Teacher of the Century
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A mind-blowing science fiction thriller from an award-winning Star Trek and Doctor Who author!
Welcome to the school of tomorrow, a futuristic nightmare of high-tech savagery. Tribes of genetically and cybernetically enhanced students rule the classroom. Weaponized parental A.I. drones terrorize teachers. The blackboard jungle has become a hell on Earth. One teacher stands alone against the insanity, but her old-school ways might be the death of her. Will she sacrifice everything to protect one perfect student? Can even the Teacher of the Century oppose a savage student body and corrupt system? Or will she discover too late that Armageddon is on the final exam?
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 legendary story, available here from Tsetse Press for the first time anywhere.
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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
"Jeschonek ́s stories are delightfully insane, a pleasure to read..." – Fábio Fernandes, Fantasy Book Critic
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. His young adult urban fantasy novel, My Favorite Band Does Not Exist, is due July 11, 2011 from Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
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Teacher of the Century - Robert Jeschonek
Teacher of The Century
A SCIFI STORY
ROBERT JESCHONEK
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Teacher of The Century
As the ring of students tightened around her, America’s Teacher of the Century nominee Cilla Franklin offered to reduce the homework assignment. Thirty seconds later, she offered to eliminate it altogether. It didn’t make any difference.
Muscles tense beneath naked flesh, the boys and girls continued to edge toward her. She didn’t know why they were so upset, since they never did homework anyway and were never punished for it. The assignment should not have been taxing for anyone in the class, whatever their aptitude level; further, nothing about it impinged on anyone’s personal rights or definition of political correctness.
Periods One through Four hadn’t had any problem with the homework. Then again, Period Five was just a bad group. They were all bad, but Five was the worst.
One minute after Cilla had transmitted the details of the assignment to their brainware wireless implants, the kids had risen as one from their hammocks and formed a circle around her. One of the boys had come up behind her and urinated on her legs; as she spun around, he had directed the stream upward, spraying her hips and abdomen and even splashing her face.
Though Cilla did not understand most of what the godlings (that was what they called themselves) did or said, she knew what this much meant: she was marked for death.
It had happened six times before in her fifty-year career. Each time, she had managed to save herself by begging for mercy from the class Chief or moving to a new school...but it was always possible that death could claim her like this. She knew of colleagues who had died this way; only three out of thirty thousand teachers nationwide died per year in executions by godlings, so the odds weren’t bad...but her own mentor, Ruby Churchill, had been one of the unlucky few.
Dying at the hands of a tribe of hive-minded, techno-savage students wasn’t anything she had envisioned while playing school as a child with her friends decades ago.
Times had changed. For Cilla Franklin and the other teachers at All Einstein High School, every day was another chapter in Lord of the Flies.
Slowly, the