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Dietmar Arthur Wehr is a self-published author of military science fiction, space opera, and technothriller novels. He began writing after retiring from a career in corporate financial analysis. He has written over 40 novels and several short stories. Wehr credits David Weber’s Honor Harrington series, along with books by H. Beam Piper, as the major inspiration for his writing military science fiction. He lives in Ontario, Canada, near Niagara Falls.
Writing Career:
Military science fiction series:Wehr has written eight military SF series.
The Synchronicity War
The System States Rebellion
The Road to Empire
The Swordships Odyssey
The Thunder in the Heavens
The Glory Game
The Phoenix Empire
The Long Road Back
The theme most common to Wehr’s military SF series is the clash of civilizations in space, whether they be human vs. human, human vs. alien, or alien vs. alien, as seen through the eyes of the humans (and sometimes artificial intelligences) who plan out high-level strategies or execute those strategies when space fleets clash. Reviewers have compared the Synchronicity War series (8 books plus the boxset) to Jack Campbell’s The Lost Fleet series.
Sequels to books written by H. Beam Piper:
As a fan of the Terro-human Future History created by H. Beam Piper, Wehr has written a standalone sequel to Piper’s Cosmic Computer entitled Cosmic Computer Legacy: The Tides of Chaos. His five book Phoenix Empire series is a ‘what if’ look at the aftermath of the System States Alliance war that Piper mentions in Cosmic Computer.
Standalone Military SF:
Empire in Crisis and Evolution Wars are standalone military SF novels. The Return of the Star Raiders can be read as a standalone novel or as the first (and so far, only) novel in The Long Road Back series.
Space Opera:
While the following titles have some elements of military SF, space opera might be a better fit.
The Last Valkyrie
The Star Pilot Blues
The Star Pilot Blues is Wehr’s only novel written in the first-person point of view and was inspired by the concept of what the writers of classic hard-boiled detective novels of the 40s and 50s might have written if they had tried science fiction.
Technothriller series and standalone novels:
Over the last several years, Wehr has focused on technothrillers. His first novel in this genre, The Hunt for Seawolf 4, takes place in the 1940s and 50s and asks the question: what if well-known events such as the nuclear-powered submarine Nautilus reaching the North Pole were really part of a secret war fought against a powerful, neo-nazi organization bent on world domination? Wehr explains at the end of the book which parts are actually true and which parts could be true.
The next technothriller, Whiskey Kilo One Is Down, is set in contemporary times. Both it and The Hunt for Seawolf 4 involve a mysterious satellite called the Black Knight, detected in a polar orbit in the early 1950s before the Russians launched Sputnik. This and other actual events are a common element of Wehr’s technothriller stories. The author considers his Jumping the Abyss a who-done-it technothriller and The Pulsar Paradox a paranormal technothriller. His first technothriller series, The Battle for Mars, also qualifies as a hard-science SF series set in the 2020’s, while the Cross-Time Wars looks at parallel universes that interact with each other.
Space Noir:
Wehr coined a new sub-genre category for the four short stories that make up the Tales of the High Avenging Angel series, available both individually and in a collected edition, because they are dark, gritty, and meant for adults only.
Different Formats:
Almost all of Wehr’s ebooks have also been made into audiobooks. Narrators include Luke Daniels, Neil Hellegers, Jeffrey Kafer, and David Benjamin Bliss. His more recent audiobooks were electronically narrated.
External Links:
His website is www.dwehrsfwriter.com