Thompson, Joyce
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1948- ) US author, often of works for children. Her first sf novel, The Blue Chair (1977), is set in an authoritarian Near Future where Immortality is restricted to those who have "earned" it; Conscience Place (1984) describes with quiet gravity an apparent Utopia hidden in the American West which is in fact populated by Mutant nuclear-Disaster victims. These people are threatened by the "need" of the Scientists who maintain the refuge to perform Genetic-Engineering experiments on them. In telling both of her sf novels, Thompson avoids almost all the traps of sentiment, to sometimes powerful effect. [JC]
Joyce Marie Thompson
born Seattle, Washington: 9 July 1948
works
- The Blue Chair (New York: Avon Books, 1977) [pb/Walter Rome]
- Conscience Place (Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, 1984) [hb/Fred Marcellino]
- Harry and the Hendersons (New York: Berkley Books, 1987) [tie to the film: Harry and the Hendersons (1987): pb/]
- Bigfoot and the Hendersons (Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books/Puffin, 1987) [vt of the above: pb/]
- East Is West of Here: New & Selected Short Stories (Portland, Oregon: Breitenbush Books, 1987) [coll: hb/uncredited]
- Bones (New York: William Morrow, 1991) [hb/Irving Freeman]
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