I first read 'Monstrocity' about a year ago. This was the original collection of short stories from which that setting sprang. These tales are a kind of 'low-sci-fi' focusing more on mood and often sadness over great and terrible journeys of derring-do. The science fiction/noir/pseudohorror meshes perfectly however (add a gloomy retrowave soundtrack for optimal reading) and it becomes a necessary addition to the collections of those who enjoy genre-benders.

The city stretched before him in layers of paling gray, dense stalagmites to the stalactites of the bedroom, a tainted coral reef teeming with life, helicars floating like swarms of fish. Like swarms of flies above the great misty carcass of Punktown.

What a wild ride. Thomas does not let up at all with dealing with violence, social struggle, and tragedy. While some of the stories in this felt a smidge dated and I could have done without some of the more "erotic" elements throughout some of these stories, Thomas provides a world-class experience with understanding setting and place. PUNKTOWN is as much an immersive collection of stories as it is a real place in Thomas's mind and the reader's. It is a clear classic to me and in some ways a fou...

The stories in Punktown blend the fantastic with the utterly human to form a techno, dystopian dreamscape that is as amazing and horrific as it is heartbreaking, and painfully real. Jeffrey Thomas is one of the masters of modern horror fiction, and Punktown is a great example of why.In stories where the awe of speculative fiction could sometimes shadow character, Thomas's honesty and sensitivity keep everything down to earth...even when we are dealing with Choom and Tikkihotto! As remote as some...

Within the confines of Punktown, a far-future multi-species colony on a faraway world, Jeffrey Thomas weaves gritty sci-fi, body horror and a constant sense of alienation (in more ways than one) to tell tales of artists, aliens and assassins coming face to face with poverty, violence, disease, heartbreak and more. The viewpoints are diverse and not always human, the stories are all different and yet there's a great unity to this collection, most obviously seen in how characters from different st...

Jeffrey Thomas is a great writer and I love this Punktown universe he has created. Highly imaginative and constantly surprising. Reading this very cool collection of stories prompted me to download "Monstrocity" to my Nook and I'll read that soon.

Most stories were 4s and 5s, but a couple didn't pique my curiosity and interest as much as the rest did. Definitely interested in checking out more of the author's work, and more Punktown in general. It's cyberpunk kind of interplanetary with hints of New Weird, what more could you ask for?

Not badly written, but extremely depressing and almost without hope. I don't think I'm going to continue this anthology series because it simply drags me down emotionally.

Punktown is an exceptional collection of stories. Jeffrey Thomas blends science fiction, horror and cyberpunk in these tales. Though many of the stories are quite dark, Thomas brings his own particular brand of humanity to the most alien of his characters, and some of the tales are surprisingly hopeful. This was the first work by Jeffrey Thomas I've read, and I look forward to further exploration of Punktown and its infinitely interesting denizens.

This collection is incredible. Thomas does a great job of capturing different moods. I loved how dark this book was, but I also liked how every once in a while a story would have a somewhat happy ending.

Dark, gritty cyberpunk stories. I really enjoyed this a lot. The city of Paxton (Punktown) really comes alive as Thomas explores it from so many different angles. Like a more immersive, cohesive season of Black Mirror in book form.

Very good collection, though I would say that some of these are better than others. Thomas' Punktown is the kinda world I'd wanna live in if I weren't scared poopless of it.

It's sad because I love stuff like this (the stories are all set in the same gritty human/alien city and interconnected with cameos of characters from other stories popping up at random - absolutely one of my favorite things in a story collection), but this is actually going to be a DNF for me. I normally don't rate DNFs, but this is one of those instances where everything was going pretty well (solid 3.5 star and rounding up) but then I hit Heart for Heart's Sake and it derailed. There are enou...

The book that kind of defines Jeffrey Thomas and sets out his most famous creation is Punktown. I was first introduced to Punktown (the setting) via three stories in his totally fucking awesome Unholy Dimensions collection, and was interested to see more of it. Punktown (the place) is the nickname of Paxton, a future Earth colony on a different planet that is like a mix of a lot of stuff, Total Recall springs to mind, but mostly I think of Shadowrun, the badass RPG. But don't think this is sci f...

First a bit of a warning regarding this collection: if you are too happy, you may try reading this all at once. I had to read a story or two between other books. That was the only way for me to get through it and am I glad I did. Punktown is a gem. Depressing as hell. The stories take place on a remote world collonized by humans. There are so many other races from other planets and even other dimensions. There is a huge chasm between rich and poor, one race and the other, creatures created by hu...

Wonderfully creative stories with a range of tastes and tones that run the gamut of emotions. Jeffrey Thomas is an author I wasn't familiar with before this year, but I am looking forward to diving headfirst into his work. Simply put, this was awesome and was exactly what I needed. My favorites include The Reflections of Ghosts, Wakizashi, Dissecting the Soul, Precious Metal, Face, Immolation, Unlimited Daylight, The Palace of Nothingness, and Nom De Guerre.

I cannot express enough how amazingly -good- this collection is. Whatever your favorite genre is, you should appreciate and enjoy and -devour- this collection. This is Cloud Atlas good. This is 100 Years of Solitude good. This is The Birthday of the World good. There are very few things I will give my absolute highest rating but Punktown is at the absolute top of skillful writing style mixed with engrossing subject matter, mixed with emotionally and socially complex material, mixed with just FUC...

I saw Punktown as being an opportunity to satirize society in a manner as grotesque as my interpretation of that woman in the car. I would attempt to caricature humankind in the often obscure but always unsettling way Bosch did in his paintings.A short-story collection linked by setting rather than theme or character, Punktown collects roughly a dozen stories set in an Earth-established colony called Paxton, but known as Punktown, on the planet Oasis. Punktown is essentially the creation of a Lo...

Punktown is a must read!I love how each story is related to the story immediately following it. And I even got a mention by name in the last story.

Remind me to never live in a place like Punktown. Because if I did, I'd probably be robbed, raped and murdered all within the space of an hour.And then someone would recycle my body into clone parts, to be robbed, raped and murdered all over again.Punktown is the first in a series of anthology series by Jeffrey Thomas from his titular city-planet, which each story told from the perspective of someone living their lives there. The recurring theme throughout these stories is that something from a