In these pages, you can join–

• A mission to terraform a lifeless, rocky planet
• A private detective uncovering the ultimate crime
• A woman called by an ex-boyfriend… who’s been dead twenty years
• A President breaking his country’s highest law
• A star athlete discovering the true price of a championship

–and enjoy five more tales, in the latest installment of the Complete Science Fiction Stories of Raymund Eich.

The Electrotelepathic Community bound Henri to the Unity and brought news of the Unity's many victories against its galactic rival, the Tiánquán. Henri's son Luc, only six years old, remained disconnected from the Electrotelepathic Community.

A secret clinic, engaged in illicit cloning experiments for the benefit of a global elite. Yet even more disturbing: his encounter with the clinic's proprietress....

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Fakes. Johan's newly purchased antique Barcelona chairs came fresh from an asteroid factory, not from the prior century on distant Earth. Facing his wife's anger, risking their friends' scorn, could he use an interplanetary crisis to turn the tables—and chairs?

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At the start of the basketball season, Coach Huffman expected the usual from his St. Louis Spiders—bickering stars and missed playoffs. The team's new owner, a pharmaceutical tycoon, planned to turn things around by giving new meaning to "team chemistry."

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After Marcus joined 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, forces from the moons of Jupiter, hunted and destroyed helium haulers ...

Everyone remembers President Fletcher's assassination. Most remember his murderer, one of millions of underemployed young men in a world run by the unaging, took First Lady Miranda Fletcher's college course on violent regime change...

A billion Third Worlders wanted to work in the United States. As a lucky holder of a daypass, Chalo had the opportunity to teleport to his job, unless he overstayed his shift. Or lost his daypass.

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?

His position as a secret agent for the Ramuhlruus, Earth's alien overlords, gave him the perfect cover to conspire against them. But could he meet his contact before the Ramuhlruus uncovered his secret agenda?