likes video games, sports, and a band called Senseless Vultures. The first person narrative is by a normal teenage boy named J.J. I decided it was time to go back and re-read it, so I could remember Forgetting Places.įorgetting Places is like the best YA fiction in that the author never talks down to his audience.
I remember really enjoying it and certain sequences stood out in my mind. I read the YA novel, Forgetting Places, sometime back, I think, in the early 90's. As well as works that defy easy categorization. Martin.īut Somtow wrote it all: Horror, SF, Fantasy, and Young Adult fiction. This historical thriller rivals the work of books by Robert McCammon and George R.R. Somtow wrote is the rollicking horror-western, Moon Dance.
Vampire Junction is considered by many to be one of the first Splatterpunk novels. This series of novels starring a child rock star vampire named Timmy Valentine was started before Anne Rice had her own bloodsucking rocker. Somtow is best known in horror circles for his Vampire Junction books. Somtow often set his stories in Los Angeles and used the locale and its colorful denizens to great comic effect. You never knew what angle he would come from next. Somtow would sometimes combine elements of Thai mythology with kitschy American slang and outlandish cross-cultural situations. No one ever wrote like him and no one is ever likely to write like S.P. In the 80's and early 90's, Somtow was one of the most important and best writers in the genre. Somtow has devoted his time to his alternate career as a composer and slowed down or possibly even stopped writing fiction.
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