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    Luminaria
    Luminaria
    Luminaria
    Ebook32 pages20 minutes

    Luminaria

    By Robert Jeschonek

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    On a day known forever as The Silencing, millions of human colonists went missing in space without a trace. Fifty years later, a team of explorers mounts a search, riding a space elevator into the heart of the unknown. One scientist, Gabriel Shard, holds the key to the truth, the last chance to recover the missing...but he might just die before he can use it. Don't miss this story by award-winning writer Robert Jeschonek, a master of unique and unexpected science fiction that really packs a punch.

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    "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

    "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, 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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRobert Jeschonek
    Release dateAug 24, 2013
    ISBN9781301522736
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