Six Scifi Stories Volume Three

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 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.


Don't miss these edgy, exciting, and surprising science fiction tales by award-winning Star Trek and Doctor Who author Robert T. Jeschonek.  This volume includes six scifi e-book stories and novelettes for one low price:


"Star Sex":  Can hot space sex save planet Earth? With the world about to end, a desperate team of humans mounts a last-ditch effort to find alien help at the interplanetary Worlds' Fair. But what happens when the aliens turn out to have a craving for an unexpected treasure: human sex?


"Messiah 2.0":  What form will the Second Coming of Christ take? In the world of the far future, Father Clement the warrior priest and Imago the stained glass robot will stop at nothing to find Him...so they can KILL Him.


"Lenin of the Stars":  Vladimir Lenin and his fellow shape-changing aliens bring communism to Earth, hoping to teach galactic harmony to violent humanity. But when Lenin and his beloved Irina end up on opposite sides of a civil war among their own ranks, they have no choice but to battle to the death.


"The Shrooms of Benares":  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.


"Beware the Black Battlenaut":  All-out war engulfs a distant quadrant of space. Hardcore warriors clash in high tech Battlenaut armor, pitting the ultimate fighting machines in epic struggles on a planetary scale. In the heart of this raging hell, the sleep-deprived Redeye squad fights harder than anyone. But fatigue takes a toll, as the Redeyes start to see things that don't exist. Is the Black Battlenaut a nightmare brought on by exhaustion, or an omen of infinite devastation?


"Killer Bod":  A super-strong exoskeleton mows down innocents, and the man trapped inside it is helpless to stop the slaughter. Can even death end the exoskeleton's rampage and the nightmare of its occupant?


Contents

Collection of 6 stories and novelettes plus a novel preview


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


About the Author


Robert Jeschonek is an award-winning writer whose fiction, comics, essays, articles, and podcasts have been published around the world. His young adult fantasy novel, MY FAVORITE BAND DOES NOT EXIST, won the Forward National Literature Award and was named one of BOOKLIST’s Top Ten First Novels for Youth. His cross-genre science fiction thriller, DAY 9, is an International Book Award winner. He also won the Scribe Award for Best Original Novel from the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers for his alternate history, TANNHÄUSER: RISING SUN, FALLING SHADOWS. Simon & Schuster, DAW/Penguin Books, and DC Comics have published his work. He won the grand prize in Pocket Books' nationwide Strange New Worlds contest and was nominated for the British Fantasy Award. Visit him online at www.thefictioneer.com. You can also find him on Facebook and follow him as @TheFictioneer on Twitter.