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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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

Ross Cantrell joins the animal control mission on Azureseas to earn the money he needs to start married life with his girlfriend.The tourist corporations pay well. The psych technicians keep his brain focused. Neutralizing the large, dangerous native lifeforms is dirty work, but necessary to keep people safe. Like plinking tree cats back home.Then Ross learns the truth about the planet's "animals."He knows what he must do. Go back to the planet and help the intelligent natives get the compensation they deserve. Even if it costs all the money he saved. Even if it costs him his girlfriend.Even if it costs him his life.Back on Azureseas, xenophobic soldiers patrol the lush countryside. Ruthless psych hackers improve their brainwashing techniques. On distant Earth, corrupt billionaires pull the strings.And Ross must forge an alliance with natives convinced he's their enemy...

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 D├ìAChalo 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 pass the test of English fluency to prove himself a U.S. citizen. So did others willing to cheat.  AFFECTIVE DISORDERTexas PI Albert Jimenez found more than the usual when he investigated an heiress'' "suicide."

After New California's founder committed suicide, two men vied to rule the colony. Ashwin George, supported by the colony's elite and Tián Quán, the Chinese company whose hyperdrive ships and intelligent robots dominated half the settled galaxy. Desmond Park, nanotechnology engineer, armed with a shrewd intellect, the loyalty of the colony's disaffected youth, and the most formidable weapon of all.A single idea.

When Melanchthon arrived at the dim red star after a forty-year journey, Theodore awoke from suspended animation eager to implement the Lutheran Interstellar Terraforming Society's plan to transform a barren rocky world into New Augsburg, a refuge for faith and life.A challenging plan: move an icy asteroid billions of miles, quickly convert the asteroid into new seas and a breathable atmosphere for the rocky world, then seed the surface with life. Yet Theodore felt confident in his team's ability to complete the mission.A challenging plan, made more challenging by other members of his own expedition.

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 seenand 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 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, Eric, 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.

Earth barely survived the 21st Century.Now, in the 22nd, the unified Earth government controls all human colonies scattered through the galaxy by means of wormholes, warpdrive ships, and ruthless operatives. Operatives working to strengthen Earth's iron grip.Or destroy it.Back on Earth after his mission to Minerva, Stone must make contact with a government insider playing a double game. If he succeeds, he will bring to fruition a plan months in the making across thousands of light-years.A plan that will transform Earth and every human world forever.