In these pages, you can... ...race against time to solve mysteries hidden in a planet's vast desert—and in a woman's heart ...learn the true story of a president's assassination ...journey 14,000 miles to a high-tech fountain of youth...win or go "home"—to an Earth you've never seen... and explore six other worlds created by a distinctive voice in twenty-first century science fiction. ========== 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 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.
Raymund Eich files patent applications, earned a Ph.D., won a national quiz bowl championship, writes science fiction, and affirms Robert Heinlein's dictum that specialization is for insects.
In a typical day, he may talk with biochemists, electrical engineers, patent attorneys, and rocket scientists. Hundreds of papers cite his graduate research on the reactions of nitric oxide with heme proteins.
His novels include the Stone Chalmers series of wormhole espionage adventures—THE PROGRESS OF MANKIND, THE GREATER GLORY OF GOD, TO ALL HIGH EMPRISE CONSECRATED, and IN PUBLIC CONVOCATION ASSEMBLED—the Confederated Worlds military science fiction series—TAKE THE SHILLING, OPERATION IAGO, and A BODYGUARD OF LIES—and evolutionary psychology hard science fiction novel NEW CALIFORNIA.
He lives in Houston with his wife, son, and daughter.