Raymund Eich

War has come to the galaxy.What's more important?Victory or truth?The entire galaxy knows about the Incepti Cataclysm. The occupation force from Vela destroyed a planet with nanotechnology. Only a few Inceptis fled the wave of death in time to join their brethren scattered across the Democracy.Anara Orden. Daughter of survivors. Recruited by fellow Inceptis to join Democracy intelligence. A loyal assassin, until she learned the truth and vowed to protect those who know it at all costs.Desperate to silence the truth forever, Democracy intelligence demands the Velans surrender Anara and her closest ally. While fleets prepare to attack through interstellar jump points, the outmanned Velans debate strategies. A massive warship battle. Guerrilla resistance behind enemy lines.With millions of lives at risk, Anara proposes a bold alternative.Sometimes, the best resistance......is no resistance at all.Feel the thrills and chills of epic space opera in Victory for Carina, book three of The Incepti Cataclysm trilogy.

An assassin turned guardian finds a refuge.But in a galaxy approaching war, no place is safe...The entire galaxy knows about the Incepti Cataclysm. The occupation force from Vela destroyed a planet with nanotechnology. Only a few Inceptis fled the wave of death in time to join their brethren scattered across the Democracy.Anara Orden. Daughter of survivors. Recruited by fellow Inceptis to join Democracy intelligence. A loyal assassin, until she learned the truth and vowed to protect those who know it at all costs.Her new mission sends her and her allies through interstellar jump points to the Velan capital world. Though safer, she cannot rest. Democracy intelligence pursues her, in a bid to silence the truth forever.And there's one thing she does not know.New enemies lurk in the shadows, waiting for the time to strike...Feel the thrills and chills of epic space opera in Revelation in Vela, book two of The Incepti Cataclysm trilogy.

A survivor turned assassin questions her loyalties.Now she's the target...The entire galaxy knows about the Incepti Cataclysm. The occupation force from Vela destroyed a planet with nanotechnology. Only a few Inceptis fled the wave of death in time to join their brethren scattered across the Democracy.Anara Orden. Daughter of survivors. Recruited by fellow Inceptis to join Democracy intelligence. Though young and good of heart, she kills without qualms. She knows her employers only order her to terminate Velan agents threatening the Democracy.Her new assignment sends her through interstellar jump points to the planet Conatus Prime. She knows where and when to encounter her target. She knows how to use a vial of a mysterious new poison.Then she sees her target.A middle-aged man.A college professor.A fellow Incepti...Feel the thrills and chills of epic space opera in Escape from Conatus, book one of The Incepti Cataclysm trilogy.

Do you only read speculative fiction that's predictable? Filtered by sensitivity readers? Rewritten to the critical taste of a creative writing professor? Validated by a New York publisher*? Or that hits every trope, and only every trope, of one particular bookstore subcategory? Then this collection probably isn't for you.On the other hand, you might like speculative fiction where the author follows the muse wherever it leads him. Across time and space. Across genres and subgenres. From serious to humorous. Following characters male or female, young or middle aged, black or white.If that sounds like something you'd enjoy, come on in.From the author of The Reincarnation Run and Portia Oakeshott, Dinosaur Veterinarian.Azureseas: Cantrell's WarCantrell didn't question his 'animal control' mission on the tropical planet of Azureseas. Then a scrap of troubling evidence came to him out of thin air. A complete novel A Fistful of MonopolesThe alien derelict held a fortune in magnetic monopoles. A fortune the two men agreed to split fifty-fifty. A dangerous retrieval... but Bartlett had his back.Bodacious Ursula and the Phone Call from HellOld boyfriends never call. Especially when they're twenty years dead. A contemporary fantasy about second chances and making things right.Seven OutThree young men. One telekinetic power. From a street craps game in the 'hood to the high-roller tables in Vegas, how far will they let it ride?Iphigenia of KhufuIphigenia peeked at the docked ship. She craved an escape from the conformist culture of her home asteroid colony. But with this pilot?Return BlessingLiving a lush life on the planet Valoduria, paid for by his father's generosity, Jeffrey cheerfully accepted the gifts pressed on him by the planet's insectoid aliens. Then they asked for something in return.*New York gatekeepers aren't all bad. Two of these stories previously appeared in Analog magazine.

Large print edition of Book 1 of the Confederated Worlds series "Military science fiction concentrating] on the psychology and politics of societies in conflict." -Analog, on the Confederated Worlds seriesThe Confederated Worlds implanted in his brain the skills to make him a soldier.He had to learn for himself how to survive interstellar war.Tomas Neumann seeks escape from his backwater planet and overbearing mother, and a mentor to replace his long-dead father."Taking the shilling"-enlisting in the Confederated Worlds military-promises both.But the soldier's skills implanted in his brain can't prepare him for combat against fellow humans. Especially ones supposed to welcome him and his fellow soldiers as liberators. The war on New Liberty threatens to destroy him. Not just in body. Also in spirit.Grieving for lost comrades, demoralized by harrowing combat, Tomas must learn what he needs to survive.Because soon, with the fates of thousands of his fellow soldiers in the balance, he will face his war's ultimate challenge.Take the Shilling is the first book in The Confederated Worlds series.

As a girl, Portia Oakeshott dreamed of caring for the reconstructed dinosaurs roaming the preserve near the south pole of her balmy home planet, New New South Wales.As a graduate from the planet's top veterinary school and a recent hire by the dinosaur preserve, caring for dinosaurs brings Portia into conflict with land-coveting ranchers, spoiled teenagers, villainous millionaires, religious fanatics, and scheming politicians.Her adventures take her from the "big smoke" to the "back of Bourke"-from the bustling city of Port Bounty, across a continent of vast fields where farmers raise pigs containing cloned human organs, to the lush Cretaceous forests where dinosaurs roam at the bottom of a world.

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.Includes stories Riddlepigs and the Cryla, Minnie and the Trekker, A Fistful of Monopoles, and Return Blessing, and speculative fact article The Believers Shall Inherit the Solar System, all previously published in Analog magazine.==========Want to learn more about science fiction author Raymund Eich? Here's a Q&A to tell you more about this distinctive voice in new science fiction.First off: Raymund Eich. Am I spelling it correctly? And how do you pronounce it?That's the correct spelling. My immigrant parents split the difference between the Anglo-French Raymond and the German Raimund.My last name is pronounced with a long-i vowel sound, like both syllables in Einstein. The preferred consonant sound is a sh. Overall, one syllable, eye-sh.Tough to pronounce, and also tough to spell. I've seen Elch, Einch, Etch, Eitch, Iech, Eric, and Erich. The misspellings used to bother me, but I've grown philosophical about them.What are some of your publishing credits?I've had short stories published in Analog science fiction and fact magazine and the sci fi anthology Surviving Tomorrow. And over a dozen novels and six short story collections are available as ebooks and paperback books, and some also as audiobooks.A lot of writers focus on particular subgenres. I go wherever the muse takes me. Military sci fi, exploration, colonization, aliens, no aliens... when I write a story I go on the same journey my reader takes, from Middle America to the ends of the Universe.Final question. Science fiction, sci fi, SF, speculative fiction, or spec fic?Is it an adventure on future Earth, an exploration of a distant planet, a discovery beyond the limits of human knowledge, or a journey across deep space? Then I'll read it. The genre fiction label doesn't matter.

"When Man goes to the stars, he'll bring a ball with him."Hit the court, tee off, and play ball in these five short stories about future sports.-Going into the baseball season's final game, he could be the first player in a century to hit .400. Thanks to his genetically engineered eyes.-The basketball coach needs to turn underachieving stars into a winning team. The franchise's new owner, a big pharma tycoon, gives him a new invention in "team chemistry."-In the twilight of his career, the powercrosse star signs with the perennial power for his last best shot at a championship. But jetting after the ball in zero gee, will he pay the price of winning at all costs?-His bitter rival challenges him to a golf match. The stakes? A holy relic. The course location? On the Moon.-The ultimate flying disc team on an alien planet faces one challenge. Win or go "home." To an Earth the young team has never seen. Will an unexpected coach help them, or ruin their chances?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.

Concordia's mission reflected the best of the human race. Crew and scientists from both of Earth's rival factions journeyed for years at relativistic speeds to reach Bravo Charlie, a life-bearing planet orbiting Alpha Centauri B, to expand the frontiers of knowledge for all.Concordia's mission also reflected humanity at its worst. Corrupt bureaucrats and ambitious political leaders in both factions maintained a status quo backed by weapons of mass destruction. The faction commanders on the mission each sought to seize advantages for their side alone.Then the ship received transmissions. Signs of an ancient alien presence buried on the planet.Sent to explore, Jaeger and McIlroy, born and raised in a Texas divided by razor wire and minefields. Men torn between the mission's ideals and orders from their faction commanders.When they discover the prize left by aliens dead over a million years, the future of the human race will change forever.

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.

In these pages, you can join-A mission to terraform a lifeless, rocky planetA private detective uncovering the ultimate crimeA woman called by an ex-boyfriend... who's been dead twenty yearsA President breaking his country's highest lawA star athlete discovering the true price of a championshipAnd enjoy five more tales, in the latest installment of the Complete Science Fiction Stories of Raymund Eich.

In a war of lies, the greatest weapon is truth. Azureseas A world of sandy beaches under a yellow-orange sun. Human developers could turn it into the next great tourist world of the Consortia... except for its large, dangerous native animals. Ross Cantrell joined the animal control mission on Azureseas to earn the money he needed to marry and start a life together with his girlfriend. Dirty work, but necessary to keep people safe. Like plinking tree cats back home. Then Ross discovers the truth about the planet's "animals." Cantrell's War His former plans no longer matter. Against high-tech soldiers, illicit brain-hackers, and the billionaires backing them both, he puts everything at risk. Money. Love. Even his own life. All to do the right thing for humans and aliens alike.

From tomorrow's Earth to distant suns, journey to worlds of wonder and adventurePASE DE UN D AChalo could teleport to the U.S. every day and work for a better life for his family-if he kept his day pass. AFFECTIVE DISORDERTexas PI Albert Jimenez found more than the usual when he investigated an heiress' "suicide."STRIKE PRICESAmer made a living providing "protection" against terrorist attacks. Then along came new competitors.TED WILLIAMS EYESCooper could bat .400 for the first time in a century. Could he keep his secret?THE ULTIMATE WAGERWin a game against your alien hosts or go "home"-to an Earth you've never seen.

Earth barely survived the 21st Century. Nuclear terrorism, civil war, and famine killed billions. Thousands fled on warpdrive ships to planets around distant suns.After the United Nations gained control over Earth, it opened wormholes to the colonies, to prevent a repeat of chaos on a galactic scale.Enter operative Stone Chalmers. Spy. Assassin. Instrument maintaining the UN's order on the galaxy. Opposing him are hostile forces on colony worlds... and within the UN itself.The Progress of MankindOn New Moravia, Stone's investigation of an operative's murder turns into a race against the clock to defeat rebels seeking to kill UN heads of state--and tens of thousands of colonists.The Greater Glory of GodOn Trinity, Stone and an unwanted partner must infiltrate a group of religious fanatics out to recover the ultimate prize: the last warpdrive ship outside UN control.