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About Omicron Ceti III
A triptych of nine darkly comic stories, Omicron Ceti III opens a window onto the margins of American middle class intelligentsia. A closeted teenager who deploys lessons learned from Nathanial Hawthorne to torment his gay English teacher; a morose 34-year-old virgin who emotionally extorts friendship from a musicologist she meets via three-minute dating; and an international investment banker whose inordinate ardor for exotic cuisine frustrates his quest for a soul mate are characteristic of the stories in this innovative, literate, and sometimes disturbing collection. Balázs—a writer once described as the unlikely lovechild of Vonnegut, Nabokov and Telly Savalas—incorporates drawings, lists, and allusions ranging from Star Trek to Middlemarch, testing the boundaries between high and low, comedy and pathos, light and dark.
Aqueous Books 2012
Now available on Kindle
About Horror Library 6
The multiple Bram Stoker Award® nominated Horror Library anthology series is back!Shepherded by new editor Eric J. Guignard -- himself a past Stoker winner -- Horror Library Volume 6 is imbued with a new level of literary energy and purpose. It features 27 brand new horror short stories, written by 27 different authors, including well-known pros and up-and-coming new talents.
With some monsters, like vampires it is hard to find a new way of presenting the concept. . . . In ‘Waiting for Mrs Hemley’ Thomas P. Balázs has found a different approach.
--Pauline Morgan, The British Fantasy Society
Howling Libraries gives "Waiting for Mrs. Hemley" 5/5
First, this was the only story in this anthology to make me laugh out loud, which was nice. Second, I just really enjoyed the narrator’s voice. He offered such a uniquely calm perspective on the entire scenario and I ate it right up.
---Destiny
A triptych of nine darkly comic stories, Omicron Ceti III opens a window onto the margins of American middle class intelligentsia. A closeted teenager who deploys lessons learned from Nathanial Hawthorne to torment his gay English teacher; a morose 34-year-old virgin who emotionally extorts friendship from a musicologist she meets via three-minute dating; and an international investment banker whose inordinate ardor for exotic cuisine frustrates his quest for a soul mate are characteristic of the stories in this innovative, literate, and sometimes disturbing collection. Balázs—a writer once described as the unlikely lovechild of Vonnegut, Nabokov and Telly Savalas—incorporates drawings, lists, and allusions ranging from Star Trek to Middlemarch, testing the boundaries between high and low, comedy and pathos, light and dark.
Aqueous Books 2012
Now available on Kindle
About Horror Library 6
The multiple Bram Stoker Award® nominated Horror Library anthology series is back!Shepherded by new editor Eric J. Guignard -- himself a past Stoker winner -- Horror Library Volume 6 is imbued with a new level of literary energy and purpose. It features 27 brand new horror short stories, written by 27 different authors, including well-known pros and up-and-coming new talents.
With some monsters, like vampires it is hard to find a new way of presenting the concept. . . . In ‘Waiting for Mrs Hemley’ Thomas P. Balázs has found a different approach.
--Pauline Morgan, The British Fantasy Society
Howling Libraries gives "Waiting for Mrs. Hemley" 5/5
First, this was the only story in this anthology to make me laugh out loud, which was nice. Second, I just really enjoyed the narrator’s voice. He offered such a uniquely calm perspective on the entire scenario and I ate it right up.
---Destiny