 2024.
- ^ McVie, Fiona (24 August 2013). "Here is my interview with Alex S. Johnson". authorsinterviews.wordpress.com. Author Interviews. Retrieved 10 October 2024.
- ^ "Critical Mass by Don D'Ammassa". Science Fiction Chronicle. Vol. 1, no. 266. United States: Warren Lapine. February 2006. p. 30.
- ^ 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 10 October 2024.
External links
- Death Moon title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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