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    Blackbeard's Aliens
    Blackbeard's Aliens
    Blackbeard's Aliens
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    Blackbeard's Aliens

    By Robert Jeschonek

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    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.

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    Short story plus novel preview

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    "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

    "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

    About the Author

    Robert T. Jeschonek is an award-winning writer whose fiction, comics, essays, articles, and podcasts have been published around the world. His young adult urban fantasy novel, My Favorite Band Does Not Exist, was named one of Booklist’s Top Ten First Novels for Youth. 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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRobert Jeschonek
    Release dateMay 25, 2012
    ISBN9781476412221
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      Blackbeard's Aliens - Robert Jeschonek

      Blackbeard’s Aliens

      Blackbeard’s Aliens

      A SCIFI STORY

      ROBERT JESCHONEK

      Blastoff Books

      Contents

      Also by Robert Jeschonek

      Blackbeard’s Aliens

      About the Author

      Special Preview: Six Scifi Stories Volume Four

      BLACKBEARD’S ALIENS

      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.

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      Blackbeard’s Aliens

      Fire!  I have been called a Gentleman Pirate, and oft enough, the name suits.  But on a day like this, Stede Bonnet is all pirate and no gentleman.

      No sooner has the order to fire left my lips than the port side guns of the Adventure blast out their loads in  clouds of roiling black smoke.  Five iron balls leap through the air, heading straight for their target--a huge silver disk hovering thirty feet above the water.

      Twin beams of red light flash out from the rim of the disk, burning two of the cannonballs into wisps of steam.  But the other three make it through. They don't penetrate the hull of the silver disk as I had hoped, but they do make it rock in midair.

      Take that, you hellspawn.  Reload! I shout, though I know the men have already done just that.  We are united in perfect rhythm after all our many battles as part of this fearsome flotilla.  Our leader, much as I despise him, has taught us that.

      Even now, not half a league away, I hear the guns of his

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