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.

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).

Source: Wikidata

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 November 2026.

  1. 11954–
  2. 2
    Worlds in Space1954 · confirmed 1/4
    1954–
  3. 3
    Rockets Beyond the Earth1955 · confirmed 1/4
    1955–
  4. 4
    The Long Night1956 · confirmed 1/4
    1956–
  5. 5
    Samurai!1957 · confirmed 1/4
    1957–
  6. 6
    Thunderbolt1958 · confirmed 1/4
    1958–
  7. 7
    Boeing 7071959 · confirmed 1/4
    1959–
  8. 8
    The Night Hamburg Died1960 · confirmed 1/4
    1960–
  9. 9
    Race for the moon1960 · confirmed 1/4
    1960–
  10. 10
    Black Thursday1960 · confirmed 1/4
    1960–
  11. 11
    A Torch to the Enemy1960 · confirmed 1/4
    1960–
  12. 12
    Test Pilot1961 · confirmed 1/4
    1961–
  13. 13
    Aviation and Space Medicine1962 · confirmed 1/4
    1962–
  14. 14
    Rendezvous In Space1962 · confirmed 1/4
    1962–
  15. 15
    Red Star in Space1963 · confirmed 1/4
    1963–
  16. 16
    The Long Arm of America1963 · confirmed 1/4
    1963–
  17. 17
    The Silken Angels1963 · confirmed 1/4
    1963–
  18. 18
    By Apollo to the moon1963 · confirmed 1/4
    1963–
  19. 19
    The Man-in-Space Dictionary1963 · confirmed 1/4
    1963–
  20. 20
    Marooned1964 · 308 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1964308
  21. 21
    Everything But the Flak1964 · confirmed 1/4
    1964–
  22. 22
    The Mighty Hercules1964 · confirmed 1/4
    1964–
  23. 23
    The Ragged, Rugged Warriors1966 · confirmed 1/4
    1966–
  24. 24
    A Life in the FutureBuck Rogers #21967 · 312 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1967312
  25. 25
    The Last Fathom1967 · confirmed 1/4
    1967–
  26. 26
    No Man's World1967 · confirmed 1/4
    1967–
  27. 27
    ME-109Ballantine's Illustrated History of World War II / the Violent Century: Weapons Book #11968 · confirmed 1/4
    1968–
  28. 28
    Four Came Back1968 · 280 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1968280
  29. 291968–
  30. 30
    The God Machine1968 · 320 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1968320

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.

When Martin Caidin books were published

Publication distribution by decade, showing when Martin Caidin titles appeared. 1960s was the most productive decade with 25 titles.

1950s
7
1960s
25
1970s
24
1980s
11
1990s
10
2010s
1

78 books total across 6 decades. Decade reflects the year each title was first catalogued.

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.