Space: 1999 Books in Order
Space: 1999 contains 8 books, published between 1975 and 2024. The first book is The Space Guardians (1975) and the newest is Space 1999: The Armageddon Engine (2024). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 8
- Published
- 1975–2024
- Confirmed
- 2 of 8 titles
- Pages on record
- 918 in 4 of 8 books
- Reading time
- 15–23 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 918 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 4 of 8 titles with a page count on record.
Space: 1999 is a science fiction heading tied to British television, with 8 books catalogued between 1975 and 2024 and no single author. E. C. Tubb holds three credits and Brian Ball two; Gerry Anderson, David Hirsch, Robert Wood, James Swallow and David A. McIntee hold one each. The Space Guardians and Breakaway are dated 1975, Alien Seed 1976 and Earthfall 1977. Later entries include Space: 1999 Survival (2005), Born For Adversity (2010) and Space 1999: The Armageddon Engine (2024). Subjects record space, the Moon and space opera. Four books carry page counts, a median of 241.
How many Space: 1999 books are there?
Space: 1999 has 8 books, released between 1975 and 2024.
Space: 1999 Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 8 Space: 1999 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.
- 1The Space Guardians1975 · 142 pages · confirmed 1/419751421/4
- 1Space: 1999 Maybe There – The Lost Stories From Space: 19992023 · confirmed 3/42023–3/4
- 2Breakaway1975 · confirmed 1/41975–1/4
- 2Space 1999: The Armageddon Engine2024 · confirmed 3/42024–3/4
- 3Alien Seed1976 · confirmed 1/41976–1/4
- 4Earthfall1977 · 288 pages · confirmed 1/419772881/4
- 5Space: 1999 Survival2005 · 194 pages · confirmed 1/420051941/4
- 6Born For Adversity2010 · 294 pages · confirmed 1/420102941/4
Where to start with Space: 1999
Start with The Space Guardians (1975), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Space: 1999 book?
Space 1999: The Armageddon Engine (2024) is the newest Space: 1999 book released so far.
Is there a new Space: 1999 book coming?
No next Space: 1999 book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Space: 1999 at a glance
- Still running
- Space: 1999 is still running, with a title published as recently as 2024.
- Release pace
- Space: 1999 books have appeared about one every 7 years on average.
- Length
- 918 pages across the 4 of 8 books with a recorded length, a median of 241 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Space: 1999 books, 4 of 8, were published in the 1970s.
- Attribution
- Of the 8 titles, 3 are credited to E. C. Tubb, 2 to Brian Ball, 1 to David A. McIntee and 1 to Gerry Anderson. A further 3 writers are credited.
What the Space: 1999 books are about
4 of the 8 Space: 1999 books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: fiction in english is tagged on 2 of 4. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Fiction in English 2 of 4 books
- British Television 1 of 4 books
- English fiction 1 of 4 books
- Moon 1 of 4 books
- Science fiction 1 of 4 books
- Space opera 1 of 4 books
- Space 1 of 4 books