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    One Awake In All The World
    One Awake In All The World
    One Awake In All The World
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    One Awake In All The World

    By Robert Jeschonek

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    A mind-blowing science fiction thriller from an award-winning Star Trek and Doctor Who author. 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.

    This masterpiece of scifi horror will race you out to the edge of reality, blow your mind, and kick your ass. Don't miss the uncut version of this story, acclaimed as a "Standout selection..." in a Publishers Weekly starred review.

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    A "Standout selection...," "an unlikely love story that pits two space-faring 'exterminators' against a horde of nightmarish monstrosities." – Publishers Weekly starred review

    Robert T. Jeschonek "sees the world like no one else sees it, and makes incredibly witty, incisive stories out of that skewed worldview." – Mike Resnick, Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of the Starship series

    "Robert Jeschonek is the literary love child of Tim Burton and Neil Gaiman--his fiction is cutting edge, original, and pulsing with dark and fantastical life. His stories suck me in and refuse to let me go until the last page, even as his characters are busy stealing my heart." – Adrian Phoenix, critically acclaimed author of The Maker's Song series and Black Dust Mambo

    Contents

    Short story plus novel preview

    About the Author

    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 have published his work.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRobert Jeschonek
    Release dateMay 24, 2011
    ISBN9781458138101
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      Book preview

      One Awake In All The World - Robert Jeschonek

      One Awake In All The World

      One Awake In All The World

      A SCIFI STORY

      ROBERT JESCHONEK

      Pie Press

      Contents

      Also by Robert Jeschonek

      One Awake In All The World

      About the Author

      Special Preview: Six Scifi Stories Volume Four

      ONE AWAKE IN ALL THE WORLD

      Copyright © 2023 by Robert Jeschonek

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      Cover Art Copyright © 2023 by Ben Baldwin

      www.benbaldwin.co.uk

      This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

      All rights reserved by the author.

      Published by Blastoff Books

      An Imprint of Pie Press

      411 Chancellor Street

      Johnstown, Pennsylvania 15904

      www.piepresspublishing.com

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      One Awake In All The World

      Pass Candle could not see the creatures, except as winking blips of light on the flash-brain screen mounted in the flesh of his left arm.  He didn’t need to look at the screen, however, to know that the creatures were all around him and his partner, Nona Stiletto.

      He could feel their presence.  Could feel their eyes upon him, staring from the shadows of the darkened and fog-shrouded city.

      More than that, he swore he could feel their malevolence.  Their savagery.

      He stiffened his right arm as he swept it from side to side, covering an arc of the gray fog with the snout of the warflower dark energy gun peeping from under the skin behind his wrist.  He followed the arc with the single beam from his headlight—the round, white disk mounted like a third eye in the middle of his forehead.

      Candle narrowed his dark brown eyes and stared into the headlight’s beam, but he still saw nothing moving toward him in the fog.  Maybe, his feelings were the product of his imagination, and the creatures in the shadows would turn out to be benevolent toward cybernetically enhanced humans like himself and Nona.

      But somehow, he doubted it.

      Stiletto said nothing to suggest she felt the same way, but the posture of her slender frame as she walked alongside him was as stiff

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