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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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"Military science fiction [concentrating] on the psychology and politics of societies in conflict." -Analog, on the Confederated Worlds series
The Confederated Worlds implanted in Tomas' brain the skills to make him a soldier.
He had to learn for himself how to survive interstellar war.
Tomas Neumann sought escape from his backwater planet and overbearing mother, and a mentor to replace his long-dead father. "Taking the shilling"-enlisting in the...
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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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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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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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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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Earth barely survived the 21st Century.
Now, in the 22nd, after unifying Earth, the UN has rediscovered the colony of Minerva. Prosperous and technologically advanced, Minerva quickly submits to UN supremacy.
Surprisingly quickly...Operative: Stone Chalmers Codename: Hybrid Cover Story: Hypnotically implanted Mission: Investigate newly-rediscovered colony worldOn Minerva, while workers prepare to place a wormhole link to Earth, Stone infiltrates...
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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.
17) 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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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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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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