Quest for Sex, Truth & Reality

"The three stories in this chapbook are among my favorites of my stuff," Lee says. The stories are the intellectualized b-movie-like "The Seeker" and the Lieberesque "The Goddess of the New Dark Age," plus the potent existential porn piece, "Sex, Truth, & Reality" aka "Pay Me." The latter has never been reprinted, and was originally accepted in the early '80s by HUSTLER magazine, even to the point that Lee's manuscript was copy-edited and sent to the typesetter. "Jut my luck," Lee recalls. "Right before they were going to pay me something like 800 bucks," the fiction editor left the company and the story was rejected by his successor, said HUSTLER was no place for philosophical fiction. It's the only time I'm ever gotten a manuscript returned with copy-edit marks."

From the Inside Flap

China Miéville 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. You are now entering the city that Publishers Weekly described as equal parts H. P. Lovecraft s Arkham and Blade Runner s dark metropolis.

About the Author

Edward Lee is the acclaimed author of Succubi, Incubi, Coven, Creekers, The Bighead, Goon, and a dozen other novels. Edward Lee has a huge cult follwing and his latest novel, City Infernal, is available from Leisure Books. Ed lives in St. Pete Beach where he walks the beach everyday, eats his own weight in shell fish and continuesto write the best in hardcore and dark horror fiction.

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