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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.

Earth barely survived the 21st Century.Now, in the 22nd, after reunifying under a single government, Earth has rediscovered the colony of Minerva. Prosperous and technologically advanced, Minerva quickly submits to Earth supremacy.Surprisingly quickly...On Minerva, while workers prepare to place a wormhole link to Earth, Stone infiltrates a secretive cult, and unearths a plot to shake to the core the foundations of the Earth government's power over all human worlds.And shake Stone to his own core as well.

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.Undercover on Trinity, Stone and his unwanted partner must earn the trust of religious fanatics who will stop at nothing to find the last warpdrive ship. A ship that, if sent on a suicide mission, could devastate Earth.A ship, but who will fly it?

"[A] thriller-style science fiction tale that's a quick and fun read.... A good start to a promising series." - Sfreader.comEarth barely survived the 21st Century.To maintain order in the 22nd, the UN forces undesirables through artificial wormholes onto colony planets. Everyone benefits... except the planets' original colonists.Now, the newly rediscovered colony of New Moravia knows the UN's plan and fights back.UN operative Stone Chalmers-spy, killer, seducer-travels to New Moravia. Armed with a small arsenal and a cover story hypnotically implanted in his mind, can Stone defeat the rebel colonists before tens of thousands die?

A thousand years from now, while Earth sleeps in virtual reality, three polities-the Confederated Worlds, the Unity, and the Progressive Republic-strive to connect the scattered, terraformed worlds of humankind by artificial wormholes. When they meet, they clash, in a decades-long struggle of arms that will embroil every human world, in which dedication to duty liberates worlds-and oneself.The first three novels in The Confederated Worlds series are now available in one volume.TAKE THE SHILLINGThe Confederated Worlds implanted in his brain the skills to make him a soldier. Tomas had to learn for himself how to survive interstellar war.OPERATION IAGOThe Confederated Worlds lost the war. Can Lt. Tomas Neumann win the peace against elusive, deceptive foes out to turn the Confederated Worlds against itself?A BODYGUARD OF LIESAssigned to the halls of power, only Capt. Tomas Neumann can save the Confederated Worlds from the ultimate treachery.

From tundra to desert, from prairies to rainforests, the trade routes of Ganelerdos converge at Sparrenfor, Larpektis, Enelarmos, and Torg-ra-Honnet-the Merchant Cities. Fair exchange offers prosperity to the creative and industrious, both human and elemental... and unearned riches to the ambitious and greedy.Scorned by his father, mocked by his older brother, Woldirek Hansar rides with a caravan into a desolate wasteland. He emerges with a bold plan to make House Hansar the most prosperous family in the Merchant Cities. A plan transforming the continent of Ganelerdos forever.Full of magical creatures, intrigue, battles, and true love, A River Through Earth brings readers into a fully realized fantasy world.

A king inclined contrary to nature.A foreign-born queen confined to the palace.A kingdom desperately needing an heir.Two courtiers ask Keladon, retired battlemage and the king's bastard half-brother, to impregnate the queen. His sense of duty to the kingdom sends him to her bedchamber, where he finds Queen Lilera to be a woman of both beauty and intellect, deserving a far better fate.But secretly fathering the heir to the throne is just the beginning. Under attack from all sides, Keladon must battle a conspiracy of magic and murder threatening the kingdom's survival - and the woman he comes to love.

Decades ago, cooperating as members of the Apostolic League of Earth Communities of Spirit-ALECS-Darren, Purcell, Nesbitt, and Juliette-came to Elard to share their messages of spiritual and social uplift with the planet's primitive, fractious natives. Under the scorching rays of Elard's fiery sun, their friendship dissolved into illicit affairs and an unexplained disappearance.Darren returns to Elard for one final mission. In only thirty days, he must solve mysteries buried in the planet's vast desert-and hidden in a woman's heart.

"Military science fiction [concentrating] on the psychology and politics of societies in conflict."-Analog, on the Confederated Worlds seriesThe Confederated Worlds implanted in his 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 Confederated Worlds military-promised both.But despite the soldier's skills implanted in his brain, combat still threatened to destroy him, in body and in spirit. Grieving for lost comrades, demoralized by a spiral of atrocities, could Tomas learn what he needed to survive, before facing his war's ultimate challenge?

"Military science fiction [concentrating] on the psychology and politics of societies in conflict."-Analog, on the Confederated Worlds seriesThe Confederated Worlds lost the war. Can Lt. Tomas Neumann win the peace?By the terms of the peace treaty, the citizens of the planet Arden will vote to stay in the Confederated Worlds or join the victorious Progressive Republic.Newly-minted Lieutenant Tomas Neumann leads his overstretched and demoralized Confederated Worlds Ground Force platoon in a mission that pushes men and machines to their limits, against elusive, deceptive foes out to tilt Arden to the Progressive Republic-and turn the Confederated Worlds against itself.

Join a double agent seeking to free Earth from alien tyranny. A Red Army pursuing the retreating Germans-across Transylvania. A mission to gather helium from the photosphere of the sun. A scientist who sees the last thing she expects: Christ's empty tomb.A distinctive voice in science fiction guides you on ten voyages to the asteroid belt, the coding regions of DNA, and the complexities of the human psyche. Includes Selling Short, The Imitation of Christ, The van der Rohe Forgery, La Rubia, On the Road to Sibiu, The White Witch of Bendugu, Katalysis' Heart, Nine Views of Transco Tower by Iak/Sohu, Mike Fink Goes to Big Bend, and The Evidence of Things Seen.

He must break a tyrant.Because he made the tyrant.Nuclear terrorism destroyed Washington DC. Extremists with 3d printers turned basements into gun factories.To restore order out of chaos, the American people turned to presidential candidate Everton. Then they looked away from the secret prisons and domestic military ops Everton authorized as president.When a member of the resistance contacts Clay Shieffer, brain science entrepreneur, Clay refuses to believe what he hears. But he unearths evidence that leaves no doubt. Everton used one of Clay's inventions to brainwash voters into giving him the presidency.Clay must reveal the truth. A truth to tip the country from tyranny back to freedom. No matter the wedge his efforts drive between him and his business partner. Between him and his wife. No matter the soldiers and secret policemen hot on Clay's trail, dedicated to suppressing the truth at all costs.Thrown out of comfort and into desperate flight, Clay's only chance lies in mysterious new allies... and experimental technology from his brain science lab.

"I'm reminded of Poul Anderson's Dominic Flandry series, or more recently, Kristine Kathryn Rusch's Anniversary Day saga."-AnalogAssigned to the halls of power, only Capt. Tomas Neumann can save the Confederated Worlds from the ultimate treachery.After bold action brings him the favor of the Confederated Worlds' new president, Tomas finds himself in an arena more dangerous than combat: Politics.Battling assassins, spies, and pervasive surveillance, Tomas discovers a shocking secret. A desperate mission takes him from luxurious temples to secret police brain scanning chambers. Could he prevent the destruction of the Confederated Worlds, or would he die trying?