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List Price: $18.00 | | Publisher: HarperAudio
Salesrank: 1112746
Released: December 12, 1995 |
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| Media: Audio Cassette |
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Editorial Review:
Dr. Gregory,a renowned nuclear weapons researcher, is not only dead -- he's been charredto a radioactive cinder.
Since this is a death on Federal property, Mulder and Scully are hastilycalled in. As FBI agents who specialize in unexplained phenomena, they arethe investigators of the X-Files, strange and inexplicable cases which arealso mysteries that the FBI doesn't want solved.
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 sameway in Washington, D.C., Mulder and Scully begin to focus on the frighteningdimension of their task. The bizarre deaths cannot be a coincidence. Andas they work to uncover the secret unifying element that unites these deaths,it becomes clear that this twisted puzzle has fatal consequences for theentire world.
Ground Zero (The X-Files) Reviews:
Intriguing from Beginning to End 
2007-02-28 - Of the three X-Files novelizations by Kevin J. Anderson, I think I like this one best. The plot is fast-paced and the story line is mysterious.
It's a shame that there are only a few X-Files novelizations by Anderson and other authors. I loved the show and am just discovering these books.
Now, it's too bad there aren't any "Millennium" novelizations!
Supernatural happenings in a nuclear age 
2005-11-11 - This is a review of the audiobook version of Ground Zero by Kevin Anderson read by Gillian Anderson.
Set against the world of government sponsored nuclear weapons research , Ground Zero has agents Mulder and Scully investigating the death of a researcher who is blown to bits - but the rest of his office is intact. There is no known personal sized nuke- so what happened? The audiobook is read by Gillian Anderson , and the abridgement has the focus on Scully's part of the investigation and the unlikely supernatural conclusion that takes the agents to the south pacific and the site of a planned above ground test of a new super weapon.
Anderson's reading is great! I got a good chuckle out of her comments about how that Mulder's theories were bound to be way out there and not grounded in science. Well paced, the book moves along with action and theory and some cool supernatural mysticism concerning a lost tribe , wiped out by an above ground nuclear test in the 50s and their long journey to retribution and vengeance from beyond......
Disappointing 
2005-02-28 - I was excited to know that there was another X-files book make by Kevin Anderson because I love how well he writes his novels.
I was disappointed when I finished the book. Here are the positives and the negatives I found.
On the positive side it was detailed.
On the negative side I found that the main plot of the story seemed a long way away from what was happening. I felt lost and confused at the end.
I really wish that it had not been drawn out so much. I understand that it was meant to build suspense but I didn't understand anything until the last seventy pages.
If you are going to read Kevin J. Anderson's novels read: "The X-files Antibodies
I Enjoyed This Book
2004-03-13 - I enjoyed this book but i thought i could have been better. While reading this book i felt like Mulder was left out alot. But the book kept my attention. Although i thought it could have been better i reccomend this book.
Good idea- weak execution 
2003-05-26 - Now having read 7 books either written or co-written by Kevin J. Anderson,(3 Star Wars, 3 X-Files and 1 Dune) I can say that the man has good ideas, I just don't think that his writing is all that absorbing. As with his Star Wars books, his X-Files books never quite ring true of the characters. As for the cases, they are pretty good, but it isn't Mulder and Scully who are chasing down the monsters. Of all the new X-Files books, Charles Grant's "Whirlwind" nails the characters of Mulder and Scully, but the case isn't particularly involving.
