Raymund Eich is a science fiction and fantasy writer whose middle American upbringing is a launchpad for journeys to the ends of the universe.
His 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). He has over ten other published book-length works and more than thirty published short stories. His short fiction has appeared in Odyssey, Analog, and the anthology Surviving Tomorrow, and has earned honorable mentions and a semi-finalist award in the Writers of the Future contest. His works are available worldwide in ebook, trade paperback, and audiobook editions.
His most recent prior novel, Exploration 2127, was published in October 2021 by CV-2 Books (https://cv2books.com).
After circling the world by age five, he grew up in the Ozark Mountains of southwest Missouri. He earned a B.A. and a Ph.D., both in biochemistry, from Rice University. Though he’s no longer a working scientist, hundreds of papers cite his graduate research on the reactions of nitric oxide with heme proteins.
In addition to his writing career, he works in patent law, won a national quiz bowl championship, dabbles at golf and Python, is a husband and father, and agrees with Robert Heinlein that specialization is for insects.
He lives in Houston with his wife, son, and daughter. His last name has one syllable and is pronounced “eye-sh.”
The First Voyages: The Complete Science Fiction Stories 1998-2012 (The Complete Science Fiction Stories of Raymund Eich) (Volume 1)
From 21st century asteroid settlements to World War II Transylvania, from an Earth dominated by immortal aliens to Christ's empty tomb, a distinctive voice in science fiction will take you on journeys to the photosphere of the sun, the coding regions of DNA, and the complexities of the human psyche.
More info →Stage Separations: The Complete Science Fiction Stories 2013-2018
In these pages, you can...
...race against time to solve mysteries hidden in a planet's vast desert—and in a woman's heart
...learn the true story of a president's assassination
...journey 14,000 miles to a high-tech fountain of youth
...win or go "home"—to an Earth you've never seen
and explore six other worlds created by a distinctive voice in twenty-first century science fiction.
More info →Orbital Maneuvers: The Complete Science Fiction Stories 2019-2020
In these pages, you can join–
- A mission to terraform a lifeless, rocky planet
- A private detective uncovering the ultimate crime
- A woman called by an ex-boyfriend… who’s been dead twenty years
- A President breaking his country’s highest law
- A star athlete discovering the true price of a championship
–and enjoy five more tales, in the latest installment of the Complete Science Fiction Stories of Raymund Eich.
More info →Extravehicular Activities
Leave the safety of your space capsule for the dangers of billion-year old alien derelicts, intelligent insects with mysterious motives, espionage in an alternate 1920s Paris, and rogue reconstructed dinosaurs.
These wonders and more await in the fourth volume of the Complete Science Fiction Stories of Raymund Eich.
More info →The Progress of Mankind
One man can make—or break—Earth’s iron grip on its galactic
colonies: Stone Chalmers. Spy. Assassin. Earth’s top
operative. Join Stone on a distant planet in a headlong race against the clock
in this, the first adventure in his complete four-novel series.
The Greater Glory of God (Stone Chalmers Book 2)
One man can make—or break—Earth’s iron grip on its galactic
colonies: Stone Chalmers. Spy. Assassin. Earth’s top
operative. Join Stone in a nerve-wracking game of intrigue on a world of secrets
in this, the second adventure in his complete four-novel series.
To All High Emprise Consecrated (Stone Chalmers Book 3)
One man can make—or break—Earth’s iron grip on its galactic
colonies: Stone Chalmers. Spy. Assassin. Earth’s top
operative. Join Stone in his most harrowing mission yet, facing a world of
dangerous rebels in this, the third adventure in his complete four-novel
series.
In Public Convocation Assembled (Stone Chalmers #4)
One man can make—or break—Earth’s iron grip on its galactic
colonies: Stone Chalmers. Spy. Assassin. Earth’s top
operative. Join Stone in the capital of the galaxy for the ultimate clash of
conspiracies in this, the final adventure in his complete four-novel
series.
Stone Chalmers: The Complete Science Fiction Secret Agent Series
One man can make—or break—Earth’s iron grip on its galactic
colonies: Stone Chalmers. Spy. Assassin. Earth’s top
operative.
Stone’s missions take him through artificial wormholes and on
warpdrive ships to colonies bound to Earth—whether they like it or
not.
Though undercover, with cover personas overlaid on his mind and
disguises engineered by nanotechnology into his bones and his cells,
Stone’s missions are never easy. In the eye of a storm of intrigue and
conspiracy, Stone’s actions make the difference in whether open
rebellion threatens the galactic order imposed by Earth…
…and threatens Earth itself.
Join Stone on his pulse-pounding adventures across a galaxy spiraling
out of control, in this complete four-novel series.
Riddlepigs and the Cryla
First published in Analog!
As a girl, Portia Oakeshott dreamed of caring for the reconstructed dinosaurs roaming the preserve near the south pole of her home planet, New New South Wales.
As a new hire at the dino company, Portia’s first call sends her to an isolated farmhouse and across the perimeter into the preserve itself, in pursuit of a rogue carnivore, a female Cryolophosaurus. A cryla.
More info →Winner and the Poacher
As a girl, Portia Oakeshott dreamed of caring for the reconstructed dinosaurs roaming the preserve near the south pole of her home planet, New New South Wales.
As a consultant to law enforcement, Portia confronts stark evidence of a rich young man’s crime: the mounted head of a massive herbivorous Wintonotitan. A winner.
A dinosaur the company never granted a permit for hunting.
Journeying to the bottom of the world in the sunless week of latewinter, Portia and a policeman must unravel a web of sins and lies to build an airtight case.
And survive the desperate acts of the guilty.
More info →Minnie and the Trekker
As a young girl, Portia Oakeshott dreamed of caring for the reconstructed dinosaurs roaming the preserve near the south pole of her home planet, New New South Wales.
Today, caring for dinosaurs means tending to a female Minmi—a minnie—mindlessly tending a clutch of eggs smashed and devoured by an unknown predator.
Back at base, caring for dinosaurs means identifying the predator. Before it wreaks more havoc on the fragile ecosystem of the preserve.
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