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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 adventu...

After the human exploration ship Bascom Hall crash-landed on the Hspa Nki's homeworld, the aliens allowed the survivors to settle on a high plateau with air too thin for the aliens-but just right for humans. For decades, the two races lived apart but at peace.When a ship from Earth blazed through the skies, the Hspa Nki journeyed up to the plateau and demanded a retroactive land tax the settlers could not pay. But the aliens took a keen intere...

After Marqus escaped the constricting Afrocentric culture of his home habitat and 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 around the solar system. Forces who might control a spy onboard Coronado.Could...

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 speculati...

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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. Now, I return to Elard. Older, yes. Wiser? I hope. I've got only thirty days to solve mysteries buried in the planet's vas...

A powerful alien ship. Heading to Earth. Intent unknown. Bad enough, mission control lost contact with the interstellar explorers on Concordia. Worse, mission control now 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. Leclerc, head of mission control, knows what he must do. If the s...

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 ...

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 ...

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 o...

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.

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 plinkin...

From tomorrow's Earth to distant suns far in the future, journey to worlds of wonder and adventure in five stories named semifinalist or honorable mention by the judges of the Writers of the Future contest.

Five science fiction stories about Mexicans and AmericansLA RUBIA How far will Francisca go to protect her colony of Mexican refugees from pirates roving the asteroid belt? PASE DE UN DÍAChalo 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 BENDCharacters from American, Mexican, and Native folklore meet in west Texas in the 21st century. THE THIRTIETH AMENDMENTGonzal...

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 worl...

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.The Twenty-Eighth AmendmentPresident Archer faced a Middle East crisis. The audio-visual recording crew following his every pub...

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Solitary spacejock Landry Krieger eked out a living transporting data throughout the Settled Galaxy-and boosted his income by smuggling people into and out of star systems past the watchful eyes of governments, in hiding places he built in his ship, Midnight Angel. When the priests of Tao Pacem sought his services, he resisted. Brown robes? Yin-yang symbols? A plan to sneak the reincarnation of their spiritual leader to their conquered homewor...

Earth barely survived the 21st Century.Now, in the 22nd, after unifying Earth, the UN controls all human colonies scattered through the galaxy by means of wormholes, warpdrive ships, and ruthless operatives. Operatives working to strengthen the UN.Or destroy it. Operative: Stone ChalmersCodename: HybridCover Story: ImprovisedMission: Feed false intelligence to aide of Secretary-General Back in New York after his mission to Minerva, Stone must ...

A thousand years from now, while Earth sleeps in virtual reality, three polities-the Confederated Worlds, the Unity, and the Progressive Republic-strive to connect the scattered, terraformed worlds of humankind by artificial wormholes. When they meet, they clash, in a decades-long struggle of arms that will embroil every human world, in which dedication to duty liberates worlds-and oneself.The first three novels in The Confederated Worlds seri...