Charles Stross
Charles Stross is a British author of science fiction, horror and fantasy. He writes the Laundry Files series and the Merchant Princes series. Charles wrote his first science fiction story when he was 12 years old. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy, and soon after became a qualified pharmacist. A couple of years later, he enrolled at Bradford University for his post-graduate degree in computer science, and began working as a technical author and programmer the next year. In 2000, Charles became a full-time technical writer, and then transitioned into becoming a writer of fiction.

Charles Stross published his first book in 1996, a non-fiction book entitled The Web Architect’s Handbook. His first novel to be published was Singularity Sky, published in 2003. Below is a list of Charles Stross’ books in order of when they were originally released:

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Publication Order of Singularity Sky Books

Publication Order of The Merchant Princes Books

The Family Trade (2004)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Hidden Family (2005)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Clan Corporate (2006)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Merchants' War (2007)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Revolution Business (2009)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Trade of Queens (2010)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Laundry Files Books

The Atrocity Archives (2004)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Jennifer Morgue (2006)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Pimpf (2006)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Down on the Farm (2010)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Equoid (2010)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Overtime (2010)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Fuller Memorandum (2010)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Apocalypse Codex (2012)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Rhesus Chart (2014)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Annihilation Score (2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Nightmare Stacks (2016)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Delirium Brief (2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Labyrinth Index (2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Escape from Yokai Land (2022)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Season of Skulls (2023)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of The New Management Books

Dead Lies Dreaming (2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Quantum of Nightmares (2022)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Laundry Files Collections

Three Tales from the Laundry Files (2014)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Halting State Books

Publication Order of Freyaverse Books

Saturn's Children (2008)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Neptune's Brood (2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Empire Games Books

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Glasshouse (2006)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Missile Gap (2006)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Scratch Monkey (2011)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Rapture of the Nerds (With: Cory Doctorow) (2012)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas

Publication Order of Short Story Collections

Toast, and Other Stories (2002)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Wireless (2009)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

The Web Architect's Handbook (1996)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Warhammer 40,000 Books

Deathwing (1980)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Draco (1990)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Inquisitor (1990)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Harlequin (1994)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Chaos Child (1994)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Eye of Terror (1999)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Dark Imperium (2001)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Storm of Iron (2002)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Words of Blood (2002)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Farseer (2002)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Crucible of War (2003)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Lone Wolves (2003)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
What Price Victory (2004)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Inquisition War (2004)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Iron Hands (2004)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Bringers of Death (2005)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Let the Galaxy Burn (2006)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Tales from the Dark Millennium (2006)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Blood & Thunder (2008)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Planetkill (2008)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Imperial Guard Omnibus: Volume One (2008)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Dawn of War II (2009)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Sabbat Worlds: A Good Man (2011)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Alien Beast Within (2012)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Mephiston: Lord of Death (2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Down Amongst the Dead Men (2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Cost of Command (2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Warped Stars (2016)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Macharian Crusade Omnibus (2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Path Unclear (2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Lukas the Trickster (2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Choke Point (2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Lightning Run (2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Masters of Stone and Steel (2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Spear of the Emperor (2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Celestine: The Living Saint (2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Redemption Through Sacrifice (2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Born of the Storm (2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Last Flight (2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Inferno! Volume 4 (2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Mark of Faith (2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Lord of the Dark Millennium (2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Where Dere’s da Warp Dere’s a Way (2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Night Shriekers (2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Warriors and Warlords (2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Method of Madness (2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Indomitus (2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Karsharat Abomination (2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Imperium at War (2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Hammer and the Eagle: Icons of Warhammer (2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Green and Grey (2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Brutal Kunnin' (2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Nexus & Other Stories (2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Ephrael Stern: The Heretic Saint (2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Recongregator (2021)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Tear of Selevia (2021)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Silent Hunters (2021)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Sabbat War (2021)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Da Gobbo's Revenge (2021)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Wolftime (2021)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Small Cog (2022)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Fool's Ruin (2022)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Astorath: Angel of Mercy (2022)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Ghazghkull Thraka: Prophet of the Waaagh! (2022)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Huron Blackheart: Master of the Maelstrom (2022)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Sacred Hate (2022)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Brightest And Best (2022)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Awakenings (2022)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Kasrkin (2022)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Renegades: Harrowmaster (2022)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Only War: Stories from the 41st Millennium (2022)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Packin' Heat (2022)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Warboss (2023)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Lion: Son of the Forest (2023)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Once A Killer (2023)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Long Promise (2023)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Yarrick: The Omnibus (2024)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Da Big Dakka (2024)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Anthologies

Asimov's Science Fiction, June 2001(2001)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Supermen(2002)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 15(2002)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Year's Best SF 8(2003)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 16(2003)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
ReVisions(2004)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Year's Best Science Fiction: 21 Annual Edition(2004)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Asimov's Science Fiction, September 2004(2004)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
One Million A.D.(2005)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction(2006)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Space Opera Renaissance(2006)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Rewired(2007)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Space Opera(2007)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Book of Cthulhu(2011)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Recent Weird(2011)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 4(2012)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Digital Rapture(2012)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2012 edition(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2013(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Time Traveler's Almanac(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Tor.com: Selected Original Fiction, 2008-2012(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Zombies: More Recent Dead(2014)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
More Recent Weird(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Shoreline of Infinity 8½: Edinburgh International Book Festival Special Edition(2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Fables from the Fountain(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Notes: Approaching Xanadu was also published as Dark State. The Rapture of the Nerds was written with Cory Doctorow.

If You Like Charles Stross Books, You’ll Love…

Charles Stross Synopses: Singularity Sky is the first book in a series of the same name by Charles Stross. Four hundred years in the future, time travel has been mastered and groundbreaking developments in AI have been made. But is this a great big step forward for humanity – or is it its ultimate downfall?

Halting State is the first Halting State novel by Charles Stross. In the year 2018, a bold bank robbery has occured at Hayek Associates. The suspects are a band of marauding orcs, with a dragon in tow for fire support, and the bank is located within the virtual reality land of Avalon Four. But Sergeant Sue Smith discovers that this virtual world robbery may be linked to some real world devastation.

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