![]() ![]() He just wants to get his business meeting over and done with. is a poster hung up all over the Punktown train station. The action sequences are well paced and fun to read and the ending has a kind of "Here we go again" theme which I quite liked.ĭo you know this girl?. Fast, schlocky and gritty, Clone Johnny is an arsehole but an engaging arsehole nonetheless with his own brand of rugged charisma. This opening story reads much like a 80's sci-fi movie. Except the clone isn't going down quietly. He's a clone of Johnny and now the doctors want to put him to sleep like a dog. Johnny Pharoah: Johnny is a hitman who's just woken up from a medically induced coma. Like with a lot of anthology series, I'll go through each story individually and give you a quick capsule review. ![]() Voices from Punktown is an anthology series much in the vein of the original Punktown and Punktown: Third Eye series and has the same overall theme: short stories using the city planet of Paxton AKA Punktown as a backdrop. I've pretty much read nearly all of Thomas's work to date, but I've found his Punktown work to be the superior in terms of design, narrative, characters and tone. In fact it was on the recommendation of Mieville himself on the cover of Deadstock that got me onto reading Thomas's work in the first place. ![]() Next to China Mieville, Jeffrey Thomas was the other gateway writer that got me into New Weird fiction. ![]()
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