David Brin Reading Order

30 books (1988–2016)

Start with Mississippi Review 47 / 48, the first of 30 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Mississippi Review 47 / 48 1988Buy 🇺🇸
2	Amazing Stories, March 1990 1990Buy 🇺🇸
3	Tomorrow's Voices 1991Buy 🇺🇸
4	Murasaki 1992Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories 1992Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Williamson Effect 1996Buy 🇺🇸
7	War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches 1996Buy 🇺🇸
8	Far Horizons 1999Buy 🇺🇸
9	Year's Best SF 4 1999Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Age of Wonders: Tales from the Near Future 2000Buy 🇺🇸
11	I Have This Nifty Idea 2001Buy 🇺🇸
12	Live Without a Net 2003Buy 🇺🇸
13	Seven Seasons of Buffy 2003Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Hard SF Renaissance 2003Buy 🇺🇸
15	All Star Zeppelin Adventure Stories 2004Buy 🇺🇸
16	Analog, January/February 2005 2005Buy 🇺🇸
17	Space Cadets 2006Buy 🇺🇸
18	Star Wars on Trial 2006Buy 🇺🇸
19	The Space Opera Renaissance 2006Buy 🇺🇸
20	This Is My Funniest 2006Buy 🇺🇸
21	The Best of Jim Baen's Universe 2007Buy 🇺🇸
22	Shadows of the New Sun 2013Buy 🇺🇸
23	Dragonwriter: A Tribute to Anne McCaffrey and Pern 2014Buy 🇺🇸
24	Hieroglyph 2014Buy 🇺🇸
25	Multiverse 2014Buy 🇺🇸
26	Now Write! Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror 2014Buy 🇺🇸
27	Visions of the Future 2015Buy 🇺🇸
28	Ring of Fire IV 2016Buy 🇺🇸
29	The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume One 2016Buy 🇺🇸
30	Worst Contact 2016Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2007–2007)

1 book (1998–1998)

#	Title
1	Tribes 1998Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2021–2021)

Start with Castaways of New Mojave(With: Jeff Carlson) and read in order.

#	Title
1	Castaways of New Mojave(With: Jeff Carlson) 2021Buy 🇺🇸
2	Colony High 2021Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2003–2003)

#	Title
1	The Life Eaters 2003Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2002–2002)

Start with Kil'n Time and read in order.

#	Title
1	Kil'n Time 2002Buy 🇺🇸
2	Kiln People / Kil'n People 2002Buy 🇺🇸

13 books (1987–2019)

Start with The Transparent Society, the first of 13 books in the Non-Fiction series.

#	Title
1	The Transparent Society 1987Buy 🇺🇸
2	Extraterrestrial Civilization 1989Buy 🇺🇸
3	Through Stranger Eyes 2008Buy 🇺🇸
4	George Orwell and the Self-Fulfilling Prophecy 2010Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Dark Side 2010Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Lord of the Rings 2010Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Matrix 2010Buy 🇺🇸
8	Disputation Arenas 2011Buy 🇺🇸
9	Do We Really Want Immortality? 2016Buy 🇺🇸
10	How Will the World End? 2016Buy 🇺🇸
11	Singularity and Nightmares 2016Buy 🇺🇸
12	Three Cheers for the Surveillance Society 2016Buy 🇺🇸
13	Polemical Judo 2019Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (1999–2025)

Start with The Game of Worlds, the first of 5 books in the Out Of Time series.

#	Title
1	The Game of Worlds 1999Buy 🇺🇸
2	Tiger in the Sky(With: Sheila Finch) 1999Buy 🇺🇸
3	Yanked!(With: Nancy Kress) 1999Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Archimedes Gambit(By: Patrick Freivald) 2021Buy 🇺🇸
5	Boondoggle(With: Tom Easton,Torion Oey) 2025Buy 🇺🇸

12 books (2004–2021)

Start with Ring of Fire I(By: Mercedes Lackey,Eric Flint,Dave Freer,K.D. Wentworth,S.L. Viehl,Mike Turner), the first of 12 books in the Ring of Fire Anthology series.

#	Title
1	Ring of Fire I(By: Mercedes Lackey,Eric Flint,Dave Freer,K.D. Wentworth,S.L. Viehl,Mike Turner) 2004Buy 🇺🇸
2	1634: The Ram Rebellion(By: Eric Flint,Virginia DeMarce) 2006Buy 🇺🇸
3	Ring of Fire II(By: Eric Flint,Dave Freer,K.D. Wentworth,Andrew Dennis,David Carrico) 2008Buy 🇺🇸
4	1635: The Tangled Web(By: Eric Flint,Virginia DeMarce) 2009Buy 🇺🇸
5	Ring of Fire III(By: Mercedes Lackey,Eric Flint,Charles E. Gannon) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
6	1635: Music and Murder(By: David Carrico) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
7	1636: Seas of Fortune(By: Iver P. Cooper) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
8	1636: The Barbie Consortium(By: Gorg Huff,Paula Goodlett) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
9	1635: The Wars for the Rhine(By: Anette Pedersen) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
10	Ring of Fire IV(With: Eric Flint,Charles E. Gannon,Virginia DeMarce,David Carrico) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
11	1636: Flight of the Nightingale(By: David Carrico) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
12	1637: The Coast of Chaos(By: Eric Flint,Gorg Huff,Paula Goodlett) 2021Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1997–2000)

Start with Foundation's Fear(By: Gregory Benford) and read in order.

#	Title
1	Foundation's Fear(By: Gregory Benford) 1997Buy 🇺🇸
2	Foundation and Chaos(By: Greg Bear) 1998Buy 🇺🇸
3	Foundation's Triumph 2000Buy 🇺🇸

10 books (1989–2013)

Start with Dr. Pak's Preschool, the first of 10 books in the Short Stories/Novellas series.

#	Title
1	Dr. Pak's Preschool 1989Buy 🇺🇸
2	Piecework 1992Buy 🇺🇸
3	Reality Check 2011Buy 🇺🇸
4	Stones of Significance 2011Buy 🇺🇸
5	Tank Farm Dynamo 2011Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Crystal Spheres 2011Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Giving Plague 2011Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Loom of Thessaly 2011Buy 🇺🇸
9	Thor Meets Captain America 2011Buy 🇺🇸
10	Mars Opposition 2013Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (1986–2021)

Start with The River of Time, the first of 4 books in the Short Story Collections series.

#	Title
1	The River of Time 1986Buy 🇺🇸
2	Otherness 1994Buy 🇺🇸
3	Tomorrow Happens 2003Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Best of David Brin 2021Buy 🇺🇸

38 books (2003–2015)

Start with Seven Seasons of Buffy, the first of 38 books in the Smart Pop series.

#	Title
1	Seven Seasons of Buffy 2003Buy 🇺🇸
2	Taking the Red Pill(By: Glenn Yeffeth) 2003Buy 🇺🇸
3	Five Seasons of Angel(By: Chelsea Quinn Yarbro,Peter S. Beagle,Laura Anne Gilman,Sherrilyn Kenyon,Nancy Holder,Jacqueline Lichtenberg,Jean Lorrah,Josepha Sherman,Laura Resnick,Candace Havens,Glenn Yeffeth,Michelle Sagara,Steven Harper,Amy Berner,Marguerite Krause,Abbie Bernstein,Jennifer Crusie,Don DeBrandt,K. Stoddard Hayes,Joy Davidson,Don Kerns) 2004Buy 🇺🇸
4	Stepping through the Stargate(By: P.N. Elrod,Roxanne Conrad) 2004Buy 🇺🇸
5	Alias Assumed(By: Tracy S. Morris) 2005Buy 🇺🇸
6	Farscape Forever! Sex, Drugs and Killer Muppets(By: Glenn Yeffeth) 2005Buy 🇺🇸
7	Finding Serenity(By: Robert Brian Taylor) 2005Buy 🇺🇸
8	Flirting With Pride And Prejudice(By: Glenn Yeffeth,Jennifer Crusie) 2005Buy 🇺🇸
9	King Kong Is Back! An Unauthorized Look at One Humongous Ape! 2005Buy 🇺🇸
10	Navigating the Golden Compass(By: Glenn Yeffeth) 2005Buy 🇺🇸
11	Revisiting Narnia(By: Shanna Caughey) 2005Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Anthology at the End of the Universe(By: Stephen Baxter,John Shirley,Adam-Troy Castro,Lawrence Watt-Evans,Adam Roberts,Susan Sizemore,Mark W. Tiedemann,Jacqueline Carey,Vox Day,Cory Doctorow,A.M. Dellamonica,Glenn Yeffeth,Selina Rosen,Amy Berner,Maria Alexander,Marguerite Krause,Bruce Bethke,Don DeBrandt,Marie-Catherine Caillava,Mike Byrne) 2005Buy 🇺🇸
13	The War of the Worlds(By: Connie Willis,Mercedes Lackey,H.G. Wells,Mike Resnick,Stephen Baxter,Lawrence Watt-Evans) 2005Buy 🇺🇸
14	Totally Charmed(By: Maggie Shayne,Rebecca York,Jody Lynn Nye,Evelyn Vaughn,Tanya Huff,Vera Nazarian,Jennifer Crusie) 2005Buy 🇺🇸
15	Boarding the Enterprise(By: Robert J. Sawyer,David Gerrold) 2006Buy 🇺🇸
16	Getting Lost(By: Orson Scott Card) 2006Buy 🇺🇸
17	Investigating CSI(By: Leah Wilson,Donn Cortez) 2006Buy 🇺🇸
18	So Say We All(By: Peter B. Lloyd,Richard Hatch) 2006Buy 🇺🇸
19	The Battle for Azeroth(By: Jody Lynn Nye,Justina Robson,Doranna Durgin,Bill Fawcett,Mel White,James John Bell,James M. Ward,Scott Cuthbertson,Nancy Berman,Jerry Jackson,Chris McCubbin,Maressa Hecht Orzack,Nancy Durgin) 2006Buy 🇺🇸
20	The Man from Krypton(By: Glenn Yeffeth) 2006Buy 🇺🇸
21	The Unauthorized X-Men(By: Leah Wilson,Len Wein) 2006Buy 🇺🇸
22	This Is Chick-Lit(By: Lauren Baratz-Logsted) 2006Buy 🇺🇸
23	Welcome to Wisteria Lane(By: Leah Wilson) 2006Buy 🇺🇸
24	Coffee at Luke's(By: Leah Wilson,Jennifer Crusie) 2007Buy 🇺🇸
25	Grey's Anatomy 101(By: Leah Wilson) 2007Buy 🇺🇸
26	Halo Effect(By: Glenn Yeffeth,Jennifer Thomason) 2007Buy 🇺🇸
27	House Unauthorized(By: Leah Wilson) 2007Buy 🇺🇸
28	Neptune Noir(By: Rob Thomas) 2007Buy 🇺🇸
29	Perfectly Plum(By: Leah Wilson) 2007Buy 🇺🇸
30	Serenity Found(By: Orson Scott Card,Jacob Clifton,Michael Marano,Jane Espenson,Natalie Haynes,Nathan Fillion) 2007Buy 🇺🇸
31	Webslinger(By: Leah Wilson,Gerry Conway) 2007Buy 🇺🇸
32	Batman Unauthorized(By: Leah Wilson) 2008Buy 🇺🇸
33	Secrets of the Dragon Riders(By: James A. Owen) 2008Buy 🇺🇸
34	In the Hunt(By: Leah Wilson) 2009Buy 🇺🇸
35	James Bond in the 21st Century(By: Leah Wilson,Glenn Yeffeth) 2009Buy 🇺🇸
36	A Taste of True Blood(By: Leah Wilson) 2010Buy 🇺🇸
37	Ardeur(By: Laurell K. Hamilton) 2010Buy 🇺🇸
38	You Do Not Talk About Fight Club(By: Chuck Palahniuk,Read Mercer Schuchardt) 2015Buy 🇺🇸

8 books (1984–2020)

Start with The Practice Effect, the first of 8 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	The Practice Effect 1984Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Postman 1985Buy 🇺🇸
3	Heart of the Comet 1986Buy 🇺🇸
4	Earth 1990Buy 🇺🇸
5	Glory Season 1993Buy 🇺🇸
6	Existence 2012Buy 🇺🇸
7	Insistence of Vision 2018Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Ancient Ones 2020Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2001–2002)

Start with Forgiveness and read in order.

#	Title
1	Forgiveness 2001Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Gorn Crisis(By: Kevin J. Anderson) 2002Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2002–2002)

#	Title
1	Contacting Aliens 2002Buy 🇺🇸

7 books (1980–2011)

Start with Sundiver, the first of 7 books in the Uplift Saga series.

#	Title
1	Sundiver 1980Buy 🇺🇸
2	Startide Rising 1983Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Uplift War 1987Buy 🇺🇸
4	Brightness Reef 1995Buy 🇺🇸
5	Infinity's Shore 1996Buy 🇺🇸
6	Heaven's Reach 1998Buy 🇺🇸
7	Gorilla, My Dreams 2011Buy 🇺🇸