About this ebook
When the teleporter actually works, Hal and Clunk are trapped in a wilderness with no way home. Their only hope is a nearby settlement, but it's inhabited by a tribe of bloodthirsty cannibals.
Before long Hal is dressed in animal skins, wielding a machete and stealing food... from the cannibals.
As for Clunk, with flat batteries and no charger he's as useful as a smartphone in an asteroid field.
Go on, Hal. Try and get out of this one.
Framed is an 8,000-word Hal Spacejock comedy short, and can be read as a stand-alone story or anywhere after Hal Spacejock: Second Course.
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About the author
Simon Haynes lives in Western Australia, where he divides his time between herding deadly spiders, dodging drop bears, and making up wildly inaccurate sentences like this one.
By day he's an author. By night he's also an author.
He loves wry, dry humour, and his hobbies include daringly inserting the letter U into words where -- in some parts of the world at least -- this simply isn't the done thing.
As for his genre-spanning novels, they include epic fantasy (with robots), scifi comedy (also with robots), middle grade humour (featuring robots AND the wanton use of the letter U), as well as a series of historical mystery novels set in 1870's London. (No, of course there aren't robots in those. He's not completely out of his mind.)
When he's not writing Simon is usually renovating his house, sim-racing online, using twitter (@spacejock), gardening, tweaking his book covers, pondering the meaning of the universe and reading, and if you think it's easy doing all that at the same time you should see what he can do with a mug of coffee, a banana and a large bag of salt.
When he's not making outlandish claims he likes to count how many novels he's written, and how many genres he's written them in. (Lots and too many.)
Finally, if you want to hear Simon reading one of his award-winning stories, you'll find an enticement to join his newsletter here: spacejock.com.au/ML.html
