Richard Raab
Richard Raab writes contemporary speculative fiction: stories where something impossible arrives in an ordinary life, and the people left standing have to live with what it costs.
Short stories
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Truth or Consequences
A short story
A new CEO opens her first staff meeting with an icebreaker — truth or consequences — and the consequences are lethal.
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The Nightjar Motel
A short story
Every night Jeff wakes in Room 4 of the Nightjar Motel, and the clock on the nightstand says 3:47. Every night the red sign over the office goes dark, and what comes dragging up the row of doors is Del, the stranger in the next room he wouldn’t let in on his first night.
In revision
The Nightjar Motel In revision
Novels
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The Reactor trilogy A speculative trilogy
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The Reactor
The Reactor trilogy · Book One
Physicist Mark Green spent ten years building a fusion reactor with the best friend who pulled him back from the edge after his parents died. On the morning of its make-or-break test, someone sabotaged the machine, sealed the exits and left him inside. His last thought, as the light took him, was Good.
Full manuscripts are available to agents and editors on request.
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Metamorphosis
The Reactor trilogy · Book Two
Tim Zimmer has been legally dead for two years. He let his family grieve him. He let his best friend grieve him. In the meantime he built SuperNova, a nightclub with no name on the door that moves from city to city. People find it because someone brings them, and inside, marvels can stop hiding for a night.
Full manuscripts are available to agents and editors on request.
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Spiral
The Reactor trilogy · Book Three
Aimee Rodriguez is pregnant, and the man now running Arcadia has decided her child cannot be allowed to exist.
Full manuscripts are available to agents and editors on request.
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What the River Keeps
The Owashtanong series · Book One
David has lived beside the Grand River his whole life. He has crossed it twice a day for years and never once, in thirty-seven years, wondered why. The river has been wondering about him for much longer.
Currently in editing
Full manuscripts are available to agents and editors on request.
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The Deepest Water
The Owashtanong series · Book Two
Alex is nineteen, and she is fine. Fine is a skill, and she has it.
Full manuscripts are available to agents and editors on request.
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The One Who Listens
The Owashtanong series
Cam has been gone six days when his roommate Eric knocks on his door, and then opens it.
Full manuscripts are available to agents and editors on request.
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Standalone novels
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Augment
Book One of a series
The house was there and then it wasn’t.
Full manuscripts are available to agents and editors on request.
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Gatekeeper
A novel
For eight years Angela has been a pair of hands. At the Project’s dig on the far side of the only wormhole humans have ever built, she cleans and catalogues what a vanished civilization left behind, and she leaves the theories to other people. She survived cancer at eleven, and she still takes inventory of her body every morning.
Full manuscripts are available to agents and editors on request.
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Attune
A near-future technothriller romance
First you thought of it. Then you saw the ad. Nile wants to switch the order.
In progress
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Going Under The Reviah Project series
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Going Under
The Reviah Project · Book One
Atticus Morin is a covert agent on the Planc, the platform city built over drowned Manhattan. He survived the bombing that killed his two partners, and his new assignment, a dead-end black-market case, was meant as a vacation.
Full manuscripts are available to agents and editors on request.
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The jackets of The Deepest Water, The One Who Listens, Augment, Gatekeeper, Attune, Going Under, Truth or Consequences and The Nightjar Motel were drawn for this page.
About Richard Raab
Richard Raab lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he works in cybersecurity and systems administration. The work keeps him thinking about how institutions use information to control the people inside them, and that question finds its way into most of what he writes.
The Thousand-Year Rain
A novella in progress
An unofficial hard-SF prequel to Waterworld. One family, forty-eight generations, and the depot that drowned the world.
Enter The Thousand-Year RainContact
Full manuscripts are available to agents and editors on request.