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Pacific Rim Books in Order

Pacific Rim contains 10 books, published between 2011 and 2022. The first book is Thunder in the Morning Calm (2011) and the newest is Blackout (2022). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
10
Published
2011–2022
Pages on record
1,013 in 5 of 10 books
Reading time
17–25 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,013 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 5 of 10 titles with a page count on record.

See all 10 books in order Printable Pacific Rim checklist

The Pacific Rim listing brings together 10 books from 2011 to 2022 with no single author. Don Brown is credited with Thunder in the Morning Calm (2011), Fire of the Raging Dragon (2012) and Storming the Black Ice (2014). Alex Irvine is credited with the official movie novelizations of Pacific Rim (2013) and Pacific Rim Uprising (2018), and Travis Beacham with Tales From Year Zero (2013) and Tales From The Drift (2016). Aftermath (2018), Amara (2019) and Blackout (2022) are credited to Cavan Scott. Subject tags range from submarines, the United States Navy and the Korean War to robots and space warfare.

How many Pacific Rim books are there?

Pacific Rim has 10 books, released between 2011 and 2022.

Pacific Rim Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 10 Pacific Rim 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 Thunder in the Morning Calm by Don Brown, book 1 of the Pacific Rim series (2011)
  2. Cover of Pacific Rim - The Official Movie Novelization by Alex Irvine / Alexander C. Irvine, book 2 of the Pacific Rim series
  3. Cover of Storming the Black Ice by Don Brown, book 3 of the Pacific Rim series (2014)
  4. Cover of Aftermath by Cavan Scott, book 5 of the Pacific Rim series (2018)
  5. Cover of Blackout by Cavan Scott, book 7 of the Pacific Rim series (2022)
  1. 1
    Thunder in the Morning Calm2011 · 330 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2011330
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  2. 1
    Tales From Year Zero2013 · confirmed 1/4
    2013–
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  3. 2
    Fire of the Raging Dragon2012 · confirmed 2/4
    2012–
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  4. 2
    Pacific Rim - The Official Movie Novelization2013 · 339 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2013339
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  5. 3
    Storming the Black Ice2014 · confirmed 2/4
    2014–
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  6. 3
    Tales From The Drift2016 · confirmed 1/4
    2016–
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  7. 4
    Pacific Rim Uprising - Official Movie Novelization2018 · confirmed 1/4
    2018–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  8. 5
    Aftermath2018 · 168 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2018168
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  9. 6
    Amara2019 · 72 pages · confirmed 1/4
    201972
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  10. 7
    Blackout2022 · 104 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2022104
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Where to start with Pacific Rim

Start with Thunder in the Morning Calm (2011), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Pacific Rim book?

Blackout (2022) is the newest Pacific Rim book released so far.

Is there a new Pacific Rim book coming?

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

Pacific Rim at a glance

Paused
No new Pacific Rim title has appeared for 4 years. The last was published in 2022.
Release pace
Pacific Rim books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
1,013 pages across the 5 of 10 books with a recorded length, a median of 168 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Pacific Rim books, 9 of 10, were published in the 2010s.
Attribution
Of the 10 titles, 3 are credited to Cavan Scott, 3 to Don Brown, 2 to Alex Irvine / Alexander C. Irvine and 2 to Travis Beacham.

What the Pacific Rim books are about

4 of the 10 Pacific Rim books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: international relations is tagged on 2 of 4. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.