Користувач:Rayan Riener/Вільям К. Дітц

Rayan Riener/Вільям К. Дітц

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William C. Dietz (born 1945) is an American science fiction writer, principally of military science fiction novels and video game novelizations.

Biography

Dietz grew up in the Seattle area and served in the Navy and Marine Corps as a Corpsman. 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 books 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.

Crisis of Empire

• Cluster Command (with David Drake)

Drifter series

• Drifter
• Drifter’s Run
• Drifter’s War

Jak Rebo

• Runner
• Runner: Logos Run (HC)

Legion series

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)

Resistance

• Resistance: A Hole In The Sky, Sony/Del Rey
• Resistance: The Gathering Storm, Sony/Del Rey

Rex Corvan

• Matrix Man
• Mars Prime

Sam McCade

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

• McCade For Hire (omnibus of Galactic Bounty and Imperial Bounty)
• McCade On The Run (omnibus of Alien Bounty and McCade’s Bounty)

The Sauron duology

• DeathDay
• EarthRise

Jak Cato

• At Empire's Edge
• Bones of Empire

Star Wars novels

• Star Wars: Dark Forces
• Soldier For The Empire, Dark Forces, Lucas Films (HC)
• Rebel Agent, Dark Forces, Lucas Films (HC)
• Jedi Knight, Dark Forces, Lucas Films (HC)

Mass Effect franchise

• Mass Effect: Deception

Starcraft franchise

• StarCraft II: Heaven's Devils, Simon & Schuster

Halo franchise

• Halo: The Flood, Del Rey Books/Bungie

Hitman franchise

• Hitman: Enemy Within, Del Rey

Other novels

• Freehold
• Prison Planet
• Where The Ships Die
• Bodyguard
• Steelheart
• Ejecta (ebook)
• The Seeds of Man (ebook)
• Rogan's World (ebook)

Video games

• Legion of the Damned (iPhone game)
• Resistance: Burning Skies (with Mike Bates)

External links

• Офіційний сайт
• Interview with William C. Dietz
• The William C. Dietz Bibliography
• William C. Dietz на сайті Internet Speculative Fiction Database (англ.)

Category:1945 births Category:Living people Category:20th-century American novelists Category:21st-century American novelists Category:American male novelists Category:American science fiction writers Category:American short story writers Category:Male short story writers