Weston Ochse

Weston Ochse was born in born 1965 in Gillette; Wyoming. He grew up in Chattanooga, Tennessee and graduated from Tyner High School. He enrolled in the Army after graduating from high school and rose through the ranks to an intelligence officer.

The best place to start is The Afterblight Chronicles series, the earliest of Weston Ochse's multi-book series: it opens with School's Out Forever (2002) and runs to 20 books across 2002–2016, ending with Children of the Cull (2016). Weston Ochse's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Weston Ochse has 174 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1979 and 2025. 128 of them belong to 11 named series — the largest being The Afterblight Chronicles series with 20 books — and 46 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Weston Ochse's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are The Afterblight Chronicles (2002–2016, 20 books), Tomes of the Dead (2006–2017, 18 books) and SEAL Team 666 (2012–2014, 4 books), plus 5 more.

This guide splits Weston Ochse's 174 books into 11 named series and 46 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: The Afterblight Chronicles (20 books, 2002–2016); Tomes of the Dead (18 books, 2006–2017); Apocalypse Weird (4 books, 2015); SEAL Team 666 (4 books, 2012–2014); Task Force Ombra (3 books, 2014–2017), plus 6 further series.