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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 […]

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,

Storybundle is an awesome source of curated book bundles. You name your price, and for a minimum of $20, you can get all the books shown above. Books from Hugo and Nebula award winners and nominees. Books from New York Times and USA Today bestsellers. A short story anthology. A three-book collection (a bundle in

Just a quick note that my latest science fiction novel is now available! Invasion 2132 is book 2 of The False Flag War. The beginning overlaps with the ending of book 1, Exploration 2127. Jaeger and McIlroy make an appearance, but most of the action follows the head of Concordia mission control on Earth, as

Happy New Year! I hope 2022 is off to a great start for you. I’m pleased with it so far. I have two stories in bookstores now. Analog editor Trevor Quachri called this first story a high tech heist. You can also think of it as a deep space spaghetti western. “A Fistful of Monopoles”

This one’s not a Portia Oakeshott story. My latest is a spaghetti western in deep space. You might have guessed that from the title “A Fistful of Monopoles.” In the Jan/Feb 2022 issue, on newsstands now. Click here for more info.

My second Portia Oakeshott, Dinosaur Veterinarian short story, “Minnie and the Trekker,” is in the July/August 2021 issue of Analog. Despite the title, neither a cartoon female mouse or a fan of a long-running science fiction media franchise are involved. Just Portia Oakeshott and a colleague, trying to help an ill dinosaur, and discovering something