by
Jason Werbeloff
NOTE:
THE BOOK WILL LAUNCH AT ONLY $0.99 ON NOVEMBER 30!
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GENRE:
Sci-Fi
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Jason
Werbeloff’s short stories have been downloaded over 20,000 times.
Obsidian Worlds brings together his 11 best-selling sci-fi shorts
into a mind-bending philosophical anthology.
In
Your Averaged Joe, a man’s headache is large enough to hold the
multiverse. Q46F is an obsessive-compulsive android who finds love in
a zombie-embroiled apocalypse. The end of the world isn’t all that
bad – The Experience Machine will fulfil your every desire (and
some you hadn’t considered). A sex bot dares to dream of freedom in
Dinner with Flexi. But mind what you eat, because The Photons in the
Cheese Are Lost. Don’t fret though: The Cryo Killer guarantees that
your death will be painless, or your money back when you’re thawed.
Unless, that is, you’re The Man with Two Legs.
Plug
into Obsidian Worlds for these and other immersive stories, including
the hilarious Time-Traveling Chicken Sexer. Your brain will never be
the same again.
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Excerpt:
(from
Bleed Me Silicone):
My first
memory is of the inside of a cardboard box. The material is gray and
slightly rough to the touch. It smells of fluorescent light and
ancient canyon floors.
I savor
the feeling of being lifted from the shelf – rubbed and jostled
against the almost-smooth interior of the box, as I’m carried
through the aisles. My new owner places me on the till. The other
products and I have talked about this day. Wondered when our time
would come. The time to be purchased.
“Would
you like a packet for that, ma’am?” the teller asks. I recognize
his voice. He does stock-take on Sundays.
“Umm …
yes,” says a nervous voice. Nervous, but forgiving. I like her
already.
The
crinkle-swoosh of plastic competes with the sound of a radio.
Sunlight perforates the miniscule holes in the edges of the cardboard
that encloses me. I feel warmth for the first time. She drives me
home.
The roof
of the box opens, and I’m out. In the world. Her face is just as
I’d imagined. Elfin and freckled. No frown lines. Her eyes are
intense as they follow my instructions.
I tingle
at the touch of her fingers. Delicate, careful. Fleshy and warm. Her
lips curl into a smile, before she places me at the back of a dark
shelf. The other lubes at the store told me this would happen. Life’s
not all action for us. But when our owners take us for a night out of
the closet, the world comes alive. Or that’s what the other lubes
say.
There
aren’t many voices in her apartment. I wait patiently at the back
of the closet, as the weeks and months pass. Just when I think she’s
forgotten me, one warm evening the door of the apartment opens. A man
sits on the creaky springs of the bed.
“Are
you ready?” His voice is young. Excited.
“Yes,”
she says. I know she’s trying not to sound nervous, like she did
that day at the store when she purchased me.
And then
it begins.
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Jason
Werbeloff is a novelist and philosopher. He loves chocolate and his
Labrador, Sunny.
He's
interested in the nature of social groups, personal identity,
freedom, and the nature of the mind. His passion is translating
philosophical debate around these topics into works of science
fiction, while gorging himself on chocolate.
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