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Martin Caidin Books in Order

78 books are credited to Martin Caidin, published between 1954 and 2011; 1 of them appeared after Martin Caidin's death in 1997. The first book is Rockets and Missiles, Past And Future (1954) and the newest is The B-17 - The Flying Forts (2011). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
78
Published
1954–2011
Pages on record
12,085 in 40 of 78 books
Reading time
201–302 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 12,085 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 40 of 78 titles with a page count on record.

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Aeronautics and aviation were the specialist field of Martin Caidin, an American author and screenwriter born September 14, 1927, who died March 24, 1997. Caidin started writing fiction in 1957, and the total output passed 50 books of fiction and nonfiction plus more than 1,000 magazine articles. The novel Cyborg became the basis of The Six Million Dollar Man franchise, and Caidin also produced numerous military histories, most of them about aviation. Caidin was a pilot and restored a 1936 Junkers Ju 52. Early titles include Rockets and Missiles, Past And Future (1954) and Black Thursday (1960).

How many Martin Caidin books are there?

Martin Caidin has 78 books, released between 1954 and 2011. 1 of them were published after Martin Caidin's death in 1997. 2 of them belong to the Doug Stavers series.

Martin Caidin Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 78 Martin Caidin 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.

  1. Cover of Thunderbolt by Martin Caidin (1958)
  2. Cover of Marooned by Martin Caidin (1964)
  3. Cover of A Life in the Future by Martin Caidin, book 2 of the Buck Rogers series (1967)
  4. Cover of The God Machine by Martin Caidin (1968)
  5. Cover of Flying Forts by Martin Caidin (1968)
  6. Cover of Devil Take All by Martin Caidin (1969)
  7. Cover of Cyborg by Martin Caidin, book 1 of the Six Million Dollar Man series (1970)
  8. Cover of Almost Midnight by Martin Caidin (1971)
  9. Cover of Mendelov Conspiracy by Martin Caidin (1971)
  10. Cover of Fork Tailed Devil by Martin Caidin (1971)
  11. Cover of Golden Wings by Martin Caidin (1972)
  12. Cover of Operation Nuke by Martin Caidin, book 2 of the Six Million Dollar Man series (1973)
  13. Cover of High Crystal by Martin Caidin, book 3 of the Six Million Dollar Man series (1974)
  14. Cover of The Last Dogfight by Martin Caidin (1974)
  15. Cover of Planetfall by Martin Caidin (1974)
  16. Cover of Bicycles in War by Martin Caidin (1974)
  17. Cover of Cyborg IV by Martin Caidin, book 5 of the Six Million Dollar Man series (1975)
  18. Cover of Three Corners to Nowhere by Martin Caidin (1975)
  19. Cover of Whip by Martin Caidin (1976)
  20. Cover of Air Force by Martin Caidin (1979)
  21. Cover of Wingborn by Martin Caidin (1979)
  22. Cover of The Saga of Iron Annie by Martin Caidin (1979)
  23. Cover of Star Bright by Martin Caidin (1980)
  24. Cover of The Final Countdown by Martin Caidin (1980)
  1. 1
    Rockets and Missiles, Past And Future1954 · confirmed 1/4
    1954–
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  2. 2
    Worlds in Space1954 · confirmed 1/4
    1954–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  3. 3
    Rockets Beyond the Earth1955 · confirmed 1/4
    1955–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  4. 4
    The Long Night1956 · confirmed 1/4
    1956–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  5. 5
    Samurai!1957 · confirmed 1/4
    1957–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  6. 6
    Thunderbolt1958 · confirmed 1/4
    1958–
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  7. 7
    Boeing 7071959 · confirmed 1/4
    1959–
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  8. 8
    The Night Hamburg Died1960 · confirmed 1/4
    1960–
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  9. 9
    Race for the moon1960 · confirmed 1/4
    1960–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  10. 10
    Black Thursday1960 · confirmed 1/4
    1960–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  11. 11
    A Torch to the Enemy1960 · confirmed 1/4
    1960–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  12. 12
    Test Pilot1961 · confirmed 1/4
    1961–
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  13. 13
    Aviation and Space Medicine1962 · confirmed 1/4
    1962–
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  14. 14
    Rendezvous In Space1962 · confirmed 1/4
    1962–
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  15. 15
    Red Star in Space1963 · confirmed 1/4
    1963–
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  16. 16
    The Long Arm of America1963 · confirmed 1/4
    1963–
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  17. 17
    The Silken Angels1963 · confirmed 1/4
    1963–
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  18. 18
    By Apollo to the moon1963 · confirmed 1/4
    1963–
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  19. 19
    The Man-in-Space Dictionary1963 · confirmed 1/4
    1963–
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  20. 20
    Marooned1964 · 308 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1964308
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  21. 21
    Everything But the Flak1964 · confirmed 1/4
    1964–
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  22. 22
    The Mighty Hercules1964 · confirmed 1/4
    1964–
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  23. 23
    The Ragged, Rugged Warriors1966 · confirmed 1/4
    1966–
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  24. 24
    A Life in the FutureBuck Rogers #21967 · 312 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1967312
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  25. 25
    The Last Fathom1967 · confirmed 1/4
    1967–
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  26. 26
    No Man's World1967 · confirmed 1/4
    1967–
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  27. 27
    ME-109Ballantine's Illustrated History of World War II / the Violent Century: Weapons Book #11968 · confirmed 1/4
    1968–
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  28. 28
    Four Came Back1968 · 280 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1968280
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  29. 29
    Flying Forts, The B-17 in World War II1968 · confirmed 1/4
    1968–
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  30. 30
    The God Machine1968 · 320 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1968320
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Martin Caidin 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.

Six Million Dollar Man in order

4 books
  1. 1. Cyborg
  2. 2. Operation Nuke
  3. 3. High Crystal
  4. 5. Cyborg IV

Doug Stavers in order

2 books
  1. 1. The Messiah Stone
  2. 2. Dark Messiah

Indiana Jones Universe in order

2 books
  1. 11. Indiana Jones and the Sky Pirates
  2. 12. Indiana Jones and the White Witch

Ballantine's Illustrated History of World War II / the Violent Century: Weapons Book in order

1 book
  1. 1. ME-109

Buck Rogers in order

1 book
  1. 2. A Life in the Future

Standalone books

68 books

68 Martin Caidin titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Martin Caidin books in order?

You only need to read Martin Caidin books in order within the Doug Stavers series, which holds 2 of the 78 Martin Caidin books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Martin Caidin

Start with Rockets and Missiles, Past And Future (1954), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Martin Caidin book?

The B-17 - The Flying Forts (2011) is the newest Martin Caidin book released so far.

Is there a new Martin Caidin book coming?

No next Martin Caidin book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Martin Caidin at a glance

Died
Martin Caidin died in 1997, according to Wikidata.
After death
Books credited to Martin Caidin are still being published after Martin Caidin's death in 1997; the newest appeared in 2011.
Release pace
Martin Caidin books have appeared more than one a year on average.
Length
12,085 pages across the 40 of 78 books with a recorded length, a median of 278 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Martin Caidin books, 25 of 78, were published in the 1960s.

What the Martin Caidin books are about

42 of the 78 Martin Caidin books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: science fiction is tagged on 10 of 42. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.