William C. Dietz ist ein gefeierter Autor, dessen Erzählungen sich häufig mit der Komplexität menschlicher Verbindungen in herausfordernden Umständen befassen. Sein Schreiben zeichnet sich durch aufschlussreiche Einblicke in die Psychologie der Charaktere und seine Fähigkeit, fesselnde Handlungen zu gestalten, aus. Mit seinem vielfältigen beruflichen Hintergrund verleiht er seinen Geschichten eine einzigartige Perspektive und beachtliche Tiefe. Sein Stil bietet dem Leser sowohl Zugänglichkeit als auch intellektuelle Anregung und sorgt für eine unvergessliche literarische Reise.
From the New York Times bestselling author of the Legion of the Damned Novels comes the final novel in a post-apocalyptic military science fiction trilogy about a nation wracked by a civil war.
From the New York Times bestselling author of the Legion of the Damned Novels comes the second novel in a post-apocalyptic science fiction series. As people fight to survive the after effects of more than a dozen meteor strikes, a group of wealthy individuals conspires to rebuild the United States as a corporate entity called the New Confederacy, where the bottom line is law. As a second civil war rages, with families fighting against families on opposite sides, Union president Samuel T. Sloan battles to keep the country whole. To help in the fight for unity, Union Army captain Robin "Mac" Macintyre and her crew of Stryker vehicles are sent after the ruthless "warlord of warlords," an ex-Green Beret who rules a large swath of the West. But defeating him will be even more difficult than she thought. The warlord is receiving military assistance from Mac's sister--and rival--Confederate major Victoria Macintyre. And when the siblings come together in the war-torn streets of New Orleans, only one of them will walk away.
As the war with the Ramanthian continues, Captain Antonio Santana and his force of biobods and cyborgs find themselves surrounded by enemy forces. On the home front, Santana's love-diplomat Christine Vanderveen-meets the charismatic newly elected president of the Clone Republic, and finds herself torn between old love and new loyalty.
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 and Christine Vanderveen will risk everything to save the Confederacy, billions of lives - and their future together.
The year is 2065, almost thirty years since a bioterrorist attack decimated the population. The world has been divided, and new nations have formed. In the nation of Pacifica, Los Angeles detective Cassandra Lee must cross into mutant territory in order to solve the city's toughest crimes.
Having stopped a mutiny against Earth's government, General Bill Booly and his troops face an even greater challenge: a battle for the future of every living being in the universe, against a fanatical human and his killer technology.
Captured by the alien Ramanthians, diplomat Christine Vanderveen must protect the Confederacy's President from both their captors and fellow prisoners. But rescue is on the way, led by Lieutenant Tonio Sanchez. Vanderveen's former lover, who must try to set aside his personal feelings for the sake of the mission.
To ensure the survival of The Confederacy, the Legion of the Damned must establish a new capital on the planet Algeron - and seize faster-than-light technology from alien forces before it can be used against them.
Legion General Bill Booly knows that peace is just a pause between wars. He's just crushed one uprising, and now a new rebellion is already brewing on a remote world light years away - spawning a web of terrorism that is close enough to catch the vulnerable Confederacy in its grasp.
Hundreds of years in the future, Cat, one of the last surviving Carlettos, is on the run. And, like countless others before her, she finds her sanctuary among the most dangerous of society's misfits. Welcome to the Legion. Cat Carletto becomes a Legion recruit Andromeda McKee. A woman with a mission - to bring down Empress Ophelia - or die trying.
Andromeda McKee rebuilt her life in the violent embrace of the Legion of the Damned in the days when cyborgs were first being introduced. Summoned to Earth, Andromeda learns that she isn't the sole surviving Carletto - her uncle Rex is the leader of a resistance group determined to overthrow Ophelia.
Now a platoon leader, Legionnaire Andromeda McKee seems to have successfully left behind her true identity of Lady Catherine Cat Carletto. When the empress' ship crashes on a hostile planet and Andromeda is assigned to head up the rescue mission, she will finally come face to face with her greatest enemy.
In a Legion gone lax, Colonel Bill Booly, with his mixed-blood and by-the-book attitude, is a misfit. So when he steps on some important toes, his punishment is assignment to the worst post in the galaxy: Earth. But Booly and his troops will turn out to be Earth's best line of defense, with a Legion-led military coup topples the government.
Book Description The fourth official tie-in novel to MASS EFFECT, the award-winning videogame Product Description This novel continues the all-new, completely original story begun in the first three MASS EFFECT stories. The heroine, Gillian, was once the subject of horrifying scientific experiments, but now, after her rescue, she is beginning to master her amazing powers. But when she falls under the sway of a radical group who believes their powers make them superior to ordinary humans, she finds herself faced with a choice between her destiny . . . and her humanity. About the Author WILLIAM C. DIETZ is the best-selling author of more than thirty novels some of which have been translated into German, Russian, and Japanese. He grew up in the Seattle area, spent time with the Navy and Marine Corps as a medic, graduated from the University of Washington, lived in Africa for half a year, and has traveled to six continents. Dietz has been employed as a surgical technician, college instructor, news writer, television producer and Director of Public Relations and Marketing for an international telephone company. Dietz is a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, the Writer's Guild, and the International Association of Media Tie-In Writers. He and his wife live in Washington State where they enjoy traveling, kayaking, and not too surprisingly, reading books.
In July 1951, after Russia's isolation, Earth faces the Chimera, insatiable alien invaders who overran Europe by 1950. Only Britain holds them at bay. By November 1952, the Chimera invade the US, where immune US Ranger Lieutenant Nathan Hale leads a team against them, realizing the greatest threat may come from within.
In den Gildenkriegen kämpfen die Bewohner der Konföderation, darunter der 18-jährige Jim Raynor, der für seine Familie kämpfen will. Gemeinsam mit dem Spacemarine Tychus Findlay erlebt er die korrupte Machenschaften der Konföderation und die damit verbundene Zerstörung seines Volkes.
Die Sternenlegion ist ein mutiger Trupp von Kämpfern, der mit extremen Aufträgen in der Galaxis betraut wird. Diese US-Bestsellerserie bietet spannende Military-Science-Fiction und wird mit Werken von John Ringo und David Weber verglichen. Ein großer Erfolg der letzten Jahre, der für Action und Nervenkitzel sorgt.
Für alle Fans von John Ringo und Mechwarrior-DarkAge - William Dietz' Sternenlegion§§Sie sind ein verschworener Haufen furchtloser Kämpfer und werden mit den unmöglichsten Aufträgen betraut, die die Galaxis zu vergeben hat: die Angehörigen der Sternenlegion. William Dietz' US-Bestsellerserie nun endlich auch in Deutschland - Military-Science-Fiction, wie sie John Ringo (»Invasion«) oder David Weber (»Honor Harrington«) nicht besser schreiben könnten. Der Auftakt zu einem der größten Science-Fiction-Erfolge der letzten Jahre.§
Der erbarmungslose Krieg zwischen Menschen und Allianz hat seinen vorläufigen Höhepunkt auf der geheimnisvollen Ringwelt HALO gefunden. Hier stellen sich die dezimierten Streitkräfte der Erde ihrem weit überlegenen Feind.§§Doch die heimtückischen Krieger der Allianz sind nicht die einzigen Gefahren, die auf HALO lauern ...
An invasion by the alien Saurons has devastated Earth, until Jack Manning, Chief of Security of a government created to insure human cooperation with the conquerors, and Alex Franklin, the government's puppet president, join forces to undertake an underground war of resistance. Reprint.
On Black Friday, the aliens attacked. The human race was enslaved. But soon, everything will change.
It falls to Harley Doon, an android and a most reluctant hero, to unite the human, alien, and android forces on a future planet against an alien race that seeks to use its total control of technology for evil
Als Kyle Katarn vom Tod seines Vaters erfährt, der angeblich von einem Rebellen getötet wurde, verlässt er die Militärakademie und macht sich sofort auf die Heimreise. Unterwegs lernt er eine junge Agentin der Rebellen kennen und beschliesst, mit ihr gemeinsam seinen Vater zu rächen.
But for Princess Claudia, it is the chance to seize power and plunge humanity into war. Only the prince can stop her--and only McCade, the galaxy's best bounty hunter, can find him in time.
