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Horn #1
Horn: Hot Zone
Max Horn, left for dead in the crime-infested streets of New York City in 2025, is given new life through underground technology, and seeks revenge on his assailants in the space colony of New Pittsburgh
300 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1990
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December 30, 2024
Didn't like it, but not disliked enough to not continue with the series. The reason I picked up Horn I'll keep to myself, but despite being less than impressed, it had me wanting to see the bad guys get theirs in the end.
A poor-man's Robocop, Max Horn is seeking revenge on the people responsible for what he and his family go through at the beginning of the story. His only reason for living is this vengeance, but he gains new abilities which still allow him to do some good out in the world (or even off-world).
It's a work of pulp fiction by the late Mr. Sloane, published in 1990, that has just enough of the important stuff to sustain a mild interest. Not every written work has to be like those of Nabokov or Rowling, so, snobby judgments aside, I can see how a reader could get into this story. Maybe it's predictable, but the details matter, and I thought the author did a pretty good job with those.
Also, the little bits of humor, descriptions of the glossy and the grimey in life, and the efforts to clearly describe the settings make this a work adaptable to the screen. Like I wrote earlier, now that the origin story has been told, I'll continue with the next book in the series to see where it goes
A poor-man's Robocop, Max Horn is seeking revenge on the people responsible for what he and his family go through at the beginning of the story. His only reason for living is this vengeance, but he gains new abilities which still allow him to do some good out in the world (or even off-world).
It's a work of pulp fiction by the late Mr. Sloane, published in 1990, that has just enough of the important stuff to sustain a mild interest. Not every written work has to be like those of Nabokov or Rowling, so, snobby judgments aside, I can see how a reader could get into this story. Maybe it's predictable, but the details matter, and I thought the author did a pretty good job with those.
Also, the little bits of humor, descriptions of the glossy and the grimey in life, and the efforts to clearly describe the settings make this a work adaptable to the screen. Like I wrote earlier, now that the origin story has been told, I'll continue with the next book in the series to see where it goes
April 23, 2012
fair read
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