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Extermination Zone (1996)
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Fiction Review by The Drug Stuffed Corpse
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02.24.09
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by Dr Randall Phillip
Mike Hunt Publishing
Is the Extermination Zone a misanthropic harangue pivoting on the deluded thoughts of an isolated sociopath, or a brillinat social commentary as poignant now as it was in 1996? Read on and decide:
Martians have encroached upon terra firma to instill the ideal of complacency and subjugation upon humans; through the theory of inculcating conservative norms and mores they plan to enslave humankind both physically and mentally. The martians in this case are a metaphor for the status quo; for the jock and the politician and everyone else who follows the herd instead of pushing and cutting their way through it. Phillip's book is a microcosm for an ever expanding world of strip malls and stripped rights. Where questions are discouraged and independent thought is anathema. E Zone is a journey through a maze buried deeper than any terrorist's cave and more treacherous than south central Los Angeles. It is misogynistic, racist, sexist and any other buzzword than comes to mind when you see or read something that makes you uncomfortable; it is hateful for you, because you have been conditioned not to be.
His essays lead us on a trail through intelligent speculation peppered with ridiculous statements and black and white conclusions. I hate comparing anyone with a fervent, subversive imagination to underground phenom Peter Sotos because it seems much too easy. However, Phillip's style is relative to Sotos, but only from the perspective that his prose are merely individual parts creating a symbiotic whole; reading his essays individually would have you paint him as a ranting conspiracy nut, but as one entity, the narrative takes on a a life of it's own, enveloping itself into one cognizant thought. Phillip's hatred of martians is absolute and he believes their mating with humans is the catalyst for world downfall. This is the linchpin that mutates E Zone from subversive literature to a pseudo-Anarchist Cookbook; the tome is a vitrioloic form of urban guerrilla warfare proving that some books are indeed too dangerous for the general population.
And what is the answer to the proposed question?
If you come to any conclusion at all then there is still a possibility that you can be saved...
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Rating: nan out of 10.0 - votes cast total
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