The loop

Title:

The loop

Author:

Johnson, Jeremy Robert, 1977- author.

Personal Author:

Johnson, Jeremy Robert, 1977- author.

ISBN:

9781534454293

Edition:

First Saga Press hardcover edition.

Physical Description:

306 pages ; 24 cm

Abstract:

"Spiderman: Venom meets The Walking Dead with a diverse cast of teenage protagonists trying to survive the night in a town overcome by a scientific breakthrough that has rapidly gone incredibly wrong. A small town in Western Oregon becomes the epicenter of an epidemic of violence as the teenage daughters and sons of several executives who happen to work at the biotech firm nestled in the hills have become ill, and oddly, aggressively, murderous"-- Provided by publisher.

Turner Falls is a small tourist town nestled in the hills of western Oregon. It's also the home of a biotech firm. When the town is ravaged by an outbreak in which the infected develop fits of rage, a group of misfits struggle to survive the night. Will they be able to expose the corporate corruption that destroyed their home? -- adapted from jacket

Subject Term:

Biotechnology -- Fiction.

Teenagers -- Fiction.

Corporations -- Corrupt practices -- Fiction.

Violence -- Fiction.

Murder -- Fiction.

FICTION / Science Fiction / General.

Geographic Term:

Oregon -- Fiction.

Genre:

Science fiction.

Summary:

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Summary

The year's most brutal, cinematic thrill ride is also one of its most critically acclaimed novels. Dazed and Confused meets 28 Days Later in this "wickedly entertaining," ( Kirkus Reviews ) "volcano of a book" (Nathan Ballingrud, author of Wounds ) as a lonely young woman teams up with a group of fellow outcasts to survive the night in a town overcome by a science experiment gone wrong.

A Best Book of the Month for Den of Geek , Omnivoracious , Mystery & Suspense , and Tor .

A Goodreads ' 2020 Readers Choice Nominee for Best Horror, and one of the Best Books of 2020 for The Lineup , Booked , and Unsettling Reads .

Turner Falls is a small tourist town nestled in the hills of central Oregon. When a terrifying outbreak rapidly develops, this idyllic town becomes the epicenter of an epidemic of violence.

The Loop is a "wild and wonderfully scary novel" (Richard Chizmar, author of Gwendy's Magic Feather ) that offers a "hilarious and horrifying" (Brian Keene, author of The Rising ) look at what one team of misfits can accomplish as they fight to live through the night.

"[A] harrowing thrill ride of the first order and an uncompromising page-turner, easily securing its spot as one of the best novels of 2020." -- Rue Morgue (featured "Dante's Pick" Review)

"Like the best of Crichton or Bentley, it is a great beach read, but it is infused with the neon blood of a brave new writer... [A] kind of literary roller coaster. It will take you to thrilling highs and terrifying lows..." -- Los Angeles Review of Books

" The Loop is the gore-soaked, anxiety-inducing, diabolically funny Richard Linklater/David Cronenberg mashup you never knew you wanted but can't--or at least shouldn't--live without." -- The Big Thrill

"Unputdownable...Fans of The Twilight Zone , The X-Files , and Stranger Things will be especially thrilled." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"A satisfyingly dark satire of, well, everything...[a] heart-pounding and deeply unsettling tale." -- Booklist

" The Loop is a remarkably propulsive novel, cinematic in the best way, with perfectly tuned tension and excellent character choices...a headlong, straightforward pleasure." -- Locus

" The Loop is the Cronenberg film we never got." --Nathan Ballingrud, author of North American Lake Monsters and Wounds

Reviews (1)

Kirkus Review

Weirdness invades a small Oregon town as a government experiment gone wrong escapes containment. Where to start with the pop-culture influences that erupt in this second novel by Johnson, author of the novel Skullcrack City (2015) and the story collection Entropy in Bloom (2017)? It opens with a Goonies/Super 8 vibe: There's a bunch of high school misfits led by Lucy, a Peruvian adoptee whose closest friend is "Bucket" Marwani, whose Pakistani heritage makes him another brown kid targeted for abuse by their classmates. The nightmarish scenario goes all Stephen King's Cell when one of the kids' classmates goes berserk and kills a teacher before perishing himself. In the meantime, we're getting broadcasts from the Nightwatchman, a self-styled radio shock jock pulling the curtain back on the utter weirdness erupting in Turner Falls, Oregon, á la Welcome to Night Vale. When things really kick off, it looks like a modernization of the townies-versus--⁠rich-kids trope until the whole thing goes to hell and Lucy and her posse are just fighting for their lives. If you're into this kind of thing, there are some carrots, like Lucy having her first kiss, which is kind of sweet, but as our heroes descend into the (inevitably) human-made nightmare, it gets pretty grotesque. Is there a secret laboratory? Check--in the supersecret IMTECH facility near our little village of idiots--making something that has gotten completely out of control. Lucy is a fierce protagonist, but from this point it evolves into a wetwork nightmare straight out of Chuck Wendig's daydreams. There's some prescient dark humor here, too: "Shoot, man. Maybe. That's usually how it goes, right? But I don't know about this situation. The whole city is on fire, man. I don't think these guys are checking bank balances before they start murdering people. Could be the old rules, rich, poor, none of it means much anymore." A wickedly entertaining but also grotesque teen nightmare that's pretty much Stranger Things meets Rogue One. Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.