William C Dietz

Biography

Dietz grew up in the Seattle area and served in the Navy as a Corpsman , serving in a Marine Corps unit. He graduated from the University of Washington, and lived in Africa for half a year.

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. He and his wife Marjorie live near the city of Gig Harbor in Washington State.

Work

Dietz indicated that he discovered science fiction while in grade school and continued to read SF from that point on. He knew he wanted to be a writer at age twenty or so, but never got around to it until he was thirty-nine, which was one year shy of a self-imposed deadline of forty.

Dietz wrote War World (now Galactic Bounty) in 1984. It was accepted for publication upon Dietz's initial submission. From that point on, he continued to produce at least a book a year, eventually becoming a full-time novelist in 2002. He has written over forty novels.

Dietz has written a number of notable tie-in novels including Halo: The Flood based on the popular Halo series of video games, as well as three Star Wars expanded universe novels featuring the adventures of Kyle Katarn, and two books in the popular Resistance universe. He also wrote the script for the Legion of the Damned game (iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad) based on his book of the same name—and co-wrote Sony's Resistance: Burning Skies game for the PS Vita along with Mike Bates.

Works

As Dietz wrote Galactic Bounty it was his intention to create a sprawling universe that could be used as a setting for numerous books. Galactic Bounty, Imperial Bounty, Alien Bounty, McCade's Bounty, Drifter, Drifter's Run, Drifter's War, Freehold, and Prison Planet were all set in what Dietz refers to as the "McCade universe." And some of the books share characters or refer to each other in some way. Most of the themes that Dietz likes to write about including futuristic soldiers, alien politics, cyborgs, and shape shifters are all established in these early novels.

1. Legion of the Damned (1993)
2. The Final Battle (1995)
3. By Blood Alone (1999)
4. By Force of Arms (2000)
5. For More Than Glory (2004)
6. For Those Who Fell (2005)
7. When All Seems Lost (2008)
8. When Duty Calls (2008)
9. A Fighting Chance (2011)
10. Andromeda's Fall (2012)
11. Andromeda's Choice (2013)
12. Andromeda's War (2014)

1. Galactic Bounty (War World)
2. Imperial Bounty
3. Alien Bounty
4. McCade’s Bounty