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Terminator: Salvation - Cold War (2012)

by Greg Cox(Favorite Author)

3.7 of 5 Votes: 1

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English

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Science Fiction

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Titan Books

review 1: I really enjoyed this book and its take on these two situations - Judgement Day in an other country and "today" in a part of the US that is not in the "hot zone" of the war against the machines.First of all - the two characters don't get killed. In the book. Since Losenko becomes part of the head of the Resistance he'll get killed in the movie when Skynet destroys the command submarine. :( And an other character that I got to like gets killed off too. :(Other than that? A good book. I really like that we get to see Judgement Day from the POV of an other country with all the questions, paranoia and accusations that comes with it. And the desperation when the submarine goes back to Murmansk and finds everything destroyed and the first sailor goes mad/deserts and so on and so... more on. The question 'Are we the only ones?' is present all the time and the desperation that comes out of that is palpable. I also like that Losenko & Co. don't trust the transmissions that it isn't the fault of the US and later on Ortega and later Ashdown immediately. After all, they don't know what happened. They only know for a long time that the US sent its nuclear arsenal to destroy the world. Only after they see the Terminators for the first time themselves they start to believe in this computer malfunction and the AI that took over.I also like the plot in Alaska. Molly is such a great character - hurt, broken, determined, kickass and a good leader. My heart aches for her every time she looses someone but I love her determination to bring down Skynet in her remote part of the world. And that she manages to do it in little steps. :) Also, I really wouldn't mind to see her character again - in a book or in a movie (hey, someone can wish and dream. ;)).I squeed out loud when Losenko and Molly talked via video conference! I so hoped that these two would meet. :)All in all, a good book that makes me want to watch Terminator:Salvation again (what I'm probably doing tonight.).
review 2: Greg Cox is a very talented novelist, notwithstanding the fact that he almost exclusively writes movie, TV show, and comic book tie-ins. Yet, he doesn't write as if he's in it solely for the paycheck. His Underworld prequel, Blood Enemy, was far superior to Revenge of the Lycans (the only movie that ever made me fall asleep while in the theater), and it's apparent that he has made a real from-the-heart effort in writing this Terminator novel--even incorporating a fairly impressive amount of nuclear submarine research. Yeah, his teenage girl character's dialogue seems better suited for a video game then a novel, but I can easily get past that. The big problem inherent with tie-in novels like this is that movie and TV producers can be pretty restrictive in how they allow their characters and mythos to be used. Thus, though entertaining, Cold War is pretty insignificant in terms of its impact on the world of Terminator. Even the characters know that, at best, the culmination of their efforts will result in nothing more than a minor setback for Skynet. John Connor's role in the story is little more than a footnote. The aim of this book is to simply flesh out the world of post-Judgement Day a little bit, not break any new ground. Despite having "Terminator Salvation" on the cover, it has very little to do with the movie...and even less to do with the Terminator Salvation novel that preceeded it, From the Ashes by Timothy Zahn. Still, I'd reccommend it to any rabid Terminator fan, and I'll be interested to see what Greg Cox comes out with next. less

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