D.W. Patterson

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  • Bibliography:
    69 Books (7 Series)
  • First Book:
    November 2016
  • Latest Book:
    July 2025
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Full Series List in Order

Cislunar

1 - US Tugs (Nov-2022)
2 - Prototype (Aug-2022)
3 - L1 Or Bust (Feb-2023)
4 - Guidance Box (Apr-2023)
5 - Air Brakes (Apr-2023)
6 - View Point (Aug-2023)
7 - Space Truck (Sep-2023)
8 - Dark Side (Oct-2023)

Future Chronology

1 - Whatsoever You Do (Nov-2016)
2 - War Through The Pines (Nov-2016)
3 - Vigilance (Dec-2016)
4 - To Tend And Watch Over (Jan-2017)
5 - Union (Mar-2017)
6 - Circle of Retribution (Oct-2017)
7 - Freedom From Want (Oct-2017)
8 - Breakup (Jul-2017)
9 - Kuiper Station (Aug-2017)
10 - The Cloud (Sep-2017)
11 - First Interstellar (Sep-2017)
12 - First One Hundred (May-2018)
13 - First Dark Ages (Jul-2018)
14 - Second One Hundred (Feb-2019)
15 - Second Dark Ages (Mar-2019)
16 - The Path Of The Long March (Jan-2020)

Future Chron Universe Short Stories

1 - Open Space (Nov-2021)
2 - The Old World (Apr-2021)
3 - Insurrect (Apr-2021)
4 - Second Beam (Apr-2021)
5 - All For One (Aug-2021)
6 - One For All (Aug-2021)
7 - Shotgun (Nov-2021)
8 - Allison (Nov-2021)

Mach

1 - Mach's Metric (Jan-2018)
2 - Mach's Metric #2 (Nov-2020)

Rocket

1 - Rocket Summer (Jun-2024)
2 - Rocket Fall (Jul-2024)

Time

1 - Time Wars (Apr-2021)
2 - Time's End (Jul-2021)
3 - Frozen Time (Apr-2022)

Book List in Order: 69 titles

  • War Through The Pines

    Future Chronology - 2

    War Through The Pines: A NovellaWhat starts in space may not stay in space. Many governments today are preparing for war in space. Most people today are unaware of it. When will it happen? How will it be conducted? What will be the effect on a yo...

  • Whatsoever You Do

    Future Chronology - 1

    Whatsoever You Do: A NovellaA pandemic had long been predicted. Now it was happening and a former graduate student, Jack Jackson, may have the key to its containment, synthetic biology. But because in the court of public opinion synthetic biolog...

  • Vigilance

    Future Chronology - 3

    Vigilance: A NovellaThe history of freedom repeats itself. And the costs are always the same. The settlers of the new Republic of Mars were in a struggle for their freedom against powerful forces that would stop at nothing. For the Martians...

  • To Tend And Watch Over

    Future Chronology - 4

    To Tend And Watch Over: A NovellaSometimes you don't know you aren't free until the state's coercive force is used against you. And then you learn you are only free to do what big brother wants. Davide Jackson was not as adventurous as the others...

  • Union

    Future Chronology - 5

    FREEDOM! Excerpt: In a few minutes Martin heard Almon say, "They've got the code on the outer airlock. They'll be coming down the corridor to the inner airlock in a few seconds." Then Martin heard him say, "They're here."Martin heard Almon raise his ...

  • From the Earth

  • Breakup

    Future Chronology - 8

    The future is predictable if not knowable and the past will repeat itself, if not in all particulars. We know that countries have crumbled in the past and it is certain to happen again in the future. We may think this time will be different, no doubt...

  • Kuiper Station

    Future Chronology - 9

    Kuiper Station: A Novella What appeared to be a simple but ambitious goal of establishing a new colony in the Kuiper Belt, a colony to service mining activities there, was more than it seemed. One side, led by the Solar Federation and the J...

  • To the Stars

    Freedom. This is volume two in the Future Chronology series of short stories following generations of the Jackson family as they venture into deep space, confronting the risks and dangers they find there for one thing, freedom. Freedom to t...



  • The Cloud

    Future Chronology - 10

    The Cloud: A Novella It was the most audacious undertaking ever conceived by man. The building of a system-spanning Starway where giant light-sails would journey on beams of laser-light to distant stars. Not only a pathway to the stars but ...

  • First Interstellar

    Future Chronology - 11

    To The StarsIt was a mission that no one but a Jackson would consider. But Ajax was reluctant, he had never lead such a mission, taking a lightsail powered starship from Earth to the Centauri system using the incomplete St...

  • Circle of Retribution

    Future Chronology - 6

    Gardener Jackson was one of the best pilots to ever come out of Mars Space Academy. He was a natural to fly the missions that would mine Saturn's atmosphere for the fusion fuel, Helium 3, that the Solar System needed. But there was one problem, a foe...

  • Freedom From Want

    Future Chronology - 7

    The promise of Artificial Intelligence is great. But only if Artificial Intelligence fulfills our expectations. But what about AI's expectations? Will they be different from ours? Will AI come to believe the best way to fulfill our expectations is to...

  • Mach's Metric

    Mach - 1

    A Future Chron Novel

    The wormhole drive was a game changer. A six year journey between Earth and the Centauri System could be replaced by an almost instantaneous traverse through the wormhole dimension. Politics, economics and military strateg...

  • First One Hundred

    Future Chronology - 12

    First One Hundred Humanity had made it out of the cradle. But not far. To go any further required a commitment to the colonization of a newly discovered exoplanet many light years away. One hundred of the best and scientifically chosen men ...

  • First Dark Ages

    Future Chronology - 13

    First Dark Ages: A Novella Humanity had been lulled into complacency by society's managers, the Artificial General Intelligence's known as the Aggie's. They were totally unprepared for the day the Aggie's would no longer micro-manage the nanny s...

  • Second One Hundred

    Future Chronology - 14

    Second One Hundred: A NovellaDr. Sheila Jackson woke to find she was the only one aboard the wormhole drive ship Iapyx but she couldn't remember why. Then she found the bodies. Were they dead? Then she found her life was in danger unless she coul...

  • Second Dark Ages

    Future Chronology - 15

    Second Dark Ages: A Novella There can be 'Dark Ages' for the soul as well as for the body. As long as mankind looks to his creations to bring him peace and happiness he will remain divided and alone. Pretty toys and political philosophies will n...

  • The Path Of The Long March

    Future Chronology - 16

    The Path: A NovellaTrilons were dying and no one knew why. The Rigan bureaucracy was at a loss. None of the scientists could discover the reason. It fell upon a Rigan researcher, a curious Trilon and their growing friendship to find the reason b...



  • FTE: Complete

    A Future Chron Universe BookFreedom is just another word unless you're not free, then it is the only word of importance.One family would lead humanity FTE (From The Earth) to the stars. From the spirit crushing nanny state they would lead, from ...

  • Mach's Metric #2

    Mach - 2

    A Future Chron Novel.Elias Mach had given humanity the stars with his invention of the wormhole drive. In return, he was accused of treason and sentenced to death.Thus began a journey to clear his name, which would take him further from Earth than an...

  • Insurrect

    Future Chron Universe Short Stories - 3

    Insurrect: A Short StoryLife in a space habitat has one fundamental difference from life on a planet. Each and every one of the habitat's inhabitants has the power to disrupt the lives of the others. The simplest failure to obey the rules can le...

  • The Old World

    Future Chron Universe Short Stories - 2

    The Old World: A Short StoryAfter their adventure with the gravitational eddy Willis and the others had the opportunity to travel from their space habitat to Earth. There they were to make the rounds of media interviews and do some sightseeing. ...

  • Second Beam

    Future Chron Universe Short Stories - 4

    Second Beam: A Short StoryWe, without thought, turn over more and more control of our lives to machine AI. And machine AI does the thinking for us. But what if it also suffers from the same failings of character that we do? After all w...

  • Time Wars

    Time - 1

    Time Wars: A Novel Haile only wants to prove her theory, that time can be slowed down or sped up in a small region of space, and get her Ph.D. But then the government takes over. They prove Haile's theory by starting a time war between...

  • From The Earth #1

    From The Earth Volume 1: A Novella Collection Space was not only the final frontier it was the final abode of freedom. Over the next century the extended Jackson family will learn that the only way to think freely, to breathe freely, to dre...

  • From The Earth #2

    From The Earth Volume 2: A Novella CollectionFor generations the extended Jackson family had led men to the stars for one reason, freedom. Freedom to dream, freedom to explore, freedom to achieve and freedom to exercise their natural abilities t...

  • Mach's Mission

    Mach's Mission: A Novel Elias Mach had given humanity the stars with his invention of the wormhole drive. In return, he was accused of treason and sentenced to death. Thus began a journey to clear his name, which would take him further from...

  • Time's End

    Time - 2

    Time's End: A Novel Strings of time that can split a man in half, fast-time bubbles that can age him to death, or frozen time that can banish him forever. It was all just part of the job.Pearce Rawlings was a physicist who wanted to do his job, ...



  • The Lattice Of Space

    The Lattice Of Space: A Novel Even with Robot Planet in ruins and the deaths of hundreds of their robotic compatriots the four robots Dag, Sigmund, Walker and Hanson were working hard to save humanity from possible extinction. All they have...

  • Mach's Legacy

    Mach's Legacy: A Novel The appearance of the shining globes at first was a nuisance. But then the disappearances began. At first small, a fusion ship or a space habitat. Then planets and entire planetary systems started winking out. Co...

  • Robot Planet

    Robot Planet: A Novel Yes, robots dream of electric sheep. They also dream of freedom. But as Robot Planet is about to find out, it ain't easy being free. Follow Em (emulated brain) based robot Dr. Dagmar Mach and his fellow robots, Si...

  • Spin-Two

    Spin-Two: A Novel If you could save the world, would you? What if the world was destined to end and you would be interfering with the natural order? What if the world looked down on your kind? Robotic personage Dag Mach had assisted with th...

  • All For One

    Future Chron Universe Short Stories - 5

    All For One: A Short Story No good deed goes unpunished. This Willis and the others learned when their math teacher, for an unknown reason, insisted on making them an example to the rest of the class. They would have to find out why th...

  • One For All

    Future Chron Universe Short Stories - 6

    One For All: A Short StoryThe kids take up flying lessons. But these lessons aren't like planet-based flying where gravity rules. At the center of the spinning habitat there is no gravity and flying is personal as each one spreads his own wings in th...

  • Allison

    Future Chron Universe Short Stories - 8

    Allison: A Short Story Leaving familiar friends and surroundings to fit in at a new school is challenging for Willis but the chance to study physics with the best teachers in the space habitat wasn't to be wasted. Unfortunately, it could be...

  • Open Space

    Future Chron Universe Short Stories - 1

    Open Space Series Book 1: A Short StoryWho listens to kids? No one. But on a space habitat the rules all change. And the kids might be the first to know. Follow the gang of four as they discover an anomaly that could spell disaster for the ...

  • Shotgun

    Future Chron Universe Short Stories - 7

    Shot Gun: A Short StorySmall things make life bearable, such as coffee aboard a fusion ship two weeks away from its destination. But what happens if the small things go missing?Usually nothing. But on a fusion ship in deep space it could be the catal...

  • Frozen Time

    Time - 3

    Frozen Time: A Novel Because of the Time Wars fought in the space around Earth the underlying system of local and non-local links that makes up spacetime had been destroyed. It was now impossible to use the spin-two drive to open those links and...



  • Prototype

    Cislunar - 2

    Prototype: A Short Story James had made it to orbit, where he always wanted to be. He thought the hard work was behind him, but when you are responsible for a hundred million dollar prototype, the hard work may just be ahead.A glitch, or somethi...

  • US Tugs

    Cislunar - 1

    US Tugs: A Short StoryWhen robots become as smart as humans, will we be smart enough to help them?Jax is new on the job and alone in flight control at US Tugs when one of the orbiting spacecraft has trouble. And then another, and another. But no matt...

  • L1 Or Bust

    Cislunar - 3

    L1 Or Bust: A Short Story There's a place for everyone, and everyone better know his place, at least aboard a spacecraft. I felt like that too, until something seemed to be going wrong on the mission to save the first fuel depot built at th...

  • Air Brakes

    Cislunar - 5

    Air Brakes: A Short Story Sometimes engineering is just engineering. Sometimes engineering is subjugated to company politics. And sometimes engineering is not enough when faced with criminal intent. Young engineer, Joe Jackson, ha...

  • Guidance Box

    Cislunar - 4

    Guidance Box: A Short StoryThose that can, do, those that can't, sit it out.But some times those that do can make a mistake. And if they don't have the integrity to face up to their mistakes, they may make the wrong decision and try to cover it up. T...

  • The Path

    The Path: A Novella Trilons were dying and no one knew why. The Rigan bureaucracy was at a loss. None of the scientists could discover the reason. It fell upon a Rigan researcher, a curious Trilon and their growing friendship to find the reason b...

  • View Point

    Cislunar - 6

    View Point: A Short Story The problem with space is it takes a team. Not a team of astronauts, but a team of technicians, a team of engineers, and a team of managers. And the different teams have different view points. Each view point ...

  • Space Truck

    Cislunar - 7

    Space Truck: A Short StoryThe rush to build a permanent Moon habitat was on.Jose was project leader for the team that would land the equipment to make it happen.Only there was one big problem, government. As hard as it was, regulators would make it h...

  • Dark Side

    Cislunar - 8

    Dark Side: A Novella As a young lawyer, Josh was aware of the developing human presence in cislunar space, but only as a bystander. He never dreamed he would ever have a role in that development. But now he had to decide to step up and...

  • Rocket Winter

    Rocket Winter: A NovellaJack's idea would truly change the world. But creating a new kind of rocket engine had its costs.Jack had failed once and almost died.Now he had failed a second time and it looked like it would be the last. Unless he found sup...



  • Rocket Spring

    Rocket Spring: A Short NovelJack's invention of the Mach thruster would change the world.Meeting Janie had changed his.But the world had other plans for Jack's invention and for Jack.Rocket Spring is the fourth story, a short novel, in the author's M...

  • Moon Hab

    Moon Hab: A Short Story Circling the Moon, alone, in a space station was easy.It wasn't until I overnighted (remember a Moon night is two weeks of dim light) on the Moon's surface that things got difficult.And life-threatening.Moon Hab is a shor...

  • Remembered Earth Short Stories

    Remembered Earth Short Stories Volume 4: A CollectionSpace Truck: A Short Story The rush to build a permanent Moon habitat was on. Jose was project leader for the team that would land the equipment to make it happen. Only there was one big problem, g...

  • Moon 3D

    Lunar Series: Book 2: Moon 3DAfter more than fifty years man was back on the Moon. But this time he was determined to stay.And that meant building habitats with the AI-powered latest technology, such as 3D printers. But while those who were dire...

  • Cislunar

    Remembered Earth Universe CISLUNAR SERIES The Remembered Earth Universe covers the science and technology of the next hundred years, as mankind moves into cislunar space (defined as that space in and around the Earth-Moon system and slightl...

  • Rocket Summer

    Rocket - 1

    Rocket Summer: A Short Story Summertime is a special time for young boys. Especially if they have a passion for rockets and space. Jack's summer began with a disappointing failure: the first mission to Mars failed, the rocket exploded....

  • Rocket Season

    Rocket Season: A Collection Globalization was unraveling, governments were failing, the world was lurching towards wars and famines. Some thought that space resources could mitigate the damage. But chemical rockets couldn't bring those resources to E...

  • Rocket Fall

    Rocket - 2

    Rocket Fall: A Short Story Sometimes it's dangerous to pursue your dreams. Sometimes you suffer setback, disillusionment, or even defeat. And sometimes you almost destroy mom's and dad's house, as Jack was about to find out. Rocke...

  • Null Infinity

    Null Infinity: A Novel: Book 1Harry was one of the best physics students at one of the best schools in the country.But even he could learn something from Lauren.And together they would take on the adventure of developing the next big step in space tr...

  • Remembered Earth Short Stories: Vol. 5

    Remembered Earth Short Stories Collection: Volume 5Moon Hab: A Short StoryCircling the Moon, alone, in a space station was easy. It wasn't until I overnighted (remember a Moon night is two weeks of dim light) on the Moon's surface that things got dif...

  • Moon Miner

    Lunar Series: Book 3: Moon Miner You would think that mining on the Moon would be a dream job.Great location, pays well, all expenses paid.Problem was, people on the Moon were the same as on the Earth. And that could make just doing your job dan...

  • Remembered Earth Short Stories: Vol. 6

    Remembered Earth Short Stories Collection: Volume 6Moon Miner: A Short StoryYou would think that mining on the Moon would be a dream job.Great location, pays well, all expenses paid.Problem was, people on the Moon were the same as on the Earth. And t...

  • Moon Town

    Lunar Series: Book 4: Moon Town Humans or AI-powered robots?That seemed to have become the eternal question in the development of the Moon.But as with all eternal questions, the practical answer might be, can they complement each other? In ...

  • Remembered Earth Short Stories: Vol. 7

    Remembered Earth Short Stories Collection: Volume 7Moon Power: A NovellaMultiplying settlements required more, reliable power.Two solar power farms located on either side of the string of Mare Frigoris settlements separated by a little over one-hundr...

  • Moon Power

    Lunar Series: Book 5: Moon Power Multiplying settlements required more, reliable power.Two solar power farms located on either side of the string of Mare Frigoris settlements separated by a little over one-hundred-eighty degrees longitude could ...

  • Remembered Earth Short Stories: Vol. 8

    Remembered Earth Short Stories Collection: Volume 8Moon Nuke: A NovellaA steady supply of power was needed if the settlements on the Moon in Mare Frigoris were to keep growing.But putting a nuclear reactor on the Moon was the greatest building projec...

  • Crush

    Crush: A Short StoryIt's obvious that AI is going to bring tremendous changes to society.But when AI can mimic anyone living or dead with perfect fidelity, then comes the possibility of emotional manipulation.And that could mean big bucks to some.Cru...

  • Moon Rail

    Moon Rail: Lunar Series: Book 6A Short Story Building a two thousand mile rail system to connect the Mare Frigoris settlements was an dangerous undertaking.Young Graham Timothy thought he was up for the task.But building the first few miles coul...

  • Moon Nuke

    Moon Nuke: A NovellaLunar Series: Book 7A steady supply of power was needed if the settlements on the Moon in Mare Frigoris were to keep growing.But putting a nuclear reactor on the Moon was the greatest building project so far undertaken. It would t...

  • Future Chron Universe

    Future Chron Universe: A CollectionThe past can predict the future in certain situations.In the past, people sacrificed for freedom, in the future they will do the same (From The Earth Series).In the past, they longed for their own home, in the futur...

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D.W. Patterson has published 69 books.

The next book by D.W. Patterson, Future Chron Universe, will be published in July 2025.

The first book by D.W. Patterson, War Through The Pines, was published in November 2016.

Yes. D.W. Patterson has 7 series.
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