Bob Craton

Jesika's Angel (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

In a tiny village located in an unimportant backwater on a remote planet, a little girl named Jesika lives with her parents and Toby, her mysterious companion. Toby is a big man who looks nothing like the local people. His physical attributes (strength, stamina, quickness) are super-human, but he's also dim-witted and can barely talk. He has no memory of any time before the day (when Jesika was a baby) that a trader brought him to the village to work as a farm laborer. He is placid, peaceful, and he's no danger to anyone. That is, not until the day Jesika and her mother are assaulted by bandits. He explodes into a burst of violence and kills six armed men in the blink of an eye. Later, the local people are shocked when he tells them he 'remembered' procedures for unarmed combat. How could someone with practically no IQ at all remember such a thing? Matters escalate quickly when 20 more men come looking for whomever killed their six comrades. They aren't really bandits, it turns out, but disguised soldiers from an enemy country. It becomes quite clear that Jesika's protector is not an ordinary human, and every time he remembers something, he becomes more intelligent. He is no longer a simpleton. The peaceful villagers are stunned and fearful. They contact the man - a Master Sage from the capitol city - who had consigned Toby to be delivered to the village earlier, . He reveals secrets of Toby's past - as much as he knows of it, that is. The men who were killed earlier were scouts for an enemy invasion force. Jesika's homeland will soon be caught in the crossfire of two battling armies. What can Jesika's Angel do to save her from this danger? No one, not even the Master Sage, knows either the story of his creation or the exact nature of what he is - and especially they don't understand what is about to be unleashed to protect one small child.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bob Craton
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. April 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781476116877
• Artikelnr.: 48355387

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Fantasy & Sci-Fi Fans:

I actually would rather have people enjoy my stories than make money. That is why I write. Therefore, you can get "The High Duties of Pacia," "A Princess of Fae," and "Jesika's Angel" all for 'reader sets the price.' Naturally, I would love reviews but you have no obligation to write one if you don't want to.

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When he was a child, Bob Craton's teachers often remarked (not always favorably) about his day-dreaming. He spent much of his time lost in his own imagination, often creating elaborate elementary school tall-tales, and the habit never went away as he grew up. Coming of age in the 1960s filled his head with dreams of saving the world and having a career in academia. Then the real world closed in. With a family to support, he took a job at the corporate grindstone, just temporarily until he could get back to grad school and earn the PhD he desired. Somehow 'temporarily' turned into thirty-three years of stress and boredom but he kept entertaining himself by creating stories inside his head. Interestingly (well, he hopes it's interesting anyway), his best ideas came to him while he was stuck in rush-hour traffic during his daily commute.

At age fifty-seven, he retired early (a euphemism for 'got laid off') and had time to put his tales on 'paper' (an ancient product now replaced by digital electronics). The ideas in his head were all visual, like scenes from a movie, and as he began writing, he learned to translate visual into verbal and improve his skills. Or at least, that's what he says. He admits that sometimes minor characters or some who weren't included in the original plan at all demand attention. Frequently, he agrees with them and expands their roles. Many people believe he is bonkers for believing that fictional characters talk to him, but he calls it creativity and remains unrepentant.