The X-Files: Ground Zero

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Summary: Ground Zero, the actual synopsis on the cover
Review: The following is taken from the cover jacket of Ground Zero: A renowned nuclear weapons researcher is not only dead-he's been charred to a radioactive cinder. The incinerated remnants of Dr. Gregory are found curled in the corner of his laboratory at the Edward Teller Nuclear Research Facility near Oakland, California. since this is a death on Federal property, Mulder and Scully are hastily called in. As FBI agents who specialize in unexplained phenomena, they are the investigators of the X-files, strange and inexplicable cases which are also mysteries that the FBI doesn't want solved. Dr. Gregory's unique death quickly and clearly becomes an X-file. As Mulder and Scully begin their fustrating work, unearthing the top secret project that Dr. Gregory was working on, they confront a tight-lipped Federal bureaucracy whose job it is to stop questions before they are asked. One by one, Mulder and Scully hit dead ends, closed security clearances, and classified documents that no one wants them to see. But that doesn't stop Mulder and Scully from ripping the lid off Dr. Gregory's illegal project --"bright Anvil" --a new type of flash nuclear explosive that has all the destructive power of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs, but with a new design that leaves virtually no radioactive fallout. The implications for the modern world are deadly, and some radical protest groups will stop at nothing to prevent the test from happening. When a second victim completely unrelated to nuclear science or Dr. gregory is obliterated in the New Mexico desert, and then a third dies the same way in Washington, D.C., Mulder and Scully begin to fucus on the frightening dimensions of their task. The bizarre deaths cannot be a coincidence. And as they work to uncover the secret unifying element that unites these deaths, it becomes clear that this twisted puzzle has fatal consequences for the entire world. ***personally, this novel was awesome because of the intricate way Scully and Mulder interact with the characters. Its not as important as What a person says and What the DONT say. On a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being best, i give at a 5.

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Summary: Definitely Kevin Anderson!
Review: The only reason why I gave it four stars instead of five is because it wasn't as good as his other two. But it was full of action, and Kevin Anderson's very good at writing Mulder and Scully the way they are

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Summary: Welcome to the beginning...
Review: this book by anderson was the best x-files that he has done!! i was so taken by the work that i could not put it down. as mulder and scully traveled from place to place searching for evidence and finding dead ends you begin to see what things would be like if that always happened. the story of the blind man and the bomb was moving and then the phone call that mulder made to the coast guard at the end was amusing. this book was all around gripping and exciting. very recommended to all x-philes!

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Summary: Fantastic!!!
Review: This book has everything I want in a book. Ghosts, references to the past, realistic characters, paranormal activity, etc etc. I would reccomend it to anyone who likes sci-fi or suspenseful books.

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Summary: Great!
Review: This book is a very good book. The story moves fast and easy to follow. It is written just like a episode on tv. Highly recommend this book and its conterpart RUINS.

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Summary: X-Files Ground Zero
Review: This book is an excellent choice for a sci-fi fan who loves the 'unexplained' or the 'unknown'. The book is based on the television show The X-Files. Mr. Kevin J. Anderson uses the usual characters Mulder and Scully as FBI agents investigating unusual cases.
A small area in Pleasanton, California at the Nuclear Research Facility, a nuclear scientist, Dr. Emil Gregory is experimenting with what he called the Bright Anvil Project. He was also a minor technician for the Manhattan Project half a century ago. Peace protesters constantly bother him outside of his office; at the same time the Energy Department is very anxious to see his developments. Something goes wrong late one evening lights flicker, an intense humming sound grows, smoke and heat become so unbearable that it hit him in all one swoop and the doctor was charred to a radioactive cinder along with his whole laboratory and research.
This case is brought to the FBI, because of its being on Federal lands, so Mulder and Scully travel down to Little Pleasanton to investigate this bizarre incident. As agent Scully did an autopsy on the Doctor's body she finds strange problems with the way the body was burnt verses the reports and usual burning cases. Was it sabotage by protestors, was it accidental, did the doctor go too far with his work that it killed him, or is it unexplainable...
I highly recommend this book, it's excellent.

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Summary: X-Files Ground Zero
Review: This book is an excellent choice for a sci-fi fan who loves the 'unexplained' or the 'unknown'. The book is based on the television show The X-Files. Mr. Kevin J. Anderson uses the usual characters Mulder and Scully as FBI agents investigating unusual cases.
A small area in Pleasanton, California at the Nuclear Research Facility, a nuclear scientist, Dr. Emil Gregory is experimenting with what he called the Bright Anvil Project. He was also a minor technician for the Manhattan Project half a century ago. Peace protesters constantly bother him outside of his office; at the same time the Energy Department is very anxious to see his developments. Something goes wrong late one evening lights flicker, an intense humming sound grows, smoke and heat become so unbearable that it hit him in all one swoop and the doctor was charred to a radioactive cinder along with his whole laboratory and research.
This case is brought to the FBI, because of its being on Federal lands, so Mulder and Scully travel down to Little Pleasanton to investigate this bizarre incident. As agent Scully did an autopsy on the Doctor's body she finds strange problems with the way the body was burnt verses the reports and usual burning cases. Was it sabotage by protestors, was it accidental, did the doctor go too far with his work that it killed him, or is it unexplainable...
I highly recommend this book, it's excellent.

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Summary: A Complete Embarrassment
Review: This book is quite possibly the worst book I've ever read. The language is rudimentary at best, with Anderson's repetitious narrative grating on my nerves from the very beginning. He seems quite fond of certain descriptions, and as the subject of these descriptions are presented time and again, he reverts back to his original presentation of them, such as "her long face," or "sheafs of paper"-again and again throughout the book. The tone and framework of the writing is reminiscent of the Weekly Readers I was required to read as a student in the sixth grade. There were different levels and colors assigned to the books according to the student's reading skill, 1 being the beginner level and 4 being the moderately difficult level, using the primary palette as a compliment to this system. I would not be surprised to see this book being issued as a Yellow Stripe Level 2, sitting on the shelves of elementary schools across the country.

The storyline is weak and the characterization is completely off target. There are holes in the plot you could drive a Mack truck through. It is rare that I give such a scathing review, but this, I assure you is completely warranted. This book is not only insulting to X-Files fans, but to readers in general. I suppose one cannot expect much from a book that supports no critical acclaim of its own on the back cover, rather, but for the series solely responsible for its marginal success. Did no one have anything positive to say about this travesty? Not even the janitor at the New York Times? Not surprising.

From the first line, it was obvious this would be a waste of time and I struggled to even finish it. By page 22 I had already flagged 3 grammatical errors...and by the time I finished the book I had flagged 9 in all, unforgivable in a widely circulated published work. I can only hope the editor was asleep on the job, and not as incompetent as his/her work would suggest. One can only hope the other X-Files serial novels are not as ridiculously juvenile as Ground Zero.

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Summary: A Complete Embarrassment
Review: This book is quite possibly the worst book I've ever read. The language is rudimentary at best, with Anderson's repetitious narrative grating on my nerves from the very beginning. He seems quite fond of certain descriptions, and as the subject of these descriptions are presented time and again, he reverts back to his original presentation of them, such as "her long face," or "sheafs of paper"-again and again throughout the book. The tone and framework of the writing is reminiscent of the Weekly Readers I was required to read as a student in the sixth grade. There were different levels and colors assigned to the books according to the student's reading skill, 1 being the beginner level and 4 being the moderately difficult level, using the primary palette as a compliment to this system. I would not be surprised to see this book being issued as a Yellow Stripe Level 2, sitting on the shelves of elementary schools across the country.

The storyline is weak and the characterization is completely off target. There are holes in the plot you could drive a Mack truck through. It is rare that I give such a scathing review, but this, I assure you is completely warranted. This book is not only insulting to X-Files fans, but to readers in general. I suppose one cannot expect much from a book that supports no critical acclaim of its own on the back cover, rather, but for the series solely responsible for its marginal success. Did no one have anything positive to say about this travesty? Not even the janitor at the New York Times? Not surprising.

From the first line, it was obvious this would be a waste of time and I struggled to even finish it. By page 22 I had already flagged 3 grammatical errors...and by the time I finished the book I had flagged 9 in all, unforgivable in a widely circulated published work. I can only hope the editor was asleep on the job, and not as incompetent as his/her work would suggest. One can only hope the other X-Files serial novels are not as ridiculously juvenile as Ground Zero.

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Summary: Doesn't Suspend my Disbelief
Review: This book is totally impossible, rather than implausible as most of the X-files are