Warstrider series

The future. Japan has taken control of Earth politics and of the majority of human colonies on other worlds and humanity is engaged with aliens known s Xenophobes. Humanity has never managed to communicate with the Xenophobes and only has the latter's attacks to learn about them. Later books detail humanity's conflict with itself, and a race of artificial beings called the Web. A subplot involves collective intelligence.

"This was my baby, my first SF series that was entirely my own universe. It's set in the 26th century and involves fringe-of-empire settlers breaking away from an overbearing Earth government dominated by the Japanese Empire [...] which had the sense to grab the high ground of space when the U.S. abandoned it in the early 2000s. Most of the first book revolves around a war with some VERY strange aliens, while the rest pit frontier rebels against the Empire[,] [...] then involve both in a struggle against a malevolent AI machine threat from the Galactic Core." From the William H. Keith, Jr. website[1]

1. Warstrider (1993) (ISBN 0-380-76879-8)
2. Rebellion (1993) (ISBN 0-380-76880-1)
3. Jackers (1994) (ISBN 0-380-77591-3)
4. Symbionts (1995) (ISBN 0-380-77592-1)
5. Netlink (1995) (ISBN 0-380-77968-4)
6. Battlemind (1996) (ISBN 0-380-77969-2)
7. The Ten Billion Gods of Heaven (2015) (Kindle Book only)

The first six books were reissued as e-books in 2014.[2]

• Warstrider series at The Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Warstrider series at FantasticFiction
• Warstrider series at BookSeriesInOrder