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A powerful alien ship. Heading to Earth. Intent unknown.Bad, 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 ship comes to conquer...
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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....
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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 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,...
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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.
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Earth barely survived the 21st Century.Thousands fled the chaos on rogue warpdrive ships to settle colony planets. When Earth reunified in the 22nd, its fleets rediscovered the colonies and hunted down the warpdrive ships.Every warpdrive ship but one.Operative: Stone ChalmersCodename: HybridCover Story: Hypnotically implantedMission: Find and neutralize missing ship(Joint task force with ITB operative Caitlyn Fredriksen)Undercover on Trinity, Stone...
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IIn 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...
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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 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. Amid a forest of ferns and cycads, Portia learns a lesson never taught by her professors...
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A Writers of the Future semi-finalist A hard-boiled private eye meets a high-tech mystery, in this short story by the author of the Stone Chalmers interstellar espionage series A multi-millionaire heiress commits suicide after a biotech company implants an experimental treatment device in her brain. Her grieving, lawyer husband sues the company for millions more.
In comes a private investigator, ex-cop Albert Jimenez. Hired by the biotech company...
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A Writers of the Future honorable mention Chalo 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...
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"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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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From tomorrow's Earth to distant suns, journey to worlds of wonder and adventureFive stories named as Honorable Mention or Semi-Finalist by judges of the Writers of the Future contest 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. AFFECTIVE DISORDERTexas PI Albert Jimenez found more than the usual when he investigated an heiress' "suicide."STRIKE PRICESAmer made a living...
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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 Chalmers, Codename: Hybrid, Cover Story: Improvised, Mission: Feed false intelligence to aide of Secretary-GeneralBack in New York after his mission to Minerva, Stone...
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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....
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Earth barely survived the 21st-Century.
To maintain order in the 22nd, the UN relocates undesirables through artificial wormholes onto colony planets. Everyone benefits... except the planets' original colonists.
Now, the newly rediscovered colony of New Moravia learns the UN's plan and fights back.
Operative: Stone Chalmers
Codename: Hybrid
Cover Story: Hypnotically implanted and genetically engineered
Mission: Investigate death of operative Dragon
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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...
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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.
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Five science fiction stories about Mexicans and AmericansLA RUBIAHow 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 AMENDMENTGonzalo had to...