Technological book series in reading order

by Jack Du Brul

by Patrick Lee

Military aviation drives Dale Brown's technological thrillers. Patrick McLanahan and Brad McLanahan are the recurring characters across a catalogue of 52 books that opens with Flight of the Old Dog (1987) and reaches Devil's Fortress (2024). Dreamland, Puppet Master, Nick Flynn and the Jason Richter books are the named series. The United States Air Force, weapons systems, espionage and terrorism fill the subject tags.

Tom Clancy

72 books• 9 series

Tom Clancy, born Thomas Leo Clancy Jr. on April 12, 1947 and dead on October 1, 2013, was an American writer of techno-thrillers, a form that carries technical detail about espionage and military science. An insurance agent before publishing, Clancy debuted with The Hunt for Red October in 1984. The Ryanverse books follow Jack Ryan, an analyst with the Central Intelligence Agency. Subjects across the listing include terrorism, suspense and espionage. The catalogue carries 72 titles under the Clancy name dated 1984 to 2023, with Bill McCay, Grant Blackwood and Peter Telep credited on one or two each.

Technological and espionage thrillers make up the work of R.J. Piñeiro, whose 24 catalogued books run from Siege Of Lightning (1993) to Things We Cannot Unsee (2021). Catalogue subjects include terrorism, computer scientists, computer viruses and the millennium. Titles such as 01-01-00 and Y2K (both 1999), conspiracy.com (2001), Firewall (2002) and Cyberterror (2003) reflect that focus. Piñeiro's series are Hunter Stark and Law Pacheco.

Military and technological thrillers make up Larry Bond's work - submarines, intelligence officers and terrorism. Battles of the Third World War (1987) opens the catalogue, and Red Phoenix (1989), Vortex (1991) and Cauldron (1993) follow. Jerry Mitchell heads one series; Larry Bond's First Team and Red Dragon Rising head others. Twenty-five titles are catalogued, the last of them Arctic Gambit in 2018.

Michael DiMercurio writes submarine fiction out of direct experience: a 1980 honours graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy in mechanical engineering, later an officer aboard the nuclear attack submarine USS Hammerhead from 1982 to 1985. Voyage of the Devilfish (1992) opens 14 catalogued books that reach Lion of the Seven Seas (2025). Three series divide the fiction, Michael Pacino, Anthony "Patch" Pacino and Peter Vornado, and submarine combat, naval battles, espionage and terrorism supply the material. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Submarines (2003) is the one work of nonfiction.

Douglas Preston

54 books• 9 series

Douglas Preston writes thrillers with horror and science fiction edges, built on serial murder, antiquities and government investigation. Aloysius Pendergast is the character the catalogue is best known for, with Nora Kelly, Gideon Crew, Wyman Ford and the Cash & Colcord books beside him. Fifty-seven catalogued titles run from Dinosaurs in the Attic (1986) through Relic (1995) and Riptide (1998) to Pendergast, and Resurrection is scheduled for 2027.

Neal Stephenson

34 books• 8 series

Neal Stephenson (Neal Town Stephenson, born October 31, 1959) is an American writer of speculative fiction classed as science fiction, historical fiction, cyberpunk and baroque. Mathematics, cryptography, linguistics, philosophy, currency and the history of science recur in the novels. The site lists 34 books from The Big U (1984) to D: Heavy Water (2026), including Snow Crash (1992) and Cryptonomicon (1999). Baroque Cycle and Foreworld Saga are series. Stephenson and George Jewsbury, an uncle, co-wrote novels as Stephen Bury.

Jack Du Brul is an American techno-thriller novelist, born October 15, 1968, in Burlington, Vermont. Vulcan's Forge (1998) opens the catalogue of 14 books, followed by Charon's Landing (1999), The Medusa Stone (2000), Pandora's Curse (2001), River Of Ruin (2002) and Deep Fire Rising (2003). The Lightning Stones (2015), The Titanic Secret (2019) and The Iron Storm (2025) are later titles. Philip Mercer is the series on the author page, and Isaac Bell also appears among the characters. Geologists, terrorists, weapons of mass destruction, Nazis and treasure feature in the subject tags.

Diane Duane

71 books• 22 series

Diane Duane is an American science fiction and fantasy author who has long lived in Ireland. Young Wizards, which opens with So You Want to Be a Wizard (1983), and the Rihannsu Star Trek novels are the best known work. Seventy-one titles are catalogued between 1979 and 2018, taking in the Tale of the Five from The Door Into Fire (1979), Spider-Man and X-Men tie-ins, Space Cops, Cat Wizards and SeaQuest DSV. Wizards, whales and Star Trek characters recur as subjects.

Sylvain Neuvel

12 books• 2 series

Canadian science fiction writer Sylvain Neuvel, born 1973, also works as a linguist and translator. Neuvel wrote two series, The Themis Files and Take Them to the Stars. The catalogue lists 12 entries from 2016 to 2026, including Sleeping Giants (2016), Waking Gods (2017), Only Human (2018), A History of What Comes Next (2021), Until the Last of Me (2022) and The Many (2026), plus several entries titled FILE with a number. Robots, giants and women physicists appear among the subject headings.

Mark Alpert writes science fiction and suspense thrillers, and the catalogue lists 11 books from 2008 to 2022. David Swift is the named series, alongside a group of standalone novels. Final Theory (2008) is the first book, followed by The Omega Theory (2011), Extinction (2013), The Furies (2014) and The Six (2015). The Orion Plan (2016), The Siege (2016), The Silence (2017), The Coming Storm (2019) and Saint Joan of New York (2020) come later, and The Doomsday Show (2022) is the newest. Subject headings include artificial intelligence, robots, unified field theories, physics teachers and historians of science.

Joe Weber writes technological and espionage thrillers. Subjects recorded across the catalogue include terrorism, war stories, the Vietnam War of 1961 to 1975, Cuba, Hawaii, presidents and assassination. Nine books run from DEFCON One (1989) to Ashes of Victory (2018), and three series carry the name: Steve Wickham, Scott Dalton & Jackie Sullivan, and Brad Austin. Eight books have a recorded length, at a median of 352 pages.

William Christie is credited on nine books published between 1992 and 2022. The Warriors of God (1992) opens the catalogue, and three titles carry 2022 dates: Bargain With the Devil, Darkness Under Heaven and The Double Agent. Mercy Mission (2000), The Blood We Shed (2005), Threat Level (2005), The Enemy Inside (2006) and A Single Spy (2017) fill the span. Subjects record terrorism, Iran, assassination attempts and United States presidents, filed under technological, political and military thrillers. Two series are recorded: Alexsi Ivanovich Smirnov and Peter Avakian Thriller.