William R. Forstchen

In March 2009, Dr. Forstchen's novel, One Second After (Tor/Forge/St. Martin's books) was published and quickly reached the New York Times best seller list; it was on the list for twelve weeks. The sequel, One Year After, was released on September 15, 2015. The concluding work of the trilogy, The Final Day, was released January 4, 2017. All three of the books in what is now called The John Matherson Series achieved NYT best seller status.[2] The book has been translated and printed in over a dozen countries.

Forstchen based his research for One Second After on the 2004 bipartisan Congressional study of the potential threat to the continental United States from an EMP attack: Report of the Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack. Drawing on this and other government and private studies, Forstchen explores by fiction what might happen in a "typical" American town in the wake of an attack on the United States with electro-magnetic pulse (EMP) weapons.^[2] Forstchen has been invited to make presentations regarding the threat of EMP before members of Congress, and at STRATCOM, Sandia Labs, and NASA.

Forstchen's novel Pillar to the Sky (2014) is an exploration of the concept of a Space Elevator. The tower would rise from the equator to geostationary orbit and beyond in order to revolutionize space transportation in the 21st century. Forstchen’s thesis is that the building of such a permanent transportation system to high earth orbit would reignite America’s economic and technological prominence in the 21st century. He promoted the idea that such a tower could be used to "hot wire” limitless non-polluting energy from solar panels deployed in space and free peoples on earth from dependence on greenhouse gas-emitting energy production.

Forstchen has also self-published two novellas. Day of Wrath (2014) is about an ISIS-inspired attack on United States public schools.[3] Twin Flame (2017), co-authored with friend and author Nora D'Ecclesis, is a "biographical novella". He explores meeting, courting and marrying his wife Robin.

1. Arena (1994)

1. Rally Cry (1990)
2. Union Forever (1991)
3. Terrible Swift Sword (1992)
4. Fateful Lightning (1992)
5. Battle Hymn (1997)
6. Never Sound Retreat (1998)
7. A Band of Brothers (1999)
8. Men of War (1999)
9. Down to the Sea (2000)

1. Ice Prophet (1983)
2. The Flame Upon the Ice (1984)
3. A Darkness upon the Ice (1985)

• Wing Commander: End Run (1993)
• Wing Commander: Fleet Action (1994)
• Wing Commander: Heart of the Tiger (1995) (along with Andrew Keith)
• Action Stations (1998)

• Star Voyager Academy (1994)
• Article 23 (1998)
• Prometheus (1999)

With Newt Gingrich and Albert S. Hanser.

1. Gettysburg: A Novel of the Civil War (2003)
2. Grant Comes East (2004)
3. Never Call Retreat: Lee and Grant: The Final Victory (2005)

Along with Newt Gingrich.

1. Pearl Harbor (2007)
2. Days of Infamy (2008)

With Raymond E. Feist.

1. Honoured Enemy (2001)

• We Look Like Men of War (2003)
• The Battle of the Crater: A Novel (2011) (with Newt Gingrich and Albert S. Hanser)

With Newt Gingrich and Albert S. Hanser.

• To Try Men's Souls: A Novel of George Washington and the Fight for American Freedom (2009)
• Valley Forge: George Washington and the Crucible of Victory (2010)
• Victory at Yorktown (2012)

• The Forgotten War (1999)

• Catseye (1999) (along with Jaki Demarest)

• The Alexandrian Ring (1987)
• The Assassin Gambit (1988)
• The Napoleon Wager (1993)

• Hot Shots: An Oral History of the Air Force Combat Pilots of the Korean War (2000) (with Jennie E. Chancey)
• Hot Shots: America's First Jet Aces (2002) ( with Jennie E. Chancey)
• Honor Untarnished: A West Point Graduate's Memoir of World War II (2003) (wrote introduction)
• It Seemed Like a Good Idea...: A Compendium of Great Historical Fiascoes (2009)

With Greg Morrison.

• The Crystal Warriors (1988)
• The Crystal Sorcerers (1991)

• One Second After (2009)[4][5]
• One Year After (2011)[6]
• The Final Day (2017)

• Into the Sea of Stars (1986)
• 1945 (1995) (along with Newt Gingrich)
• The Four Magics (1996) (along with Larry Segriff)
• Doctors of the Night (2011)
• Pillar to the Sky (2014)
• Day of Wrath (2014)
• Twin Flame (2017)
• 48 Hours (2019)

• "A Hard Day for Mother", collected in Harry Turtledove's anthology Alternate Generals (1998)
• "Lee's Victory at Gettysburg… and Then What?", Alternate Gettysburgs (2002)