Tokyo Zero

Why is a young Westerner living in a seedy Tokyo apartment with a crew of crazed cultists? To end the world, of course…

“Cyberpunk meets a Tarantino Universe where every moment is filled with non-stop action and plot twists.”

The premise of Marc Horne’s Tokyo Zero: “I want to end the human race. But not because I don’t like it. I just have a better idea.”

On this wildly amusing romp down a Vonnegut-like rabbit hole, you don’t learn this until you’re 93 percent of the way through the novel (commercial POD title from Amazon;  free e-book from Horne and the multiformat Manybooks.net).

Originally bearing the far-superior title of My Tokyo Death Cult, the book is very loosely based on 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway. The “fulcrum of human history” is a plot to eliminate the human race by means of a device a device that “strongly resembles a drinking bird toy.” To get there, you cruise wildly imaginative waters where would-be fascist billionaires consort with female assassins, mothers are killed by the Khmer Rouge, plastic surgeons manipulate human DNA, bearded cult leaders levitate on the Tokyo subway, and a superpowerful artificial intelligence employs an irony filter.

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– Court Merrigan, TeleRead.org

(2 votes, average: 8 out of 10)

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