![]() What I find objectionable in stories of this sort is the underlying contempt there seems to be for human life. If you enjoy those, I think you might like this book, too. Books like this do sell, however, and they are direct descendants of certain superhero pulps of the 30s and 40s. If you are not up to it, this is 300 pages of sludge. There are some moments of rather sardonic humor in Hot Zone, but mostly what this book is about is violence and killing and body parts scattered all over the place (as in all of the other action/adventure books that Gold Eagle publishes). ![]() Sloane (a pen name) some credit, maybe the book came first. I’ve seen only bits and pieces of the movie Total Recall, but on the basis of the little I’ve seen, I think they could use the same background sets in making a film of Hot Zone. Since the book takes place that far in the future, he even goes out into space, and most of the action takes place on a mining asteroid called New Pittsburgh. What he is is a cop in 21st century New York who, after getting augmented parts (a la the Six Million Dollar Man), goes out to wreck havoc (and revenge) in a city so decayed and dying it looks as though Mad Max had been living there for years. First printing, March 1990.Īs they would say in the world of comic fandom, this is Max Horn’s origin as a superhero.
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