Science Fiction

Solitary spacejock Landry Krieger boosts his income by smuggling people past the watchful eyes of governments, in hiding places he builds in his ship, Midnight Angel.

When the priests of Tao Pacem seek him, his first instinct is to say no. He'd had enough experience with religious leaders to last a lifetime.

Then he meets one of their oppressors....

Feel the thrills and chills of epic space opera in Escape from Conatus, book one of The Incepti Cataclysm trilogy.

Feel the thrills and chills of epic space opera in Revelation in Vela, book two of The Incepti Cataclysm trilogy.

Feel the thrills and chills of epic space opera in Victory for Carina, book three of The Incepti Cataclysm trilogy.

A mission from a divided Earth discovers signs of an ancient alien presence buried on a planet in the Alpha Centauri system.

Sent to explore, Jaeger and McIlroy, born and raised in a Texas divided by razor wire and minefields.

When they decode the message left by aliens dead over a million years, the future of the human race will change forever.

A powerful alien ship. Heading to Earth. Intent unknown.

Bad: mission control lost contact with the interstellar explorers on Concordia.

Worse: mission control detects an unknown ship leaving the Alpha Centauri system. Heading to Earth at relativistic speeds. Driven by engines more potent than anything humans ever built. Silent about its purpose. Its crew unknown.

Ross Cantrell joins the animal control mission on Azureseas to earn the money he needs to start married life with his girlfriend.

The tourist corporations pay well. The psych technicians keep his brain focused. Neutralizing the large, dangerous native lifeforms is dirty work, but necessary to keep people safe. Like plinking tree cats back home.

Then Ross learns the truth about the planet’s “animals.”

Jeffrey just wants to have a good time, drinking and partying in the
human zone near the city of the low-tech, insectoid aliens native to the
planet Valoduria.

His dad disapproves his lifestyle, but the old man is willing to pay
for it. As long as Jeffrey transmits amateur xenology videos home every
week.

Jeffrey gets along fine with the Valodurians. Sure, they all look
alike to him, but humans all look the same to them, right?

Now, if only Jeffrey could tell what one particular Valodurian, with
unreadable eyes and sharp mouthparts, wants when it asks him to
“return blessing.”

The Confederated Worlds implanted in his brain the skills to make him a soldier. He must learn for himself how to survive interstellar war.

By the terms of the peace treaty, the citizens of the planet Arden will vote to stay in the Confederated Worlds or join the victorious Progressive Republic.

Newly-minted Lieutenant Tomas Neumann leads his overstretched and demoralized Confederated Worlds Ground Force platoon in a mission that pushes men and machines to their limits, against elusive, deceptive foes out to tilt Arden to the Progressive Republic—and turn the Confederated Worlds against itself.

Capt. Tomas Neumann faces shocking dangers in an unexpected new
battlefield.

Military science fiction meets political thriller in the triumphant
conclusion to the Confederated Worlds trilogy.

A thousand years from now, while Earth sleeps in virtual reality, the Confederated Worlds, the Unity, and the Progressive Republic connect the scattered, terraformed worlds of humankind by artificial wormholes. When they clash, the fates of worlds depend on one uncommon soldier.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The company’s mission to deploy a new breed of Kunbarrasaur runs into religious fanatics protesting the restoration of extinct species.

Fanatics capable of sabotage.

Or worse.

As a volcanic eruption devastates the dinosaur preserve, company headquarters orders Portia to rescue two politicians playing tourist in the path of a lava flow.

She must decide on her own what to do for a Diluvicursor—a loovy—caught on the track of destruction.

Portia’s heart quickened. A chance to treat an injured dinosaur! Creatures reconstructed from fossilized bone, genetic extrapolation from modern birds, imagination, and Aussie pride....

Art Deco meets Industrialism. Style, science, and exploration, all rolled up into one gritty, interwar adventure.

Come explore plucky dames and lantern-jawed heroes facing down evil and inventing the future with issue 017 of Boundary Shock Quarterly.

Includes stories by Ron Collins, Raymund Eich, Joel Ewy, Voss Foster, Richard Ed. Jones, M. E. Owen, Stephannie Tallent, Tami Veldura, and Blaze Ward.

After the destruction of Washington, D.C. by nuclear terrorists, the country turned to the America United movement and elevated the movement's leader, Gov. Everton, to the Presidency. A veneer of normalcy returned to the country, undercut by rumors of secret prison camps...

Surviving Tomorrow: A Charity Anthology features stories by Orson Scott Card, Robert Silverberg, and many other authors. Includes my story The Ultimate Wager.

The future is bigger than we can imagine. Six speculative fictions by the author of The Reincarnation Run and the Portia Oakeshott, Dinosaur Veterinarian series.

A Writers of the Future semi-finalist

A multi-millionaire heiress commits suicide after a biotech company implants an experimental treatment device in her brain. Her grieving, lawyer husband sued the company for millions more.

In comes a private investigator, ex-cop Albert Jimenez. Hired by the biotech company to dig up dirt on the "grieving" husband. He expected the usual: greed, a mistress, emotional manipulation, a marriage on the rocks.

Instead he found something far more sinister. Questions of brain chemicals and free will. Questions of what it means to be human.

Three young men. One telekinetic power. How far will they push their luck?

Amer earned a very lucrative living by protecting large corporations from terrorist attacks... and investing wisely, through short sales and put options, on companies that failed to heed his offered "protection."

But Amer's success brought challenges...

One bitterly cold Iowa night, an assailant slits the throats of twenty genetically modified pigs. Pressured by a giant biotechnology company and the county's power brokers, Deputy Matt Schaffer must untangle a web of clues to find the assailant--and bring justice to a desperate small town.

President Archer faced an imminent war in the Middle East.

The audio-visual recording crew following his every public move limited how he could resolve the crisis.

Or did they?

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We were in the Clarion West Workshop for Science Fiction and Fantasy class of 2001. Other than that, we're about as diverse as you can get. This anthology is one of the broadest samples you can find of up and coming science fiction and fantasy talent.

Eight light-years from Earth, the fate of a terraforming expedition depends on brave souls. Human and AI.

After a colony world's founder commits suicide, two men battle for control.

The Electrotelepathic Community bound Henri to the Unity and brought news of the Unity's many victories against its galactic rival, the Tiánquán... and the Unity would never lie.

Decades ago, we made our separate ways to the desert planet of Elard.
We shared a common purpose: enlighten the planet’s low-tech, violent
aliens with our different paths of uplift. Though we served different
ideals, we became friends… until our friendship dissolved into illicit
affairs.
And an unexplained disappearance....

A captain, a commissar, and the ultimate crisis at 0.99c:

If your propulsion system goes off-line, how can you slow down?

A billion-year-old alien ship. A great treasure. A great danger.

With a last surge of the main drive, Barnet matched our bearing and speed with the alien derelict.

Twisted lines of tubing and conduit curled around the hull. After a billion years, micrometeor collisions had sandblasted the ship to a dull finish.

But behind that battered surface might lurk exotic materials beyond the manufacturing capability of any human world. Magnetic monopoles, dyons, condensed matter. Even a tiny amount delivered to Earth or a major world could set up a crew for life.

Powercrosse.

A zero-gee sport mixing the best of hockey and lacrosse.

Skill moves.

Big hits.

All while managing your team’s limited supply of jet pack air.

Her only chance to escape her home asteroid colony and choose a life for herself.

In its off-line data vault in Vienna, the biotech company Katalysis hid a gene therapy technology that could cure diseases and remake people into strange new forms. Could two young American hackers, and a jaded European agent, work together to penetrate the company's vault and release that new tech...

After the EU's army of war robots overran Mexico, Francisca and her daughter gathered refugees from the ruins and fled to a new home in the asteroid belt.

But the rogues and pirates roving the belt threatened her colony, poised to plunder the vein of nearly-pure blond—rubia—platinum in their asteroid's core.

Now help comes. Help Francisca loathes to ask. A renegade European and his war robot.

The war robot that might have killed her son.

Ashley clawed her way from her small, poor home town to the high-tech city, and vowed never to go back.

Big data from pervasive biosensors and the internet of things, stored in an unforgeable blockchain, enforced by algorithms instead of the whims of judges and juries, made Eric a multimillionaire.

Marry him, and Ashley's set for life. Even if he leaves her.

Unless his software detects she breaches the marital contract.

His position as a secret agent for the Ramuhlruus, Earth's alien overlords, gives him the perfect cover to conspire against them. But can he meet his contact before the Ramuhlruus uncover his secret agenda?

A billion people from the developing world wanted to work in the United States. As a lucky holder of a daypass, Chalo had the opportunity to teleport to his job, unless he overstayed his shift. Or lost his daypass.

Money can’t buy happiness, but it increases your chances… until his patron gives Zachary a harsh choice. Compromise his artistic vision, or lose funding.

Everyone remembers President Fletcher's assassination. Most remember his murderer, one of millions of underemployed young men in a world run by the unaging, took First Lady Miranda Fletcher's college course on violent regime change...

After Marcus joined the Coronado's crew, the ship set off on a mission promising huge profits: harvesting helium from the sun to deliver to the Venus terraforming project. But the promise of profit existed because Venus' enemies, forces from the moons of Jupiter, hunted and destroyed helium haulers ...

Americans under the thumb of interplanetary Russians. Can they strike a blow for solar system freedom?

Entering the last game of the season, Cooper could be the first player since Ted Williams a century ago to bat .400 -- thanks to secret biotechnology giving him superior vision.

When a young scientist turns her new invention, the chronoscope, to 1st century Palestine, she finds the result she least expected--Jesus of Nazareth's empty tomb.

In an artificial world whose inhabitants used advanced neurotechnology to implant skills and habits in playing status games, Pavel trumped all his friends by making himself believe in Christianity. But whether true or false, his newly implanted skills and habits wielded a power over Pavel...

With advanced biomedicine banned in the United States, rich and powerful Americans travel to India to extend their lifespans and augment their bodies and minds.So too do Americans who want wealth and power. Middle-class, middle-aged Americans like Liam Kleinschmidt and his wife...

At the start of the basketball season, Coach Huffman expected the usual from his St. Louis Spiders—bickering stars and missed playoffs. The team's new owner, a pharmaceutical tycoon, planned to turn things around by giving new meaning to "team chemistry."

The ultimate flying disc team from the human settlement journeyed to the alien planet’s lowlands with one mission: win a game against the aliens or go “home”—to an Earth the young team had never seen.

Fakes. Johan's newly purchased antique Barcelona chairs came fresh from an asteroid factory, not from the prior century on distant Earth. Facing his wife's anger, risking their friends' scorn, could he use an interplanetary crisis to turn the tables—and chairs?

A secret clinic, engaged in illicit cloning experiments for the benefit of a global elite. Yet even more disturbing was his encounter with the clinic's proprietress....

In these five stories, Raymund Eich posits new amendments to the United States Constitution.

Amendments written to better bestow the blessings of liberty on the American people and their posterity.

Amendments that those same American people, ranging from common men and women to Presidents, try to evade for personal gain.

LA RUBIA

How far will Francisca go to protect her colony of Mexican refugees from pirates roving the asteroid belt?

PASE DE UN DÍA

Chalo could teleport to the U.S. every day and work for a better life for his family—if he kept his day pass.

MIKE FINK GOES TO BIG BEND

Characters from American, Mexican, and Native folklore meet in west Texas in the 21st century.

THE THIRTIETH AMENDMENT

Gonzalo had to pass the test of English fluency to prove himself a U.S. citizen. So did others willing to cheat.

AFFECTIVE DISORDER

Texas PI Albert Jimenez found more than the usual when he investigated an heiress' "suicide."

“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.

Includes original short story The Balls of St. Alan!

Five stories named as Honorable Mention or Semi-Finalist by judges of the Writers of the Future contest