eBook, 26 pages
English language
Published 2024 by Subterranean Press.
Robin Hearns has been kidnapped. Or murdered. Or kidnapped and murdered.
He isn’t sure.
What he does know is one moment he’s driving to work; the next, he’s in a pocket universe negotiating temperamental weather, robot guardians, and fireside chats with an improbable assassin. He isn’t hurt, and, barring liberty, all his needs are met. Is it the afterlife? Is he in a coma somewhere dreaming this?
Maybe he’ll stay.
Or Maybe he’ll gather others like himself and try to escape…
A story about Robin Hearns, who wakes up in an unknown place, apparently kidnapped and now presumed dead. His captor hides in a suit that hides his features and is apparently invulnerable: until he meets with another captor, and they plan an escape together. It is only at the end do we learn more about the where they have been kept.
Robin wakes up in a cabin in a pastoral compound. He's been kidnapped by a hitman (Buki) who claims to disappear his victims instead of kill them like he's been contracted, because he doesn't like killing.
I loved this story because Thompson lets the reader discover what's happening as his characters discover it. Things are weird enough to be intriguing but not so out there that I couldn't make any sense of it.
The description on the Subterranean Press web site (where this ebook can be downloaded for free) is a bit too spoilery for me, so I'm glad I didn't read it before downloading.
https://subterraneanpress.com/immortal-invisible/.