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Jason X: The Experiment
Jason Voorhees is resurrected and captured by the army who skin graft parts of his body onto another human, thereby creating a "super soldier."
- GenresHorrorScience Fiction
416 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Published January 25, 2005
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Pat Cadigan
263 books436 followersPat Cadigan is an American-born science fiction author, who broke through as a major writer as part of the cyberpunk movement. Her early novels and stories all shared a common theme, exploring the relationship between the human mind and technology.
Her first novel, Mindplayers, introduced what became a common theme to all her works. Her stories blurred the line between reality and perception by making the human mind a real and explorable place. Her second novel, Synners, expanded upon the same theme, and featured a future where direct access to the mind via technology was in fact possible.
She has won a number of awards, including the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award twice,in 1992, and 1995 for her novels Synners and Fools.
She currently lives in London, England with her family.
Her first novel, Mindplayers, introduced what became a common theme to all her works. Her stories blurred the line between reality and perception by making the human mind a real and explorable place. Her second novel, Synners, expanded upon the same theme, and featured a future where direct access to the mind via technology was in fact possible.
She has won a number of awards, including the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award twice,in 1992, and 1995 for her novels Synners and Fools.
She currently lives in London, England with her family.
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October 15, 2014
I am huge fan of horror movies. Jason, Freddy, Michael Meyers, Leatherface, all of those characters are great (even if some of the movies weren't.) When I found out there were original novels based on some of these characters I was ecstatic!
Black Flame published novels based on Jason X, Friday the 13th, and Nightmare on Elm Street. So far I have only read the Jason X series, and let's start with the first. (They did a movie novelization, but this is the first of the original stories.)
I really liked this one, very good story and very true to the nature of the movies, as in pulling no punches. If you are a fan of Jason X, you will probably enjoy the books. If you aren't, well, you may like them if you just enjoy books better than movies, but otherwise they probably won't convert you.
I would recommend this one to any fan of slasher horror and, of course, to any fans of the Jason X movies.
Black Flame published novels based on Jason X, Friday the 13th, and Nightmare on Elm Street. So far I have only read the Jason X series, and let's start with the first. (They did a movie novelization, but this is the first of the original stories.)
I really liked this one, very good story and very true to the nature of the movies, as in pulling no punches. If you are a fan of Jason X, you will probably enjoy the books. If you aren't, well, you may like them if you just enjoy books better than movies, but otherwise they probably won't convert you.
I would recommend this one to any fan of slasher horror and, of course, to any fans of the Jason X movies.
November 13, 2013
A very badly misunderstood book. If you are a Jason X fan, this book may be way over your heads. As a stand alone, that is some good reading!! The number of cultural references and the blinding spots of humor far outweigh the tired old Jason stories. Read it not because of Jason but because it is well written, witty, intelligent and scary all rolled into one.
December 2, 2024
The ants programmed to build atoms by atoms, molecules by molecules, cell by cell. These ants continued to rebuild Jason. They didn't know Jason would rip flesh and slash bodies to ruins. A machete flying through the air, the cold steel turning flesh and bones into chunks, like slicing through wet paper, there was pretty much nothing left. The Nano ants now controllinghim, making him understand. There were livings things to kill. Jason now completely uninjured, unimpaired, no matter what. Jason could never be hurt. No matter how much fire power they pounded Jason he kept moving through the building, crushing them, slicing them, wiping up, the walls red with blood. An experiment of self healing in the field, making soldiers indestructible. Soldiers never needing to leave the battlefield. Jason will continue to kill, he is anti-life. Jason luckily is shot out to space in a capsule and maybe, just maybe we are safe for a while. Out of the many Jason books published by Black Flame this is by far my least favorite. When we spent time with Jason it is entertaining. Sadly it's not enough. Hope my next book will be better.
January 20, 2013
Jason X is one of those books that doesn't really have a purpose of existing. It's just a dumb and boring novel. Some may think that the title, Jason X, means that this novel is the same as the film. This is not true. Unlike the film of the same name, the novel takes a different route in how it tells it's story.
I think the most obvious thing that anyone will notice are the characters - all the boring characters. Throughout the book, characters are introduced and learned about. Now don't get me wrong. I love character development. The problem is that these characters aren't interesting in the slightest. They're extremely bland. Of course, the real reason anyone would want to read this book is because of the kills. Well, even that is not very well done. The kills, for the most part, are barely mentioned. Most of Jason X is character development. Anyone looking for a a gore fest will be sadly disappointed.
The only reason I didn't rate Jason X lower was because it was a bit enjoyable at parts, but that doesn't do much for me since the book is over 300 pages long.
I think the most obvious thing that anyone will notice are the characters - all the boring characters. Throughout the book, characters are introduced and learned about. Now don't get me wrong. I love character development. The problem is that these characters aren't interesting in the slightest. They're extremely bland. Of course, the real reason anyone would want to read this book is because of the kills. Well, even that is not very well done. The kills, for the most part, are barely mentioned. Most of Jason X is character development. Anyone looking for a a gore fest will be sadly disappointed.
The only reason I didn't rate Jason X lower was because it was a bit enjoyable at parts, but that doesn't do much for me since the book is over 300 pages long.
October 12, 2023
This is a review for the sequel to the Jason X novelization, Jason X: The Experiment, which, for some reason, is kept within the editions of the original Jason X and not as its own entry.
This sequel is not great. None of the surviving characters return from Jason X. It's all new characters, and there are a LOT of new characters, and I had trouble keeping them all straight. The book is over 400 pages, which is A LOT considering it's a Friday the 13th novel. Not enough Jason, not enough characters I like.
Really had trouble getting through this one.
This sequel is not great. None of the surviving characters return from Jason X. It's all new characters, and there are a LOT of new characters, and I had trouble keeping them all straight. The book is over 400 pages, which is A LOT considering it's a Friday the 13th novel. Not enough Jason, not enough characters I like.
Really had trouble getting through this one.
March 16, 2023
I'm not sure why I subjected myself to this, but I guess I was hoping for something half-decent. It isn't. There was no real point to this book.
Once again, huge thank you to the 80's Slasher Librarian on YouTube. It was thanks to him creating and uploading his own fan audiobook for this on YouTube that I was able to read it in the first place. Go check out his channel and offer him some support, he is doing important archival work by uploading these for free for all fans to enjoy.
Once again, huge thank you to the 80's Slasher Librarian on YouTube. It was thanks to him creating and uploading his own fan audiobook for this on YouTube that I was able to read it in the first place. Go check out his channel and offer him some support, he is doing important archival work by uploading these for free for all fans to enjoy.
March 25, 2025
I really did not enjoy reading this at all. Not so much the story, but the authors method of writing is irratating.
I found myself rolling my eyes and getting small headaches at quite a few things this author wrote into the story, constantly, over and over again, repeatedly.
The first example is how many times they used "had had." As in;"This person had had enough of seeing this author use this wording, which seemed like it appeared over 1000 times throughout the book."
The second was being tired of other things being constantly repeated over and over again. Things like a character speaking and always saying something like "Well I, um, yes" and "You could probably, um, go over it later." It seemed like they couldn't have anybody say a single sentence without "um" in the middle, and well, um, thats ANNOYING.
It was just as annoying as having to read "she gave a small inner chuckle and smiled" or "He put his feet up on the desk and leaned back." Honestly, to sum up most of what's written in this book, every page or two was filled with "He put his feet up on the desk and smiled to himself, before asking the Butler for a drink. "Hey, butler. Could you, um, drink, please?" Then quietly chuckled to himself.'
Yes, I worded that correctly, as that's what it's like reading this authors work here.
What else is annoying is there is WAY too much backstory being told that just ruins the pacing. In his last book on the Jason X movie itself, he gave full-on boring backstories to just about every character on board the ship. The blonde girl in the movie got her head dunked in dried ice before her face was smashed into a billion pieces. 5 mins of screen time at most. Who cares about a backstory about her first kiss when she was 11, or her love for her grandmothers homemade apple pies? That kind of filler dribble floods through this sequel, too.
I found myself bored to death reading about disposable soldiers' backstories, thoughts, and future ambitions and skipped over so many pages that just rant on about the most boring things anyone could come up with. Especially when it's a character to which if this was a screen adoption, that character was nothing but a henchman or disposable soldier in the background with probably 5 seconds of screen time before they're killed off. Whoever this author is, needs to cut out the boring filler, and stop wasting readers time. If it makes your book 100 pages shorter, so be it. You dont get paid by how many pages end up in the final print. It's not like it was an essay assignment to complete a story with no less than half a billion words in it.
This book is also the perfect example of why when books that get made into films have a complete make-over and characters get dropped, replaced, and several writers create dialogue that sounds realistic, more entertaining and funnier etc... because if this got made into a movie, it'd be nothing but a boring movie of a bunch of boring characters with their feet up on desks, incapable of speaking without saying "um" and any viewers would HAD HAD enough of it within the first five minutes before walking out demanding a refund.
I'm relieved to see the next 3 Jason X books are not written by this, or the first books author. So I will check those out later. But I can tell you honestly, if this author wrote them, I'd boycot myself from even reading the rear covers epilogue. Never again am I reading anything by this clown again.
So much boring filler and pointless repeated words for a story that's summed up best as 'Time has passed since Jason X. Nanos have rebuilt Jason, and he becomes captured by Dr Frankenstein, who wants to figure out how to use his DNA to create super soldiers. And of course you can work out what happens after that?!.'
Oh, yeah, another thing I got sick and tired of reading. "Jason is anti-life," and the other dribble around it. The author just seemed to copy and paste the same lines into any mention of Jason throughout this book.
I'm so glad this was not even considered to be made a movie or even a comic book visualisation.
No wonder the books are out of print. It's not an expensive collector item worth the stupid price you see it going for online. It was sent out back and shot to be out of its misery and preventing any innocent readers in the future from accidentally reading it.
I found myself rolling my eyes and getting small headaches at quite a few things this author wrote into the story, constantly, over and over again, repeatedly.
The first example is how many times they used "had had." As in;"This person had had enough of seeing this author use this wording, which seemed like it appeared over 1000 times throughout the book."
The second was being tired of other things being constantly repeated over and over again. Things like a character speaking and always saying something like "Well I, um, yes" and "You could probably, um, go over it later." It seemed like they couldn't have anybody say a single sentence without "um" in the middle, and well, um, thats ANNOYING.
It was just as annoying as having to read "she gave a small inner chuckle and smiled" or "He put his feet up on the desk and leaned back." Honestly, to sum up most of what's written in this book, every page or two was filled with "He put his feet up on the desk and smiled to himself, before asking the Butler for a drink. "Hey, butler. Could you, um, drink, please?" Then quietly chuckled to himself.'
Yes, I worded that correctly, as that's what it's like reading this authors work here.
What else is annoying is there is WAY too much backstory being told that just ruins the pacing. In his last book on the Jason X movie itself, he gave full-on boring backstories to just about every character on board the ship. The blonde girl in the movie got her head dunked in dried ice before her face was smashed into a billion pieces. 5 mins of screen time at most. Who cares about a backstory about her first kiss when she was 11, or her love for her grandmothers homemade apple pies? That kind of filler dribble floods through this sequel, too.
I found myself bored to death reading about disposable soldiers' backstories, thoughts, and future ambitions and skipped over so many pages that just rant on about the most boring things anyone could come up with. Especially when it's a character to which if this was a screen adoption, that character was nothing but a henchman or disposable soldier in the background with probably 5 seconds of screen time before they're killed off. Whoever this author is, needs to cut out the boring filler, and stop wasting readers time. If it makes your book 100 pages shorter, so be it. You dont get paid by how many pages end up in the final print. It's not like it was an essay assignment to complete a story with no less than half a billion words in it.
This book is also the perfect example of why when books that get made into films have a complete make-over and characters get dropped, replaced, and several writers create dialogue that sounds realistic, more entertaining and funnier etc... because if this got made into a movie, it'd be nothing but a boring movie of a bunch of boring characters with their feet up on desks, incapable of speaking without saying "um" and any viewers would HAD HAD enough of it within the first five minutes before walking out demanding a refund.
I'm relieved to see the next 3 Jason X books are not written by this, or the first books author. So I will check those out later. But I can tell you honestly, if this author wrote them, I'd boycot myself from even reading the rear covers epilogue. Never again am I reading anything by this clown again.
So much boring filler and pointless repeated words for a story that's summed up best as 'Time has passed since Jason X. Nanos have rebuilt Jason, and he becomes captured by Dr Frankenstein, who wants to figure out how to use his DNA to create super soldiers. And of course you can work out what happens after that?!.'
Oh, yeah, another thing I got sick and tired of reading. "Jason is anti-life," and the other dribble around it. The author just seemed to copy and paste the same lines into any mention of Jason throughout this book.
I'm so glad this was not even considered to be made a movie or even a comic book visualisation.
No wonder the books are out of print. It's not an expensive collector item worth the stupid price you see it going for online. It was sent out back and shot to be out of its misery and preventing any innocent readers in the future from accidentally reading it.
March 17, 2021
Hmm a Friday the 13th book where Jason is basically asleep for the majority of the story
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