Thomas Locke Interview

Today I am delighted to welcome another one of my all-time favourite authors, Thomas Locke aka Davis Bunn! Thomas Locke is a pseudonym for Davis Bunn, an award-winning novelist with worldwide sales of seven million copies in twenty languages. Davis divides his time between Oxford and Florida and holds a lifelong passion for speculative stories. He is the author of Emissary and Merchant of Alyss in 

the Legends of the Realm series, as well as Trial Run and Flash Point in the Fault Lines series. 

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First off, I have to ask - why the pseudonym?

I wanted to use the pseudonym for my Sci-Fi Thrillers and Fantasy books, so that readers wouldn’t be confused.

Makes sense. So what is your latest book about?

At its heart, Fault Lines asks the same question twice. That question is, what would happen if human consciousness could be separated from the physical body?  

A great deal of progress has been made recently in both mapping the brain and in manipulating brain-wave frequencies. In certain cases, people describe being raised out of their bodies during these trials. Their descriptions are very similar to those of near-death experiences. These incidents have become so widespread that they now have a name. They are referred to as voluntary out-of-body experiences, or OBEs.

In my story, this new research takes a giant step forward.  

Out of body experiences can not only be induced at will, but the test subjects maintain conscious control.  They g