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| Author | Nancy Kilpatrick |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Series | Jason X |
Release number | 5 |
| Genre | Horror, science fiction |
| Publisher | Black Flame |
Publication date | 25 April 2006 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 412 |
| ISBN | 9781844162819 |
| OCLC | 64097892 |
| Preceded by | Jason X: Death Moon |
Jason X: To the Third Power is a 2006 British science fiction horror novel written by Nancy Kilpatrick and published by Black Flame.[1][2][3] A tie-in to the Friday the 13th series of American horror films, it is the fifth and final installment in a series of five Jason X novels published by Black Flame.[4][5][6]
Plot
Wealthy businessman Jackson Mansfield hires five specialists to build a cybernetic lifeform on Elysium, one of the two moons of Earth II. The quintet is headed by Mansfield's protégé, Free Jefferson, and consists of Brad Simpson, a cyberdesigner, and his cybertechnician girlfriend, Lynda Barnes; a pair of bioengineers named Anyar Signh and Herbert Dearman, the former of whom is blind; and Skye Fellows, a cyber-engineer and daughter of Doctor Armando Castillo, an infamous scientist who once worked on Elysium. The group's workspace on Elysium, the abandoned Moon Camp Americana, has been overseen by a copy of Castillo's anomalous A.I. assistant, Major Tom, for the last twenty years, ever since undead cyborg Jason Voorhees butchered almost everyone in a government complex (which now houses a prison) and the Moon Camp, a disaster covered-up by the New American Republic. Free and Skye become romantically involved, and through Skye's father's secret logs, they discern, to Free's bewilderment, that Free is Jason's son, the result of an experiment conducted by Castillo's colleague, Doctor Claude Bardox, on Free's mother, London Jefferson, over two decades ago on a research station orbiting Planet #666.
The experimental teleportation device being used to move Elysium's prisoners to a new penal colony on Elysium's twin moon, Thanos, malfunctions and damages the prison, freeing most of the inmates, including Juan Jimenez "JJ" Gonzales and his lover, Amanda Cartwright, survivors of Jason's rampage through Moon Camp Americana. Viper, an ambitious prisoner, and his battered pyromaniac girlfriend, Blister, overhear Free and Skye explaining to JJ they discovered Jason is sealed beneath the prison, merged with the original Major Tom. Viper, wanting to usurp JJ's leadership of the other convicts, frees Jason for use against JJ, only to be murdered by him along with everyone else in the Moon Camp besides Free, JJ, and Skye.
Publication
The novel had the working title Jason X: Cubed.[1]
Reception
Nat Brehmer, in a retrospective about the Jason X spin-offs written for Bloody Disgusting, responded positively to the novel,[7] as did Louis Fowler of Bookgasm, who deemed the "fun" and "incredibly entertaining" novel "the silliest, most ridiculous book so far in the series of original horror novels featuring mass murderer Jason Voorhees in future space."[8]
References
- ^ a b "Jason X: Death Moon - BW&BK Scribe to Publish First Novel". bravewords.com. Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles. 29 April 2005. Retrieved 25 October 2024.
- ^ Stephen Jones (2007). The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 18. Constable & Robinson. Introduction: Horror in 2006. ISBN 9780786720491.
- ^ Gilliand, Blu (13 July 2018). "If Books Could Kill: Jason Voorhees in Print". cemeterydance.com. Cemetery Dance Publications. Retrieved 26 October 2024.
- ^ Marie Toft, ed. (2006). What Do I Read Next? 2006: A Readers Guide To Current Genre Fiction, Volume 2. Gale. p. 244. ISBN 9780787690243.
- ^ 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 26 October 2024.
- ^ Cotter, Padraig (6 March 2022). "Are The Friday The 13th Novels Canon With The Movie Series?". screenrant.com. Screen Rant. Retrieved 26 October 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 20 September 2024.
- ^ Fowler, Louis (5 June 2006). "Jason X: To the Third Power". bookgasm.com. Internet Archive. Archived from the original on 7 June 2017. Retrieved 26 October 2024.
External links
- Interview with Nancy Kilpatrick at Friday the 13th Films
- Interview with Nancy Kilpatrick at Friday the 13th Franchise
- To the Third Power title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database