William C. Dietz

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  • Bibliography:
    67 Books (9 Series)
  • First Book:
    November 1986
  • Latest Book:
    June 2023
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Full Series List in Order

America Rising

1 - Into the Guns (Oct-2016)
2 - Seek and Destroy (Jun-2017)
3 - Battle Hymn (Feb-2018)

Drifter

1 - Drifter (Jan-1991)
2 - Drifter's Run (Jan-1992)
3 - Drifter's War (Nov-1992)

Empire

1 - At Empire's Edge (Oct-2009)
2 - Bones of Empire (Oct-2010)

Hitman

1 - Killer Brand (Sep-2007)

Jak Rebo

1 - Runner (Oct-2005)
2 - Logos Run (Oct-2006)

Mutant Files

1 - Deadeye (Feb-2015)
2 - Redzone (Aug-2015)
3 - Graveyard (Feb-2016)

A Novel of the Legion of the Damned

Legion of the Damned (Aug-1993)
The Final Battle (Jul-1995)
By Blood Alone (Jul-1999)
By Force of Arms (Jun-2000)
For More Than Glory (Sep-2003)
For Those Who Fell (Nov-2004)
When All Seems Lost (Oct-2007)
When Duty Calls (Oct-2008)
A Fighting Chance (Nov-2011)
Andromeda's Fall (Dec-2012)
Andromeda's Choice (Dec-2013)
Andromeda's War (Dec-2014)

Sam McCade

Galactic Bounty (Nov-1986)
Imperial Bounty (May-1988)
Alien Bounty (Jan-1990)
McCade's Bounty (Nov-1990)
McCade for Hire (Jan-2004)
McCade on the Run (Feb-2005)

Winds of War

1 - Red Ice (Nov-2018)
2 - Red Flood (May-2019)
3 - Red Dragon (Feb-2020)
4 - Red Thunder (Sep-2020)
5 - Red Tide (May-2021)
6 - Red Sands (Nov-2021)
7 - Red River (Sep-2022)
8 - Red Dog (Mar-2023)

Multi-Author Series List

Halo

Halo: The Flood (Apr-2003)

Mass Effect

4 - Deception (Feb-2012)

Resistance 3

Resistance: A Hole in the Sky (Aug-2011)

Star Wars

Rebel Agent (Mar-1998)
Star Wars Dark Forces #2: Rebel Agent (Mar-1998)
Soldier for the Empire (Oct-1998)
Jedi Knight (Nov-1998)

Star Wars: Dark Forces

1 - Soldier for the Empire (Oct-1998)
2 - Rebel Agent (Mar-1998)
3 - Jedi Knight (Nov-1998)

Starcraft

Heaven's Devils (Apr-2010)

Book List in Order: 67 titles

  • Galactic Bounty

    Sam McCade

    THE GREATEST GALACTIC MANHUNT OF ALL TIME A traitor is on the loose. A treacherous navy captain plans to sell military secrets to the alien Il Ronn. The only man who can stop him is Sam McCade--an interstellar bounty hunter with a score to sett...

  • Freehold

    A band of mercenaries faces off with invading aliens in this novel by the New York Times–bestselling author of the America Rising series. Colonel Stell and his band of mercenaries yearn for a place to call home. To them Freehold is like a brigh...

  • Imperial Bounty

    Sam McCade

    When Princess Claudia seizes the throne in her brother's absence and brings the empire to the brink of war, bounty hunter McCade must find the missing Prince Alexander before the Imperial Fleet stops him. Reissue....

  • Prison Planet

    Convicted of a crime he did not commit, Jonathan Renn is sentenced to life in the Swamp, a prison-planet death row in a distant galaxy. Renn only has two choices: Escape the Swamp or die in the process. Defending himself from attacks by deadly, na...

  • Alien Bounty

    Sam McCade

    McCADE'S AN INTERSTELLAR BOUNTY HUNTER -- AND THIS TIME HIS QUEST IS THE HOLIEST RELIC IN THE GALAXY... For years only the thinnest barrier kept the II Ronnian Empire from launching full-scale war on mankind. Now that barrier is about to crumble: ...

  • The Matrix Man

    MAN CAM It cost Rex Corvan megabucks and his right eye, but the miniaturized camcorder implant made him News Network 56's Man Cam, the top reporter on the tube. Whatever Corvan "saw" went out via satellite, and millions of news junkies in America'...

  • McCade's Bounty

    Sam McCade

    McCADE'S AN INTERSTELLAR BOUNTY HUNTER -- AND THIS TIME TERROR STRIKES TOO CLOSE TO HOME... Sam McCade's men destroyed the deep space command post of pirate Mustapha Pong six years ago. But Pong is back -- and he wants vengeance. He's kidnapped Mc...

  • Drifter

    Drifter - 1

    An interplanetary smuggler gets caught up with revolutionaries in this action-packed novel by the New York Times–bestselling author of Legion of the Damned. Even smuggling has rules. The first is: Don’t get caught. Meet Pik Lando, a con a...

  • Drifter's Run

    Drifter - 2

    FACT: IF YOU KILL SOMEONE IMPORTANT, THERE'LL BE A PRICE ON YOUR HEAD. Lando was no stranger to trouble. It was his bush Smuggling. Conning. Running for his life. FACT: IF EVERY MAN, WOMAN, AND CYBORG IS LOOKING FOR.YOU, THEY'LL PROBABLY FIND YO...



  • Drifter's War

    Drifter - 3

    BIG MONEY: A HIGH-TECH DRIFT SHIP WORTH ABOUT A BILLION CREDITS. A billion credits could leave smuggler Pik Lando set for life. It could also set him up for a particularly painful death. BIG GUNS. ALIEN WAR ARE SHATTERS THE GALACTIC EMPIRE. ...

  • Mars Prime

    Ace reporter Rex Corvan is thrilled to be accompanying the second major colonization mission to Mars, but his excitement diminishes when a serial killer begins stalking the colonists while they are still en route. Original....

  • Legion of the Damned

    A Novel of the Legion of the Damned

    When all hope is lost--for the terminally ill, for the condemned criminal, for the victim who cannot be saved--there comes one final choice. You can choose life--as a cyborg soldier in the Legion. Both more and less than human, these steel warr...

  • Bodyguard

    He lives in a world where technology grows too quickly for the mind to comprehend. Where huge corporations expand outward into the far reaches of space. Where things of the past are swiftly deleted to make way for the future. But some things...

  • The Final Battle

    A Novel of the Legion of the Damned

    HUMAN AND MACHINE. ELITE AND EXPENDABLE. THEY ARE THE LEGION OF THE DAMNED The Hudathans are on a rampage. They have created their own corps of cyborgs using copycat technology and psychotic candidates. They have refitted their hardware. Reloaded ...

  • Where the Ships Die

    In the vast reaches of space, there are natural means of intergalactic travel known as "gaps" or "wormholes." There are only four known wormholes in existence. Whoever controls the wormholes, controls the universe. The coordinates for the wo...

  • Rebel Agent

    Star Wars
    Star Wars: Dark Forces - 2

    The second colorfully illustrated story based on the enormously successful Star Wars CD-ROM games, Dark Forces and Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II, matches Rebel Agent Kyle Katarn against the Dark Jedi, Jerec. Reprint....

  • Star Wars Dark Forces #2: Rebel Agent

    Star Wars

    Following Dark Forces -- Soldier for the Empire, part two of this graphic-story-album trilogy chronicles the adventures of Kyle Katarn as he learns of the mysterious Valley of the Jedi, discovered by his father years ago. Trapped in the Valley is an ...

  • Steelheart

    His name is Harley Doon. He is an android. He didn't set out to save the world. But now he may have to... On a planet called Zuul, in the year 2176, a battle is about to be fought. A battle against an alien race who hold all technology to be the u...

  • Soldier for the Empire

    Star Wars
    Star Wars: Dark Forces - 1

    Kyle Katarn leaves the Imperial Military Academy to join the Rebel Forces after the brutal death of his father, in a Star Wars adventure that combines exciting tale-spinning with superb award-winning artwork. Original....



  • Jedi Knight

    Star Wars
    Star Wars: Dark Forces - 3

    With Luke Skywalker's help, Jedi novice and rebel agent Kyle Katarn will save the legendary Valley of the Jedi from Jerec, a dark Jedi who plans to invade the planet where the valley is located and eventually dethrone the emperor...

  • By Blood Alone

    A Novel of the Legion of the Damned

    PART HUMAN. PART ALIEN. ALL HERO. In a Ton gone ax, Colonel Bill Booly, with his mixed-blood and by-the-book attitude, is a misfit. So when he steps on some important toes, the brass is quick to make him pay. His punishment: assignment to the ...

  • A Family Affair

    in Treachery and Treason

    A collection of stories focusing on the most devious side of human nature includes the work of William C. Dietz, Esther Friesner, Dennis L. McKiernan, Irene Radford, Anne Bishop, and others. Original....

  • By Force of Arms

    A Novel of the Legion of the Damned

    Colonel Bill Booly earned a promotion and well-deserved hero treatment for his troops after they stopped a mutiny against Earth's government. But now they face the ultimate challenge... A DIFFERENT RACE A "new" alien race, the Thrakies, has app...

  • Deathday

    On Black Friday, the aliens attacked. The human race was enslaved. But soon, everything will change... TOMORROW IS NOT JUST ANOTHER DAY....

  • Earth Rise

    It took three days for the Saurons to destroy the great cities of the world, wrapping the earth in a blanket of fire and ash. More than three billion people perished under the alien assault. But the invaders stopped short of complete annihilation....

  • Halo: The Flood

    Halo

    The Human-Covenant War, a desperate struggle for humankind's very survival, has reached its boiling point on the mysterious, ring-shaped world called Halo. But the fierce Covenant warriors, the mightiest alien military force known, are not the only p...

  • For More Than Glory

    A Novel of the Legion of the Damned

    You're only a hero... The Legion has repelled a war that was waged against all sentient creatures. And they've gained new allies in the process: two alien races. It's up to Legion General Bill Booly to stabilize the Confederacy -- and crush the last...

  • McCade for Hire

    Sam McCade

    Interstellar bounty hunter Sam McCade must prevent a traitorous Navy captain from selling information on the military secrets of War World to the treacherous Il Ronn in Galactic Bounty, while Princess Claudia takes advantage of her kidnapped ...

  • For Those Who Fell

    A Novel of the Legion of the Damned

    War is a way of life... After the battleship that served as its capital is destroyed, the Confederacy prepares to establish a new headquarters on the snowy, windswept planet of Algeron--birthplace of General Bill Booly, who is put in charge of the m...



  • McCade on the Run

    Sam McCade

    When a sacred artifact with divine powers is stolen by the space pirates, vengeful bounty hunter Sam McCade takes on the task of retrieving the treasure in Alien Bounty, while in McCade's Bounty, he embarks on a personal mission to re...

  • Runner

    Jak Rebo - 1

    REBO RUNNER JOB DESCRIPTION: INTERSTELLAR COURIER MISSION: TO CHANGE THE STATUS QUO... In a crumbling futuristic society, Earth is only a myth, the technological advances of centuries have faded into distant memory, and space travel depends on a...

  • Logos Run

    Jak Rebo - 2

    In a universe littered with the ruins of a technologically advanced past, there are those who seek to restore the galaxy to its former glory -- and those committed to preventing that. Runner Jak Rebo is caught between them. On Rebo's most recent job...

  • Enemy Within

    The clone assassin has been played long enoughâ€"now it’s more than a game.Bred to kill, Agent 47 is The Agency’s most valuable assassin. So when a competing murder-for-hire organization decides to destroy The Agency, the first person they target...

  • Killer Brand

    Hitman - 1

    The clone assassin has been played long enough -- now it's more than a game. Bred to kill, Agent 47 is The Agency's most valuable assassin. So when a competing murder-for-hire organization decides to destroy The Agency, the first person they tar...

  • When All Seems Lost

    A Novel of the Legion of the Damned

    THOSE WILLING TO SACRIFICE... As interstellar war rages, the president of the Confederacy is captured by the Ramanthian enemy and imprisoned in a brutal labor camp. But the aliens don't realize the prize they have taken, since, at the suggestion of y...

  • Snake Eye

    FBI Special Agent Christina Rossi needs an assist: she has a career in limbo and a personal life from hell. Tracking a Chinese mob slave labor operation runs concurrent with personal betrayals and a new love - former Navy Seal Jack Dexter, a real est...

  • When Duty Calls

    A Novel of the Legion of the Damned

    As the war with the Ramanthian continues, Captain Antonio Santana and his force of biobods and cyborgs find themselves surrounded by enemy forces, faced with annihilation at every turn. On the home front, Santana's love--diplomat Christine Vanderv...

  • Resistance: The Gathering Storm

    Great Britain. July 1951. Three years ago, Russia went dark. Nothing got in. Nothing got out. The world assumed it was political strife. But it was the Chimera: voracious extraterrestrial invaders. And in December 1949, they burst across the Russ...

  • At Empire's Edge

    Empire - 1

    From the national bestselling author of When Duty Calls, the first book in an exciting new science fiction duology. In a far-distant future, the Uman Empire has spread to the stars and beyond, conquering and colonizing worlds, ruling with a benevo...



  • Heaven's Devils

    Starcraft

    For the poor, hardworking citizens of the Confederacy's fringe worlds, the Guild Wars have exacted a huge toll. Swayed by the promise of financial rewards, a new batch of recruits joins the fight alongside a slew of mysteriously docile criminals -- ...

  • Bones of Empire

    Empire - 2

    In a far-distant future, the Uman Empire has conquered and colonized worlds. Once thought invincible, its reign is now fragile as alien subjects and enemies conspire against it.... Jak Cato is a cop -- bioengineered to see through the guises of the ...

  • Resistance: A Hole in the Sky

    Resistance 3

    America. July 1953. In this official prequel to Resistance 3, prospects are not looking up for planet Earth or Lieutenant Joseph Capelli. With the Chimera invasion in full swing, America has crumbled under the fierce alien juggernaut, its defense...

  • A Fighting Chance

    A Novel of the Legion of the Damned

    Earth has fallen. And the men, women, and cyborgs of the Confederacy must dig deep within their warrior hearts to make one final stand against an alien aggressor... On a rim world, Captain Antonio Santana is reunited with diplomat Christine Vander...

  • Deception

    Mass Effect - 4

    An all-new adventure inspired by the award-winning videogame from BioWare! The universe is under siege. Every fifty thousand years, a race of sentient machines invades our galaxy to harvest all organic life-forms. They are the Reapers. Two peop...

  • No Surrender

    Five by Five: No Surrender is the second collection in the series of short novels by five masters of military science fiction.   In these pulse-pounding tales, the best (or worst) soldiers in the galaxy are pitted against powerful aliens on dist...

  • Andromeda's Fall

    A Novel of the Legion of the Damned

    The roots of the Legion of the Damned lie deep within the mythology of the future. But now, national bestselling author William C. Dietz goes back to the Legion’s early days with the story of one recruit’s rebirth and redemption… Hundreds o...

  • Rogan's World

    Rogan's World is a novella length story being published for the first time as an e-book.In Rogan's World New York Times bestselling science fiction author William C. Dietz takes a satiric look at the future. It's a time when the Calag Corporation sav...

  • The Seeds of Man

    The Seeds of Man is a full-length never before released science fiction novel.With The Seeds of Man New York Times bestselling science fiction author William C. Dietz offers us a post apocalyptic future where bullets can be used to purchase anything,...

  • Andromeda's Choice

    A Novel of the Legion of the Damned

    Andromeda McKee rebuilt her life in the violent embrace of the Legion of the Damned in the days when cyborgs were first being introduced. Now she must choose between her conscience and her desire for vengeance... In a different world, Lady Cather...



  • Andromeda's War

    A Novel of the Legion of the Damned

    In Andromeda’s War, his heroine will face her ultimate test -- as a battle-scarred legionnaire and as an innocent young woman who once lost everything… Now a platoon leader, Legionnaire Andromeda McKee seems to have successfully left behind he...

  • Deadeye

    Mutant Files - 1

    A brand new science fiction police procedural series... In the year 2038, an act of bioengineered terrorism decimated humanity. Those who survived were either completely unaffected or developed horrible mutations. Across the globe, nations are now...

  • Ejecta

    Professor Paul McCracken’s final message to parasitologist Dr. Sara Devlin is brutal, but clear: he’d rather die than let the alien parasite within him live. For Devlin, the shock of McCracken’s suicide is quickly replaced by the horror it reve...

  • Redzone

    Mutant Files - 2

    The national bestselling author of the Legion of the Damned novels returns to his dark mutant world, where Police Detective Cassandra Lee is on the trail of a brutal murderer… The year is 2065, almost thirty years since a bioterrorist attack dec...

  • Graveyard

    Mutant Files - 3

    The national bestselling author of Redzone and the Legion of the Damned novels continues his post-apocalyptic story about an L.A. cop in a mutant-filled world... 2069, Los Angeles. Decades after a bioterrorist attack decimated the population and ...

  • EarthRise

    After the vicious, insect-like aliens called the Saurons invaded Earth and killed billions, they enslaved the survivors, forcing them to build mysterious temples under brutal conditions. In an effort to control their human slaves, the Saurons install...

  • Into the Guns

    America Rising - 1

    From the New York Times bestselling author of The Legion of the Damned® Novels and The Mutant Files comes the first novel in a post-apocalyptic military science fiction series about America rising from the ashes of a global catastrophe... On May ...

  • Seek and Destroy

    America Rising - 2

    From the New York Times bestselling author of the Legion of the Damned novels and the Mutant Files series comes the second novel in a postapocalyptic military science fiction series about America struggling to overcome a natural disaster but starting...

  • Battle Hymn

    America Rising - 3

    From the New York Times bestselling author of the Legion of the Damned Novels comes the final novel in a postapocalyptic military science fiction trilogy about a nation wracked by a civil war. As people fight to survive the aftereffects of more t...

  • Red Ice

    Winds of War - 1

  • Red Flood

    Winds of War - 2

  • Red Dragon

    Winds of War - 3

  • Red Thunder

    Winds of War - 4

  • Red Tide

    Winds of War - 5

  • Red Sands

    Winds of War - 6

  • Red River

    Winds of War - 7

  • Red Dog

    Winds of War - 8

    In Red Dog, the eighth volume of the Winds of War series, WWIII continues to rage as Chinook Helicopter pilot Marie Soto, call sign Wizard, flies dangerous missions over war-torn Syria, and army Master Sergeant Felix Bone fights enemies both domestic...

  • Crickets 2

    New York Times bestselling author William C. Dietz returns to his military science fiction roots with a sequel to CRICKETS. The insectoid Prax landed on Earth approximately 12,000 years ago and immediately went into hiding. Now that it seems safe to ...

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William C. Dietz has published 67 books.

William C. Dietz does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Crickets 2, was published in June 2023.

The first book by William C. Dietz, Galactic Bounty, was published in November 1986.

Yes. William C. Dietz has 9 series.
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