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)
- Saga of the Gray Death Legion:
- 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)
- Invaders of Charon duology:
- 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)
- Heritage Trilogy
- Babylon 5 expanded universe:
- Frontier Earth duology, ghostwritten for Bruce Boxleitner
- Frontier Earth (1999)
- Frontier Earth: Searcher (2001)
- Frontier Earth duology, ghostwritten for Bruce Boxleitner
- 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)