“Endings
are the toughest, harder than beginnings. They must satisfy the expectations
you have hopefully generated in your reader - not frustrate them, leave the
reader grasping at elusive strings.” - Jeffrey Thomas
Thomas, born on this date in 1957,
is a prolific writer of science fiction and horror, best known
for his stories set in a nightmarish future city called Punktown. The stories tend to feature common citizens
as their protagonists, rather than the larger-than-life heroes of cliché
science fiction, with few characters recurring.
The one exception is a mutant private eye named Jeremy Stake,
protagonist of several novels, including Deadstock
and Blue War, two of his most
popular.
Besides numerous
appearances of his short fiction in magazines and anthologies, there have also
been foreign language editions of several of his Punktown books released in Germany, Russia, Poland, and Greece.
appearances. I guess there's always something to be changed or
improved,” Thomas noted. “But one could
get carried away and work on one story indefinitely. I'm too restless for that,
too eager to begin the next one.”
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