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WORK TITLE: Aisle Nine
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Writer and graphic designer.
AVOCATIONS:Creating animations.
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Kirkus Reviews, August 1, 2024, review of Aisle Nine.
Publishers Weekly, July 8, 2024, review of Aisle Nine, p. 175.
Ian X. Cho lives on Australia’s sunny Gold Coast. He writes fiction for young adults and works as a freelance graphic designer. In his free time he enjoys creating 2D pixel animations.
ho, Ian X. AISLE NINE Harper/HarperCollins (Teen None) $19.99 9, 24 ISBN: 9780063206809
In this debut, a 17-year-old store clerk tries to avoid the hell portal in aisle nine.
After sustaining head trauma, Jasper wakes with no memory of the past. He finds evidence that his parents died on Hell Portal Day, which fell on Christmas nearly two years ago, when tens of thousands of portals to hell suddenly opened all around the world. Jasper stumbles back into his job at Sundown City's Here For You mart, the site of one particularly menacing portal. The portals periodically spew out more violent demons, which are barely kept at bay by the Vanguard Corporation. All of this has become quite normal for the general public, but Jasper is haunted by a recurring image of four wraiths--and a sense that things are about to get worse. Humor and late-20th-century pop-culture references lighten the tone: Jasper's roommate is a talking cat plushie, for example. As is often the case with this genre, plot takes precedence over character development. Jasper is understandably something of a blank slate, and the rest of the cast is filled largely with stock types. Still, the plot twists are clever enough to keep the pages turning. Kyle, the main girl character (and potential love interest), is Taiwanese American; Jasper has "floppy dark hair and darker eyes."
An intriguing corporate military state apocalypse fueled by nightmares and served with a side of romance.(Fiction. 12-18)
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"Cho, Ian X.: AISLE NINE." Kirkus Reviews, 1 Aug. 2024. Gale General OneFile, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A802865076/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=bookmark-ITOF&xid=1928cf3f. Accessed 12 Jan. 2025.
Aisle Nine
Ian X. Cho. HarperCollins, $19.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-06-320680-9
Portals to hell have become commonplace since thousands of them appeared two years ago in Cho's satirical workplace-apocalypse horror debut. Now that the portals--and the demons they unleashed--are mostly under control thanks to Vanguard, a weapon and surveillance manufacturer, humans have adjusted to a new normal. Meanwhile, Jasper, 17, remembers nothing about his life before the amnesia-inducing head injury he sustained five months ago. The humdrum of his everyday is only broken up by the portal in aisle nine of Here for You Mart, the big-box discount store where he works. He's also been shoring up the courage to talk to taciturn 17-year-old Kyle, who is a part of the Vanguard that oversees the portals. When Jasper starts having nightmarish visions of an upcoming apocalypse, the normally disengaged teen finds himself leading the charge to stop doomsday. Cho skillfully builds a bizarre world grounded by contemporary ideals; the absurdity of Jasper working retail in dystopian circumstances serves as a piercing commentary on capitalistic values, resulting in a quickly paced, laugh-outloud read. Kyle is Taiwanese American; Jasper has "floppy dark hair and darker eyes." Ages 13-up. Agent: Dan Lazar, Writers House. (Sept.)
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"Aisle Nine." Publishers Weekly, vol. 271, no. 26, 8 July 2024, pp. 175+. Gale General OneFile, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A801800290/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=bookmark-ITOF&xid=b2800141. Accessed 12 Jan. 2025.