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William H. Keith, Jr. (born August 8, 1950) is a prolific American fiction author with a particular taste for Science Fiction and Military Fiction (often both). He served in the United States Navy as a hospital corpsman during The Vietnam War and then worked for several years for game companies including FASA and Game Designers Workshop (the creators of Traveller and 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 Expanded Universe 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.


    Works 

Works by William H. Keith, Jr. include:

  • Doctor Who Expanded Universe:
    • Dr. Who & the Vortex Crystal (1986)
    • Dr. Who & the Rebel's Gamble (1986)

  • BattleTech Expanded Universe:
    • 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)

  • Renegade Legion expanded universe:
    • Renegade's Honor (1988)

  • Buck Rogers in the 25th Century expanded universe:
    • Invaders of Charon duology:
      • Nomads of the Sky (1992)
      • Warlords of Jupiter (1993)

  • Warstrider series:
    • Warstrider (1993)
    • Rebellion (1993)
    • Jackers (1994)
    • Symbionts (1995)
    • Netlink (1995)
    • Battlemind (1996)

  • Bolo Shared Universe:
    • Bolo Brigade (1997)
    • Bolo Rising (1998)
    • Bolo Strike (2001)

  • Galactic Marines 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
      • Star Strike (2008)
      • Galactic Corps (2008)
      • Semper Human (2009)

  • Babylon 5 expanded universe:
    • Frontier Earth duology, ghostwritten for Bruce Boxleitner
      • Frontier Earth (1999)
      • Frontier Earth: Searcher (2001)

  • Diplomatic Act (1998), with Peter Jurasik, inspired by Jurasik's role as Londo Mollari

  • Star*Drive expanded universe:
    • Two of Minds (1999)

  • The Silent Service series, as H. Jay Riker, taking over from J. Andrew Keith
    • Los Angeles Class (2001)
    • Seawolf Class (2002)
    • Virginia Class (2004)
    • Ohio Class (2006)

  • Retief Shared Universe:
    • Retief's Peace (2005)

  • Deep Black series, with Stephen Coonts (previous novels were by Coonts and Jim De Felice)
    • Arctic Gold (2009)
    • Sea of Terror (2010)
    • Death Wave (2011)

  • Star Carrier 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)

  • Andromedan Dark series, as Ian Douglas
    • Altered Starscape (2016)
    • Darkness Falling (2017)

Works by William H. Keith, Jr. (as Ian Douglas) with their own pages:


Alternative Title(s): Ian Douglas

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