SF Signal: Jeffrey Thomas News

Jeffrey Thomas News

A trio of Thomas Tidbits for ya'...Earlier this year, I read Deadstock by Jeffrey Thomas, a book whose setting (the "crime-infested future city" of Punktown) makes you want more. In March of 2008, Solaris will be making Deadstock available as a free download just in time for the release of the sequel, Blue War.

Fantasy Book Critic interviews Jeffrey Thomas:

Anything can happen in Punktown. Behind every window of every apartment there is someone plotting a murder or mourning a loved one, beginning a romance or contemplating a crime. So many different alien races coexist there with the Earth colonists who established that vast city, and their cultural interactions are a fascinating topic for me. Punktown is ultimately a distorted mirror reflection of our own world, today, and how can one tire of that? I don't want to be constrained to only my Punktown setting, but if I was forced by some ironclad (and lucrative) contract, I could still deal with it easily. I can set any type of story within Punktown's borders.

Jeffrey Thomas was also interviewed by SciFi Chick:

My experiences in Vietnam inspired me greatly through the writing of Blue War, as will be very apparent to its readers. The similarities to Vietnam of the novel's setting are not a lazy device I'm trying to sneak past the reader, but something I chose very deliberately to do for thematic reasons. And you know, in the end I just want to share my great enthusiasm for that country. I want to shake your arm and say, "Hey, I saw this place that's so different from here -- let me tell you about it!" It's that impulse that makes me a writer in the first place.