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Jason X: To the Third Power
Moon Camp Americana is home to some of humanity's most forward-thinking research scientists. But have they really cloned serial killer Jason Voorhees, not once, but twice?!
412 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Published January 1, 2006
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Nancy Kilpatrick
159 books255 followersNancy Kilpatrick was a Canadian author who wrote stories in the genres of dark fantasy, horror, mystery, erotic horror, and gothic subculture.
She is most known for her vampire themed works.
She is most known for her vampire themed works.
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November 24, 2014
A wealthy and powerful businessman hires a team of young and brilliant scientists to go to Elysium, Earth II's only industrially developed moon, to try and create (or unwittingly recreate, for the motivations are kept suspiciously unclear) a cybernetic life form. The scientists believe that the reason for their lab being constructed on Elysium is one of cost, at first. But they soon discover that their lab has been built in the abandoned ruins of Camp Americana, former virtual summer camp playground for the children of Earth II's wealthiest residents.
Twenty years ago a mysterious accident of some kind forced the closure of Camp Americana. No one knows what really happened there, but rumors of a mad scientist's "living weapon" escaping and going on a killing spree persist. Now Elysium's only residents, other than the scientists, are the inmates at a neighboring maximum security prison.
I think you can see where this is going, right?
The most entertaining thing about Nancy Kilpatrick's To The Third Power, the final book in publisher Black Flame's short lived Jason X spin-off series, had nothing whatsoever to do with its serviceable plot structure or its copious amounts of carnage. No, it had to do with what looked like some kind of creative pissing contest between Kilpatrick and Death Moon author Alex S. Johnson.
You see, Johnson's Death Moon is sandwiched between two novels written by Kilpatrick, Planet of the Beast and To The Third Power. Planet ended with a sole female survivor impregnated with a clone of the cybernetic Jason Voorhees. But Johnson killed that character in the opening pages of Death Moon, so he could do his own thing with Jason X. But the returning Kilpatrick refused to be thwarted. She creates some kind of Black Hole anomaly thingamajig in order to resurrect her deceased survivor, allowing her to give birth to the Jason X clone.
And if you look up at that plot synopsis and do the math, I think you can see where that plot wrinkle is going, too. But that's not all, Kilpatrick also brings back some Death Moon survivors and knocks them off while ghoulish relish.
I found the whole thing silly, to the point of it becoming giggle inducing, and I don't really consider that to be a bad thing. One does not crack open a book like this with the expectation of reading mentally challenging literature. No, I crack open a Jason X novel in the hope that I can spend a lazy afternoon, or two, enjoying the literary equivalent of a Friday the 13th movie, and To The Third Power did an adequate job it.
Like all the other Black Flame books, To The Third Power suffers from publisher induced bloat. It takes far too long for Jason X to get loose and start eradicating the characters, and numerous scenes drag horribly, because all those needlessly required words have to go somewhere. But it all builds (or bloats) to a decent payoff. One that ends both the novel and the series on a satisying dark and ominous note.
A note that might close the door on this particular story and series, but that also makes certain to leave that door unlocked, just in case someone should ever dare to try and open it again.
Twenty years ago a mysterious accident of some kind forced the closure of Camp Americana. No one knows what really happened there, but rumors of a mad scientist's "living weapon" escaping and going on a killing spree persist. Now Elysium's only residents, other than the scientists, are the inmates at a neighboring maximum security prison.
I think you can see where this is going, right?
The most entertaining thing about Nancy Kilpatrick's To The Third Power, the final book in publisher Black Flame's short lived Jason X spin-off series, had nothing whatsoever to do with its serviceable plot structure or its copious amounts of carnage. No, it had to do with what looked like some kind of creative pissing contest between Kilpatrick and Death Moon author Alex S. Johnson.
You see, Johnson's Death Moon is sandwiched between two novels written by Kilpatrick, Planet of the Beast and To The Third Power. Planet ended with a sole female survivor impregnated with a clone of the cybernetic Jason Voorhees. But Johnson killed that character in the opening pages of Death Moon, so he could do his own thing with Jason X. But the returning Kilpatrick refused to be thwarted. She creates some kind of Black Hole anomaly thingamajig in order to resurrect her deceased survivor, allowing her to give birth to the Jason X clone.
And if you look up at that plot synopsis and do the math, I think you can see where that plot wrinkle is going, too. But that's not all, Kilpatrick also brings back some Death Moon survivors and knocks them off while ghoulish relish.
I found the whole thing silly, to the point of it becoming giggle inducing, and I don't really consider that to be a bad thing. One does not crack open a book like this with the expectation of reading mentally challenging literature. No, I crack open a Jason X novel in the hope that I can spend a lazy afternoon, or two, enjoying the literary equivalent of a Friday the 13th movie, and To The Third Power did an adequate job it.
Like all the other Black Flame books, To The Third Power suffers from publisher induced bloat. It takes far too long for Jason X to get loose and start eradicating the characters, and numerous scenes drag horribly, because all those needlessly required words have to go somewhere. But it all builds (or bloats) to a decent payoff. One that ends both the novel and the series on a satisying dark and ominous note.
A note that might close the door on this particular story and series, but that also makes certain to leave that door unlocked, just in case someone should ever dare to try and open it again.
November 27, 2013
Shouldn't have to read half a book before the killing starts.
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