At the alien physician's office, a technician befriends her who could also provide a truth to her lingering suspicions of a rumor. Pink Pills - 4/5: Marisol finds she has a type of tumor named Orb Weaver's Tumor, which is growing from a lump in her jaw. He makes a female clone for a wealthy customer who he can mistakenly relate to on a basic level and finds himself in a dilemma.

The Reflections of Ghosts - 4/5: Drew makes clones for customers, which happen to be mangled versions of himself, so that they could do whatever they please to the helpless copies. an effervescent niche inhabited by the writings of China Miéville of Perdido Street Station) and Haruki Murakami of Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World. Call it 'bizarro-' or 'weirdo-' fiction, but the tags applied to these collections detract from the surreal niche in which they fill. This resplendent rare cross-genre extravaganza can be witnessed in Jeremy Robert Johnson's collection Angel Dust Apocalypse, which slants more towards corporeal horror but leans on the gritty underpinnings of a future dystopia.

There's also a fair bit a prose and word usage which keeps the reader endeared amidst the horror-all snug in the wealth of imagination. These two essential elements are presented in each story. The entire collection isn't horrific enough for me to able to label in the 'horror' genre rather it's more of a science fiction novel which would comfortably fit the mixed genre of sci-fi/horror. Punktown (officially know as Paxton) is a city on the planet of Oasis which is inhabited by indigenous aliens, humans and a slew of other alien races (some human-like and others. Jeffrey Thomas explores his Punktown universe in this collection of 18 short stories.