William R. Forstchen

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  • Bibliography:
    41 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    July 1983
  • Latest Book:
    August 2023
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Full Series List in Order

After

1 - One Second After (Mar-2009)
2 - One Year After (Sep-2015)
3 - Unite or Die (Jan-2017)

Gamestar Wars

1 - Alexandrian Ring (Sep-1987)
2 - The Assassin Gambit (Sep-1988)

Gamester Wars

3 - The Napoleon Wager (Feb-1993)

The Lost Regiment

1 - Rally Cry (May-1990)
2 - Union Forever (Feb-1991)
3 - Terrible Swift Sword (Feb-1992)
4 - Fateful Lightning (Jan-1993)
5 - Battle Hymn (Jan-1997)
6 - Never Sound Retreat (Jan-1998)
7 - A Band of Brothers (Jan-1999)
8 - Men of War (Dec-1999)
9 - Down to the Sea (Dec-2000)

Star Voyager

1 - Star Voyager Academy (Jul-1994)
2 - Article 23 (Sep-1998)

Multi-Author Series List

Magic: The Gathering

1 - Arena (Nov-1994)

Star Trek

Star Voyager Academy (Jul-1994)
The Forgotten War (Sep-1999)

Star Trek: The Next Generation

57 - The Forgotten War (Sep-1999)

Wing Commander

3 - Fleet Action (Mar-1994)
6 - Action Stations (Dec-1997)

Book List in Order: 41 titles

  • Ice Prophet

    The Ice Prophet Series, Book 1

    A New York Times bestselling author Author's New York Times bestselling One Second After is in development with Warner Bros. as a major motion picture

    For millennia after the Accident, Earth lay c...

  • The Flame upon the Ice

    The Ice Prophet Series, Book 2

    New York Times bestselling author

    His enemies had pinpointed the Prophet's weakness--but exploiting it might destroy them all. Michael Ormson--the Prophet--revolutionized icewar, and his ramfleets destro...

  • A Darkness upon the Ice

    THE END OF THE BEGINNING His armies of Companions had taken Cornath's capital. His suicidal ramfleets had swept Cornath's fleet from the world-girdling Ice. But Michael Ormson--called by some the Ice Prophet--had not brought relief to the common p...

  • Into the Sea of Stars

  • By Thought Alone

    in There Will Be War, Vol. VI: Guns of Darkness

    ECHO THROUGH THE LAND... From the gray gunsmoke mists of a far-off alien realm to a violent valley of sinister shadows and frightfully bloody death, from an evil planet haunted by generals of the past and the soldiers who served them to a brutal t...

  • Alexandrian Ring

    Gamestar Wars - 1

    First there was war, then there were wargames, growing more and more realistic until the games themselves surpassed war as mankind''s most popular sport. But with no blood, guts, or glory, boredom began to set in and strategy lost its edge. Someth...

  • The Assassin Gambit

    Gamestar Wars - 2

    Alexander the Great. Napoleon. The 47 Ronin. Long dead, but the future still rides on their successes at war!

    First there was war, then there were wargames, growing more and more realistic until the games themselves surpassed war as mankind'...

  • Rally Cry

    The Lost Regiment - 1

    TO VICTORY--OR DEATH! When Union Colonel Andrew Keane led his blue-coated soldiers aboard the transport ship, he could not have foreseen that their next port of call would be in neither the North or South but on an alternate world where no human w...

  • Union Forever

    The Lost Regiment - 2

    SPLIT IN THE RANKS ON A CRACKED-MIRROR WORLD Colonel Andrew Keane and his blue-coated soldiers were not the first humans time-space-warped to a world so familiar yet so foreign. Humans abounded on the perverse planet--humans treated like cattle by...



  • The Crystal Sorcerers

    Enemies on Earth and now allies in the world to which they have been transported, Mark Phillips and Ikawa Yoshio struggle against the magic of Gorgon, the demon-lord attempting to enslave both Haven and the worlds beyond...

  • The Crystal Warriors

  • Terrible Swift Sword

    The Lost Regiment - 3

    THE 35th MAINE HAS LOOSED THE VENGEANCE OF THE HORDES Swept through a time-space warp at the height of the American Civil War, Union Colonel Andrew Keane and his hard-fighting regiment found themselves stranded forever on a distant world ruled by ...

  • Fateful Lightning

    The Lost Regiment - 4

    A WORLD DRENCHED IN BLOOD- Andrew Keane, formerly a Northern colonel in the American Civil War, was now leading a mixed force of humans snatched from assorted periods in history on a desperate flight from an enemy more horrific than any nightmare....

  • The Napoleon Wager

    Gamester Wars - 3

    When the ruling Kohs of the Magellanic Cloud learn that the power of the Overseers is a sham based on the mysterious technology of the long-vanquished First Travelers, they threaten to turn their simulated battles into real ones. Original....

  • Fleet Action

    Wing Commander - 3

    The Kilrathi Empire is in a bind. For the last five years they have been constructing a secret fleet so powerful that it will slice straight through to Earth and destroy the Confederation. There is a problem, however: the Confederation has become inc...

  • Star Voyager Academy

    Star Voyager - 1
    Star Trek

    FROM CIVIL SOCIETY TO CIVIL WAR It's 150 years in the future, and times have changed. For one thing, the long-stalled space program finally went private and got off the ground. For another, the U.N., courtesy of American military muscle, managed t...

  • Arena

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    Magic: The Gathering - 1

    WHERE MAGIC AND MAYHEM MEET Festival will never be the same again. For even as the fighter-mages of the four great Houses prepare for their annual battle in the Arena, a stranger arrives for Festival. Who is Garth One-eye, and where did he get ...

  • The Four Magics

    Ages after a mountain, ripped away from its planet by a magician's death-duel, is hurtled into space, the mountain-asteroid threatens the lives of the planet's feuding races, who share a common enemy in the alien Brom. Original....

  • Battle Hymn

    The Lost Regiment - 5

    THE BLOODY PRICE OF FREEDOM Swept through a time-space warp at the height of the Civil War, the 35th Maine found themselves stranded on an alien world. Now William R. Forstchen has written an all-new Lost Regiment adventure with an even more treac...



  • Action Stations

    Wing Commander - 6

    THEY PLANNED ON A NICE WAR... There had been a century of peace, and the politicians of Earth and its colonies were running on platforms of cutting "wasteful" military spending--all while Earth's military tried to keep aging and obsolete ships fly...

  • Never Sound Retreat

    The Lost Regiment - 6

    THE ULTIMATE BATTLE CRY It has been ten years since Andrew Keane's Union regiment was mysteriously pulled away from the Civil War and marooned in time on a hostile alien planet. But no battle ever fought against the warring Bantags can compare wit...

  • A Hard Day for Mother

    in Alternate Generals

    LEADERSHIP MAKES ALL THE DIFFERENCE At Gaugemela the Macedonians had Alexander and the Persians had--Darius. Result: world conquest. But what if the Persians had--Erwin Rommel. Or what if George S. Patton had commanded Southern forces at Bull Run,...

  • Article 23

    Star Voyager - 2

    THREE-CORNERED WAR As a plebe at the Academy, Justin Bell was on the path to making his dreams come true: traveling in space. But, even in the 22nd century, cold hard reality has a way of frustrating dreams. There was tension between Earth and the...

  • A Band of Brothers

    The Lost Regiment - 7

    SOME BATTLES MUST BE WON--NO MATTER THE COST It has been more than ten years since Andrew Keane's Union regiment was mysteriously pulled away from the Civil War and marooned in time on a hostile alien planet. Now in a desperate winter campaign, th...

  • Prometheus

    Risking everything to follow his dream of reaching for the stars, Justin Bell struggles to cope with Martian colonists demanding freedom from the paternalistic Earth government, while dealing with hostile aliens out to destroy all human civilization....

  • The Forgotten War

    Star Trek
    Star Trek: The Next Generation - 57

    The legendary Starfleet Captain Lucien Murat, a contemporary of Christopher Pike, disappeared during a battle with the alien Tarn. Now, generations later, Captain Picard is conducting delicate diplomatic negotiations with the Tarn when the Starship E...

  • Men of War

    The Lost Regiment - 8

    WHAT PRICE FREEDOM? It has been over a decade since Andrew Keane's Union regiment was mysteriously pulled away from the Civil War and marooned in time on a hostile alien planet. But now it appears as if everything the Lost Regiment has fought and ...

  • Down to the Sea

    The Lost Regiment - 9

    FIRST CONTACT...OR LAST? Twenty years after the defeat of the alien Hordes, the human Republic has been exploring, mapping, and taming their new home. Encountering other human colonies while patrolling the great ocean, they hear rumors of a mighty...

  • We Look Like Men of War

    From the bestselling author of The Lost Regiment series comes a factually based narrative of the black military experience in the Civil War.We Look Like Men of War"I was born a slave, as was my father before me, but I shall die a free man...."Thus be...



  • One Second After

    After - 1

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR WILLIAM R. FORSTCHEN TELLS A STORY THAT MIGHT BE ALL TOO TERRIFYINGLY REAL. A story in which one man struggles to save his family and his small North Carolina town after America loses a war that sends our nation bac...

  • Doctors of the Night

    Upon a visit from his great grandson after WWII, an old man revisits his haunted memories of the Civil War… and of the Vampires that mercilessly hunted him there. A novella from the New York Times bestselling author of ONE SECOND AFTER....

  • Pillar to the Sky

    Pandemic drought, skyrocketing oil prices, dwindling energy supplies and wars of water scarcity threaten the planet. Only four people can prevent global chaos. Gary Morgan -- a brilliant, renegade scientist is pilloried by the scientific community...

  • Day of Wrath

    Bob Petersen arrives with his daughter at the Middle Grade school in Maine where he teaches, expecting another regular day but worried about what recent ominous news reports might portend. Suddenly his school -- along with many others across the Unit...

  • One Year After

    After - 2

    Months before publication, William R. Forstchen’s One Second After was cited on the floor of Congress as a book all Americans should read. This thrilling follow-up to that smash hit begins one year after One Second After ends, two years since nucle...

  • The Final Day

    The highly-anticipated follow-up to William R. Forstchen’s New York Times bestsellers, One Second After and One Year After, The Final Day immerses readers once more in the story of our nation’s struggle to rebuild itself after an electromagnetic ...

  • Unite or Die

    After - 3

    From New York Times bestselling author William R. Forstchen comes the third installment in the smash hit One Second After series. This third book in the series immerses listeners once more in the story of our nation's struggle to rebuild itself after...

  • The John Matherson Series:

    This discounted ebundle of the John Matherson Series includes: One Second After, One Year After, The Final Day “Forstchen is the prophet of a new Dark Age. The wise will listen.” -- Stephen Coonts From New York Times bestselling author, William...

  • Twin Flame

  • Carrington's Warning

    A novel set across the twenty-four hours before the earth is hit by a G7-level solar storm, a "Carrington Event" that will shut down and possibly destroy our world's electrical infrastructure An immensely powerful solar flare at the G7 level, call...



  • 48 Hours

    From the New York Times bestselling author of the smash hit One Second After series comes 48 HOURS, a nail-biting and prescient thriller about a solar storm with the power to destroy the world's electrical infrastructure In 48 hours, the Earth wil...

  • Five Years After

    From William R. Forstchen, the New York Times bestselling author of the One Second After series, comes Five Years After, a near-future thriller where John Matherson must contend with new threats to the fragile civilization that he helped rebuild.Five...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

William R. Forstchen has published 41 books.

William R. Forstchen does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Five Years After, was published in August 2023.

The first book by William R. Forstchen, Ice Prophet, was published in July 1983.

Yes. William R. Forstchen has 5 series.
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