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The Exploded Soul
A TELEPORTATION EXPERIMENT HAS GONE HORRIBLY WRONG.
On the icy moon Titania, in orbit around Uranus, research has been underway with the aid of a beetle-like alien race to develop interplanetary teleportation that would replace the use of spaceships. However, an explosion at the research base has killed many of the staff...and that isn’t the worst of the problem. Since the explosion, strange beings and creatures have mysteriously begun appearing at the base.
Captain Robert Fuseli, a surgeon and experienced soldier, is called in to investigate. What he discovers about these dangerous arrivals shocks the researchers, and most shocking of all is the possibility that if the anomaly isn’t solved, there may be no end to the number of monstrous beings materializing on Titania.
The Exploded Soul is a thrilling blend of science fiction and horror, from the acclaimed author of the Punktown series.
On the icy moon Titania, in orbit around Uranus, research has been underway with the aid of a beetle-like alien race to develop interplanetary teleportation that would replace the use of spaceships. However, an explosion at the research base has killed many of the staff...and that isn’t the worst of the problem. Since the explosion, strange beings and creatures have mysteriously begun appearing at the base.
Captain Robert Fuseli, a surgeon and experienced soldier, is called in to investigate. What he discovers about these dangerous arrivals shocks the researchers, and most shocking of all is the possibility that if the anomaly isn’t solved, there may be no end to the number of monstrous beings materializing on Titania.
The Exploded Soul is a thrilling blend of science fiction and horror, from the acclaimed author of the Punktown series.
184 pages, Paperback
First published March 5, 2024
About the author
Jeffrey Thomas
249 books286 followersJeffrey Thomas is an American author of weird fiction, the creator of the acclaimed setting Punktown. Books in the Punktown universe include the short story collections Punktown, Voices from Punktown, Punktown: Shades of Grey (with his brother, Scott Thomas), and Ghosts of Punktown. Novels in that setting include Deadstock, Blue War, Monstrocity, Health Agent, Everybody Scream!, Red Cells, and The New God. Thomas’s other short story collections include The Unnamed Country, Gods of a Nameless Country, The Endless Fall, Haunted Worlds, Worship the Night, Thirteen Specimens, Nocturnal Emissions, Doomsdays, Terror Incognita, Unholy Dimensions, AAAIIIEEE!!!, Honey Is Sweeter Than Blood, Carrion Men, Voices from Hades, The Return of Enoch Coffin, and Entering Gosston. His other novels include The American, Boneland, Subject 11, Letters From Hades, The Fall of Hades, The Exploded Soul, The Nought, Thought Forms, Beyond the Door, Lost in Darkness, and A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Dealers.
His work has been reprinted in The Year’s Best Horror Stories XXII (editor Karl Edward Wagner), The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror #14 (editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling), and Year’s Best Weird Fiction #1 (editors Laird Barron and Michael Kelly). At NecronomiCon 2024 Thomas received the Robert Bloch Award for his contributions to weird fiction.
Though he considers Viet Nam his second home, Thomas lives in Massachusetts.
His work has been reprinted in The Year’s Best Horror Stories XXII (editor Karl Edward Wagner), The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror #14 (editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling), and Year’s Best Weird Fiction #1 (editors Laird Barron and Michael Kelly). At NecronomiCon 2024 Thomas received the Robert Bloch Award for his contributions to weird fiction.
Though he considers Viet Nam his second home, Thomas lives in Massachusetts.
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June 19, 2024
Great, but stressed me out
This was a cool, easy read of a sci-fi story. I only say it stressed me out because I get the situational nonsense the main character, Robert Fuseli, found himself in with scientists and engineers wanting to go down a dangerous road while ignoring signs to stop, and Fuseli having to brute force them into not doing that.
This was a fun story, and I recommend it.
This was a cool, easy read of a sci-fi story. I only say it stressed me out because I get the situational nonsense the main character, Robert Fuseli, found himself in with scientists and engineers wanting to go down a dangerous road while ignoring signs to stop, and Fuseli having to brute force them into not doing that.
This was a fun story, and I recommend it.
September 7, 2026
Taking place in the Punktown universe this is a fast-paced novella about a military doctor sent to investigate an accident that occurred during joint human-alien experiments in teleportation at an isolated laboratory. The resulting effect is an opening up of interconnected dimensions and related beings from differing (and very alien) worlds being pulled into the lab. It's a good concept.
Like many of Thomas' Punktown-universe stories this one has a strong cosmic horror element, but being set essentially in one location we don't get the intriguing world-building of Punktown or access to it's wide variety of characters. The story moves along quickly and I enjoyed the time spent reading it, but with a limited scope and setting it feels very episodic by the end. Great if you want a quick read akin to watching an original episode of The Outer Limits. Technically I give it 3.5 stars but rounded up just because.
Like many of Thomas' Punktown-universe stories this one has a strong cosmic horror element, but being set essentially in one location we don't get the intriguing world-building of Punktown or access to it's wide variety of characters. The story moves along quickly and I enjoyed the time spent reading it, but with a limited scope and setting it feels very episodic by the end. Great if you want a quick read akin to watching an original episode of The Outer Limits. Technically I give it 3.5 stars but rounded up just because.
June 1, 2024
Thomas provides a fresh take on the multiverse, combined with some classic sci-fi and a bit of a mythos twist. The ending fell flat, but not enough to affect my enjoyment of it.
August 30, 2026
Review to come. This is just a place holder.
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