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Book Synopsis Six Scifi Stories Volume Four by : Robert Jeschonek
Download or read book Six Scifi Stories Volume Four written by Robert Jeschonek and published by Pie Press. This book was released on 2014-04-23 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these pages, Robert Jeschonek will take you on a tour of the wildest places and people you've never imagined. Don't miss these edgy, exciting, and surprising scifi tales by an award-winning Star Trek and Doctor Who author. This volume includes six scifi stories for one low price: "Warning! Do Not Read This Story!": An entire town wiped out...by a rogue story? Only Carrol and Sascha LaVerge, mystic problem-solving sisters, stand in its way. "Tempus Fugitive": In a realm where time itself comes to life, the hunt is on for a fugitive minute, 12:30 P.M. Only by seizing one last hope can 12:30 P.M. prevent one of the darkest events in human history from becoming a reality. "Luminaria": On a day known forever as The Silencing, millions of human colonists went missing in space without a trace. Fifty years later, a team of explorers mounts a search, riding a space elevator into the heart of the unknown. "The Secret of the Ultimate Male Enhancement": The male enhancement of tomorrow has everything from shape-changing powers to a mind of its own. But what happens when this miraculous endowment refuses to cooperate with its owner? "The Memory of You Lingers": Ten years of haunting by the digital ghost of his victim, Frieda, have left Baird the rapist a basket case. Freedom awaits...but Frieda has no intention of leaving. "Tijuana, Massachusetts": Why does Cape Cod, Massachusetts keep changing into Tijuana, Mexico? Don't ask Patty, the foul-mouthed everything-hater with a memory full of holes. Is someone--or something--driving her crazy? Reviews "Robert Jeschonek is a towering talent." – Mike Resnick, Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author "Jeschonek ́s stories are delightfully insane, a pleasure to read." – Fábio Fernandes, Fantasy Book Critic "Robert Jeschonek is the literary love child of Tim Burton and Neil Gaiman." – Adrian Phoenix, critically acclaimed author of The Maker's Song and Hoodoo series
Book Synopsis The Best Science Fiction of the Year by : Neil Clarke
Download or read book The Best Science Fiction of the Year written by Neil Clarke and published by Start Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Hugo Award-winning editor Neil Clarke, the best science fiction stories of the year are collected in a single paperback volume. Keeping up-to-date with the most buzzworthy and cutting-edge science fiction requires sifting through countless magazines, e-zines, websites, blogs, original anthologies, single-author collections, and more―a task accomplishable by only the most determined and voracious readers. For everyone else, Night Shade Books is proud to introduce the latest volume of The Best Science Fiction of the Year, a yearly anthology compiled by Hugo and World Fantasy Award–winning editor Neil Clarke, collecting the finest that the genre has to offer, from the biggest names in the field to the most exciting new writers. The best science fiction scrutinizes our culture and politics, examines the limits of the human condition, and zooms across galaxies at faster-than-light speeds, moving from the very near future to the far-flung worlds of tomorrow in the space of a single sentence. Clarke, publisher and editor-in-chief of the acclaimed and award-winning magazine Clarkesworld, has selected the short science fiction (and only science fiction) best representing the previous year’s writing, showcasing the talent, variety, and awesome “sensawunda” that the genre has to offer.
Book Synopsis Six Scifi Stories Volume Two by : Robert Jeschonek
Download or read book Six Scifi Stories Volume Two written by Robert Jeschonek and published by Robert Jeschonek. This book was released on 2012-05-22 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these pages, Robert Jeschonek will take you on a tour of the wildest places and people you've never imagined. You've never met anyone quite like Nona Stiletto, the sexy cyborg exterminator who takes on a planet of alien monsters...Thal Simoleon, baseball player of the future, condemned to death for losing the World Series...Cilla Franklin, an American teacher whose students are naked killer savages...Mike the Future Man, a high tech time traveler fighting to find a missing child...Vicky Dozen, the bioengineering genebilly whipping up rhinoporcupines in Best Virginia...or Philippa the cross-dressing Conquistadora of outer space. Don't miss these edgy, exciting, and surprising science fiction tales by a Star Trek and Doctor Who author. It’s the latest collection from award-winning storyteller Robert Jeschonek, a master of unique and unexpected science fiction that really packs a punch.
Book Synopsis Six Scifi Stories Volume Three by : Robert Jeschonek
Download or read book Six Scifi Stories Volume Three written by Robert Jeschonek and published by Robert Jeschonek. This book was released on 2012-05-22 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these pages, Robert T. Jeschonek will take you on a tour of the wildest places and people you've never imagined. You've never met anyone quite like Heavy, the alien wheeler-dealer with a hundred faces...Imago, the stained glass robot on the trail of the last proto-Christ...Vladimir Lenin, a shapeshifting alien who starts the Communist Revolution...Father Obregon, the genetically-modified space priest...Grist Halcyon, sleepless pilot of a deadly Battlenaut war machine...or the Freedom Shell, an assistive exoskeleton with a murderous mind of its own. This volume includes six scifi e-book stories and novelettes for one low price. Don't miss these edgy, exciting, and surprising science fiction tales by award-winning Star Trek and Doctor Who author Robert T. Jeschonek, a master of unique and unexpected science fiction that really packs a punch. Simon & Schuster, DAW Books, and DC Comics have published his work.
Book Synopsis One Awake in All the World by : Robert Jeschonek
Download or read book One Awake in All the World written by Robert Jeschonek and published by Robert Jeschonek. This book was released on 2012-05-22 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bigger the bug, the bigger the gun! Exterminators Pass Candle and Nona Stiletto keep space safe for humanity by mowing down hostile alien lifeforms. Cyborg implants and badass attitudes make these warriors unstoppable, but a distress call lands them in the battle of a lifetime on a postapocalyptic alien world. Stalked by hordes of unimaginably savage creatures, Pass and Nona fight a war for survival against impossible odds. Their only hope: an abandoned alien child who might be the last of her species left alive, and the only key to a terrible secret that might end the carnage...if she can stay awake long enough to figure it out. Don't miss this exciting tale by award-winning Star Trek and Doctor Who author Robert T. Jeschonek, acclaimed as a "Standout selection..." in a Publishers Weekly starred review.
Book Synopsis The Best Science Fiction of the Year by : Neil Clarke
Download or read book The Best Science Fiction of the Year written by Neil Clarke and published by Night Shade. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biological plague begins infecting artificial intelligence; a natural-born Earth woman seeking asylum on another planet finds a human society far different from her own; a food blogger’s posts chronicle a nationwide medical outbreak; trapped in a matchmaking game, a couple tries to escape from the only world they know; a janitor risks everything to rescue a “defective” tank-born baby he can raise as his own. For decades, science fiction has compelled us to imagine futures both inspiring and cautionary. Whether it’s a warning message from a survey ship, a harrowing journey to a new world, or the adventures of well-meaning AI, science fiction feeds the imagination and delivers a lens through which we can better understand ourselves and the world around us. With The Best Science Fiction of the Year Volume One, award-winning editor Neil Clarke provides a year-in-review and thirty-one of the best stories published by both new and established authors in 2015. Table of Contents: “Introduction: A State of the Short SF Field in 2015” by Neil Clarke “Today I Am Paul” by Martin Shoemaker “Calved” by Sam J. Miller “Three Bodies at Mitanni” by Seth Dickinson “The Smog Society” by Chen Quifan “In Blue Lily’s Wake” by Aliette de Bodard “Hello, Hello” by Seanan McGuire “Folding Beijing” by Hao Jingfiang “Capitalism in the 22nd Century” by Geoff Ryman “Hold-Time Violations” by John Chu “Wild Honey” by Paul McAuley “So Much Cooking” by Naomi Kritzer “Bannerless” by Carrie Vaughn “Another Word for World” by Ann Leckie “The Cold Inequalities” by Yoon Ha Lee “Iron Pegasus” by Brenda Cooper “The Audience” by Sean McMullen “Empty” by Robert Reed “Gypsy” by Carter Scholz “Violation of the TrueNet Security Act” by Taiyo Fujii “Damage” by David D. Levine “The Tumbledowns of Cleopatra Abyss” by David Brin “No Placeholder for You, My Love” by Nick Wolven “Outsider” by An Owomeyla “The Gods Have Not Died in Vain” by Ken Liu “Cocoons” by Nancy Kress “Seven Wonders of a Once and Future World” by Caroline M. Yoachim “Two-Year Man” by Kelly Robson “Cat Pictures Please” by Naomi Kritzer “Botanica Veneris: Thirteen Papercuts by Ida Countess Rathangan” by Ian McDonald “Meshed” by Rich Larson “A Murmuration” by Alastair Reynolds 2015 Recommended Reading List
Book Synopsis The Philip K. Dick Reader by : Philip K. Dick
Download or read book The Philip K. Dick Reader written by Philip K. Dick and published by Citadel Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the stories that inspired the movies Total Recall, Screamers, Minority Report, Paycheck, and Next "More than anyone else in the field, Mr. Dick really puts you inside people's minds." --The Wall Street Journal The Philip K. Dick Reader Many thousands of readers consider Philip K. Dick the greatest science fiction mind on any planet. Since his untimely death in 1982, interest in Dick's works has continued to mount, and his reputation has been further enhanced by a growing body of critical attention. The Philip K. Dick Award is now given annually to a distinguished work of science fiction, and the Philip K. Dick Society is devoted to the study and promulgation of his works. Dick won the prestigious Hugo Award for the best novel of 1963 for The Man in the High Castle. In the last year of his life, the film Blade Runner was made from his novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? This collection includes some of Dick's earliest short and medium-length fiction, including We Can Remember It for You Wholesale (the story that inspired the motion picture Total Recall), Second Variety (which inspired the motion picture Screamers), Paycheck, The Minority Report, and twenty more.
Book Synopsis Give the Hippo What He Wants by : Robert Jeschonek
Download or read book Give the Hippo What He Wants written by Robert Jeschonek and published by Robert Jeschonek. This book was released on 2012-05-22 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the baseball league of the future, losing the World Series will get you the death penalty. Nobody cares if anti-MVP Thal Simoleon choked because of an opera-singing pink hippo that only he can see. Angry fans hunt him down in murderous mobs, dying to get a piece of him. And that damn pink hippo taunts him every step of the way, always making things worse. But the sins of the past that set the death hunt in motion might also point the way to salvation. Will the pink hippo's terrible secret be the key that leads Thal back to some kind of glory? Or will he die in extra innings of the bloodiest high-tech basebrawl of all time? Only the hippo knows. Don't miss this exciting tale by award-winning Star Trek and Doctor Who author Robert T. Jeschonek, a master of unique and unexpected science fiction that really packs a punch.
Book Synopsis Cock-a-Doodle Die by : Robert Jeschonek
Download or read book Cock-a-Doodle Die written by Robert Jeschonek and published by Robert Jeschonek. This book was released on 2012-05-22 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Planet of the Chickens is here! In the future, humanity has devolved into rat-sized pests who stir up trouble in a civilization of super-sized poultry. Killer roosters hunt the pests without mercy, but one such hired gun--champion cockfighter Shad Lugo--can't close the deal. This bad mother-clucker runs afoul of the wiliest pack of little people ever, turning routine pest control into a gut-wrenching grudge match. Feathers and bullets fly as the death-dealing rooster wages a one-cock war on the vicious little pests...and plunges beak-first into a nightmare that's even crazier and more shocking than the clucked-up world he inhabits. Don't miss this story by award-winning Doctor Who and Star Trek writer Robert Jeschonek, a master of unique and unexpected science fiction that really packs a punch.
Book Synopsis The Secret of the Ultimate Male Enhancement by : Robert Jeschonek
Download or read book The Secret of the Ultimate Male Enhancement written by Robert Jeschonek and published by Robert Jeschonek. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The male enhancement of tomorrow has everything from shape-changing powers to a mind of its own. But what happens when this miraculous endowment refuses to cooperate with its new owner? War breaks out between man and enhancement, the ultimate struggle between two minds in one body. Only by guessing the enhancement's dark secret does the man stand a chance of breaking the stranglehold this high tech smart-part has on his life. Don't miss this twisted science fiction comedy short story by award-winning writer Robert T. Jeschonek, a master of unique and unexpected science fiction that really packs a punch. Reviews "Robert Jeschonek is the literary love child of Tim Burton and Neil Gaiman." – Adrian Phoenix, critically acclaimed author of The Maker's Song series and Black Dust Mambo "Jeschonek ́s stories are delightfully insane, a pleasure to read..." – Fabio Fernandes, Fantasy Book Critic "Robert Jeschonek is a towering talent." – Mike Resnick, Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author.
Book Synopsis Off the Face of the Earth by : Robert Jeschonek
Download or read book Off the Face of the Earth written by Robert Jeschonek and published by Robert Jeschonek. This book was released on 2012-05-22 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where do all the missing children go? The answer could be more incredible than you can imagine. When a little boy disappears off the face of the Earth, his good-for-nothing father turns over a new leaf and sets out to track him down...but it takes a strange visitor from the future to point him in the right direction. Has the little boy been swept into a horrifying hell on Earth, or is he bound for a miraculous world beyond forever? His fate reveals a glorious destiny for the missing, one that rests on the shoulders of the boy’s father. Can this man, plagued by his own dark demons and addictions, find redemption—and perhaps secure the future of all mankind—by making the ultimate sacrifice? This scifi masterpiece will race you out to the edge of reality and blow your mind. Award-winning science fiction author Robert T. Jeschonek has written Star Trek and Doctor Who fiction and futuristic stories for books, magazines, websites, and podcasts around the world. He won the national grand prize in the Strange New Worlds writing contest from Pocket Books. He is one of a handful of authors chosen to write stories in the Star Trek: New Frontier universe. DC Comics, Simon & Schuster, and DAW Books have published his work. His young adult urban fantasy novel, My Favorite Band Does Not Exist, was named a Top Ten First Novel for Youth by Booklist.
Book Synopsis Crimes in the Key of Murder by : Robert Jeschonek
Download or read book Crimes in the Key of Murder written by Robert Jeschonek and published by Robert Jeschonek. This book was released on 2012-05-22 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nobody cares who killed a down-on-his-luck piano player...except his brother, who happens to work for the crimefighting detective Sister Mayhem. Tearing up the underworld with her network of operatives--the Order of No Mercy--Sister Mayhem will stop at nothing to catch the killer. She's a master of disguise, a genius investigator, and a force of nature, but when the trail leads to a band of dirty-dealing musicians, she might have met her match. Lead singer Sheila Venus has genius, skills, and feminine wiles to rival Sister Mayhem's. Did her dark schemes lead to murder, or was the killing played in a different key echoing from a bloody, secret past? Sister Mayhem pulls out all the stops to solve the case and catch the killer, unless she becomes the next victim first. Don't miss this thrill-a-minute crime saga by award-winning storyteller Robert T. Jeschonek, a master of unique and unexpected crime fiction and mysteries that really pack a punch.
Book Synopsis The Dancing Dead by : Robert Jeschonek
Download or read book The Dancing Dead written by Robert Jeschonek and published by Robert Jeschonek. This book was released on 2012-05-22 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dance or die! That’s the choice faced by victims of the Dance/Drop plague raging through the United States of tomorrow. Everyone in the nation dances nonstop, knowing all the while that as soon as they quit moving, they will die an agonizing and senseless death. What triggered this nightmarish marathon remains unknown...at least until Laurette, a dancer with a dark past, is swept to the West Coast as part of a mysterious migration that reveals the secret behind the plague. Can she survive attacks by brutal fanatics and disease-control warriors long enough to embrace her twisted destiny at the end of the biggest, and deadliest, dance number of all time?
Book Synopsis Lenin of the Stars by : Robert Jeschonek
Download or read book Lenin of the Stars written by Robert Jeschonek and published by Robert Jeschonek. This book was released on 2012-05-22 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lenin came from outer space! He and his fellow shape-changing aliens bring communism to Earth, hoping to teach galactic harmony to violent humanity. Communist aliens posing as legendary leaders steer great nations through the turbulent history of the Twentieth Century. But changing times and surprising turnarounds lead the aliens to fight a secret civil war among their own ranks. When the alien Lenin and his beloved Irina end up on opposite sides, they have no choice but to battle to the death...or start a new revolution that might just sweep the stars. Don't miss this exciting tale by award-winning storyteller Robert T. Jeschonek, a master of unique and unexpected science fiction that really packs a punch.
Book Synopsis Blackbeard's Aliens by : Robert Jeschonek
Download or read book Blackbeard's Aliens written by Robert Jeschonek and published by Robert Jeschonek. This book was released on 2012-10-25 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cannonballs and laser beams fly as blazing battle rages between a fleet of pirate ships and a squadron of alien fighters. Demonic aliens board the ships and let loose high-tech ray beams on hardened pirates armed with pistols and cutlasses. In the heart of the flame and fury roars fearless Blackbeard himself, commanding his men in a last-ditch struggle to save all humankind from bloodthirsty conquerors from another world. Perhaps Blackbeard's own dark connection to the aliens will give him an edge against them, if his own closest ally, Stede Bonnet, does not mount a mutiny against him first. Can Blackbeard and the greatest pirates of his day use their seafaring savagery to win the war for the future of humanity? It all comes down to pirates versus aliens as the greatest battle ever to rock the seven seas rushes toward an explosive finale. Don't miss this exciting tale by award-winning storyteller Robert T. Jeschonek, a master of hard-hitting science fiction that really packs a punch. Reviews "Robert Jeschonek is a towering talent..." – Mike Resnick, Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author "Robert Jeschonek is the literary love child of Tim Burton and Neil Gaiman..." – Adrian Phoenix, critically acclaimed author of The Maker's Song series and Black Dust Mambo "Jeschonek ́s stories are delightfully insane, a pleasure to read..." – Fabio Fernandes, Fantasy Book Critic
Book Synopsis Shrooms of Benares by : Robert Jeschonek
Download or read book Shrooms of Benares written by Robert Jeschonek and published by Robert Jeschonek. This book was released on 2012-05-22 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benares: planet of fungi on the far frontier. Mushrooms grow taller than trees, fungal creatures roam the landscape...and a terrible new spore turns humans into the walking dead. The one man left alive, a genetically modified super space priest named Father Obregon, sets out to confront this threat and save the woman he loves. But the deadly fungal spore has other plans in store, plans that will push Father Obregon to his limits and test whether his faith can sustain him in the darkest corner of deep space among soulless aliens who have no capacity for mercy. This masterpiece of scifi horror will race you out to the edge of reality and blow your mind. Don't miss this exciting tale by award-winning Star Trek and Doctor Who author Robert T. Jeschonek, a master of unique and unexpected science fiction that really packs a punch. His futuristic stories have appeared in books, magazines, websites, and podcasts around the world. He won the national grand prize in the Strange New Worlds writing contest from Pocket Books. He is one of a handful of authors chosen to write stories in the Star Trek: New Frontier universe. DC Comics, Simon & Schuster, and DAW have published his work. His young adult urban fantasy novel, My Favorite Band Does Not Exist, was named a Top Ten First Novel for Youth by Booklist.
Book Synopsis The Spinach Can's Son by : Robert Jeschonek
Download or read book The Spinach Can's Son written by Robert Jeschonek and published by Pie Press. This book was released on 2014-04-23 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine a world filled with comic strip characters you know and love...the world of the Underfunnies, where nothing is as it seems. Molly, a "Panelnaut" explorer, searches this strange 'toon world for her missing husband, only to find him at the heart of a bizarre mystery. Can she bring him back from the Underfunnies, resurrecting him from ink and paper to flesh and blood? Or will she end up lost herself, at the mercy of cartoon forces she cannot hope to understand? The answers lie somewhere beyond the funny pages and the bounds of imagination itself. Reviews "Robert Jeschonek is a towering talent." – Mike Resnick, Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of the Starship series "Jeschonek ́s stories are delightfully insane, a pleasure to read." – Fábio Fernandes, Fantasy Book Critic "Robert Jeschonek is the literary love child of Tim Burton and Neil Gaiman." – Adrian Phoenix, critically acclaimed author of The Maker's Song and Hoodoo series
