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Book Review of Doom

Doom
Doom
Author: John Shirley
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Paperback
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From the back cover: The video game that electrified a generation leaps from the computer screen to the big screen - a terrifying science-fiction action-adventure that will transport you to a dark and disturbing future filled with all the visceral excitement and horror that made Doom a global phenomenon.

Far in the future...an urgent distress signal is received from a classified Union Aerospace Corporation research facility based on Olduvai, Mars - and is suddenly silenced. Assigned to either contain or quarantine the mysterious threat, a crack strike team comprised of the most hard-bitten marines around believes that this will be another routine seek-and-destroy mission. But they will soon come face-to-face with the hellish nightmares that the researchers' unorthodox experiments have unleashed on Olduvai - a place where doom is waiting...