Raymund EichScience fiction and fantasy - from Middle America to the ends of the UniverseHi ,Maybe I'm showing my age, but my strongest memory of the phrase April showers bring May flowers is a Looney Tunes cartoon featuring Bugs Bunny. (Kids, believ...
From the VaultNew CaliforniaThis is one of my earlier novels, originally published in 2012. It's the first of my novels to reflect the idea that, because space travel is and will remain relatively very expensive, space colonies can't pay for themselv...
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Raymund EichScience fiction and fantasy - from Middle America to the ends of the UniverseHi ,The calendar says it's still winter, but around Houston, spring has definitely sprung. You can tell by the oak pollen piling up on cars and firing up everyon...
A new interplanetary science fiction short story is available today. Sputniki Yupitera (Russian for “the moons of Jupiter”) is available in ebook everywhere, print single at Amazon (or use ISBN 9798877315204), and digitally-narrated audio (at play.go...
No matter how good your day is, getting contributor copies from Analog magazine only make it better. My story “Paytron of the Arts” is in the January/February 2024 issue, on newsstands now. You should be able to find it at the Barnes & Noble on G...
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After a long and winding discussion of the Fermi Paradox, we concluded there are 0.5 high tech civilizations in the galaxy today. (For the sake of human ego, we’ll round that up to 1). In other words, we’re alone in the galaxy. Oh, there are plenty o...
In a blog post from a few years back, speculating about the Fermi Paradox, I discussed why the percentage of intelligent life-forms that develop high-tech civilization you can see across interstellar distances might be very low. (There’s a whole seri...
Questions of meaning and purpose, for societies and individuals, abound in my latest published story. Iphigenia of Khufu is available now in ebook (only 99c) and print single ($7.99, ISBN 979-8856743158). The colonists of the asteroid Khufu, and colo...
Musician and businessman Jimmy Buffet died the other day, aged 76. Beneath the beach-bum vibe there’s a lot to learn from his life and work. “Margaritaville,” of course Start with his most famous song. “Margaritaville” is a great piece of lyric writi...
You might have read some of my science fiction sports stories, either as standalone short stories or collected in Galactic Olympics. One of the themes that my sports stories explore is the tension between love of the game and love of money. College f...
A nice little ego boost came my way this week. In the May 2023 issue of Locus, short fiction reviewer Karen Bunham called my story “Aalund’s Final Mission” in the March/April Analog “a solid entry” and “the climax is well done.” Only two stories from...
My wife recently listened to a podcast that talked about dimensions of the human psyche. That sounds heavy, I know, but it’s lighter than it sounds. One of the dimensions it talked about was whether people view the world as an interesting place or a...
Analog is the highest-circulation and longest-lived science fiction magazine on the market today. Its first editor of note, John W. Campbell, channelized much of what we think of as traditional science fiction, publishing authors like Robert Heinlein...
