A nice little ego boost came my way this week. In the May 2023 issue of Locus, short fiction reviewer Karen Bunham called my story “Aalund’s Final Mission” in the March/April Analog “a solid entry” and “the climax is well done.” Only two stories from that issue made Ms. Bunham’s Recommended Reading list this month. …
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My wife recently listened to a podcast that talked about dimensions of the human psyche. That sounds heavy, I know, but it’s lighter than it sounds. One of the dimensions it talked about was whether people view the world as an interesting place or a dull one. Interesting, meaning full of curiosities and new things. …
Analog is the highest-circulation and longest-lived science fiction magazine on the market today. Its first editor of note, John W. Campbell, channelized much of what we think of as traditional science fiction, publishing authors like Robert Heinlein and Isaac Asimov. (He also believed L. Ron Hubbard was onto something with Dianetics). Campbell’s successor, Ben Bova, …
Trying saying that five times fast…. Did you miss my short story Return Blessing last year in Analog magazine? Luckily for you, it’s now available in standalone ebook and print editions at all the usual places. Jeffrey just wants to have a good time, drinking and partying in thehuman zone near the city of the …
It’s almost Mardi Gras, or as it’s known outside Louisiana and the rest of the Francophone world, Carnival. In other words, it’s the perfect time to read my Carnival/Mardi Gras historical dark fantasy/weird story Carnival in Sorgenbach. Hans returned from the Great War, haunted. Not only by the horrors of the trenches, but haunted by …
As a teenager, I was a huge fan of Roger Zelazny, author of the Amber series, Lord of Light, Isle of the Dead, Home is the Hangman, and a lot of other great books and stories. (Full disclosure, all book links are Amazon affiliate links). Yeah, I know, I read the Inspirations in the sidebar …
Thoughts on Immer, Zlaz (The Zelazny-Yoke Letters) Read More »
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 …
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 …
First, if you celebrate any of them, Happy Easter, Happy Passover, and Happy Ramadan. It’s fair to say that science fiction writers and readers skew freethinker/atheist. Even if a sci fi story doesn’t explicitly refute religious beliefs, sf tends to be set in futures that are secular and rational. In my latest appearance in Analog, …
My controversial article in the latest issue of Analog Read More »
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Azureseas: Cantrell’s War, now in the Aliens Among Us bundle! Read More »
