Candas Dorsey Books in Order
Candas Dorsey has written 9 books, published between 1988 and 2023. The first book is Machine Sex: And Other Stories (1988) and the newest is He Wasn’t There Again Today (2023). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 9
- Published
- 1988–2023
- Pages on record
- 1,528 in 6 of 9 books
- Reading time
- 25–38 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,528 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 6 of 9 titles with a page count on record.
Candas Dorsey is a Canadian writer of science fiction and short stories. Nine catalogued books run from Machine Sex: And Other Stories (1988) to He Wasn't There Again Today (2023), taking in Black Wine (1996), Vanilla and Other Stories (2000), A Paradigm of Earth (2001) and Ice and Other Stories (2018). The Epitome Apartments Mystery series is recorded under this name, and What's the Matter with Mary Jane? (2021) is catalogued as part of it. Subjects record Canada, human-alien encounters and English Canadian short stories.
How many Candas Dorsey books are there?
Candas Dorsey has 9 books, released between 1988 and 2023. 2 of them belong to the Epitome Apartments Mystery series.
Candas Dorsey Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 9 Candas Dorsey books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.
- 1Machine Sex: And Other Stories1988 · 164 pages · confirmed 1/419881641/4
- 2Black Wine1996 · 299 pages · confirmed 1/419962991/4
- 3Vanilla and Other Stories2000 · 161 pages · confirmed 1/420001611/4
- 4A Paradigm of Earth2001 · 366 pages · confirmed 1/420013661/4
- 5Ice and Other Stories2018 · 318 pages · confirmed 1/420183181/4
- 620202201/4
- 7What's the Matter with Mary Jane?: An Epitome Apartments MysteryEpitome Apartments Mystery #22021 · confirmed 1/42021–1/4
- 8The Story of My Life Ongoing, by C.S. Cobb2021 · confirmed 1/42021–1/4
- 9He Wasn’t There Again Today2023 · confirmed 1/42023–1/4
Candas Dorsey books grouped by series
Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.
Epitome Apartments Mystery in order
2 booksStandalone books
7 books7 Candas Dorsey titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Candas Dorsey books in order?
You only need to read Candas Dorsey books in order within the Epitome Apartments Mystery series, which holds 2 of the 9 Candas Dorsey books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.
Where to start with Candas Dorsey
Start with Machine Sex: And Other Stories (1988), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Candas Dorsey book?
He Wasn’t There Again Today (2023) is the newest Candas Dorsey book released so far.
Is there a new Candas Dorsey book coming?
No next Candas Dorsey book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Candas Dorsey at a glance
- Paused
- No new Candas Dorsey title has appeared for 3 years. The last was published in 2023.
- Release pace
- Candas Dorsey books have appeared about one every 4 years on average.
- Length
- 1,528 pages across the 6 of 9 books with a recorded length, a median of 260 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Candas Dorsey books, 4 of 9, were published in the 2020s.
What the Candas Dorsey books are about
4 of the 9 Candas Dorsey books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: canada is tagged on 2 of 4. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Canada 2 of 4 books
- Human-alien encounters 1 of 4 books
- Infants 1 of 4 books
- Science fiction 1 of 4 books
- Science fiction, Canadian (English) 1 of 4 books
- Short stories 1 of 4 books
- Social life and customs 1 of 4 books
- Women 1 of 4 books