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Ground Zero (The X-Files) | 
| Authors: Kevin J. Anderson, Gillian Anderson
Creator: Chris Carter
Publisher: HarperAudio
Category: Book
List Price: $18.00
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Rating:  44 reviews
Sales Rank: 897082
Format: Abridged, Audiobook
Media: Audio Cassette
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7 x 4.5 x 0.8
ISBN: 0694516201
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780694516209
ASIN: 0694516201
Publication Date: December 1, 1995
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Product Description
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.
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 A review of the abridged audiobook April 9, 2009
DWD (Indianapolis, IN)
So, how can I say this succintly and clearly?
The abridged audiobook is not good. It is bad. It is not well read. It has few of the best qualities of the TV show.
Read by Gillian Anderson, the abrdiged audiobook clocks in at about 3 hours and read unenthusiastically by Gillian Anderson. One of the reasons I picked this one up is that I figured she'd read it well. It says it was recorded in Vancouver in 1995 (where the show was filmed) and it sounds like she read it between takes. She sounds tired and completely uninterested in the text.
Then again, when you look at what she was reading, I cannot blame her for being uninterested. This book has none of the zip of the show. Mulder's lines are almost non-existant. No smart-aleck lines or observation. No wry sense of humor that makes even the weakest of the TV shows watchable (I love the X-Files but let's face it - every episode is not being shipped to the TV Hall of Fame...). This book is a tired and pale imitation of what the show was. You can see the ending coming and you wish it would just hurry up and get here. Perhaps the abridgement gutted the book but I was glad it was abridged.
The science behind this audiobook is laughable. Not the supernatural stuff - that's what the X-Files is all about. I mean the atomic science. Does the author really think that anyone can explode an atomic bomb without radiation detectors picking up on it? Remember Chernobyl? The West knew it had gone wrong long before the Soviets admitted to it because it was detected by Western atomic sensors. Atomic blasts show up on seismographs. That's how we knew India and Pakistan had them. But, let's ignore facts like that and roll right along with a silly premise.
Skip this one.
 Intriguing from Beginning to End February 28, 2007
W. Wilson (Boxborough, MA)
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 November 11, 2005
Kathryn J. Blake (Phoenix,AZ)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
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 February 28, 2005
Matt Johnson (Michigan)
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 March 13, 2004
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.
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