Great Ship Books in Order

How many Great Ship books are there?

Great Ship has 41 books, released between 2000 and 2024.

Great Ship Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 41 Great Ship 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.

Is there a chronological order for Great Ship?

No separate chronological order is on record for Great Ship, because none of the book listings this catalogue draws on publishes one; the publication order above is the only order given.

Do you have to read Great Ship books in order?

You should read the Great Ship books in publication order, the order of the numbered table above. The catalogue does not record whether each Great Ship book also stands alone.

Where to start with Great Ship

Start with Marrow (2000), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Great Ship book?

Naming the !eech (2024) is the newest Great Ship book released so far.

Is there a new Great Ship book coming?

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

Award nominations for Great Ship

Wikidata records 12 nominations for Great Ship. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given. Award data is sourced from Wikidata.

• Locus Award for Best Novelette2015Shortlistedfor The Cryptic Age
• Theodore Sturgeon Award2015Shortlistedfor The Cryptic Age
• Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel2015Shortlistedfor The Memory of Sky
• Locus Award for Best Novella2014Shortlistedfor Precious Mental
• Locus Award for Best Collection2014Shortlistedfor The Greatship
• Theodore Sturgeon Award2013Shortlistedfor Eater-of-Bone
• Locus Award for Best Collection2013Shortlistedfor Eater-of-Bone and Other Novellas
• Locus Award for Best Novella2013Shortlistedfor Katabasis
• Nebula Award for Best Novella2013Shortlistedfor Katabasis
• Locus Award for Best Novella2007Shortlistedfor Good Mountain
• Locus Award for Best Novella2007Shortlistedfor Rococo
• Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel2006Shortlistedfor The Well of Stars

Great Ship at a glance

Still running

Great Ship is still running, with a title published as recently as 2024.

Release pace

Great Ship books have appeared more than one a year on average.

Length

2,538 pages across the 5 of 41 books with a recorded length, a median of 512 pages each.

Busiest decade

Most Great Ship books, 26 of 41, were published in the 2010s.

When Great Ship books were published

Publication distribution by decade, showing when Great Ship titles appeared. 2010s was the most productive decade with 26 titles.

What the Great Ship books are about

5 of the 41 Great Ship books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: space ships is tagged on 3 of 5. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

• Space ships 3 of 5 books
• Life on other planets 2 of 5 books
• Science fiction 2 of 5 books
• Black Holes 1 of 5 books
• Exploration 1 of 5 books
• Interplanetary voyages 1 of 5 books
• Interstellar Travel in Fiction 1 of 5 books
• Space opera 1 of 5 books