James P. Hogan was a British science fiction author best known for writing the Giants series. The series, and Hogan’s writing career, began in 1977 with the release of Inherit the Stars.

Hogan was born in England and grew up on the west side of London. After schooling, he would head to the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough where he studied the practice and theory of electrical, electronic, and mechanical engineering. He worked as a design engineer and sales engineer until an office bet lead to him writing Inherit the Stars. Hogan began writing full-time in 1979.

Publication Order of Giants Books

Inherit the Stars (1977)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Gentle Giants of Ganymede (1978)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Giants' Star (1981)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Entoverse (1991)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Mission to Minerva (2005)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Code of the Lifemaker Books

Code of the Lifemaker (1983)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Immortality Option (1995)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Cradle of Saturn Books

Cradle of Saturn (1999)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Anguished Dawn (2003)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

The Genesis Machine (1978)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Two Faces of Tomorrow (1979)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Thrice Upon a Time (1980)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Voyage From Yesteryear (1982)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Proteus Operation (1985)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Endgame Enigma (1987)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Mirror Maze (1989)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Infinity Gambit (1991)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Multiplex Man (1992)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Realtime Interrupt (1995)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Paths To Otherwhere (1996)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Bug Park (1997)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Legend That Was Earth (2000)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Echoes of an Alien Sky (2007)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Moon Flower (2008)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Migration (2010)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Short Story Collections

Minds, Machines & Evolution (1988)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Star Child (1998)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Rockets, Redheads & Revolution (1999)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Martian Knightlife (2001)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Catastrophes, Chaos & Convolutions (2005)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Chapbooks

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Mind Matters (1998)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Kicking the Sacred Cow (2004)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Jupiter Books

Higher Education (By: Jerry Pournelle,Charles Sheffield) (1996)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Billion Dollar Boy (By: Charles Sheffield) (1997)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Putting Up Roots (By: Charles Sheffield) (1997)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Cyborg From Earth (By: Charles Sheffield) (1998)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Starswarm (By: Jerry Pournelle) (1998)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Outward Bound (1999)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Anthologies

The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, December 1980(1980)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Hard SF Renaissance(2003)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

If You Like James P. Hogan Books, You’ll Love…

Inherit the Stars is the first book in the Giants series. The story begins with the man on the moon dead. He was known as Charlie and had big eyes and long nostrils. His remains were found in a bright red spacesuit, hidden in a rocky grave. Nobody knew who he was, how he got there, or how he dead. All that the people who discovered him on the moon knew was that his corpse was fifty thousand years old which meant that somehow this man had lived long before he ever could have existed.

Hogan is also the author of Migration, a standalone novel. This book takes place in a world that has been built from the ruins of a past society. The nation of Sofi has rediscovered advanced science as the rest of the world are going down a path which doomed their predecessors. The Sofi decide to build a starship that will enable them to create a new world somewhere else. The mission includes groups of idealists, reformers, misfits, and dissidents who want to build a new world. The only trouble comes when the old patterns that they are trying to escape from start to rear their ugly heads.

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