The ''Warstrider series'' is a series of novels by

William H. Keith, Jr. William H. Keith (born August 8, 1950) is an American author mainly contributing to military science fiction and military fiction and related game design, who writes also under several pen names, such as Ian Douglas, Robert Cain and H. Jay R ...

, a former author of licensed

BattleTech ''BattleTech'' is a wargaming and military science fiction franchise launched by FASA Corporation in 1984, acquired by WizKids in 2001, which was in turn acquired by Topps in 2003; and published since 2007 by Catalyst Game Labs. The tradema ...

tie-in novels.

Premise

The future. Japan has taken control of

Earth Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life. While large volumes of water can be found throughout the Solar System, only Earth sustains liquid surface water. About 71% of Earth's surfa ...

politics and of the majority of human colonies on other worlds and humanity is engaged with aliens known as Xenophobes. Humanity has never managed to communicate with the Xenophobes and only has the latter's attacks to learn about them. Later books detail humanity's conflict with itself, and a race of artificial beings called the Web. A subplot involves collective intelligence.

Development

"This was my baby, my first SF series that was entirely my own universe. It's set in the 26th century and involves fringe-of-empire settlers breaking away from an overbearing Earth government dominated by the Japanese Empire ..which had the sense to grab the high ground of space when the U.S. abandoned it in the early 2000s. Most of the first book revolves around a war with some VERY strange aliens, while the rest pit frontier rebels against the Empire ..then involve both in a struggle against a malevolent AI machine threat from the Galactic Core." From the William H. Keith, Jr. website

Series works

# ''Warstrider'' (1993) () # ''Rebellion'' (1993) () # ''Jackers'' (1994) () # ''Symbionts'' (1995) () # ''Netlink'' (1995) () # ''Battlemind'' (1996) () # ''The Ten Billion Gods of Heaven'' (2015) (Kindle Book only) The first six books were reissued as e-books in 2014.Overdrive.com: Warstrider series
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References

External links

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