Thomas, Lex
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
Joint pseudonym of US authors Lex Hrabe (? - ), who is also an actor, and Thomas Voorhies (? - ), who is also a painter, a profession that predates his writing work. Their Young Adult Quarantine sequence beginning with Quarantine: The Loners (2012) depicts – with considerable violence – existence in a high school after a virus, which kills adults but which teenagers can carry unscathed, necessitates a quarantine which transforms the school into a coercive Keep run by its inmates, partly in an attempt to prevent a full Pandemic. As the sequence continues, a raw vision of the nature of Homo sapiens develops without remission; parallels between Quarantine and William Golding's Lord of the Flies (1954) are clear. Gangs kill for turf. A love triangle ends badly. Horror in SF tropes surface frequently. [JC]
Lex Hrabe
born Charlottesville, Virginia
Thomas Voorhies
born Framingham, Massachusetts
works
series
Quarantine
- Quarantine: The Loners (New York: Egmont, 2012) [Quarantine: hb/]
- Quarantine: The Saints (New York: Egmont, 2013) [Quarantine: hb/]
- Quarantine: The Burnouts (New York: Egmont, 2014) [Quarantine: hb/]
- Quarantine (New York: Egmont, 2015) [omni of the above three: Quarantine: pb/]
- Quarantine: The Giant (Minneapolis, Minnesota: Carolrhoda Books, 2016) [Quarantine: hb/]
links
- Lex Thomas
- Internet Speculative Fiction Database: Lex Hrabe
- Internet Speculative Fiction Database: Thomas Voorhies
- Picture Gallery
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