Reborn [Import] [Hardcover]

F. Paul Wilson (Author), Stephen Gervais (Illustrator)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 352 pages
• Publisher: Dark Harvest; Limited First Edition edition (January 1, 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0450536637
• ISBN-13: 978-0450536632
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.4 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,621,780 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I was born toward the end of the Jurassic Period and raised in New Jersey where I misspent my youth playing with matches, poring over Uncle Scrooge and E.C. comics, reading Lovecraft, Matheson, Bradbury, and Heinlein, listening to Chuck Berry and Alan Freed, and watching Soupy Sales and horror movies. I sold my first story in the Cretaceous Period and have been writing ever since. (Even that dinosaur-killer asteroid couldn't stop me.)

I've written in just about every genre - science fiction, fantasy, horror, a children's Christmas book (with a monster, of course), medical thrillers, political thrillers, even a religious thriller (long before that DaVinci thing). So far I've got about 33 books and 100 or so short stories under my name in 24 languages.

THE KEEP, THE TOMB, HARBINGERS, and BY THE SWORD all appeared on the New York Times Bestsellers List. WHEELS WITHIN WHEELS won the first Prometheus Award in 1979; THE TOMB received the Porgie Award from The West Coast Review of Books. My novelette "Aftershock" received the 1999 Bram Stoker Award for short fiction. DYDEETOWN WORLD was on the young adult recommended reading lists of the American Library Association and the New York Public Library, among others (God knows why). I received the prestigious Inkpot Award from San Diego ComiCon and the Pioneer Award from the RT Booklovers Convention. I'm listed in the 50th anniversary edition of Who's Who in America. (That plus $3 will buy you a girly coffee at Starbuck's.)

My novel THE KEEP was made into a visually striking but otherwise incomprehensible movie (screenplay and direction by Michael Mann) from Paramount in 1983. My original teleplay "Glim-Glim" first aired on Monsters. An adaptation of my short story "Menage a Trois" was part of the pilot for The Hunger series that debuted on Showtime in July 1997.

And then there's the epic saga of the Repairman Jack film. After 14 years in development hell with half a dozen writers and at least a dozen scripts, THE TOMB is finally moving toward production as "Repairman Jack" from Beacon Films and Touchstone. The plan is to make Jack a franchise character. (Gotta tell you: all the years of this has worn me out.)

I've done a few collaborations too. One with Steve Spruill on NIGHTKILL, and a bunch with Matthew J. Costello. Matt and I did world design, characters, and story arcs for Sci-Fi Channel's FTL NewsFeed, a daily newscast set 150 years in the future. An FTL NewsFeed was the first program broadcast by the new channel when it launched in September 1992. We took over scripting the Newsfeeds (the equivalent of a 4-1/2 hour movie per year) in 1994 and continued until its cancellation in December 1996.

We did script and design for MATHQUEST WITH ALADDIN (Disney Interactive - 1997) with voices by Robin Williams and Jonathan Winters, and the same for The Interactive DARK HALF for Orion Pictures, based on the Stephen King novel, but this project was orphaned when MGM bought Orion. (It's officially vaporware now.) We even wrote a stageplay, "Syzygy," which opened in St. Augustine, Florida, in March, 2000.

I'm tired of talking about myself, so I'll close by saying that I live and work at the Jersey Shore where I'm usually pounding away on a new Repairman Jack novel and haunting eBay for strange clocks and Daddy Warbucks memorabilia. (No, we don't have a cat.)

Customer Reviews

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Sequel to The Keep spawned a Cycle., February 28, 2002

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

When F. Paul Wilson began writing Reborn it was just intended to be a one book sequel to his successful thriller The Keep, but ideas and links to two other seemingly unrelated books (The Tomb and The Touch) arose and, thankfully, Wilson rolled with those ideas. The result is a breathtaking six book Cycle about something very evil trying to end the world.

A struggling horror novelist receives a surprising inheritance and some heartbreaking news about his parentage. But there are greater forces at play here than meet the eye and Wilson pulls numerous threads together, setting the stage for an epic battle that only begins after some devestating personal payback in the fifth book, Reprisal. Highly recommended.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars The Adversary Saga Continues, March 25, 2003

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Daniel V. Reilly (Upstate New York, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Reborn (Hardcover)

Reborn is book Four in F. Paul Wilson's epic "Adversary" cycle, and it's also the book where the big picture starts to become clear.

Reborn tells the story of Jim Stevens, who, after years of searching for his birth parents, finds out that his natural Father is a recently-deceased Nobel-Prize winning millionaire. Not only that, but Jim has been left his entire estate. Rather than leave well enough alone, Jim continues to dig around for his birth Mother. That's where his troubles begin....

Wilson telegraphs the point of the book by making constant references to Ira Levin's classic "Rosemary's Baby", which covers the same theological ground. He does make a VERY unexpected detour about 2/3rd's of the way through the book that really threw me for a loop, though. There are some characters and themes that carry over from the previous books, especially "The Keep", so DO NOT read Reborn without reading The Keep (Excellent!), The Tomb (Excellent!!), and The Touch (Not bad....).

The Dark Harvest edition is gorgeous, and comes with illustrations by Stephen Garvais. His art is great, but he doesn't always pick the best scenes to represent. All in all, Reborn is a fun, if standard, read. It does what it sets out to do, though: Brings Molosar/Rasolom back with a vengeance....Bring on Reprisal!

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very Good, and not, Not, NOT a Rosemarie's Baby clone!, January 14, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Reborn (Paperback)

This was a very good book. A millionare/genetic researcher had died in a plane crash, leaving his fortune and victorian mansion to a young writer named Jim Stevens. Jim, as an orphan, wonders if this guy was his father. Soon, however, all sorts of strange things begin to happen, including apocalyptic warnings from Jim's relatives and friends. I cannot believe how STUPID people are! This book is NOT a Rosemarie's Baby clone! It has similar aspects to it, I admit, and it even *mentions* Rosemarie's Baby a few times--BUT IT IS NOT A REMAKE OF THE IRA LEVIN CLASSIC! Read it CAREFULLY and you will see what I mean. This book is a SEQUEL, people, and it can ONLY be read AFTER "The Keep", "The Tomb", and "The Touch". As well, this is a very good book. Pretty scary at times, but nowhere near as scary as "The Keep". Read this book ("The Keep", I mean) and you will see what I mean. The looks at life that these books make are astounding. What's more, after reading this book, there are the horrors of "Reprisal" and "Nightworld" to face... heh-heh-hehh...