Welcome to the website of science fiction author Raymund Eich. You might have read my short stories in Analog or the charity anthology Surviving Tomorrow. I’m the author of The Confederated Worlds military science fiction series. The Stone Chalmers science fiction spy series. Solo novels The Reincarnation Run and Azureseas: Cantrell’s War. And many more sci fi books at all lengths: box sets, novels, short novels, and short stories.
As you might have guessed, I don’t write in one narrow niche. I follow my muse wherever it takes me. The universe is a big place and my stories and novels reflect that. The menu bar and the site search box can help you find books that fit your interests. You’re also welcome to scroll and click around. You never know what you might find.
Despite the range of sci fi books I write, there is a common ground to most of the stories I tell. The image up there of the boy watching a rocket launch from farmland evokes it. In words, my stories go from Middle America across the Universe. To summarize, most of my novels and stories are about good people trying to do the right thing.
That said, doing the right thing might still be challenge. Sometimes, my characters don’t succeed. For some of them, the good starts out buried pretty deep and they’re antiheroes until they realize they have to change their ways. But most of them know the right thing, and most of them try to do it.
FAQ
First off: is your name spelled correctly? And how do you pronounce it?
That’s the correct spelling, thanks to my immigrant parents. They split the difference between the Anglo-French Raymond and the German Raimund.
My last name is pronounced with a long-i vowel sound, like both syllables in Einstein. The preferred consonant sound is a sh. Overall, one syllable, eye-sh.
Tough to pronounce, and also tough to spell. For example, I’ve seen Elch, Einch, Etch, Eitch, Iech, Eric, and Erich. Thought the misspellings used to bother me, I’ve grown philosophical about them.
What are some of your publishing credits?
I’ve had six short stories published in Analog science fiction and fact magazine. Not to brag, but that’s an uncommon achievement for an indie science fiction author. My short fiction has also appeared in the sci fi anthology Surviving Tomorrow and the theme anthology Boundary Shock Quarterly #17: Dieselpunk. Plus, around fifteen of my novels and more than six short story collections are available as ebooks and paperback books, and some also as audiobooks.
Final question: Science fiction, sci fi, SF, speculative fiction, or spec fic?
I’ll answer with another question: Is the book or story an adventure on future Earth, an exploration of a distant planet, a discovery beyond the limits of human knowledge, or a journey across deep space? Then I’ll read it. The genre fiction label doesn’t matter.
A smorgasbord of SF
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