Robin Cook

The genera I see myself reading (and watching on tv) the most is a toss up. I like fiction, I like science fiction, and I like science. Somewhere along the way, I like medicine as well. I think that came out a bit while I was a paramedic before I went into computers.

Robin Cook is one author that I really enjoy that seems to being the horror in fiction into play with medical science and horror stories. That is why I like his novels so much. The idea patients in a hospital could all start to go into Comas for no reason, a virus that breaks out and becomes uncontrollable, and so many other twists and turns in fiction can almost seem to come to life when Robin Cook writes about them.

I think it has something to do with the angle of the medical part of it. To me, it just makes it a little more believable. Along with fiction, I enjoy horror stories, but the age old adage of a ghost going “BOO” and scaring everyone to death can only be told in so many ways. That is what makes Robin Cook’s novels so different. He takes the slightest twist in everyday situations, ads a little bit of realism to them with the medical angle, and then he takes it to extreme and gives horror a new and more realistic twist. 

Almost like a ” ‘what if’ what we know today changes just a little bit” and you get a whole new idea on a twist of reality that wills care you senseless and make you wonder what you will wake up to in the morning.

Novels:

Year of the Intern, the (1972)
Coma (1977)
Sphinx (1979)
Brain (1981)
Harmful Intent (1982)
Fever (1982)
Godplayer (1983)
Mindbend (1985)
Outbreak (1987)
Mortal Fear (1988)
Mutation (1989)
Vital Signs (1991)
Blindsight (1992)
Terminal (1992)
Fatal Cure (1993)
Acceptable Risk (1994)
Contagion (1995)
Invasion (1997)
Chromosome 6 (1997)
Toxin (1998)
Vector (1999)
Abduction (2000)
Shock (2001)
Seizure (2003)
Marker (2005)
Crisis (2006)
Critical (2007)
Foreign Body (2008)
Series:
Jack Stapleton
Pseudonyms:
Derek Raymond