Books by William C. Dietz and Complete Book Reviews

William C. Dietz, Author . Ace $21.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-441-00857-5
Paranoids, take note. Bestselling military SF author Dietz (By Blood Alone; By Force of Arms; etc.) requires just the first six lines to destroy every major city on Earth in this overheated opener of a near-future alien-invasion epic, which reads...
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William C. Dietz, Author . Ace $23.95 (418p) ISBN 978-0-441-00971-8
This concluding sequel to Dietz's Deathday (2001) contains the same wide cast of characters whose recognizability (burnt-out pro, canny vet, manipulative pol with sincere heart, etc.) is balanced by their better-than-average depth of portrayal.
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William C. Dietz, Author . Ace $24.95 (410p) ISBN 978-0-441-01198-8
Careful plotting and realistically messy detail help lift Dietz's sixth military SF novel (after 2003's For More Than Glory ) about the Legion of the Damned, an army of biobod humans, aliens and brain boxes installed in mechanical bodies,...
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William C. Dietz, Author . Ace $24.95 (424p) ISBN 978-0-441-01326-5
Known for his hard SF, Dietz (Legion of the Damned ) changes pace with this engaging effort, whose philosophical themes evoke Isaac Asimov's classic Foundation series. In a bleak far future, many technological advances, including interstellar...
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William C. Dietz, Author . Ace $24.95 (342p) ISBN 978-0-441-01524-5
The seventh Legion of the Damned novel (after 2004's For Those Who Fell ) continues the unapologetically brutal military SF saga with a pedal-to-the-metal plot jam-packed with intrigue, deep space adventure and futuristic combat. With an...
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William C. Dietz, Author . Ace $24.95 (310p) ISBN 978-0-441-01759-1
Prolific military SF author Dietz starts a duology with a testosterone-soaked tale of violent retribution. Jak Cato is a member of the Xeno Corps, a cadre of soldiers bio-engineered by the Uman Empire to deal with the shape-shifting Sagathi. A...
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William C. Dietz, Author Ace Books $7.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-441-48040-1
This imperial space opera takes up the theme of fighting against impossible odds. At the center of the story is a futuristic French Foreign Legion made up of cyborgs and other societal misfits. The scrappy, chip-on-their-shoulder soldiers occupy...
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William C. Dietz, Author Ace Books $24.95 (496p) ISBN 978-0-441-01091-2
In Dietz's elaborate military-political thriller set on the galactic backwater world of LaNor, Lieutenant Antonio Santana, officer in a futuristic version of the French Foreign Legion, battles a far-reaching interplanetary conspiracy as off-world
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William C. Dietz, Author Ace Books $24.95 (357p) ISBN 978-0-441-01428-6
At the start of Dietz's fast-moving sequel to Runner (2005), human civilization is about to lapse into a new dark age after the collapse of an interstellar empire threatens to isolate many of the inhabited worlds. However, the web of star gates that
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William C. Dietz. Ace, $7.99 mass market (304p) ISBN 978-0-425-27334-0
The intrigue intensifies for Cassandra Lee, a detective in the LAPD’s Special Investigative Section, in this sharp sequel to Deadeye. In the 2060s, America is recovering from a mutation-inducing plague. Cass is still hunting the Bonebreaker, a...
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William C. Dietz. Ace, $27 (352p) ISBN 978-0-425-27874-1
The final volume (following Seek and Destroy) in prolific military SF author Dietz’s America Rising trilogy is saturated with swift thunderclap battles. Dietz finely concludes his second American civil war, which resulted from reactions to a series...
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