[LeStat]

Anybody read this - well you sholud it is great ! :)

[LeStat]

I put this tread because there is absolutely nothing about this author and I want to promote this - Everybody scream! is second book and it is also great- THis work is deff. worth mentioning -

I love new stuff from lynch, abercrombie, but this guy should def. get his place!

[Deornoth]

I've seen it advertised and it looks cool in a cyber punky kinda way, I might try and grab it next payday...

[BrianC]

So, what is it about? Besides being great, I mean. What wold I like about it? What does it commpare to?

[LeStat]

China Mieville called Jeffrey Thomas PUNKTOWN something wonderful, and Ellen Datlow proclaimed it a brilliant collection.Now, in PUNKTOWN: SHADES OF GREY -- a brand new collection of stories -- Jeffrey Thomas is joined by brother Scott Thomas in giving voices to the citizens of this futuristic urban hell. In its dangerously alluring streets, you will meet: extradimensional monsters, murderous aliens, vampiric mutants, coffee-loving robots, confused clones, and war vets looking for one last, bloody battle to fight. Welcome: you are now entering Punktown.

Michael Marshall Smith, on Punktown: "Stories of great impact, a collection of which anyone would be proud to have written just one tale."

F. Paul Wilson, on Letters From Hades: "Jeffrey Thomas' imagination is as twisted as it is relentless. Every page...presents new and original horrors."

Brian Keene, author of City of the Dead: "In time he will, in this reviewer's opinion, be listed alongside King, Barker, Koontz, and McCammon."

Praise for Scott Thomas:

Ellen Datlow, on Cobwebs and Whispers: "One of the best collections of the year."

Brian Keene, on Cobwebs and Whispers: "A delightfully wicked read... Highly recommended!

Jack Fisher, editor of Flesh & Blood: "Scott Thomas writes like a rainbow on fire: his prose is colorful and elegant, his ideas dark and unnatural."

[LeStat]

well i would say if u like china mieville, jeff vandermeer, fallout(game) and futurama cartoons you will love this :)

+ some huge dark metropolis themes...

[Gildor]

Well instead of merely giving us the opinions of other people, and throwing out other works, you should tell us what you think.

Plus it seems a tad more SF than fantasy.

[Guymelef]

A few weeks ago I read deadstock which, i believe, takes place in the same world as the punktown stories. It's ok at best. It doesnt compare favorably to mieville in terms of writing, ability to build a unique city/landscape, etc. Despite that, its a fun little read. It would be like comparing jim butcher to the martin/erikson/bakker collective. It's all plot whereas mieville and the new wierd contingent thomas seems to be mentioned with frequently have something more. Part of my problem with the book stems from reading The Ruins a week or two before this. One of the two major plot threads is similar to that of the ruins, yet none of the fear that the characters should be feeling ever comes off the page... its just plot point after plot point.

oh, as to the fantasy/sf distinction... unless you consider neuromancer a major work of fantasy, its sf.

[LeStat]

i wouldn't call it SF - because there is absolutlly no scientific expllanation for that world - like Stovers world - for me it is fantasy book because explanations for things are not realistic but more fantastic, mistic and FUN...

If u read 3001 od. thet is for me SF kinda a future - this is not...I belive people can make up hight tech fantasy worlds that have nothing to do with SF- books...


and i posted what other authors think because why should my opinion matter. On the other hand china mieville's does. And i don't think they are frends like Erikson - Bakker case.

And btw. j. thomas writting has improved with his newer work...

[BrianC]

Even if a writer's opinion was somehow *better* than yours, those blurbs are nothing but endorsements. They don't say anything about why Punktown is so good.