Part 1: Unknowingly, Kyle Reese went back in time to protect Sarah Connor from the second of two Terminators sent from the future to alter the past. In this story, we encounter the very first Terminator to be sent back through time-a female version of the 800-model, but just as deadly, if not more so. Her mission: to kill John Connor's mother! Part 2: A new pair of Terminators have been sent from the future to find John Connor. But what's at stake for the lowlife bounty hunter named Van Dirk? And can humanity's future be saved, or does Skynet have another ace up its sleeve? Part 3-Hunters and Killers: In the 21st Century, Skynet and its Terminators are on the brink of defeat at the hands of John Connor. Meanwhile, half a world away in the wreckage of the Soviet Union, a second sentient computer network carries out Skynet's deadly mission; when Skynet falls, its comrades will continue the systematic extermination of mankind. And a new breed of infiltration unit has been created to penetrate the Soviet resistance: Terminators copied from real people. They have the same faces, fingerprints, memories, and personalities of their human counterparts, plus "stealth" circuitry that makes them impossible to detect. They could be anywhere. They could be anyone. And no one will know...until it's too late!\

本作は、単なるＳＦの枠を超え、運命への抗いという哲学を「鋼鉄の死神」を通して描き出しています。特に人格まで模した潜入型の描写は、アイデンティティの不確かさと人間性の本質を激しく揺さぶります。著者の筆致は、絶望の淵にある人類の尊厳を鮮烈に浮き彫りにし、読者を思索の深淵へと誘います。 映像版が視覚的恐怖を追求したのに対し、本書は心理的葛藤の「深み」を補完しています。実写では描ききれなかった世界規模の戦火や、人間と機械の境界が消えゆく恐怖は、紙面上だからこそ到達できた表現の極致です。両メディアを辿ることで、冷徹な回路の奥に潜む警鐘をより重層的に体感できるはずです。