Serial Killer vs. E-Merica

By Robert Jeschonek

A serial killer is murdering E-Congress! Virtual reality e-representatives form a more perfect union in a future America of a hundred states. Until someone reaches into the computerized Congress and murders them one by one. Only Nevada, the e-rep sergeant-at-arms with a shadowy past, stands a chance of tracking the killer. But the trail grows deadlier with every step Nevada takes. America's digitized government might rule from a virtual Capitol, but e-blood runs thick in the hallowed halls. When the killing stops, will Nevada make America's high tech tomorrow safe for e-democracy? Or will a terrible secret pull the trigger on a nation's hopes and dreams? Only "Acirema the Rellik" knows for sure. 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.

Contents
Short story plus novel preview

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..." – Fabio Fernandes, Fantasy Book Critic

"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..." – Adrian Phoenix, critically acclaimed author of The Maker's Song series and Black Dust Mambo

About the Author

Robert T. Jeschonek is an award-winning writer whose fiction, comics, essays, articles, and podcasts have been published around the world. DC Comics, Simon & Schuster, and DAW Books have published his work. His work appeared in three volumes of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, winning the grand prize in Volume VI. His young adult urban fantasy novel, My Favorite Band Does Not Exist, is now available from Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and was named one of Booklist’s Top Ten First Novels for Youth.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Robert Jeschonek
• Release date: Aug 20, 2010
• ISBN: 9781452368955

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Serial Killer Vs. E-merica

Serial Killer Vs. E-merica

A SCIENCE FICTION TALE

ROBERT JESCHONEK

Blastoff Books

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Serial Killer Vs. E-merica

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SERIAL KILLER VS. E-MERICA

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Cover Art Copyright © 2023 by Ben Baldwin

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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.

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Serial Killer Vs. E-merica

The great state of Missouri lay across the Speaker's bench at the front of the House of E-representatives, wrapped in the American flag.  His eyes and mouth gaped, and his arms and legs hung over the sides, dripping blood on the carpet below.

Oh, God, said Connecticut, her shaky hand hovering over Missouri's motionless chest.  He's not breathing.

Manitoba stood on the next tier down and wouldn't come any closer.  Is there a--what's it called? Heartbeat?

Connecticut lowered her hand, then jerked it away.  That's in the throat, right? Nervously, she scrubbed her palms on her smart red pantsuit.  Or is it the arm?

That was when Nevada had finally had enough.

Without a word, he pushed his tall, lanky body through the crowd on the floor of the House and charged up the steps to the Speaker's bench.  Without hesitation, he pressed two fingers against the side of Missouri's throat.

No pulse.  Nevada said it loud enough for the whole crowd to hear.  The Speaker of the House is dead.

A great gasp went up from the crowd--the computer-generated, artificial intelligence-driven avatars of ninety-eight of the one-hundred states of the United States of America.  Though they didn't have flesh-and-blood bodies and shouldn't have feared being