Dystopia – Tom Vater

The Green Panthers – Special promotion at Kobo

November 28, 2022November 28, 2022tom

The Green Panthers – Ebooks of my new dystopian thriller are currently 99cents at Kobo. Get your copy while stocks last…. Meet Clara Green, Emerald, Chartreuse, Olive, Hunter, Juniper and Forest. They are The Green Panthers: a privately sponsored, multi-national underground army, on a mission to hold corporate polluters to account. During the attempted rescue […]

Interviewing Pyra – Thailand’s Dystopian Pop Deity.

July 19, 2021August 25, 2021tom

Had a great time interviewing Pyra, a Thai pop diva with things to say about her country and culture. “A few years ago, I had the chance to meet Jack Marr. I told him I had met a lot of rich people who were very unhappy. He agreed with me. He said he’d given all […]

Bag Times At The Blue Parrot – Short Story

May 28, 2020May 28, 2020tomLeave a Comment

Cambodian literary online platform Howl invited me to contribute a 500 word short to their Lockdown series. Read Bag Times At The Blue Parrot here. I originally used The Blue Parrot in my first novel, The Devil’s Road to Kathmandu. In its first incarnation it was located in Iran. In this short tale, the Blue […]

Tomorrow’s Bangkok Noir – The Windup Girl

April 27, 2011April 27, 2011tomLeave a Comment

The definitive Bangkok novel has not been written yet. But The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi, a dark and fast-moving Sci-Fi novel set following the reign of Rama XII, gets pretty close. Local hacks should take note – this 500 page tome is light years ahead of the rather tepid Bangkok Noir genre. The dystopian […]