Genesis (Resident Evil (Pocket)) [Kindle Edition]

Keith R. A. DeCandido (Author)

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Product Description

The Hive: a subterranean genetic research facility owned and operated by Umbrella, an immensely powerful corporation with interests in everything from human longevity to biowarfare. With computerized defenses and heavily armed human backup, the Hive is impregnable and invulnerable. Or so Umbrella believes.

But something has gone fatally wrong. The Hive has lost containment of its most lethal and horrific creation: a virus that kills and reanimates human life, reducing the entire facility staff of five hundred men and women to mindless creatures with a single driving force -- hunger. And the key to stopping them rests with one young woman who cannot even remember who she is.

About the Author

Keith R.A. Decandido is a top genre author whose tie-in novels for Pocket include several Star Trek titles across all series as well as Buffy the Vampire Slayer novelizations. He is also known for his Star Trek: The Next Generation comicbook miniseries Perchance to Dream, and is the editor of several science-fiction and fantasy anthologies.

Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 382 KB
• Print Length: 289 pages
• Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0743492919
• Publisher: Pocket Books (August 20, 2004)
• Sold by: Simon and Schuster Digital Sales Inc
• Language: English
• ASIN: B000NY125U
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #97,107 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
  • #89 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Fiction > Genre Fiction > Science Fiction > Series

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Book, One of the Best Movie Based Books, January 26, 2005

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Shadow (Kearney, Ne United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Resident Evil: Genesis (Mass Market Paperback)

I found Resident Evil: Genesis to be a very good book. Other than messing up one character's name, I don't see why the person who wrote the first review is complaining about. The book goes into so much detail about what's going on that the book is about half done before you get to where the movie begins. And I found it very interesting in how the author went into so much detail about the back grounds of characters such as Rain. I definitely recommned this book to any fans of the Resident Evil series.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Almost succeeds at making a silk purse out of a sow's ear, June 27, 2005

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Chadwick H. Saxelid "Bookworm" (Concord, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Resident Evil: Genesis (Mass Market Paperback)

Keith R.A. DeCandido makes a game effort at turning Paul W.S. Anderson's shallow script for the first Resident Evil movie (here retitled Resident Evil: Genesis) into an actual story populated with developed characters. He almost succeeds. DeCandido has done an admirable job of fleshing out not only the backstories of Alice, Matthew and Spencer, but those of the supporting characters as well. The backstory stuff does become rather repetitious after awhile, what with all the characters, save one, coming from a military and/or law enforcement background. Matthew Addison is part of a group that seeks to bring the dirty secrets of the corrupt Umbrella Corporation out into the light of day. How this group operates and keeps itself funded is kept every bit as secret as the hows and whys of the Umbrella Corporation. Because of Matthew's history in law enforcement (I guess he is a Rogue-But-Righteous-Cop-Who-Doesn't-Play-By-The-Rules type) he cannot infiltrate Umbrella, but his sister can. Okay, that is contrived - but SOMEBODY had to fill in the plot holes that Anderson's source 'story' was riddled with. Lisa, Matthew's sister, is a brilliant computer wiz who manages to get a job inside Umbrella's semi-secret research and development headquarters located beneath the streets of Raccoon City - The Hive. While Lisa manages to gather some info, she also snags the attention of the center's security chief, Alice Abernathy. Lucky for Lisa, Alice wants to bring down Umbrella as well. The two formulate a plan...and that is when things go nightmarishly wrong. It is also that point where Paul W.S. Anderson's script begins and the novel switches from DeCandido's filling in the blanks to a rather straight forward retelling of the movie in narrative form. Try as he might, DeCandido, after such a nice build up, could not really keep the smoke and mirrors from distracting this reader from the fact that there is precious little story in Anderson's script. The oddest thing about the novelization is that, after filling in countless story gaps, DeCandido leaves one empty. In the film, after dispatching the zombified Lisa, Alice and Matthew share an expository moment. An instant later they are running for their lives from zombies, the movie not bothering to tell us just how this happened. Neither does DeCandido, he covers the sloppy transition with a chapter break. Disappointing oversight. I can only recommend this novelization to die hard Resident Evil fans.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Resident Evil: Genesis, July 19, 2004

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Michael D. Johnson "Forced/\Attrition" (Riverside, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Resident Evil: Genesis (Mass Market Paperback)

Well, first off it is nice to find that they have finaly released a book baded after the movie and not the video game. I must admit that when I first saw the movie that I was alittle/very annoyed at the fact that they took the story from Capcom themselves and made a different version of the video game that I had come to love so much. Now that "Keith R.A. DeCandido" has writen a book with more endepth information that details major scenes in the movie that normally didn't make alot of scence. Keith R.A. DeCandido did a fantastic jod at explaining the story in a different sirection and style from the way that S.D. Perry (Author of the other Resident Evil book series) went. I am proud to give this book a well deserved "5 out of 5 Stars".

Mike Steal