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Alex Automatic
Secret agent Alex Anderson has been subjected to a series of illegal experiments to enhance his abilities by a shadowy agency known only as PRISM. However the process has gone horribly wrong, leaving Alex trapped inside the delusion that he is the indestructible cyborg super-spy hero of 1970’s TV show, ALEX AUTOMATIC. A TV show that exists entirely inside Alex’s own head.
On paper, Alex is the perfect agent, docile, efficient, erasable and rewritable. But in reality the process has left him a volatile and dangerous mess and when our story begins, he is being held in stasis in a secure PRISM facility. However, two well-meaning journalists find out about him and break him out, thinking they're getting a great story while setting an innocent man free. They soon realise they have no idea what they've unleashed.
Can Alex piece the shattered shards of his mind back together and rediscover the man he once was? Or is he doomed to be hunted down by PRISM and turned once again into their mindless killer?
On paper, Alex is the perfect agent, docile, efficient, erasable and rewritable. But in reality the process has left him a volatile and dangerous mess and when our story begins, he is being held in stasis in a secure PRISM facility. However, two well-meaning journalists find out about him and break him out, thinking they're getting a great story while setting an innocent man free. They soon realise they have no idea what they've unleashed.
Can Alex piece the shattered shards of his mind back together and rediscover the man he once was? Or is he doomed to be hunted down by PRISM and turned once again into their mindless killer?
220 pages, Paperback
Published August 9, 2021
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February 25, 2022
The quotes on the back cover refer to it being like a "Franz Kafka's Joe 90" and "a nightmarish acid trip gone wrong". They are not exaggerating.
I will need to reread this a number of times before I can confidently feel that I have come to grips with this. It really blew my mind. Constantly.
How can a review of this after one reading contain spoilers? I don't think that it can. I knew the premise before opening the cover yet, somehow, I struggled to process what I was reading. Properly and completely, anyway.
Visually it matched what was being told and where my mind was at. In all visual aspects: graphically, colour schemes, styles, and via the lettering employed.
So why the 5 stars? It is gripping, enchanting, and certainly mesmerising. Please check it out for yourself.
I will need to reread this a number of times before I can confidently feel that I have come to grips with this. It really blew my mind. Constantly.
How can a review of this after one reading contain spoilers? I don't think that it can. I knew the premise before opening the cover yet, somehow, I struggled to process what I was reading. Properly and completely, anyway.
Visually it matched what was being told and where my mind was at. In all visual aspects: graphically, colour schemes, styles, and via the lettering employed.
So why the 5 stars? It is gripping, enchanting, and certainly mesmerising. Please check it out for yourself.
April 15, 2022
I dont understand.
Maybe Ill try again I dont know.
Maybe Ill try again I dont know.
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