Other fiction

Something impossible arrives in an ordinary life.

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

Truth or Consequences
A new CEO opens her first staff meeting with an icebreaker — truth or consequences — and the consequences are lethal.

5,927 words · about 26 minutes
The Nightjar Motel
In revision

Novels

1. Book One
  
  The Reactor
  Read Chapter Ten
2. Book Two
  
  Metamorphosis
3. Book Three
  
  Spiral
The Reactor

A speculative trilogy

The Reactor trilogy

Read Chapter Ten
1. Book One
  
  What the River Keeps
  Currently in editing
2. Book Two
  
  The Deepest Water
3. The One Who Listens
What the River Keeps

The Owashtanong series
Currently in editing

The Owashtanong series
Going Under

The Reviah Project series
Read an excerpt

Jackets for the Owashtanong books and Going Under drawn for this page.

Contact

Full manuscripts are available to agents and editors on request.

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Also on this site The Thousand-Year Rain An unofficial hard-SF prequel to Waterworld. One family, forty-eight generations, and the depot that drowned the world. Enter