About Rick Raygunn

Heavy with action, adventure, and excitement as thousands of worlds with hundreds of aliens, are explored by plucky space heroes and heroines.

Lt. Rick Raygunn is a newly graduated member of Earth's Space Ranger Force. His first assignment finds him facing aliens, space pirates, and the mysterious psis. He is thrust into a galactic plot that threatens to dislodge the power of the Terran Federated Worlds.

I started writing Rick Raygunn in the fall of 1994, and in the interests of making an educational project out of it in addition to practice writing, I created this web site to host it. initially, the idea was to create web content that could be read in 10 to 15 minutes, end with a cliffhanger, and be published on a weekly schedule.

I was hoping, at the time, to market the Rick Raygunn serial as Value-Added Content. Much like movie houses used to offer weekly serials such as Flash Gordon or Phantom Empire, and cartoons as VAC, I was hoping that a web site would like to offer fresh weekly content to offer their readers.

Fate had a different direction for me however. The creation of the web site opened up opportunities for me to create web sites professionally for other companies, and led me into a high-tech career, where I currently work as a Build and Release engineer for a Boston-based software company.

I was never able to market the series to possible customers due to other commitments. Watching the web mature, I see that there is not much of a market for textual content. I shouldn't have been surprised, however. Such is the nature of the Internet, and we all know that Nature abhors a VAC.

Publication of the chapters became sporadic over the years, but this year (2001) I have made a concerted effort to finish the initial story planned for Rick Raygunn, and with editing and revision, present it as a completed work for eventual publication in book form.

- Ian A. Ralph