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William H. Keith, Jr. (born August 8, 1950) is a prolific American fiction author with a particular taste for ScienceFiction and [[MilitaryAndWarfareLiterature Military Fiction]] ([[MilitaryScienceFiction often both]]). He served in the United States Navy as a [[TheMedic hospital corpsman]] during UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar and then worked for several years for game companies including Creator/{{FASA}} and Creator/GameDesignersWorkshop (the creators of ''TabletopGame/{{Traveller}}'' and ''TabletopGame/{{Twilight 2000}}'' among others) as an artist and writer before turning to writing full-time. He's averaged one or two books a year since 1986 and has done both ExpandedUniverse material and his own original settings.

He's written under a few pseudonyms and house names, most recently (starting in 1998) Ian Douglas. Many of his older works are currently out-of-print, but may be found used.

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!!Works by William H. Keith, Jr. include:

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* ''Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse'':
** ''Dr. Who & the Vortex Crystal'' (1986)
** ''Dr. Who & the Rebel's Gamble'' (1986)

* ''Franchise/BattleTechExpandedUniverse'':
** ''Saga of the Gray Death Legion'':
*** ''Decision at Thunder Rift'' (1986)
*** ''Mercenary's Star'' (1987)
*** ''The Price of Glory'' (1987)
*** ''Tactics of Duty'' (1995)
*** ''Operation Excalibur'' (1996)
** ''Blood of Heroes'' (with J. Andrew Keith, 1993)

* ''TabletopGame/RenegadeLegion'' expanded universe:
** ''Renegade's Honor'' (1988)

* ''Series/BuckRogersInTheTwentyFifthCentury'' expanded universe:
** ''Invaders of Charon'' duology:
*** ''Nomads of the Sky'' (1992)
*** ''Warlords of Jupiter'' (1993)

* ''Literature/{{Warstrider}}'' series:
** ''Warstrider'' (1993)
** ''Rebellion'' (1993)
** ''Jackers'' (1994)
** ''Symbionts'' (1995)
** ''Netlink'' (1995)
** ''Battlemind'' (1996)

* ''Literature/{{Bolo}}'' SharedUniverse:
** ''Bolo Brigade'' (1997)
** ''Bolo Rising'' (1998)
** ''Bolo Strike'' (2001)

* ''Literature/GalacticMarines'' series, as Ian Douglas
** ''Heritage Trilogy''
*** ''Semper Mars'' (1998)
*** ''Luna Marine'' (1999)
*** ''Europa Strike'' (2000)
** ''Legacy Trilogy''
*** ''Star Corps'' (2003)
*** ''Battlespace'' (2006)
*** ''Star Marines'' (2007)
** ''Inheritance Trilogy'' %% not the same one we have as a separate wiki article
*** ''Star Strike'' (2008)
*** ''Galactic Corps'' (2008)
*** ''Semper Human'' (2009)

* ''Series/BabylonFive'' expanded universe:
** ''Frontier Earth'' duology, ghostwritten for Creator/BruceBoxleitner
*** ''Frontier Earth'' (1999)
*** ''Frontier Earth: Searcher'' (2001)

* ''Diplomatic Act'' (1998), with Creator/PeterJurasik, inspired by Jurasik's role as Londo Mollari

* ''TabletopGame/StarDrive'' expanded universe:
** ''Two of Minds'' (1999)

* ''Literature/TheSilentService'' series, as H. Jay Riker, taking over from J. Andrew Keith
** ''Los Angeles Class'' (2001)
** ''Seawolf Class'' (2002)
** ''Virginia Class'' (2004)
** ''Ohio Class'' (2006)

* ''Literature/{{Retief}}'' SharedUniverse:
** ''Retief's Peace'' (2005)

* ''Literature/DeepBlack'' series, with Creator/StephenCoonts (previous novels were by Coonts and Creator/JimDeFelice)
** ''Arctic Gold'' (2009)
** ''Sea of Terror'' (2010)
** ''Death Wave'' (2011)

* ''Literature/StarCarrier'' series, as Ian Douglas
** ''Earth Strike'' (2010)
** ''Center of Gravity'' (2011)
** ''Singularity'' (2012)
** ''Deep Space'' (2013)
** ''Dark Matter'' (2014)
** ''Deep Time'' (2015)
** ''Dark Mind'' (2017)
** ''Bright Light'' (2018)
** ''Stargods'' (2020)

* ''Literature/AndromedanDark'' series, as Ian Douglas
** ''Altered Starscape'' (2016)
** ''Darkness Falling'' (2017)
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!!Works by William H. Keith, Jr. (as Ian Douglas) with their own pages:

* ''Literature/GalacticMarines''
* ''Literature/SolarWarden''
* ''Literature/StarCarrier''
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