Voices From Punktown

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Voices From Punktown

by Jeffrey Thomas, Travis Anthony Soumis (Illustrator)

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Oct 15, 2010 Monster added it

Shelves: something-different-adult

Jeffrey Thomas has created a bizarre, futuristic, other-worldly destination called Punktown, of which he has written several novels, including Punktown: Third Eye and Blue War: A Punktown Novel. In Voices from Punktown, Thomas has compiled eleven short stories that take place in Punktown. For those, like myself, who have not read any other Punktown novels, Thomas provides a brief introduction that gives great insight into the world of Punktown. The introduction also serves as background informat...more Jeffrey Thomas has created a bizarre, futuristic, other-worldly destination called Punktown, of which he has written several novels, including Punktown: Third Eye and Blue War: A Punktown Novel. In Voices from Punktown, Thomas has compiled eleven short stories that take place in Punktown. For those, like myself, who have not read any other Punktown novels, Thomas provides a brief introduction that gives great insight into the world of Punktown. The introduction also serves as background information for each of the short stories in the collection. Thomas briefly goes over how each story came to be and under what pretense he chose to write the piece.
Voices from Punktown is science fiction horror at its finest. Tales range from a thief who has the ability to ferret away items by using only his mind to a prostitute who has chosen to be adorned with surgically affixed and genetically altered fairy wings. In “Johnny Pharaoh” the reader is introduced to a very Twilight Zone-esque scenario in which a cloning facility’s planned resurrection has gone horribly wrong. In “The Bones of the Old Ones” and “The Dance of Ugghiutu”, Thomas delves into Punktown’s religious alien rituals and cult practices that bring about death and destruction. Without necessarily intending to, the stories intertwine as the reader begins piecing together that which is Punktown.
In the introduction, Thomas quotes Michael Marshall Smith as saying the Punktown stories “create a whole even greater than the sum of their parts.” My first foray into Punktown has me yearning to read the parts to get to the whole. I can’t wait to get my hands on Thomas’s other works surrounding this surreal, gritty, fantastically horrifying city called Punktown.
Recommended for adult readers in a public library setting. This would work as a great novel for patrons who enjoy science fiction and want to explore the horror genre and vice versa.
Contains: Graphic violence, a bit of gore, and a few sexual scenes.
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Oct 06, 2010 thisncondition rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: horror, sci-fi-fantasy, short-stories

Jeffrey Thomas has created a bizarre, futuristic, other-worldly destination called Punktown, of which he has written several novels, including Punktown: Third Eye and Blue War: A Punktown Novel. In Voices from Punktown, Thomas has compiled eleven short stories that take place in Punktown. For those, like myself, who have not read any other Punktown novels, Thomas provides a brief introduction that gives great insight into the world of Punktown. The introduction also serves as background informat...more Jeffrey Thomas has created a bizarre, futuristic, other-worldly destination called Punktown, of which he has written several novels, including Punktown: Third Eye and Blue War: A Punktown Novel. In Voices from Punktown, Thomas has compiled eleven short stories that take place in Punktown. For those, like myself, who have not read any other Punktown novels, Thomas provides a brief introduction that gives great insight into the world of Punktown. The introduction also serves as background information for each of the short stories in the collection. Thomas briefly goes over how each story came to be and under what pretense he chose to write the piece.

Voices from Punktown is science fiction horror at its finest. Tales range from a thief who has the ability to ferret away items by using only his mind to a prostitute who has chosen to be adorned with surgically affixed and genetically altered fairy wings. In “Johnny Pharaoh” the reader is introduced to a very Twilight Zone-esque scenario in which a cloning facility’s planned resurrection has gone horribly wrong. In “The Bones of the Old Ones” and “The Dance of Ugghiutu”, Thomas delves into Punktown’s religious alien rituals and cult practices that bring about death and destruction. Without necessarily intending to, the stories intertwine as the reader begins piecing together that which is Punktown.

In the introduction, Thomas quotes Michael Marshall Smith as saying the Punktown stories “create a whole even greater than the sum of their parts.” My first foray into Punktown has me yearning to read the parts to get to the whole. I can’t wait to get my hands on Thomas’s other works surrounding this surreal, gritty, fantastically horrifying city called Punktown.

Recommended for adult readers in a public library setting. This would work as a great novel for patrons who enjoy science fiction and want to explore the horror genre and vice versa.

Contains: Graphic violence, a bit of gore, and a few sexual scenes.

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Feb 13, 2011 David Marshall rated it 4 of 5 stars

An edgy collection of stories based in Punktown. Well worth looking at if you're into SF blurring into horror.

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Jefferey Thomas has worked as a carapace waxer at a farm that raised giant beetles (their exoskeletons used in the creation of Scarab hovercars), operator of the Vomit Comet and Screamer rides at the annual Paxton Fair, and as a member of the Accident Response Ground Hosers (ARGH) team at the Paxton Teleportation Center.

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