Raymund Eich files patent applications, earned a Ph.D., won a national quiz bowl championship, writes science fiction and fantasy, and affirms Robert Heinlein's dictum that specialization is for insects.
In a typical day, he may talk with university biology and science communication faculty, silicon chip designers, patent attorneys, epileptologists, and rocket scientists. Hundreds of papers cite his graduate research on the reactions of nitric oxide with heme proteins.
He lives in Houston with his wife, son, and daughter.
In an artificial world whose inhabitants used advanced neurotechnology to implant skills and habits in playing status games, Pavel trumped all his friends by making himself believe in Christianity. But whether true or false, his new faith wielded a power over Pavel's mind neither he nor his friends expected....
Asteroid colony dwellers Johan and his wife, Andrea, scored the ultimate bargain: Barcelona chairs, designed by historically famous architect Mies van der Rohe and built over a century ago and hundreds of millions of miles away on Earth. Their friends would envy them....
....until an appraiser told them the Barcelona chairs were fakes.
Romania. August 1944. The Red Army pursues the retreating Germans. Captain Khavanov's orders: occupy an old fortress on the road to Sibiu, to secure the Red Army's supply line.
In the fortress lived a frail old man. What about him drew the interest of a commissar from division headquarters? And why did Khavanov's men disappear one by one?
Galactic intrigue and a high-tech cult collide on a planet addicted to pleasure. After a colony world's founder commits suicide, two men battle for control.
Characters from American, Mexican, and Native folklore meet in southwestern Texas in the 21st century, in this whimsical fantasy by the author of NEW CALIFORNIA and the Confederated Worlds series.
After Marqus joined the Coronado's crew, the ship set off on a mission promising huge profits: harvesting helium from the sun to deliver to the Venus terraforming project. But the promise of profit existed because Venus' enemies hunted and destroyed helium haulers around the solar system. Enemies who might control a spy onboard the Coronado. A spy only Marqus could find and stop.
His position as a secret agent for the Ramuhlruus, Earth's alien overlords, gives him the perfect cover to conspire against them. But can he meet his contact before the Ramuhlruus uncover his secret agenda and erase his mind?
When the rebel leader liberated the town of Bendugu, he made a shocking discovery: a secret clinic, engaged in illicit cloning experiments for the benefit of a global elite. Yet even more disturbing was his encounter with the clinic's proprietress....
When a young scientist turns her new invention, the chronoscope, to 1st century Palestine, she finds the result she least expected--Jesus of Nazareth's empty tomb.