His cover story
Return to Elard to dismantle his sect's missionary work to the planet's natives.
His true mission
Investigate decades-old mysteries of love and death.
His objective
Return to Earth with his discovery - if he can.
Decades ago, a quartet of advocates—Darren, Purcell, Nesbitt, and Juliette—came to Elard to share their messages of spiritual and social uplift with the planet’s primitive, fractious natives. Under the scorching rays of Elard’s fiery sun, their friendship dissolved into illicit affairs and an unexplained disappearance.
Darren returns to Elard for one final mission. In only thirty days, he must solve mysteries buried in the planet’s vast desert—and hidden in a woman’s heart.
Enter a compelling, alien world of power and corruption, wonder and terror, love and death.
“When Man goes to the stars, he’ll bring a ball with him.”
Pull on your jersey, strap on your jet pack, and join our team on a road trip across the wide galaxy of sports. Because even on the Moon or under alien suns, it’s not whether you win or lose, it’s how you play the game.
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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.
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In these pages, you can join–
–and enjoy five more tales, in the latest installment of the Complete Science Fiction Stories of Raymund Eich.
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