Interplanetary voyages book series in reading order

by Elisabetta Dami

by Allen M. Steele

by John Jackson Miller

by Lisanne Norman

Peter David

272 books• 94 series

Peter David (September 23, 1956 – May 24, 2025), often called PAD, was an American writer of comic books, novels, television, films and video games. A 12-year run on The Incredible Hulk won awards, and other comics runs include Aquaman, Supergirl, Fallen Angel, Captain Marvel, X-Factor, Young Justice, SpyBoy and Spider-Man 2099. Star Trek: New Frontier is among David's Star Trek novels. Original series include Knight Life and Apropos of Nothing. The catalogue lists 272 books, beginning in 1984 with Picture Perfect, High Society and Sapphire Star.

Alan Dean Foster

162 books• 30 series

Alan Dean Foster, born on 18 November 1946, is an American writer of science fiction and fantasy, with several book series, more than 20 standalone novels and many film novelizations. Catalogued titles open with The Tar-Aiym Krang (1972), followed by Bloodhype (1973), Icerigger (1974), Star Trek Log One (1974) and Midworld (1975). Lost on Paradise (2026) is the newest title. Foster series include Pip & Flinx, Icerigger, Journeys of the Catechist, Damned, Star Trek: The Animated, Alien Movie and Transformers. Subjects include the Humanx Commonwealth, interplanetary voyages and human-alien encounters.

Elisabetta Dami

309 books• 22 series

Elisabetta Dami, born 1 January 1958, is an Italian children's author known for the Geronimo Stilton book series. The catalogue credits Dami with 309 books from 1998 to 2026. Titles from 2000 include Lost Treasure of the Emerald Eye, Attack Of The Bandit Cats and Four Mice Deep in the Jungle. Other listings include Geronimo Stilton: Thea Stilton, Mouseford Academy, Kingdom Of Fantasy, Geronimo Stilton Cavemice, Geronimo Stilton Spacemice and Creepella von Cacklefur. Subjects include mice, journalists, time travel and humorous stories. The Legend of Chocolate Hills (2026) is the newest title.

Robert A. Heinlein

83 books• 11 series

Robert A. Heinlein wrote science fiction from 1939, starting with the short story Life Line. Interplanetary voyages, space colonies, space opera and time travel are the recurring subjects, and the catalogue carries a Hugo Award winner. The Future History timeline groups a large part of the early work; the Juveniles were written for younger readers, and World As Myth came later. Eighty-two titles are catalogued, with editions dated through 2025.

Arthur C. Clarke

74 books• 10 series

Sir Arthur C. Clarke (16 December 1917 to 19 March 2008) was an English science fiction writer, science writer, futurist, inventor, undersea explorer and television host. Clarke promoted space travel in books and magazine essays, received UNESCO's Kalinga Prize for popularising science in 1961, and was called the Prophet of the Space Age. The Space Odyssey and Rama series appear in the catalogue with A Time Odyssey and Blue Planet, and Against the Fall of Night (1948), Prelude to Space (1950) and The Sands of Mars (1951) are among the early titles.

William Shatner

33 books• 8 series

William Shatner, born on 22 March 1931, is a Canadian actor who played Captain James T. Kirk in Star Trek from 1966 to 1994, from the second pilot of the original television series to Star Trek Generations. Shatner started in Canadian film and television before guest roles on American shows. The catalogue lists 33 Shatner books, from Shatner: Where No Man ... (1979) to Boldly Go: Reflections on a Life of Awe and Wonder (2022), including TekWar (1989), Star Trek Memories (1993) and The Ashes of Eden (1995). Series include Quest for Tomorrow, Star Trek: Odyssey, Star Trek: The Mirror Universe Trilogy and Star Trek: Totality.

Michael Jan Friedman is an American writer born in New York City on March 7, 1955. Friedman has written nearly 60 books of fiction and nonfiction, more than half of them licensed Star Trek tie-ins, and 10 titles have reached The New York Times Best Seller list. Friedman has also written for network and cable television, for radio and for more than 150 comic books, most of them from DC Comics. The catalogue lists 89 entries from 1985 to 2023, beginning with The Hammer and the Horn and Seekers And The Sword, and series include Star Trek: Stargazer, Vidar Saga and Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman.

David Mack

46 books• 20 series

David Mack is an American writer best known for freelance Star Trek novels, and has also had a Star Trek script produced and worked on a Star Trek comic book. The catalogue lists 46 books from Invincible, Part 1 (2001) to Echoes in Eternity (2026). Series include Star Trek: Vanguard, Star Trek: The Next Generation: Destiny, Star Trek: The Next Generation: Cold Equations, Star Trek: Seekers and the Star Trek Mirror Universe relaunch. Other titles include Wildfire (2002), The Starfleet Survival Guide (2002), A Time to Heal and A Time to Kill (both 2004). Keith R.A. DeCandido shares the credit on 2 books and Robert Greenberger on 1.

Space colonies, interplanetary voyages and space flight appear in the subject records for Allen M. Steele, a science fiction author tagged for both hard science fiction and space opera. The catalogue counts 45 books from Orbital Decay (1989) to Lemuria 7 (2026). Clarke County, Space (1990), Lunar Descent (1991), Labyrinth of Night (1992) and Rude Astronauts (1993) are early titles. Coyote is a listed series, and Coyote and Near-Space short fiction are grouped separately.

Zecharia Sitchin wrote the Earth Chronicles, a non-fiction sequence arguing extraterrestrial influence on ancient civilisation. The 12th Planet (1976) opens the run, followed by The Stairway to Heaven (1980), The Wars of Gods and Men (1985), Genesis Revisited (1990) and The Lost Book of Enki (2001). Ancient history, the Bible, cosmogony and human-alien encounters are the subjects. Sixteen titles are catalogued through 2015.

Timothy Zahn

98 books• 26 series

Timothy Zahn, born September 1, 1951, is an American writer of science fiction and fantasy who grew up in Lombard, Illinois. The Star Wars books, above all the Thrawn trilogy, are the core of Zahn's reputation, and those novels are credited with reviving interest in the franchise. Original series include Cobra, Blackcollar, Dragonback, Quadrail, Conquerors Saga, Icarus and Sibyl's War. The catalogue lists 99 books by Zahn, starting with The Blackcollar (1983); Trap Line appeared in 2025 and A Call to Deception is due in 2027.

Lois McMaster Bujold

54 books• 8 series

Lois McMaster Bujold, born November 2, 1949, is an American writer of speculative fiction who has won the Hugo Award for best novel four times, equalling Robert A. Heinlein's record. The Vorkosigan Saga is her best-known work: science fiction novels set about 1000 years in the future and featuring Miles Vorkosigan of the planet Barrayar, a physically impaired man who serves as interstellar spy and mercenary admiral. The catalogue lists 54 books from 1986 to Darksight Dare (2026), including Shards of Honor, The Warrior's Apprentice, Falling Free, Brothers in Arms and The Vor Game. Other series listings include Penric and Desdemona, Sharing Knife and Curse Of Chalion. SFWA named Bujold its 36th Grand Master in 2019.

Poul Anderson

160 books• 18 series

Poul Anderson (25 November 1926 to 31 July 2001) was an American author of science fiction and fantasy who also wrote historical novels. Anderson won the Hugo Award seven times and the Nebula Award three times. The catalogue lists 160 titles, from Duel on Syrtis (1951) to Swordsmen from the Stars (2020), with series including Flandry, the Polesotechnic League, the Psychotechnic League, Time Patrol, Hoka, Maurai, King of Ys and Harvest of Stars. Subjects on file include space opera, time travel, space warfare and epic fantasy.

Evan Currie, born in 1976, is a Canadian writer of space opera, military science fiction and techno-thrillers. His 41 catalogued books span 2011 to 2026, from Into the Black (2011) to Once and Future (2026), grouped into sequences including Odyssey One, Warrior's Wings, Archangel One, Imperium of Terra, Scourwind Legacy, Superhuman, Anselm Gunnar and SEAL Team 13. Human-alien encounters, interplanetary voyages, space warfare and conspiracies are the recurring subjects. Currie studied computer sciences and has worked in the lobster industry, and his books have been translated into Polish and German.

John Jackson Miller

53 books• 23 series

John Jackson Miller, born in 1968, is an American science fiction author, comic book writer and commentator, known for work on the Star Wars franchise and for research into comic book circulation history published as the Standard Catalog of Comic Books series and on the Comichron website. The catalogue holds 53 entries, among them The Standard Catalog of Comic Books (2002), Warman's Comic Book Field Guide (2004), Star Wars: Vector, Vol. 1 (2005) and Batman: Revolution (2025). Listings include Star Wars: Knights Of The Old Republic, Star Wars: Knight Errant Graphic Novels, Star Wars: Lost Tribe Of The Sith, Star Trek: Prey, Mass Effect Graphic Novels and Orion Offensive. Subjects cover comic books and strips, graphic novels, space warfare, space ships and Star Wars fiction. Entries dated 1990 to 1995 carry the byline John J. Miller instead.

Sean Williams

43 books• 15 series

Sean Williams, full name Sean Llewellyn Williams and born 23 May 1967, is an Australian science fiction author living in Adelaide, South Australia, with several New York Times bestsellers. Catalogue subjects include space opera, hard science fiction, space warfare and fantasy. The 43 books run from Doorway to eternity (1994) to Little Labyrinths: Speculative Microfictions (2021), and Shane Dix shares the credit on 3. Series include Books of the Cataclysm, Evergence, Orphans Trilogy, Astropolis, Twinmaker and Star Wars: The Force Unleashed.

Orson Scott Card

114 books• 29 series

Orson Scott Card, born August 24, 1951, is an American writer known chiefly for science fiction. Card is the only person, as of 2024, to win both the Hugo and Nebula Awards in consecutive years, for Ender's Game (1985) and its sequel Speaker for the Dead (1986). Card coproduced the 2013 film of Ender's Game. The Tales of Alvin Maker won the Locus Fantasy Award. The catalogue counts 114 books from A Planet Called Treason / Treason (1978) to Ender's Tribe (2026), with Homecoming Saga, Mither Mages, Worthing and Women of Genesis among the other series.

The Expanse is the work James S.A. Corey is catalogued for: space opera built on interplanetary voyages, space warfare and conspiracy. Leviathan Wakes (2011) opens it, followed by Caliban's War (2012), Abaddon's Gate (2013) and Cibola Burn (2014), with novellas such as The Butcher of Anderson Station, Drive and Gods of Risk between them. Corey also wrote the Star Wars novel Razor's Edge (2013) and has started the Captive's War series. Twenty-nine titles are catalogued, reaching The Faith of Beasts in 2026.

David A. Drake (1945-2023) wrote science fiction and fantasy. A Vietnam War veteran, Drake practised law before turning to military science fiction. The catalogue holds 106 books published between 1975 and 2021, from The Barrow Troll (1975) to The Serpent (2021). Series include Hammer's Slammers, the Lt. Leary / RCN novels featuring Daniel Leary and Adele Mundy, the Books of the Elements, Northworld, Reaches and Crown Of The Isles. Tony Daniel shares the credit on 2 titles and Eric Flint on 1. Subjects record space warfare, imaginary wars and battles, and epic fantasy.

Erich von Däniken

31 books• 1 series

Erich von Daniken was a Swiss author of pseudoscientific books arguing that extraterrestrials shaped early human culture. Chariots of The Gods (1968) opens the catalogue and became a bestseller; Return to the Stars (1970), Gods from Outer Space (1972), Miracles of the Gods (1975) and Signs of the Gods (1980) followed. Thirty-one titles are catalogued to 2022. Scientists and academics reject the claims and class the work as pseudohistory and pseudoarchaeology. Ancient civilisations, UFOs and human-alien encounters are the recorded subjects.

James Blish was an American science fiction and fantasy writer who lived from May 23, 1921 to July 30, 1975. Blish is best known for the Cities in Flight novels and for Star Trek novelisations written with J. A. Lawrence, and A Case of Conscience (1958) won the Hugo Award. Blish is credited with coining the term "gas giant". Criticism of science fiction appeared under the pen name William Atheling Jr. The catalogue lists 64 books, opening with Jack of Eagles (1952), and includes Earthman, Come Home (1956) and The Seedling Stars (1957).

Dayton Ward

42 books• 18 series

Dayton Ward is an American science fiction author, born in 1967, known mainly for Star Trek novels and short stories. Ward's fiction began in the Strange New Worlds anthology, with a story in each of its first three volumes, which under the anthology's rules ended Ward's eligibility; later writers who matched the feat were said to have earned a Wardy. The catalogue holds 42 books published between 2001 and 2026, from Interphase, Part 1 (2001) to To Defy Fate (2026). Starships, interplanetary voyages and space warfare are the recurring subjects. Kevin Dilmore is credited alongside Ward on 12 titles, and the Last World War and 24 series sit beside the Star Trek work.

Jean Lorrah, born in 1940, is an American science fiction and fantasy author who taught English at Murray State University from 1968 to 2008, the first woman outside nursing and home economics hired there with a doctorate; the Ph.D. came from Florida State University. Lorrah wrote several Star Trek novels, often with her writing and business partner Jacqueline Lichtenberg, and their later work together covers the Sime~Gen Universe. The Savage Empire, a 1980s fantasy series, is mostly solo work. The catalogue holds 24 books from Full Moon Rising (1976) to Fear and Courage (2015), with Star Trek and Star Trek: The Next Generation in the character records.

Steven Erikson

33 books• 5 series

Steven Erikson writes epic fantasy. The Malazan Book of the Fallen, opened by Gardens of the Moon (1999), is the central sequence, and 33 catalogued books reach Legacies of Betrayal in 2026 by way of the Kharkanas Trilogy, the Bauchelain and Korbal Broach novellas and the Willful Child science fiction. Imaginary wars, magic and invented places run through the subjects.