Bøger af Raymund Eich

A captain, a commissar, and the ultimate crisis at 0.99 c: If your propulsion system goes off-line, how can you slow down?After decades of service, Captain Aalund has one final mission: tow a wormhole to an enemy star system, then retire on a tropical beach.Until enemy action knocks out the tractor beam generator back home. Now, his ship can't slow down.Can he find a way to save his ship and crew from dying of old age in the depths of interstellar space?What will he do if one of his officers refuses?

An alien artist's works.A once-great city.The freedom of humankind.Decades ago, the Ramuhlruus ended the quarantine of Earth andinducted humankind into the galactic community. They offered peace, prosperity, virtual reality, and immortality to all humans... wealth andprivilege to a select few...In exchange for a billion years of stagnation.Now, a son of privilege returns to Earth. His position as a secretagent for the Ramuhlruus gives him the perfect cover to conspire againstthem. A set of famous images by alien artist Iak/Sohu give him locationsaround a once-great city to meet his contact.Can he find his contact, and give hope to the few human beings whostill seek adventure among the stars? Or will the Ramuhlruus and theirother agents uncover his secret agenda and erase his mind?

Three young men.One telekinetic power.How far will they push their luck?When my homey Jaymz said LeRoi-the weird guy who stares at his shoes through thick glasses-could make stuff move with his mind, I didn't believe him. I knew telekinesis wasn't real. But I got them into that street craps game, where everyone packs heat.I believed after that.I joined them on a trip to a real casino in Louisiana, where we kept gold diggers from clawing their way into our growing stack of chips.But nothing-I mean, nothing-prepared us for the high-roller tables out in Vegas.

The kind of man she'd been taught to fear.Her only chance to choose a life for herself.Hiding behind a tank of molten uranium salts, Iphigenia's chewed fingernails gripped the radiation shielding and her dark eyes watched the man she both craved and feared to talk to.Inside the dock, the spacejock did maintenance work on his ship. His oval face clashed with his haircut, buzzed on the sides and long enough on top for his brown hair to float like seaweed. Wiry mustache and beard. Cargo pants and multi-pocket vest over a threadbare T-shirt. Not handsome, not at all.But she didn't care about his looks. The way he would care about hers, if he saw her.The spacejock was about to round the curve of his hull out of her sight when her fingers lost their grip on the shielding. She shifted her grip to her other hand. Soundlessly. She thought.Without turning his gaze away from his ship, the spacejock said across the echoing space, "Are you going to show yourself?"

A Writers of the Future honorable mentionChalo had a chance to work hard and build a better life for his family. As a lucky holder of a pase de un día, a day pass, every morning he could teleport from his impoverished town in Mexico to a job in the United States.A billion other people from the world's poor countries wanted his job. But they could only get it if he didn't teleport home before the final second of his 12 hour shift.Or if he lost his day pass.

Asteroid colony dwellers Johan and his wife, Andrea, scored the ultimate bargain: Barcelona chairs, designed by historically famous architect Mies van der Rohe and built over a century ago and hundreds of millions of miles away on Earth. Their friends would envy them........until an appraiser told them the Barcelona chairs were fakes. Assembled by nanotechnology and falsely certified as antiques. Worthless.Never mind the money they'd spent. Far worse, the shame they'd feel when their friends found out.Against a backdrop of an interplanetary crisis, could Johan find a way to turn the tables-and chairs?

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.Jaysen Tkachenko-the best active player to never win a championship-left his long-time team, the Miners, for the powerhouse Pterodactyls and his last good chance to win it all.But when he faces his old team in the finals, he discovers there are more important things than winning a trophy at all costs.You'll love this science fiction sports story about a star athlete who becomes a better man.Get it now.

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.Risks? Yes. I'd seen men die horrible deaths from alien nano. But the rewards could be worth it.And I had nothing to worry about.I knew Barnet had my back.====================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, 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.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.

Another day at the office for Ursula. Until bad boy Ranger, her first boyfriend, called. He hadn't talked to her in years.Because he was dead.He told an unbelievable story. About making things right. And a buried fortune at a place they both knew well.A hoax. Obviously. Though who else ever called her bodacious?Was that why she checked satellite images of the place, and shopped for a shovel and a metal detector?And if she dug up a buried fortune, what then?

"Now that I am dead, I can tell you everything about my husband's assassination."Love him or hate him, we all remember President Fletcher's assassination. Most of us remember his murderer came from the millions of young men denied opportunities in a world run by elites with medically-extended lifespans.Many of us remember the assassin had taken First Lady Miranda Fletcher's college course on coups, assassinations, and other violent regime change.Now, mere hours after her death, one of us will learn the secret she took to her grave.

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 technology to the world? Or would shadowy forces defeat them all?

Her most bitter foe.Her colony's only hope?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.

Journey 14,000 miles to a high-tech fountain of youthWith advanced biomedicine banned in the United States, rich and powerful Americans traveled to India to extend their lifespans and augment their bodies and minds.So too did Americans who wanted their fair share. Middle-class, middle-aged Americans like Liam Kleinschmidt and his wife.But traveling 14,000 miles to a tropical medical resort proved the easy part.Wonder and dread combine in a near future tale of vast medical opportunities... and shadowy figures out to hoard those opportunities for themselves.

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.Now, as a volcanic eruption devastates the preserve, company headquarters orders her 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.

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.Not from disgruntled clients.Not from Federal regulators.From entrepreneurs eager to disrupt his highly profitable industry.

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, 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.Can Portia face down the fanatics' leader, or will the opposition triumph?

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."But even if all the Spiders' players took a drug promoting player cooperation, their arch-rivals, the Netrunners, would use every trick to repeat as league champions.

Enter an alternate history, where in 1916, the guns of the Great War fell silent.Now, in the 1920s, a veteran of the trenches struggles to build a lasting peace......while against him scheme the merchants of death.Equipped only with tact, cleverness, fluency in French, and a Luger pistol, Fritz Bauer arrives in Paris on a highly secret mission.Many a young prince has journeyed to the City of Light to receive instruction in the arts of love.But when that young prince is the German emperor's grandson......French public opinion seethes over ignoble defeat......and publicity of the prince's visit could topple the French government, or drive an assassin to spark another round of devastation and mass slaughter...Millions of lives rely on Fritz and his talents.In Paris, he must forge uneasy alliances with both his counterparts in French intelligence and the young prince's hostess. Only with their help can he play and win a dangerous game in the shadows.Someone wants another Great War.Who?And can Fritz and his temporary allies find and stop the enemies of peace before time runs out?

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.

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 Coronado survive the photosphere of the sun? Could the ship sell its valuable cargo in time? Most of all, could Marqus prove he belonged on board to the rest of the crew-and to himself?

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 interest when they saw settlers playing ultimate flying disc, and the aliens loved to gamble. They offered to cancel the tax-if the settlers could beat them at the game.Now, Connor and a team from the settlement journey to the thick air of the planet's lowlands, into a crowded alien city, with one mission: win or go "home"-to an Earth the young team had never seen.

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.

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 vast desert. And reveal the hidden agenda of the only woman I ever loved.A woman loyal to violent forces who'll do whatever it takes to stop me from finding the truth.-Previously published as The ALECS Quartet by Raymund Eich

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.