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    Beware the Black Battlenaut
    Beware the Black Battlenaut
    Beware the Black Battlenaut
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    Beware the Black Battlenaut

    By Robert Jeschonek

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    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. Pumped up on drugs, wired to the max, the Redeyes tear through enemy forces like berserk Vikings. But fatigue takes a toll, as the Redeyes start to see things that don't exist. And something that might exist after all--a terrible harbinger of doom, a legendary herald of the end of all things. Does the Black Battlenaut truly tower over the blood-soaked war zone? Is it a nightmare brought on by exhaustion, or an omen of infinite devastation? Either way, the Redeyes set out to stop it by any means necessary...even if their private war requires the ultimate sacrifice and more. Don't miss this exciting tale by award-winning storyteller Robert Jeschonek, a master of hard-hitting science fiction that really packs a punch.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRobert Jeschonek
    Release dateOct 1, 2018
    ISBN9781386257110
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      Book preview

      Beware the Black Battlenaut - Robert Jeschonek

      Beware the Black Battlenaut

      BEWARE THE BLACK BATTLENAUT

      A MILITARY SCIFI STORY

      ROBERT JESCHONEK

      Blastoff Books

      CONTENTS

      Also by Robert Jeschonek

      Beware the Black Battlenaut

      About the Author

      Special Preview: Six Scifi Stories Volume Four

      Beware the Black Battlenaut

      Copyright © 2023 by Robert Jeschonek

      http://bobscribe.com/

      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.

      Published by Blastoff Books

      An Imprint of Pie Press

      411 Chancellor Street

      Johnstown, Pennsylvania 15904

      www.piepresspublishing.com

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      ALSO BY ROBERT JESCHONEK

      100th Power Book 1

      100th Power Book 2

      100th Power Book 3

      Blastoff!

      Cosmic Conflicts

      Gray Lady Rising (with Annie Reed)

      In a Green Dress, Surrounded by Exploding Clowns and Other Stories

      In the Empire of Underpants and Other Stories

      Battlenaut Crucible

      Scifi Motherlode

      Sticks and Stones: A Trek Novel

      BEWARE THE BLACK BATTLENAUT

      Looky there, said Swindle, the leperchaun on Grist Halcyon's shoulder.  He pointed with a crumbling green finger at one of the Battlenaut's cockpit video screens, and Grist looked in that direction.

      On the screen, Grist saw the barren, storm-swept surface of the rebel-held moon, Sangre.  The latest flare of lightning revealed a towering black figure on the crest of the hill. At that instant, the very first instant he glimpsed it, Grist knew in his heart what it was even as he knew in his head it just wasn't possible.

      The flare of light faded, and the black figure faded with it back into the night.  When the next lightning struck a moment later, the hilltop was deserted.

      Begorra.  One rotting nostril fell away from Swindle's leprous face.  "It's him, ain't it, boyo?"

      Grist blinked hard and shook his head.  Can't say. Just then, his arm burned as the automated hypodermic cuff strapped to his bicep shot a fresh jolt of go-juice into his system.  A ring of lights around the forward viewport flashed in a pattern designed to reset his body's circadian rhythms.

      Must've been about to nod off.  Can't have that, can we?  As the go-juice pumped through his arteries, Grist felt himself return to full alertness.  The Battlenaut's sensors and computers had done their job again, intervening at just the right moment with just the right dose of meds to keep Grist awake and alert for yet another hour.

      Grist licked his dry lips and checked the video monitor again.  Lightning spiked nearby, revealing six soldiers in Battlenaut armor facing off on a rocky battlefield...but no sign of the dark figure from the hilltop.

      Grist stabbed the comm button and spoke

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