Vessels

by Joe Jablonski

A collection of dark and gritty short stories by multi-published, Pushcart nominated author, Joe Jablonski.

82 pages, Paperback

First published October 25, 2012

Reviews

[Douglas Hackle · Rating 4 out of 5]

Joe Jablonski scribbles a good sci-fi tale, of which his book Vessels collects ten. These stories take place in universes that, like the “real” universe, generally tend to be hostile towards humankind, universes that are host to deadly diseases, plagues of madness, inhospitable alien atmospheres, hostile alien entities that possess human bodies, and other blights and calamities. But like the reality we know too well, humanity is often humanity’s worst enemy in the not-so-fictional worlds of Jablonski’s dark, imaginative sci-fi yarns, where you’ll also encounter human-exported religious zealotry on an alien planet, the ultimate government brainwashing, an attempted act of terrorism in space, and homo sapiens reduced to a state of pod-encased stasis by technology taken to inhuman excess.