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    The Spinach Can's Son
    The Spinach Can's Son
    The Spinach Can's Son
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    The Spinach Can's Son

    By Robert Jeschonek

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    Imagine a world filled with comic strip characters you know and love...the world of the Underfunnies, where nothing is as it seems. Molly, a "Panelnaut" explorer, searches this strange 'toon world for her missing husband, only to find him at the heart of a bizarre mystery. Can she bring him back from the Underfunnies, resurrecting him from ink and paper to flesh and blood? Or will she end up lost herself, at the mercy of cartoon forces she cannot hope to understand? The answers lie somewhere beyond the funny pages and the bounds of imagination itself.

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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 and HOODOO series.

    "Robert Jeschonek is a towering talent." – Mike Resnick, Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of the STARSHIP series

    "Jeschonek ́s stories are delightfully insane, a pleasure to read..." – Fabio Fernandes, FANTASY BOOK CRITIC

    About the Author

    Robert Jeschonek is an award-winning writer whose fiction, comics, essays, and podcasts have been published around the world. He has written Batman and Justice Society comics as well as STAR TREK and DOCTOR WHO fiction. His cross-genre science fiction thriller, DAY 9, is an International Book Award winner. He also won the Scribe Award for Best Original Novel for his alternate history, TANNHAUSER: RISING SUN, FALLING SHADOWS.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRobert Jeschonek
    Release dateApr 12, 2014
    ISBN9781310949180
    The Spinach Can's Son
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    Robert Jeschonek

    Robert Jeschonek is an award-winning writer whose fiction, essays, articles, comic books, and podcasts have been published around the world. According to fantasy and science fiction luminary Mike Resnick, Robert "sees the world like no one else sees it, and makes incredibly witty, incisive stories out of that skewed worldview."Robert's young adult urban fantasy novel, MY FAVORITE BAND DOES NOT EXIST, is due in 2011 from Clarion Books, a division of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. A collection of his fantasy and science fiction stories, MAD SCIENTIST MEETS CANNIBAL, is available from PS Publishing in England. Robert has written for POSTSCRIPTS, ESCAPE POD, DRABBLECAST, SPACE AND TIME, PODCASTLE, DAW Books anthologies, and many other publications.His credits include STAR TREK fiction published by Pocket Books. His work appeared in three volumes of STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS, winning the grand prize in Volume VI. He was also nominated for the British Fantasy Award for his story, "Fear of Rain." His story "One Awake In All the World" was called out in a Publishers Weekly starred review of the anthology DESTINATION FUTURE in 2010.His comic book work has appeared in JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA 80-PAGE GIANT 2010 #1 from DC Comics. He has also scripted stories for various indie comics, including WAR from Saddle Tramp Press and DEAD BY DAWN QUARTERLY and COMMERCIAL SUICIDE in the UK.Jeschonek is based in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. His website, www.robertjeschonek.com, features fresh daily updates on the world of writing and other alternate realities.

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      The Spinach Can's Son - Robert Jeschonek

      The Spinach Can’s Son

      The Spinach Can’s Son

      A SCIFI STORY

      ROBERT JESCHONEK

      Blastoff Books

      Contents

      Also by Robert Jeschonek

      The Spinach Can’s Son

      About the Author

      Special Preview: Six Scifi Stories Volume Four

      THE SPINACH CAN’S SON

      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.

      All rights reserved by the author.

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      The Spinach Can’s Son

      I am the can of spinach in a sailor man's hand.  He squeezes, expecting me to burst open and launch a blob of green power into his gaping maw.

      But I do not burst.  He gets no mouthful of spinach, no surge of energy pumping up his arms to three times their size.  That's not how it works on this side of the tracks, my friend.

      You're not in the funny pages anymore.

      Potpie the Sailor tries

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