raymund

I'm a speculative fiction author whose middle American upbringing is a launchpad for journeys to the ends of the universe. My most popular works are military science fiction series The Confederated Worlds (novels Take the Shilling, Operation Iago, and A Bodyguard of Lies) and the Stone Chalmers series of science fiction espionage adventures (novels The Progress of Mankind, The Greater Glory of God, To All High Emprise Consecrated, and In Public Convocation Assembled). I have over ten other published book-length works and more than forty published short stories. My short fiction has appeared in Analog, Odyssey, Boundary Shock Quarterly, and the anthology Surviving Tomorrow, and has earned honorable mentions and a semi-finalist award in the Writers of the Future contest. My works are available worldwide in ebook, trade paperback, and audiobook editions. After circling the world by age five, I grew up in the Ozark Mountains of southwest Missouri. I earned a B.A. and a Ph.D., both in biochemistry, from Rice University. Though I've been out of the lab for decades, hundreds of papers cite my graduate research. In addition to my writing career, I've worked in patent law, won a national quiz bowl championship, am a husband and father, and agree with Robert Heinlein that specialization is for insects. I live in Houston with his wife, son, and daughter. In case you're wondering, my last name has one syllable and is pronounced “eye-sh.”

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Tom Waits might be big in Japan, but right now I’m big in France. There’s been a huge spike in France for trade paperback sales of my new collection of science fiction short stories, Extravehicular Activities. And that’s for the English-language edition. French publishers, just imagine the sales spike you’d get if you in-licensed French

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Ebook sales – direct to readers

I’m pleased to announce that CV-2 Books will be rolling out direct-to-reader ebook sales in 2023. The first of my books to get this treatment is Azureseas: Cantrell’s War. The sales are fulfilled by Gumroad. Check out the ebook sales page there (https://raymundeich.gumroad.com/l/ohwoz) or you can navigate to it from the bookstore links at https://raymundeich.com/books/azureseas-cantrells-war

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