William H. Keith, Jr is one of the prominent authors from America, who likes to write action, thriller, and science fiction novels. He has written the Cybernac, Galactic Marines, Freendom’s Rangers, Warstrider, Star Carrier, and The Warrior Breed series. Besides writing novels for himself, author Keith has also contributed to a few series from other authors as well. Some of them include the Doctor Who, Carrier, Seal Team Seven, Battle Tech, Buck Rogers, Star Drive, and many others. In addition to using his original name for writing his novels, author Keith also uses a few pen names, including Ian Douglas, Keith Douglass, Robert Cain, Bill Keith, H. Jay Riker, and Keith Willliam Andrews. In many of his books, Keith has drawn upon the experiences that he gained while serving in the United States Navy on the post of hospital corpsman. Author Keith is a Reiki and Wiccan master. He started his writing career by writing role playing games as freelancer. The first novel written by him is Doctor Who & the Vortex Crystal. It was published in the year 1986. Author Keith was born on August 8, 1950. He spent most his childhood days in the western mountains of Pennsylvania. Keith joined the Navy at the time of the Vietnam War as a corpsman. Later, he continued to serve in the medical field as a civilian. After starting as an illustrator, he went on to become a full time writer. He has to his name around 78 novels, 10 nonfiction books, and 20 short stories. His novels range from science fiction to military technothrillers to action & adventure. Author Keith has said that he has his first interest in science fiction, especially the military science fiction with the hard-science, realistic edge. Keith’s previous career as a game developer and illustrator was also a successful one. He has around 40 games and modules to his credit as a professional developer.
Keith’s interest in painting and artwork has also worked wonders for him. His paintings are often displayed during the summers at the Confluence in Pittsburgh. Since the year 1984, author Keith has been writng full time. He has turned out numerous books in an effort to compete with Isaac Asimov. Author Keith continues to write even today. He has lined up a few exciting new novels, which are about to be published soon. Recently, Keith has branched out to write nonfiction books, ghostwriting works, and co-authoring with some of the prominent names of the science fiction genre. Whenever author Keith is not busy with his writing works, he likes to indulge in several sports activities like hiking. He also loves to participate in Mensa. Keith ha given guest lectures at a number of colleges and Mensa events nearby his residence. He generally speaks on the topics related the fiction genre writing, propulsion system of spacecrafts, the future of the humans in space. Keith is a dedicated practitioner of Reiki, which he also teaches others. For the purpose of writing his new nonfiction book, Keith keeps himself busy with the research works of metaphysical phenomena. He can be found soaked in a tub of hot water very often. As of today, author Keith resides in a small town, located in the Laurel Mountains. He lives with his partner named Brea, 3 cats, a several aquatic creatures and plants.
One of the popular novel series written by William H. Keith is called as ‘Warstrider’. It is comprised of a total of 7 books, which were released between the years 1993 and 2015. An initial novel written in this series is entitled ‘Jackers’. It was released by the War Planet publication in the year 2014, after its initial release in 1994. Author Keith has introduced the main character in the story of this book as Dev Cameron. At the start of the story, it is described that Dev Cameron was a gaijin champion of an oppressive and cruel Empire once. But now, he has become the military commander of a newborn rebellion called as Confederation. Dev Cameron has brought the whole of galaxy and its powerful rulers at peace with each other. However, treachery is still prevalent and has shattered the truce and the Imperial lords have prepared to bring down destruction upon the New America’s outpost. By doing so, they deliver the final blow to the young revolution. Now, it appears that only an incomprehensible act can help Dev Cameron save his cause. This act shares a miraculous link with the alien kind that seems to have the power to change the future’s course by turning a man into god.
Another mind blowing book published in this series is titled as ‘The Ten Billion Gods of Heaven’. The War Planet Press released this book too in the year 2015. Author Keith has depicted the central characters in this novel same as those in the previous books of the series. At the beginning of this novel’s story, it is shown that after several decades of the independence declaration by the colony planets of the Confederation, they remain largely outnumbered by the Japan dominated Empire on Earth. It seems that a new discovery is about to shake the power balance of the galaxy. A system of solar elements that span the fragments of the artificial intelligence of the galaxy, called as the Web, is found to be located within human civilization’s reach. However, no one is aware whether this system is hostile, peaceful, of extremely indifferent to the events on the human scale. The Imperial forces and Confederation enter into a race to establish contact with this alien machine and form an alliance. If this happens, the conflict of humanity could be swung in any direction. And if this does not seem possible, each of the forces will try to make sure that the others are not able to survive the huge confrontation. To achieve this, the forces would use any means that they feel will be necessary. This novel was highly appreciated by the critics and the readers all across the globe. They gave numerous positive reviews after reading the book. This helped author Keith to achieve more success in his career. The success also motivated him to keep writing many more interesting books and stories in the future. The readers are now waiting with anticipation for author Keith to publish a new novel in this excellent science fiction series. Author Keith has mentioned that he is currently working on completing a new story as a part of this series, which he is going to publish any time soon in the coming days in the form of a novel. He says that he is grateful to his fans who have supported him and liked his books.
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