''Death Arms'' is a novel by
K. W. Jeter
Kevin Wayne Jeter (born March 26, 1950) is an American science fiction and horror author known for his literary writing style, dark themes, and paranoid, unsympathetic characters. He has written novels set in the '' Star Trek'' and '' Star Wa ...
published in 1987.
Plot summary
''Death Arms'' is a novel in which a scheme involves assassinating humanity's collective unconscious.
Reception
Dave Langford
David Rowland Langford (born 10 April 1953) is a British author, editor, and critic, largely active within the science fiction field. He publishes the science fiction fanzine and newsletter ''Ansible'', and holds the all-time record for mos ...
reviewed ''Death Arms'' for ''
White Dwarf
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'' #92, and stated that "Stripped of savage imagery, this would be a thin story; Jeter drives it at stomach jolting pace to the hero's final realization that he can save the world despite being horribly dead."
Reviews
*Review by Mike Moir (1987) in
Vector
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*Euclidean vector, a quantity with a magnitude and a direction
*Vector (epidemiology), an agent that carries and transmits an infectious pathogen into another living organism
Vector may also refer to:
Mathematic ...
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*Review by Dan Chow (1987) in
Locus
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Entertainment
* Locus (comics), a Marvel Comics mutant villainess, a member of the Mutant Liberation Front
* ''Locus'' (magazine), science fiction and fantasy magazine
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, #320 September 1987
*Review by Paul J. McAuley (1989) in
Interzone, #30 July-August 1989
*Review by Glenn Grant (1990) in
The New York Review of Science Fiction
''The New York Review of Science Fiction'' is a monthly literary magazine of science fiction that was established in 1988. It includes works of science fiction criticism, essays, and in-depth critical reviews of new works of fiction and scholarship ...
, July 1990
References
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1987 novels