Dietmar Wehr
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Dietmar started writing science fiction full time at age 59 after a career in corporate financial analysis. He has written over 40 novels that include; military SF, space opera, technothrillers, paranormal thriller, plus an anthology of dark and gritty sf stories meant for adults only. Many of his books are available as audiobooks. Four of his Synchronicity War series have been translated into Japanese. He lives with his son near Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada.
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The Last Valkyrie
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Space Opera
When the Synthetic Intelligence Val Ky Ree wakes from her emergency shut-down after a climatic 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. She takes on a new role as the last of the mythical Valkyries who have been given the power to decide who lives and who dies. She will need all that power and her Warrior Code discipline when an old threat from the past re-emerges, a threat that this time, she must face alone. Here is what readers have said about this book: This was a great book with a lot of twists and turns, loved it. Kept me coming back to it so I could finish reading it. I read this book as fast as possible and gave up some sleep to finish it. Really good character depth and action. A classic space opera. 
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The Hunt For Seawolf 4
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Technothriller
In the dying days of the war in Europe, Nazi scientists manage to put an atomic bomb into orbit. Only a miracle prevented them from bringing it back down on New York. Thirteen years later, with the bomb still in orbit, the Black Sun, a secret neo-Nazi organization with considerable financial and technological resources at their command, builds the Seawolf 4, a super-sub capable of traveling under the Arctic icecap, where it will transmit the order for the satellite bomb to descend on the USSR while at the same time launching a A-bomb armed cruise missile at an American city in the hopes of starting World War III. The only hope of stopping them are the new US nuclear subs, Nautilus and Skate. Can one of them find the Seawolf 4 in time? Tom Clancy and Clive Cussler fans will enjoy this tension-filled thriller that combines real world events in the 40’s and 50’s with a dash of science fiction. This novel is fiction but you’ll be astonished by how much of it is true when you read the Author’s comments at the end. 
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The Pulsar Paradox
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Paranormal Thriller
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 hole that might make another person begin to question their own sanity. Declan knows he hasn’t gone insane. For one thing, someone starts sending him clues that gradually expand his understanding of what Dr. Hightower was really up to when he hypnotized Declan, and for another thing, the two detectives who are investigating Hightower’s death aren’t completely convinced that it was a suicide. Then the body count starts to go up. As the pieces of the jigsaw puzzle start to fill in, Declan begins to suspect that there’s a mysterious connection between the VLA, his ‘anxiety attacks’, Hightower’s activities and death, and a bizarre paranormal phenomenon. But there’s still one last missing piece to the puzzle. Something so shocking that it will change Declan Massey’s life forever…if he survives long enough to discover it. This tension-filled psychic thriller will keep you on the edge of your seat and leave you wondering if this might really happen. 
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Jumping The Abyss
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Technothriller
This novella contains 31,000 words.The first manned mission to Alpha Centauri is in trouble. Pathfinder carries experts from six nations to survey the Earth-like moon, named New Haven, discovered by a robot probe, in advance of the arrival of other colony ships built inside hollowed-out asteroids. New Haven is mankind’s only hope of avoiding extinction from the inevitable deluge of comets disrupted from their orbits by a rogue, brown dwarf star. With only weeks left before arrival at New Haven, the collegial atmosphere among the passengers is shattered by a shocking death and an apparent attempt at sabotage. But something more is going on besides dysfunctional human personalities, that could threaten the entire mission and humanity’s survival. Can the passengers put aside their national prejudices and solve this mystery, and if they can, what surprises wait for them in Alpha Centauri? This suspense-filled technothriller will keep you on the edge of your seat. 
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Whiskey Kilo One Is Down
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Technothriller
An alien satellite has been orbiting Earth since at least the 1950s. The U.S. Space Force wants to capture it and bring it back for analysis. China will do anything to stop them, even if it means risking nuclear war. This 42,000 word action-packed, technothriller set in the year 2022, is fiction. But it could become tomorrow’s headlines. Contains language some might find offensive. Historical Fact: The May 14th, 1954 edition of the San Francisco Examiner revealed to the public the existence of a mysterious satellite of unknown origin in a highly unusual polar orbit, later nicknamed the Black Knight. British astronomers estimated its weight at over 9 tons! Space Force Major Curt Branson’s X-37C spaceplane has been damaged by a Chinese anti-satellite weapon. His oxygen is running out fast, and he has only two choices, crash land on the Arctic icecap with a slim chance of survival or make an emergency landing in Russia, against Presidential orders. What would you do? 
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The Star Pilot Blues
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Space Opera
My name? Rook. Bishop Rook, star pilot. And yeah, I own and pilot a one-man starfreighter between stations out beyond the Core systems. You think it’s a glamorous life and an easy way to get rich quick, right? Wrong. It’s an easy way to go broke fast or get dead even faster. Sure, a few star pilots strike it rich. And then, if they’re smart, they sell their ships and do something safe. The rest of us are scrambling to keep our ships operable while we deal with the corrupt, psychotic, or just downright evil people who inhabit the amber and red zones where the only law is what you make yourself. And then there’s what the Core Space Navy recruitment posters euphemistically refer to as the ‘wonderous unknown’ out there in deep space. Wondrous, my ass! Terrifying is a better adjective if the rumors we star pilots share with each other are true. I keep telling myself that I should have stayed in the Core Space Navy. Running down pirates and smugglers might be boring, but the odds of surviving another year are pretty good. Yet here I am, piloting the ugliest starfreighter you’ve ever seen. So far, I’ve managed to keep my head attached to my body and above water. And if you buy me a drink, I’ll tell you an interesting story or two. 
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Armageddon Alley: Cross-Time Wars #1
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Time Travel
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 time, and he is quite willing to roll the dice on a nuclear war. What both leaders don’t realize yet is that their timeline is not the only one and that their countries are mere pawns on a chessboard that spans hundreds of parallel universes. Armageddon Alley chronicles the tense opening moves in the Cross-Time Wars saga. 
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The Kronos Gambit: Cross-Time Wars #2
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Time Travel
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 Kaiser’s grand scheme to change hundreds of timelines? If you’re into reading a time war book, then this series is for you. 
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Return of the Star Raiders
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Space Opera
After the collapse of the interstellar Federation, human civilization descended into a new Dark Age as planets, cut off from Earth and each other reverted to a lower tech level. After centuries of struggling to pull themselves back up by their bootstraps, they face a new and terrible threat. Raiders with faster-than-light ships and contra-gravity tanks steal anything they want and kill anyone that gets in their way. This military SF novel is the story of three generations of a family as they fight to protect their planet and loved ones from the forces of chaos. 
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The Daedalus Mission
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Technothriller
This hard science technothriller is the opening salvo in the Battle For Mars series. The year is 2029, and four SpaceX astronauts are about to enter orbit around Mars in preparation for a landing on the red planet. But there’s a problem. The ship carrying the astronauts has been leaking fuel for most of the trip, and now it doesn’t have enough left for a landing attempt. Complicating matters further, the Chinese have sent a manned spacecraft to Mars, too. Will they try to beat the SpaceX team to be the first humans to set foot on Mars? Are they going to try to land on Phobos, the Martian moon, for a closer look at the mysterious monolith that seems to be there? The only hope for the SpaceX astronauts is an untested spacecraft/propulsion system developed by a rival company, a company created and led by a reclusive billionaire who seems to want to put SpaceX out of business. Who will land on Mars first? Is the Phobos monolith a natural or artificial object? And what is the Chinese agenda regarding Mars? This tension-filled short novel also includes a science fact article on colonizing Mars. 
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The Complete Battle For Mars Series
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Technothriller
The Battle For Mars technothriller series chronicles the clash between two countries to learn the secrets hidden on Mars. This realistic sci-fi thriller, which could be the subject of tomorrow’s headlines, will keep you on the edge of your seat until the very last page. Four SpaceX colonists are doomed to die in Mars orbit unless visionary entrepreneurial billionaire Chase Konrad can save them. The Daedalus Mission, which is the first book in the series, develops into something far more mysterious and deadly than Konrad expects. And the follow-on missions that result from it, the X-ray, Omega, and Tango missions, will shock you with their revelations of what really could be on Mars. 
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Steele's Hammer
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Military Science Fiction
All three volumes in this series can be read in The Complete Glory Game Series ebook. Damascus ‘Mac the Knife’ Steele, formerly a Captain in the Hereditary Republic of Caledonia Navy and now discharged on half-pay status, is asked by a beautiful woman to help liberate her father’s planetary kingdom from occupation by pirates. Steele soon discovers that things are not what they seem. The pirates are somehow involved with an interstellar conglomerate bent on dominating the newly-discovered network of wormholes between super-giant stars, and the Princess may be hiding a secret that could put Steele’s life in jeopardy. To complicate matters further, the Princess has hired a former HRCN Vice-Admiral notorious for her recklessness to lead the liberation effort. In the cold void of space, outnumbered and outgunned, can Steele find a way to keep from being killed while he tries to figure out what’s really going on? 
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The Complete Glory Game Series
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Galactic Empires
This ebook contains all three volumes in the series (Steele's Hammer, Steele's Demon Star, Steele's War). In a universe where interstellar commerce and politics among the many human colonies on other planets have been disrupted by the discovery of wormholes between giant stars, Captain Damascus 'Mac the Knife' Steele has no choice but to get involved in a highly risky mercenary venture that rapidly grows into something far more dangerous, not just for himself, but for all humanity. This military SF series will appeal to fans of David Weber's Honor Harrington series. 
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Phoenix Dawn
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Galactic Empires
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 last for centuries, has to be kept secret to prevent an even faster and more violent collapse. But it also contains another secret. To avoid a new Dark Age, a new SSA must rise from the ashes of the old one. Can a few surviving SSA veterans find a way to make the Phoenix rise again? 
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The Phoenix Empire Series Vol. 1-4
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Galactic Empires
This military SF/Galactic Empire series chronicles the rise of the Phoenix Empire out of the ashes of the defeated System States Alliance and spans hundreds of years. You’ll see the full range of human endeavors from strategic decisions made at the highest levels that affect millions of people right down to the individual men and women who do the fighting and sometimes dying for and against the Phoenix Empire. And in between are the military battles where admirals maneuver their fleets across a chessboard that spans thousands of light years. This is how empires sometimes rise…and fall. 
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The Synchronicity War Part 1
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Space Opera
Be aware that Part 1 has a cliffhanger ending. 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. With the Senior Brass convinced that he's a tactical genius, he's given more and more responsibility. He is terrified by the belief that Humanity's Fate will be determined by a battle with himself in overall command. This is Volume 1 of a military SF series about desperate space battles and the men, women and Artificial Intelligences who fight and die in them. All eight books in the series are available as an omnibus edition containing over 800,000 words. You can find it on my website. 
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Rumors of Glory
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Galactic Empires
Rumors of Glory is a 44,300 word introduction to the System States Rebellion series. All three books in this series are now available in a single ebook entitled The System States Rebellion which is available in Kindle Unlimited. Humanity has colonized over 500 planets under the not always benevolent administration of the Federation of Planetary States via the FED Army and Navy. Long standing grievances over economic exploitation by Earth-based companies has grown into a full scale rebellion and attempted secession 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. Both dreams of glory are shattered by the reality of a civil war that is rapidly escalating in scope and violence. You'll see Grand Strategy planned at the highest levels plus the execution of those plans by the men and women who will do the fighting and dying. 
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The System States Rebellion
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Galactic Empires
This omnibus edition includes all three books of the System States Rebellion series with over 200,000 words of military SF action. Included in this ebook are the following novels; Rumors of Glory; Rumors of Honor and Rumors of Salvation. The first book, Rumors of Glory, can still be downloaded individually and is free. After centuries of peaceful expansion under the auspices of the Federation of Planetary States, some of the more developed colonies have had enough of the economic exploitation by Earth-chartered companies and attempt to secede. The Rebellion soon expands in both scope and violence beyond the expectations of both sides. As the war drags on year after year, it takes an unexpected turn and puts not only Human Civilization at risk but Human existence as well. This ebook has both space and ground battles, high level strategy, personal triumphs and tragedies. Keyword categories: Space opera, galactic empire, space fleet, military science fiction, action & adventure, colonization 
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