Chris Hechtl

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  • Bibliography:
    80 Books (15 Series)
  • First Book:
    November 2010
  • Latest Book:
    March 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Bootstrap Colony

1 - Bootstrap Colony (Nov-2010)
2 - Second Chances (Sep-2014)
3 - Regeneration (Dec-2022)
4 - Reboot (Mar-2023)

The Federation Reborn

1 - Battle Lines (Apr-2015)
2 - Pirate Rage (Dec-2015)
3 - Retribution (May-2016)
4 - The Gathering Storm (Aug-2017)
5 - The Turning Tide (Mar-2018)
6 - Liberty or Death (Aug-2018)
7 - Blockade (May-2019)
8 - Pirate Empress (Feb-2020)

The First Terran Interstellar War

1 - Desperate Defense (Mar-2017)
2 - Waking the Sleeping Giant (Apr-2017)

Founding of the Federation

1 - First Steps (Nov-2010)
2 - To Touch the Stars (Nov-2014)
3 - The First AI War (Nov-2015)
4 - Desperate Defense (Mar-2017)
5 - Waking the Sleeping Giant (Apr-2017)
6 - We the People (Jun-2019)
7 - The Hyperspace War (Aug-2019)

Horatio Logan Chronicles

1 - Enemy of my Enemy (Jul-2016)
2 - Court-Martial (Jun-2017)
3 - Full Circle (Sep-2018)
4 - The Pi Effect (Mar-2021)

Marines of the New Federation

1 - Semper Fidelis (Oct-2017)

Pirate Hunt

1 - Searching for a Needle (May-2021)
2 - Fortunes of War (Jan-2023)

Princess Rescue Inc

1 - Princess Rescue Inc (Sep-2013)
2 - Hostage Rescue (Nov-2019)
3 - Invasion (Dec-2021)

The Ragnarok Trilogy

1 - Sparks (Sep-2020)
2 - Inferno (Oct-2020)
2.5 - Wildfire (Nov-2020)
3 - Embers (Dec-2020)

The Shelby Logan Chronicles

1 - Convoy (Nov-2016)
2 - Shiver Me Timbers (Mar-2019)
3 - Diplomacy (Jul-2020)
4 - Parabellum (Sep-2021)
5 - Juggernaut (Jan-2022)
6 - Hold the Line (May-2022)
7 - Full Court Press (Sep-2022)

Tales from the Founding of the Federation

1 - Stepping Stones (Aug-2015)
2 - Cornerstone (Dec-2016)
3 - Loose Ends (Oct-2019)

Tales of the Reborn Federation

1 - Tales of the Federation Reborn 1 (Feb-2016)
2 - A Piece of the Pi (Nov-2017)

The Wandering Engineer

1 - New Dawn (Nov-2010)
2 - Fool's Gold (Aug-2011)
3 - Destiny's Choice (Jul-2012)
4 - Ghost Station (Mar-2013)
5 - Plague Planet (Jul-2013)
6 - Pirates Bane (Jan-2014)
7 - Ghosts from the Past (Jan-2015)

The Wandering Engineer: Jethro

1 - Jethro goes to war (Aug-2012)
2 - Jethro: First to Fight (Oct-2013)
3 - Jethro: No Place Like Home (Apr-2014)
4 - Recruiting Drive (Jun-2015)
5 - Gods of War (Oct-2016)
6 - Drop Commando (Apr-2020)

Wandering Engineer Comics

1 - Captain Sprite's History Lecture (Jul-2022)

Book List in Order: 80 titles

  • Bootstrap Colony

    Bootstrap Colony - 1

    Mitch Chambers wasn't the only person transported to survive on the new world. The Meme aliens transported thousands of other humans and animals from all over the Earth as well. Each group had their own idea on how to adapt, survive, and thrive. Mitc...

  • First Steps

    Founding of the Federation - 1

    Book 1 details the First Steps of the Irons family to kick start mankind to the stars. They and several heroes of future space flight take on and do the impossible, build a program to explore and settle the red planet in a very short time period. Alo...

  • New Dawn

    The Wandering Engineer - 1

    It it always darkest before the dawn. For 713 years the scattered survivors of the Xeno-Federation war have known this. Sol and the core star systems are gone. The scattered survivors on far flung worlds and space colonies must try to survive a unive...

  • Fool's Gold

    The Wandering Engineer - 2

    Fresh from his adventures with the crew of the Io11, Fleet Admiral Irons, aka the Wandering Engineer has a new challenge ahead of him. The Pyrax system is ripe for change. But first he has to get Anvil sorted out before he can really roll up his slee...

  • Destiny's Choice

    The Wandering Engineer - 3

    Fleet Admiral John Henry Irons woke from stasis to his next to worst nightmare 2 years ago. Civilization as he had known it was gone. The Xeno War had torn his beloved Federation apart. He didn't give up though, Irons persevered, rolling up his sle...

  • Jethro goes to war

    The Wandering Engineer: Jethro - 1

    When the wandering engineer was forced out of Pyrax he left a small but growing group of military officers and enlisted. These men, women, and non humans are determined to restore the Federation despite the corrupt politicians standing in their way. ...

  • Ghost Station

    The Wandering Engineer - 4

    After everything that has happened to Fleet Admiral Irons since he'd woken up from stasis after nearly 700 years after the last shots in the brutal Xeno War left Earth and civilization a memory... you'd think he couldn't go any lower. Smarting from h...

  • Plague Planet

    The Wandering Engineer - 5

    Things just weren't looking good for John Henry Irons, Fleet Admiral of the once mighty Federation of Sapient Planets, ever since his awakening five years ago he'd been through the ringer emotionally. First, finding his beloved civilization destroye...

  • Princess Rescue Inc

    Princess Rescue Inc - 1

    Eugene Ryans had it all. Money, fame, power. He had created a multibillion dollar company from almost nothing and turned Ryan's Future technology inc into one of the forefronts of technological innovation.He had it all, yet he gambled it all on a cra...



  • Jethro: First to Fight

    The Wandering Engineer: Jethro - 2

    First to Fight, one of the motto's of the marine corps carried over to the Federation Marines from long ago. To those not blooded in combat, it was just that, a motto. They were eager for war, despite the cost. But what kind of war? A war they ca...

  • 13 Degrees of Separation

    6 degrees of separation normally can be used to connect people or places. Here are 13 stories in the Wandering Engineer time period, all interconnected to the main story as well as to each other in some way....

  • Pirates Bane

    The Wandering Engineer - 6

    Fresh from fighting the ghost of a terrifying bioweapon On Epsilon Triangula, Fleet Admiral John Henry Irons has taken on a new task, to get to the fabled star system of Bek on the other side of the sector. But to do that the admiral must do what is ...

  • Afraid of the Dark

    When a rogue comet exploded mankind was awed by the fireworks in space. But the awe turned to fear and terror as the comet's contents rained down across the globe. Billions of pods scattered across the planet, shattering civilization overnight. Earth...

  • Jethro: No Place Like Home

    The Wandering Engineer: Jethro - 3

    Fresh from the liberation of Antigua, Firefly is recalled to face a potential attack on their home system of Pyrax. Not only are many of their friends and family in danger, but everything they had built up in the navy yards and training centers is in...

  • Multiverse 1

    Multiverse 1 is a collection of short stories (some very short) spanning Fantasy and Science Fiction written over the past fourteen years. The fantasy stories are Magical Audit about a school of student wizards, and Portal, a story of a magical w...

  • Second Chances

    Bootstrap Colony - 2

    Mitch Chambers wasn't the only person transported to survive on the new world. The Meme aliens transported thousands of other humans and animals from all over the Earth as well. Each group had their own idea on how to adapt, survive, and thrive. Mitc...

  • To Touch the Stars

    Founding of the Federation - 2

    Decades after Mario and Luigi Irons led mankind to settle the red planet a new family began to take center stage. Jack Lagroose, his wife Aurelia, his friends and family, and others like him work together and sometimes against each other as they try ...

  • Ghosts from the Past

    The Wandering Engineer - 7

    Fleet admiral John Henry Irons has been busy. After waking in the Senka system he has crisscrossed the system, having a series of adventures and ups and downs along the way. He's made some new friends and met old ones. He has also made some powerf...

  • Multiverse 2

    11 short stories of Fantasy, Science Fiction and somewhere in between. From genetic engineering to sweeping space drama, to the whimsical Santa Brigade. Here is a second collection of short stories from various universes including 4 new Federation st...



  • Battle Lines

    The Federation Reborn - 1

    Fleet Admiral John Henry Irons mission to the secret Lemnos facility that changed his life was what some would call, a success. But he returned changed, he had lost one of his AI to rampancy after fighting an Xeno AI Wraith, and his greatest AI, his ...

  • Recruiting Drive

    The Wandering Engineer: Jethro - 4

    Jethro McClintock had a rough time in Pyrax. It hadn't been the pleasant homecoming some had imagined. Far from it. He and the remainder of his squad had returned home with Firefly's convoy in triumph, sure. They had garnered in a wave of change...

  • Stepping Stones

    Tales from the Founding of the Federation - 1

    Jack Lagroose's origins. The beginnings of modern Artificial Intelligence and how they evolved. Misadventures in Genetic engineering... here are those stories and more broadening the Founding of the Federation right up until the opening The First A.I...

  • The First AI War

    Founding of the Federation - 3

    The First A.I. War On August 4th, 2200 civilization in the Sol star system changed forever. A hacker unleashed a virus of unprecedented power and malevolent intelligence to insidiously take over Earth's electronic network. But sapient life was n...

  • Pirate Rage

    The Federation Reborn - 2

    Pieces of the Federation are starting to come together. Star systems are joining the alliance, if only in self defense against the Horathian Pirates. Civilization and the fruits of modern medicine, education, and industry are starting to take root al...

  • Tales of the Federation Reborn 1

    Tales of the Reborn Federation - 1

    The Bismark Incident. El Diablo, Catch 22. These and 8 other stories expanding the universe of the Reborn Federation for the first time. See some of the darkness that inhabits the Horathian empire in Gladiator Pit and the efforts the natives of Epsil...

  • Retribution

    The Federation Reborn - 3

    The Xeno War devastated the Milky Way galaxy over 7 centuries ago. Worlds and entire star systems were gutted in this galactic war. A dark age descended upon the remaining hold out worlds.But civilization is slowly returning to the Rho sector of the ...

  • Enemy of my Enemy

    Horatio Logan Chronicles - 1

    Newly promoted Commodore Horatio Logan had never expected to be commissioned as an officer, let alone survive to where he was now. But the Reborn Federation needed officers and engineers, needed them desperately so he'd stayed in and somehow he'd man...

  • Gods of War

    The Wandering Engineer: Jethro - 5

    Master Sergeant Jethro McClintock and his A.I. Bast had fought the good fight on Protodon. His next mission was a brief stop on his wife's planet and then some time training the next generation of Marines on Agnosta, the Marine and Army world in the ...

  • Convoy

    The Shelby Logan Chronicles - 1

    Commander Shelby Logan had a history and a future. She was in command of a great ship, Prometheus, and loved her job. She had known for some time that she would be working around the sector to help bring it up to the old Federation standards. Plans ...



  • Cornerstone

    Tales from the Founding of the Federation - 2

    From stories during the First A.I. War to the rebuilding period afterward, the Sol Confederation is on the rise. Mankind and Neo-kind have begun the long tortuous rebuilding process of a shattered Earth. Some cannot wait for the planet to be healed...

  • Desperate Defense

    Founding of the Federation - 4
    The First Terran Interstellar War - 1

    After the terrible A.I. war Terrankind had begun to move out to the stars. But, the void between stars can harbor unseen dangers. Jack Lagroose has settled in as Governor of the Eden colony. But, when a survey ship comes in with a warning of being at...

  • Waking the Sleeping Giant

    Founding of the Federation - 5
    The First Terran Interstellar War - 2

    Still recovering from the battle of Sol, Terra has gone on the offense in a desperate attempt to push the enemy back and bottle them up in the Rho sector. Terrans have to come together like never before to rebuild.Meanwhile, in Rho, the conquered col...

  • Court-Martial

    Horatio Logan Chronicles - 2

    When newly promoted Rear Admiral Horatio Logan returned to Bek carrying orders to relieve the current chain of command, he knew it wasn't going to go well. But his orders were clear, as was his duty so the moment Ilmarinen translated down from hypers...

  • The Gathering Storm

    The Federation Reborn - 4

    Admiral Irons is sheparding the new Federation along the best he can. The pirates are on the run for the moment, the political situation is starting to jell, the Bek nexus is back in the fold, and the military branches are finally hitting their strid...

  • Semper Fidelis

    Marines of the New Federation - 1

    Semper Fidelis: Always faithful/loyal.For the Space Marines of the Federation, it wasn't just a saying; it was a tradition of honor and courage going back centuries.For the Space Marines of the New Federation, it was something to live up to. Colonel ...

  • A Piece of the Pi

    Tales of the Reborn Federation - 2

    Hot off the virtual presses, four new short stories from the New Federation. In Hunter or Hunted, the crew of Io 11 and Fortuity explore the Pi sector, confident in their ships and crews. But which are they, hunter or prey?Second up is Molly's Madnes...

  • Multiverse 3

    Multiverse 3, another tour of short stories in fantasy and science fiction. See a new adventure for Princess Zara of Princess Rescue Inc begin to unfold. See new characters run through a brutal rite of passage in Afraid of the Dark, and explore a new...

  • The Turning Tide

    The Federation Reborn - 5

  • Liberty or Death

    The Federation Reborn - 6



  • Full Circle

    Horatio Logan Chronicles - 3

  • Kai's Story

    Two and a half decades after the Xeno war was last fought in the Tau sector, many of the surviving star systems were on the verge of economic and social collapse. With the loss of contact with the core worlds and central government, civilization was ...

  • Multiverse 4

    To the Victor Goes the Spoils, the Stargate, a Bootstrap Thanksgiving, a Federation Christmas... these and 4 other stories are in Multiverse 4.Explore some of the stories in the Federation Universe and beyond!...

  • Shiver Me Timbers

    The Shelby Logan Chronicles - 2

    Commodore Shelby Logan was tapped to lead an expedition into the neighboring Tau sector. Over the course of several years her convoy made their way to the heart of the sector, fighitng off pirates and plague to establish a new sector capital. But, on...

  • Blockade

    The Federation Reborn - 7

    Since Fleet Admiral Irons woke from stasis he has been focused on rebuilding and restoring the Federation.He has fought internal politics as well as assassins and strife within his own reborn navy. But above it all 1 force has stood in the way of res...

  • We the People

    Founding of the Federation - 6

    Twenty-eight years after the First Terran Interstellar War the galaxy is exploding with life. The Terran Confederation has risen in prominence to become the galactic policeman of the era. Terran scientists and engineers are busy terraforming worlds a...

  • The Gaia Project

    For thousands of years mortals considered their own mortality and worked on ways to extend their lifespan. Many also wondered what was beyond life, and if there were ways to cheat it permanently.Some even wondered what lay beyond their mortal coil an...

  • The Hyperspace War

    Founding of the Federation - 7

    Forces were at work pushing the Federation together. A common threat in the form of the Ghost Armada solidified support for amalgamation into a unified galactic government. President Washington had to deal with the transition into a new form of galac...

  • Loose Ends

    Tales from the Founding of the Federation - 3

    The Ansible. The Necrons, Third Earth, and more. Stories spanning the Founding of the Federation and beyond.Explore how aliens and humans came together to form the vast galactic federation. Terraforming worlds like Mythos and New Alexandria, and beyo...

  • Hostage Rescue

    Princess Rescue Inc - 2

    No happily ever after… Tech billionaire Eugene Ryans did the impossible; he tamed a wormhole on Earth and stepped through it into a new world. Leading a joint team of civilians and military personnel, they found themselves on the run from a Viking...



  • The Calm Before the Storm

    Fleet Admiral John Henry Irons has been the guiding force behind the reconstruction of the Federation, practically dragging the galaxy back from the dark ages by sheer force of will. He has met some remarkable people along the way, inspiring them to ...

  • Pirate Empress

    The Federation Reborn - 8

    Fleet Admiral John Henry Irons and his Reborn Federation had been fighting the pirate empire for over a decade. The battles have sea-sawed back and forth across the sector but the Federation has finally beaten the enemy back to their home star system...

  • Drop Commando

    The Wandering Engineer: Jethro - 6

    For centuries the Cadre were the elite ground forces of the Federation. They were a blending of organic and machine, the cream of the military. They were sent in where the chances of survival for an ordinary mortal were slim to none.When Admiral Iron...

  • SpecOps

    For thousands of years military forces of many species had an elite unit of some sort. Terrans had many branches of elite units that served a special purpose or mission type that regular units would have been hard pressed to perform. When the Federa...

  • Diplomacy

    The Shelby Logan Chronicles - 3

    Vice Admiral Shelby Logan led a convoy of ships to the Tau sector in order to tame the unruly frontier and return it to the Federation. Her carefully laid plans were disrupted immediately upon arrival by the pirate's ruthless use of biological weapon...

  • Sparks

    The Ragnarok Trilogy - 1

    Ragnarök: In Norse mythology it is a series of events that lead to a great battle and the end of life, and then a rebirth.The Federation had faced evil during its founding 300 years ago. The occasional interstellar war had livened things up but ...

  • Inferno

    The Ragnarok Trilogy - 2

    The golden age of the Federation is well and truly over as the Xenos, aliens from another galaxy continue their rampage. Civilization is in flames as the Federation desperately tries to find ways to fight back effectively. The Xenos believe they wil...

  • Wildfire

    The Ragnarok Trilogy - 2.5

  • Embers

    The Ragnarok Trilogy - 3

    The Ragnarok trilogy comes to a feverish conclusion as the Xenos continue their reign of terror across the galaxy.The war has been brutal, entire sectors of the galaxy have been burned as star after star are destroyed in the fighting. The surviving F...

  • Ashes

  • The Pi Effect

    Horatio Logan Chronicles - 4

    Admiral Horatio Logan has been thrown into the deep end before. He is a survivor; he'd survived the Xeno war, woken to terrible indentured servitude on the Anvil station for nearly a century, and then when Admiral Irons returned, left to fend for him...

  • Searching for a Needle

    Pirate Hunt - 1

    Five years has passed since the fall of Horath. The Federation has regrouped after the disastrous final battle. Second Fleet has been rebuilt and is scouring the Sigma Sector for the pirate's base. But they are looking for admittedly a large needle i...

  • The Long Road Home

    The fall of Horath had Warrant Officer Jethro McClintock and most of the surviving members of his Cadre unit scrambling for survival. They managed to jump away into hyperspace just before the energy wave of the wrath of a dying star caught up with th...

  • Parabellum

    The Shelby Logan Chronicles - 4

    The Confederation-Federation war kicks off as the Confederation sends fleets of ships to conquer the Tau sector. Admiral Shelby Logan and her loyal crew saw the potential war coming and began to prepare. Confident in an easy victory the Tauren fleet...

  • Multiverse 5

  • Invasion

    Princess Rescue Inc - 3

    Eugene Ryans and crew have been settling in with their families and adopted home. The Imperium has been growing and modernizing under their guidance. But some of the neighboring countries are jealous and are conspiring to deal with the threat they se...

  • Juggernaut

    The Shelby Logan Chronicles - 5

  • Pantheon

    When aliens arrived in orbit, humanity scrambled to deal with the eye opening consequences to their changed world view. It became clear within days that the aliens were refugees bringing word of warning of an ancient threat that was following in thei...

  • Hold the Line

    The Shelby Logan Chronicles - 6

    The war in Tau sector continues to boil as the Federation struggles to fend off the Tauren Confederation. The Taurens have taken losses but that has only made them angrier. They've worked to consolidate their territorial gains while finding ways to r...

  • Captain Sprite's History Lecture

    Wandering Engineer Comics - 1

  • Full Court Press

    The Shelby Logan Chronicles - 7

    The Federation was ambushed by the Tauren Confederation in the opening moves of what some call the Second Tauren War. Not to be deterred, the Federation played for time by administering some crippling blows in the early stages of the war. Now the gl...

  • Regeneration

    Bootstrap Colony - 3

    Less than a year has passed since the fateful events of the autumn conference. Some people have recovered from their injuries, some may never recover. Colonel Dunn and one of his conspirators were exiled but others escaped justice and fled. Now it is...

  • Fortunes of War

    Pirate Hunt - 2

    The Federation is pulled in different directions. Admiral Irons and the newly resurrected Federation are now dealing with a war on 2 fronts. The pirate war continues to simmer in the eastern reaches of the Sigma sector. The Tauren War has heated up ...

  • Reboot

    Bootstrap Colony - 4

    Mitch Chambers and his merry band have been busy. Teams have been hard at work building a new civilization while also knitting the far flung communities together. The alien Memes have stuck around, and finally the engineering team has started buildin...

  • Tauren Invasion

    The Taurens are coming! The Taurens are coming! The Tauren Confederation invaded the Federation territories along their border without warning. The Federation military personnel suddenly trapped behind enemy lines had to adapt and fight back. Here is...

  • At the Crossroads

    Brittle, battered, and bruised but unbroken from their harrowing escape of Horath's destruction, Jethro and Bast had to make their way home. There they had to meet the litter he'd never met and make up for a decade of lost time with resentful kittens...

  • Multiverse 6

  • Beyond Pi

    Admiral Horatio Logan has been through a lot of ups and downs in his lifetime. He survived the Xeno war after his ship was shot out from under him, centuries in stasis, a time as a virtual slave in Pyrax, and then the dawning hope and rebirth of the ...

  • Academy

  • Multiverse 7

    Multiverse 7 a collection of science fiction stories... Four new stories to explore. In the Roo universe, can the Roo survive the alien threat? In the Princess Rescue universe, how will the pirates continue to adapt to meet the new threat of the Imp...

  • Expanding Horizons

    The Federation was reborn in the desperate fight to stop the pirates. Over the years the war escalated and eventually the Federation managed to push them to run. Now the hunt is on to find their hidden battle moon and end the threat to the galaxy onc...

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Chris Hechtl has published 80 books.

Chris Hechtl does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Expanding Horizons, was published in March 2024.

The first book by Chris Hechtl, First Steps, was published in November 2010.

Yes. Chris Hechtl has 15 series.
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