Chris Hechtl: 11 books

The First A.I. WarOn August 4th, 2200 civilization in the Sol star system changed forever. A hacker unleashed a virus of unprecedented power and malevolent intelligence to insidiously take over Earth's electronic network.But sapient life was not doomed. Athena, the A.I. created by Lagroose Industries...

Jack Lagroose's origins. The beginnings of modern Artificial Intelligence and how they evolved. Misadventures in Genetic engineering... here are those stories and more broadening the Founding of the Federation right up until the opening The First A.I. War.

The Earth was doomed. That is what the aliens had warned Mitch Chambers a year ago. It wasn't like it was anything new, mankind had alwaysbeen teetering on the edge of extinction.But when aliens visit, you listened. They gave him and nine thousand nine hundred and ninety nine other people a year...

When a rogue comet exploded mankind was awed by the fireworks in space. But the awe turned to fear and terror as the comet's contents rained down across the globe. Billions of pods scattered across the planet, shattering civilization overnight.Earth was changed overnight as the planet was twisted...

From stories during the First A.I. War to the rebuilding period afterward, the Sol Confederation is on the rise.Mankind and Neo-kind have begun the long tortuous rebuilding process of a shattered Earth. Some cannot wait for the planet to be healed; they wish to escape to the stars. While they leave,...

Mitch Chambers wasn't the only person transported to survive on the new world. The Meme aliens transported thousands of other humans and animals from all over the Earth as well. Each group had their own idea on how to adapt, survive, and thrive. Mitch and his family must find these people and...

Eugene Ryans had it all. Money, fame, power. He had created a multibillion dollar company from almost nothing and turned Ryan's Future technology inc into one of the forefronts of technological innovation.He had it all, yet he gambled it all on a crackpot idea that Earth had it's own wormhole.He'd...

Decades after Mario and Luigi Irons led mankind to settle the red planet a new family began to take center stage. Jack Lagroose, his wife Aurelia, his friends and family, and others like him work together and sometimes against each other as they try to bring mankind kicking and screaming to the stars....

Multiverse 1 is a collection of short stories (some very short) spanning Fantasy and Science Fiction written over the past fourteen years.The fantasy stories are Magical Audit about a school of student wizards, and Portal, a story of a magical war that spills over to Earth.In sci-fi there is...

11 short stories of Fantasy, Science Fiction and somewhere in between. From genetic engineering to sweeping space drama, to the whimsical Santa Brigade. Here is a second collection of short stories from various universes including 4 new Federation stories!

Book 1 details the First Steps of the Irons family to kick start mankind to the stars. They and several heroes of future space flight take on and do the impossible, build a program to explore and settle the red planet in a very short time period. Along the way they dig up old and invent new technology...