Somers, Jeff
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1971- ) US author who began to publish work of genre interest with "Glad and Big" in Apparitions for November 1995. He came to wider notice with his Avery Cates Cyberpunk sequence beginning with The Electric Church (2007) and ending with The Final Evolution (2011), set in a noirish Near Future New York, at the centre of a world run on Dystopian lines; Cates himself is an Antihero who finds himself pitted against the Cyborg missionaries of the Electric Church, who are entirely willing to convert unbelievers by force (see Religion). In the end the survival of Homo sapiens is at stake. The Trickster sequence is fantasy, with Magic and mages filling the foreground. [JC]
Jeffrey Somers
born Jersey City, New Jersey: 1971
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Avery Cates
- The Electric Church (New York: Orbit, 2007) [Avery Cates: pb/Jae Lee]
- The Digital Plague (New York: Orbit, 2008) [Avery Cates: pb/Jae Lee]
- The Eternal Prison (London: Orbit, 2009) [Avery Cates: pb/]
- The Terminal State (New York: Orbit, 2010) [Avery Cates: pb/Jae Lee]
- The Final Evolution (London: Orbit, 2011) [Avery Cates: pb/Jae Lee]
Trickster
- Trickster (New York: Pocket Books, 2013) [Trickster: pb/Chris McGrath]
- We Are Not Good People (New York: Simon and Schuster/Gallery Books, 2014) [exp vt of the above: Trickster: pb/]
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