Order of Charles Stross Books
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 Empire Games Books
| Empire Games | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Dark State | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Invisible Sun | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Freyaverse Books
| Saturn's Children | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Bit Rot | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Neptune's Brood | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Halting State Books
| Halting State | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Rule 34 | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Laundry Files Books
Publication Order of Laundry Files Collections Books
| Three Tales from the Laundry Files | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
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 The New Management Books
| Dead Lies Dreaming | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Quantum of Nightmares | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Season of Skulls | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Shining Worlds Books
| Ghost Engine | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Singularity Sky Books
| Singularity Sky | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Iron Sunrise | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Accelerando | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
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 | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
| Approaching Xanadu | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Colder War | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Lobsters | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Jury Service | (2002) | Info. |
| Halo | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Nightfall | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Festival of Fools | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Appeals Court | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Concrete Jungle | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Elector | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Palimpsest | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Tall Tail | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
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 Shoreline of Infinity Science Fiction Magazine Books
(with Kim Stanley Robinson, Iain M. Banks, Andrew Lang, Anton Rose, Jane Yolen, Ken MacLeod, Ian Watson, Eric Brown, Adam Roberts, Tony Ballantyne, John Buchan, Craig Thompson, Holly Schofield, Shannon Connor Winward, Nalo Hopkinson, Chris Beckett, Karen Heuler, George MacDonald, Jo Walton, Tricia Sullivan, Ian Whates, Edd Vick, Sofia Samatar, Gareth L. Powell, Duncan Lunan, Tim Major, Premee Mohamed, Andy McKell, David McGillveray, Elana Gomel, T.L. Huchu, Allen Ashley, Marge Simon, F.J. Bergmann, Chris Barnham, Gary Gibson, Chris Kelso, May Kendall, Megan Neumann, Neil Williamson, Vaughan Stanger, Steve Green, David L. Clements, Callum McSorley, Bo Balder, David Lindsay, Ada Palmer, Ruth E.J. Booth, Cat Hellisen, Tim Major, Shelly Bryant, Eugen Bacon, ThomasClark, Ahmed A. Khan, Tiffany Meuret, Ian Hunter, Robert Neilson, Sherry Shahan, Paul Holmes, Andrew Reichard, Die Booth, Heather Valentine, Raman Mundair, Noel Chidwick, Christopher Collingwood, Christopher R. Muscato, Preston Grassmann, Pippa Goldschmidt, Davide Mana, Benjamin C. Kinney, Rachel Armstrong, Paul McQuade, E. M. Faulds, David L Clements, Simon Nagel, Alex Storer, Mariah Montoya, Hiron Ennes, Guy Stewart, Eris Young, Andrew J. Wilson, Caroline Grebbell, Michael Stroh, Clive Tern, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Benjamin Dodds, Sára Júlia, J. Leslie Mitchell, Monica Burns, Rachel Plummer, Dan Grace, Teika Marija Smits, Davyne DeSye, L.R. Lam, J.K. Fulton, Dave Weaver, Lyndsey Croal, Helen French, Douglas Gwilym, Ken Poyner, Iain Maloney, Andrew Blair, Moussa Ould Ebnou, Robert Bagnall, Laura Duerr, Andrew Kozma, Lucy Zhang, Des Raspin, Katie Gray, Mark Toner, Shelley Bryant, Grahame Barrasford Young, Miriam Johnson, Thomas Broderick, Tracey S. Rosenberg, Dee Raspin, Sara Ljeskovac, Kenzie Lappin, Petra Kuppers, Brian M. Milton, Andrew Knighton, Ken McLeod, Brent Baldwin, Jeda Pearl, Terry Jackman, Daniel Soule, Steve Pickering, Michael Fontana, Tyler J Petty, Ryan L. Daly, Bethany Ruth Anderson, Steve Simpson, Kathy Steinemann, Ann Craig, Elsa Bouet, Dave Ring, Rob Butler, Ephiny Gale, Adam Connors, Jack Schouten, DA D’Amico, Lidia Molina Whyte, E.M. Faulds, J.G. Sarmiento, Louis Evans, Esme Carpenter, Bram E. Gieben, Simon Mordem, Ruth Aylett, Stuart Beel, Net Newman, Daniel Rosen, Gary Dalkin, Simon Fung, Marija Smits, Kate Macdonald, Hûw Steer, Lindz McLeod, Emma Levin, Tania Chen, Russell Jones, Rhiannon Grist, M.H. Ayinde, Laura Young, Matthew Castle, M. Luke McDonell, Ely Percy, Anya Ow, Vicki Jarrett, Gessica Sakamoto Martini, Knighton Knighton, Sara Kate Ellis, Greta Colombani, SK Farrell, Serna Johe, K.E. Macphee, Chris Baily, Calum L Macleoid, S.A.M. Rundell, Peyman Saremian, Jeremey Nelson, Gregory A. Austin, Jo Ross-Barrett, RV Neville, Teika Marina Smits, Raymond W Gallacher, Adam Marx, Bethany Davis, Laura Scotland, Woody Dismukes, Edmind Fines, David Lawrie, Jesse Rowell, T.H. Dray, Beth Nuttall, Anna Ziemons-McLean, Anna Cheung, Dylan Kwok, LeeAnn Perry, M.A.R. Rinaldi, S.J. Groenewegen, Jamie M Boyd, M Shedric Simpson, Darryl A Smith, Caitriana NicNeacail, Ruth EJ Booth, John J Kennedy, Scott Payne, T. Lucas Earle, Franki Halliwell, Timothy Quinn, Joyce Bingham)
| Shoreline of Infinity 1 | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Shoreline of Infinity 2 | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Shoreline of Infinity 3 | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Shoreline of Infinity 4 | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Shoreline of Infinity 5 | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Shoreline of Infinity 6 | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Shoreline of Infinity 7 | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Shoreline of Infinity 8 | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Shoreline of Infinity 8½ | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Shoreline of Infinity 9 | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Shoreline of Infinity 10 | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Shoreline of Infinity 11 | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Shoreline of Infinity 12 | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Shoreline of Infinity 13 | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Shoreline of Infinity 14 | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Shoreline of Infinity 15 | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Shoreline of Infinity 16 | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Shoreline of Infinity 17 | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Shoreline of Infinity 18 | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Shoreline of Infinity 19 | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Shoreline of Infinity 20 | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Shoreline of Infinity 21 | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Shoreline of Infinity 22 | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Shoreline of Infinity 23 | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Shoreline of Infinity 24 | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Shoreline of Infinity 25 | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Shoreline of Infinity 26 | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Shoreline of Infinity 27 | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Shoreline of Infinity 28 | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Shoreline of Infinity 29 | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Shoreline of Infinity 30 | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Shoreline of Infinity 31 | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Shoreline of Infinity 32 | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Shoreline of Infinity 33 | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Shoreline of Infinity 34 | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Shoreline of Infinity 35 | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Shoreline of Infinity 36 | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Shoreline of Infinity 37 | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Shoreline of Infinity 38 | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Shoreline of Infinity 39 | (2025) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Shoreline of Infinity 40 | (2026) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
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Publication Order of Warhammer 40,000 Books
Publication Order of Year's Best SF Anthology Books
| Year's Best SF | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Year's Best SF 2 | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Year's Best SF 3 | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Year's Best SF 4 | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Year's Best SF 5 | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Year's Best SF 6 | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Year's Best SF 7 | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Year's Best SF 8 | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Year's Best SF 9 | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Year's Best SF 10 | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Year's Best SF 11 | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Year's Best SF 12 | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Year's Best SF 13 | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Year's Best SF 14 | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Year's Best SF 15 | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Year's Best SF 16 | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Year's Best SF 17 | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Year's Best SF 18 | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
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Publication Order of Anthologies
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Notes: Approaching Xanadu was also published as Dark State. The Rapture of the Nerds was written with Cory Doctorow.
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