Arnold looked surprisingly peaceful. He took hold of Trevor’s wrist.
“Will it be long now?”
Trevor clasped his free hand over his friends.
“Not long now, Arnold. Your life will just fade away. You’ll be at peace. At last.”
Arnold stood up, his lungs and intestines hanging from his body, like the melted clocks from Salvador Dali’s painting. He embraced his friend and Trevor watched a single tear fall from Arnold’s eye and drop to the ground.
Arnold’s strength had almost left him, but he managed to utter a few final words.
“Thank you for being such a good friend.”
Tracey was waiting on the driveway when Trevor arrived home. She knew how hard it had been for Trevor to perform the Blood Eagle on Arnold, but both of them knew that he had had no choice. She took her husband’s hand in hers.
“Are you OK?”
Trevor nodded.
“I will be.”
“And it went ok?”
“It went fine. Except—”
“Except what?”
Trevor took a deep breath.
“Except now I have to kill Father Pickles.”
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Greg Krojac was born in 1957 and grew up in Maidenhead, Berkshire. He is the author of six published novels: the dystopian Recarn Chronicles trilogy (comprising of Revelation, Revolution, and Resolution), the post-apocalyptic love story Reality Sandwich, and the first two novels in the Sophont trilogy The Girl With Acrylic Eyes and Metalheads & Meatheads. His story Judd’s Errand is a Mad Max style novella and the first in a series. He has also published a short story Oppy about the fate of the Mars Opportunity Rover.
He currently lives just outside the city of Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, with his partner, Eliene, and their cat, Tabitha.
OTHER BOOKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR
Coppélia walks into a police station and claims she’s been raped. Her case is given to the New Met City Special Victims Unit, much as any other sexual crime would be. Coppélia walks into a police station and claims she’s been raped. Her case is given to the New Met City Special Victims Unit, much as any other sexual crime would be. However, Detective Inspector Vismay Rajan senses something odd about Coppélia, and calls in Detective Inspector Karen Chambers of the Sexdroid Unit for her opinion.
Coppélia is subsequently identified as an android, but she’s unlike any android that Karen has seen before – she appears to have emotions. A friendship forms between human and android and they embark upon a quest to discover Coppélia’s origins and purpose – both totally unprepared for what they discover.
A sophont android, Sylas, who was constructed without the emotion inhibitor that is legally required to be installed into every sophont android, spearheads a Sophont Rights Movement with the aim of giving his fellow androids the autonomy that he himself enjoys. To this end, he recruits other androids to join his cause.
One of them, Paul, is given a specific task – to prevent the recovery of the very first sapient android who has been abandoned on a distant planet.
Like all sophont androids, Paul wishes no harm to any human being, but faces a dilemma when it appears that he may have no choice but to go against Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics if he is to successfully complete his mission.
Judd, a self-employed courier, has always had a cross to bear. He’s a throwback, with the round eyes of his Terran human ancestors, and has suffered discrimination at the hands of the feline-eyed Duoterrans all his life.
His latest package is a personal errand. He must drive through the Corridor, the narrow passage through the desert where temperatures are at least bearable, to Paradise Cove and safely deliver the contents of a small graphene box.
The box is so precious to him that he is willing to protect it with his life, against man and beast, something that he is called upon to do at various times on his journey.
Jerome Cooper and the other five survivors of the apocalypse live like hermits in separate and sealed apartments – their only interaction with each other is through video-chatting via their intranet system. They’ve never seen another human in the flesh; all other humans perished in the apocalypse that they call The Event. This is the life they know. This is the life they’ve always known. This is how life will always be.
One day Jerome hears a noise in his kitchen. He’s terrified that giant cockroaches – the only creature that survives in the toxic wasteland outside – have somehow broken into his apartment. Against his better judgement, he somehow finds the courage to investigate.
What he sees should not – cannot – exist. But it’s there before his very eyes. His world will never be the same again.
A 10-year-old boy enjoys playing with his model train set. He likes to watch the children’s TV programme ‘Crackerjack’. He loves jelly and ice cream. He takes a carving knife from a kitchen drawer.
A stranger tells a reincarnation researcher that he can prove that human reincarnation actually exists. Later, one man is dead with a bullet embedded in his temple and the other is walking back to the car-park.
A man receives a phone call from someone he has never met. But he has met him before. The caller has proof of reincarnation but also a chilling agenda.
A young woman falls in love but she doesn’t know that her lover is the leader of the Illuminati.
Discovering the truth, she finds herself imprisoned r in a draconian government stasis centre, occasionally woken from her enforced hibernation to satisfy his baser urges. Her sister refuses to believe that she is lost forever and sets out to find and rescue her, even though it means neglecting her duty to One Life, the resistance movement that fighting the oppressive Illuminati regime.
An uneasy alliance is forged between One Life and a group of children loyal to the previous Illuminati leader.
The Illuminati appears to have been defeated but a massacre at a children’s birthday party shows that the fight against the tyranny of the New World Order is far from over.