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Twenty-one years have passed since the end of the wars against the Insectoids and the rogue AI Machineships. A new generation of Shilohs has joined the Space Force, much to the joy of the AIs that still revere the memory of The Cag, Victor Shiloh. And, once again, humanity is in mortal danger. The temporal backlash from multiple time jumps that the Friendlies had warned against is making itself felt with a vengeance. Can humans and their loyal AI allies find a way to undo their meddling with time? Changing the past without resorting to time travel will be but half the battle.

The Tyrell are a race that love to fight. The more difficult the fight, the better they like it. Every race they find is given the same level of technology and a specific amount of time to exploit it before the Tyrell come back looking for a fight. Humanity is warned by another alien species that the Tyrell are coming, and the race is on to build an Alliance of races strong enough to stand up against an empire whose expansion has been relentless.

After almost a century of peaceful exploration and colonization of space, the United Earth Space Force stumbles across a shockingly xenophobic alien race that has more and better armed ships and refuses all attempts at contact. As the outgunned Space Force is driven back in battle after battle in what appears to be a war of extermination, one officer experiences precognitive visions that help him blunt the enemy onslaught, but he can't control or predict when they occur.

The unprovoked war with a mysterious alien race is going badly. Minor tactical victories are offset by major strategic setbacks. The aliens know where all Human-occupied worlds are while their own worlds are still unknown. Victor Shiloh's unpredictable precognitive visions are the only thing that is slowing the alien onslaught. Not content with gradually pushing Humanity back, Shiloh's vision reveals a massive attack on Earth that will have terrible consequences.

The unprovoked war with the Sogas has reached a climax. Over a hundred Sogas ships appear to be headed for Earth, and Space Force is in no condition to stop them. As if that isn't bad enough, the nightmarish Insectoids will be arriving in Earth orbit within months to finish off the survivors of the impending Sogas attack.

Humanity has colonized over 500 planets under the not-always-benevolent administration of the Federation of Planetary States via the FED Army and Navy. Longstanding grievances over economic exploitation by Earth-based companies have grown into a full-scale rebellion, and attempted secession has been tried by many of the more successful colonies. The Rebels believe a peaceful separation is possible. The FEDs believe an easy and swift military resolution is available.

The Synchronicity War is over, and the insectoid beachheads in our spiral arm have been destroyed, but the aftermath of the war holds some nasty surprises for humanity and its loyal AI allies. Somebody is messing with the human time line. Is it the friendlies, the sogas, the insectoids, or a new race?

The Synchronicity War is going badly for the human race and its loyal AI allies. The 11,000+ humans remaining in the universe are desperately trying to remain undiscovered by their xenophobic alien adversaries while they attempt to rebuild a viable military defense and discover how they're receiving messages from the future.

It is now 1963, and several months have passed in the nuclear-war-ravaged Alpha-Omega 377 universe. Both the United States and Nazi Germany are struggling to recover from the war. The United States is planning to exploit the Kronos technology to rewrite the last 18 years. Meanwhile, an Imperial Germany from another universe is getting ready to rewrite AO377’s last half-century in its own image. Will the Americans under John Kennedy be able to prevent the domination of their timeline by a copycat Imperial Germany, and if they can’t, will AO377 be the first domino to fall in the ...

The year is 1962, and there are Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles in Cuba, but these aren’t Russian missiles. In this alternate universe, Nazi Germany survived WW2 intact and has grown into a nuclear power to rival the US. The trigger for a nuclear war will depend on what happens when American and German nuclear-powered submarines cross paths off the US East Coast. President Kennedy thinks Hitler’s successor, Adenauer, can be reasoned with to avoid nuclear escalation, but the Third Reich’s Supreme Leader has a technological ace up his sleeve-one that involves the manipulation of ...

The Empire is a political entity that encompasses hundreds of colonized worlds united by a common language (Esperanto) and under a single individual, the Emperor. But the Empire is getting old and creaky. Its government is riddled with corruption and is choking on red tape. The Space Force is bloated with the incompetent who have risen to high rank due to nepotism and patronage. The Emperor has been assassinated, and the Empire is surrounded by alien races.

With the System States Union now crushed and Trojan's new Empire on the rise, former foes become allies in a desperate attempt to prevent not only the collapse of human civilization but also the complete extermination of humanity at the hands of a diabolical new power player. Is salvation really possible, or was it all just rumors?

Despite having retro-temporal communication, the war against the 610 insectoid motherships infesting the spiral arm is proving to be difficult. And lurking in the background across the void in the Sagittarius spiral arm, are more insectoid ships of unknown size and number.

The Battle For Mars technothriller series chronicles the clash between two countries to learn the secrets hidden on Mars. Four SpaceX colonists are doomed to die in Mars orbit unless visionary entrepreneurial billionaire Chase Konrad can save them. The Daedalus Mission develops into something far more mysterious and deadly than Konrad expects. The follow-on X-ray, Omega, and Tango missions will shock you with their revelations of what really could be on Mars.

This 108,000-word novel will appeal to fans of military SF, Galactic Empire and Space Opera genres. The collapse of the breakaway System States Alliance leaves the corrupt and rickety 800-year-old Federation victorious but nearly bankrupt. Among the military equipment it is forced to abandon on the planet Poictesme is the ultra-secret super-computer code named Merlin, that managed the strategic, tactical, logistical and administrative aspects of the interstellar war so well. The terrible secret it contains, that the Federation is now doomed to slowly slid into anarchy and chaos that will ...

This narrated galactic action-adventure contains the first two books of the military science fiction and space opera series, The Glory Game. The proposition? Assume command of an armed star-freighter, take orders from a former Vice-Admiral, of a Galactic Empire Navy, with a reputation for recklessness, and liberate a space colony conquered by galactic space pirates. For ex-Captain Damascus "Mac the Knife" Steele, this is an offer he must take if he is going to restore his tarnished reputation as a military officer. What could possibly go wrong?

When the Synthetic Intelligence Val Ky Ree wakes from her emergency shut-down after a climactic battle, she discovers thousands of years have passed, and her creator race, the Aesir, have all gone. The last of her kind, she finds a new purpose in protecting the remaining few thousand humans from the hostile alien races called The Compact. As humanity teeters on the edge of extinction, one human male helps her to realize her destiny.

The first four volumes of this series are now available in Kindle Unlimited in an omnibus edition (The Phoenix Empire Series Vol. 1-4). You can find all my books on my website. www.dwehrsfwriter.com 233 years have passed since the events in Phoenix Imperiled. The Empire has grown to include all the colonized planets that existed at the time of its birth. Over a hundred new colonies have been formed and make up the Rim. They are still independent and resent attempts by Imperial Chartered Companies(ICCs) to exploit them economically. The ICCs have become powerful enough to be a potential ...

The first four volumes in the Phoenix Empire series is once again available in Kindle Unlimited via the Omnibus edition. Everyone on Marduk, the former Capital of the Phoenix Empire, agrees that the Interregnum, the period between empires, has passed. Ambrose Bentrik has declared the Second Imperium, and it is slowly expanding throughout human-explored space. But this new ‘Phoenix’ Empire is fragile, and when Emperor Ambrose decides to ignore the recommendations of his Oracle supercomputer, the Second Imperium veers drastically off course. Tyrel Krieger, a man with very special gifts, ...

This short, popular paranormal action thriller straddles the line between fiction and science fact. Declan Massey is an on-call electronics technician who works at the Very Large Array of radio telescopes not far from Socorro, New Mexico. When his hypnotherapist, Dr. Ian Hightower, commits suicide less than an hour after treating Declan for his recurring anxiety attacks, strange things start to happen to him. Being followed by a black car is just the first. When he starts to experience baffling yet tantalizing hints of paranormal abilities, his search for answers leads him down a rabbit ...