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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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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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"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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Americans under the thumb of interplanetary Russians.Can they strike a blow for solar system freedom? Andrew wanted a new start, far from a fallen USA under foreign hegemony. The American colony on a moon of Jupiter needed nuclear power technicians like him. To get there, he must journey for months on board a Russian ship. Not alone. Locked in with fellow American colonists who proclaim the New Covenant, just like him. But soon he discovers they worship...
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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...
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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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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 rival entrepreneurs eager to disrupt his highly profitable industry.From rival entrepreneurs who hit very close to home.
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Skeptical spacejock Landry Krieger knows exactly how to smuggle the "reborn" spiritual leader of an oppressed people past their conquerors... but the boy's priests-and governess-shake up his orderly plans.
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...
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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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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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A captain, a commissar, and the ultimate crisis at 0.99c: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...
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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 the 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...
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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,...
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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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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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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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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.
19) Invasion 2132
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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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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...