Eric Brown Reading Order
24 series · 198 books · Born 1960
Eric Brown is a seasoned author in the science fiction genre with a career spanning from 1974 to 2024. He has penned an impressive 198 books across 24 series, including notable works such as Bengal Station, Binary/System, and Helix. Renowned for his imaginative storytelling, Brown continues to captivate readers with adventurous narratives in his various series.
Anthologies Series
Likely Complete24 books (1989–2021)
Start with Zenith 2: The Best In New British Science Fiction, the first of 24 books in the Anthologies series.
| # | Title |
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| 1 | Zenith 2: The Best In New British Science Fiction 1989Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 2 | Drabble II: Double Century 1990Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 3 | New Worlds 1 1996Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 4 | The Ant-Men of Tibet and Other Stories 1999Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 5 | Dark Terrors 5 2000Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 6 | Infinities 2002Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 7 | Supermen 2002Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 8 | The Mammoth Book Of Science Fiction 2002Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 9 | Constellations 2005Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 10 | Choices 2006Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 11 | The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF 2009Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 12 | Conflicts 2010Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 13 | Fables from the Fountain 2011Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 14 | House of Fear 2011Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 15 | Unfit for Eden: A Postscripts Anthology 26/27 2011Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 16 | infinities 2011Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 17 | Daily Science Fiction Stories of January 2012 2012Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 18 | Infinity Plus Quintet 2012Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 19 | Encounters of Sherlock Holmes 2013Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 20 | Story Behind the Book : Volume 1 2013Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 21 | Paradox: Stories Inspired by the Fermi Paradox 2014Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 22 | Shoreline of Infinity 11½ 2018Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 23 | Stories of Hope and Wonder: In Support of UK's Healthcare Workers 2020Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 24 | Burning Brightly 2021Buy 🇺🇸 |
Bengal Station Series
Complete3 books (2008–2009)
Start with Necropath and read in order.
Binary/System Series
Complete2 books (2016–2017)
Start with Binary and read in order.
Chapter Series
Complete1 book (2011–2011)
| # | Title |
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| 1 | Monster Ate My Marmite 2011Buy 🇺🇸 |
Helix Series
Complete2 books (2007–2012)
Start with Helix and read in order.
Imaginings Series
Complete12 books (2012–2016)
Start with Cold Grey Stones / Colder Greyer Stones(By: Tanith Lee), the first of 12 books in the Imaginings series.
| # | Title |
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| 1 | Cold Grey Stones / Colder Greyer Stones(By: Tanith Lee) 2012Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 2 | Last and First Contacts(By: Stephen Baxter) 2012Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 3 | Objects in Dreams(By: Lisa Tuttle) 2012Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 4 | Stories from the Northern Road(By: Tony Ballantyne) 2012Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 5 | Feast and Famine(By: Adrian Tchaikovsky) 2013Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 6 | Microcosmos(By: Nina Allan) 2013Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 7 | Twember(By: Steve Rasnic Tem) 2013Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 8 | Strange Visitors 2014Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 9 | Saint Rebor(By: Adam Roberts) 2015Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 10 | Sleeps With Angels(By: Dave Hutchinson) 2015Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 11 | The Light Warden(By: Liz Williams) 2015Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 12 | Mementoes(By: Keith Brooke) 2016Buy 🇺🇸 |
Jani and the Greater Game Series
Complete2 books (2014–2016)
Start with Jani and the Greater Game and read in order.
Kon-Tiki Series
Likely Complete5 books (2018–2022)
Start with Dislocations, the first of 5 books in the Kon-Tiki series.
Langham and Dupré Mystery Series
Likely Complete9 books (2013–2022)
Start with Murder By the Book, the first of 9 books in the Langham and Dupré Mystery series.
Most Wanted Series
Complete7 books (2007–2009)
Start with Dead Brigade(By: James Lovegrove), the first of 7 books in the Most Wanted series.
NP Novella Series
Likely Complete12 books (2021–2023)
Start with May Day(By: Emma Coleman), the first of 12 books in the NP Novella series.
| # | Title |
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| 1 | May Day(By: Emma Coleman) 2021Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 2 | On Arcturus VII 2021Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 3 | Requiem for an Astronaut(By: Daniel Bennett) 2021Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 4 | Rose Knot(By: Kari Sperring) 2021Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 5 | Universal Language(By: Tim Major) 2021Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 6 | Worldshifter(By: Paul Di Filippo) 2021Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 7 | Fish!(By: Ida Keogh) 2022Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 8 | My Mother Murdered the Moon(By: Stephen Deas) 2022Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 9 | The Entropy of Loss(By: Stewart Hotston) 2022Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 10 | Visions of Ruin(By: ) 2022Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 11 | Telling the Bees(By: Emma K. Leadley) 2023Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 12 | The Blackhart Blades(By: David Gullen) 2023Buy 🇺🇸 |
Short Stories/Novellas Series
Likely Complete10 books (2000–2021)
Start with Parallax View(With: Keith Brooke), the first of 10 books in the Short Stories/Novellas series.
| # | Title |
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| 1 | Parallax View(With: Keith Brooke) 2000Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 2 | A Writer's Life 2001Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 3 | Approaching Omega 2004Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 4 | The Extraordinary Voyage of Jules Verne 2005Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 5 | The Memory of Joy 2006Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 6 | Gilbert and Edgar on Mars 2009Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 7 | The Death of Cassandra Quebec 2011Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 8 | The Vanishing of the Atkinsons 2012Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 9 | The Martian Simulacra 2017Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 10 | On Arcturus VII 2021Buy 🇺🇸 |
Short Story Collections Series
Complete11 books (1990–2019)
Start with The Time Lapsed Man And Other Stories, the first of 11 books in the Short Story Collections series.
| # | Title |
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| 1 | The Time Lapsed Man And Other Stories 1990Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 2 | Blue Shifting 1995Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 3 | Deep Future 2001Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 4 | The Fall Of Tartarus 2004Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 5 | Threshold Shift 2006Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 6 | Ghostwriting 2012Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 7 | The Angels of Life and Death 2012Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 8 | Rites of Passage 2014Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 9 | The Spacetime Pit Plus Two(With: Stephen Baxter) 2018Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 10 | The Disciples of Apollo 2019Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 11 | The Ice Garden and Other Stories 2019Buy 🇺🇸 |
Solaris Rising Anthology Series
Complete3 books (2011–2013)
Start with Solaris Rising and read in order.
| # | Title |
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| 1 | Solaris Rising 2011Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 2 | Solaris Rising 1.5(By: Paul Cornell,Tanith Lee,Mike Resnick,Aliette de Bodard,Adam Roberts,Paul Di Filippo,Ian Whates,Gareth L. Powell,Sarah Lotz,Philip Vine) 2012Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 3 | Solaris Rising 2(By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch,Paul Cornell,Liz Williams,James Lovegrove,Robert Reed,Eugie Foster,Nancy Kress,Nick Harkaway,Norman Spinrad,Vandana Singh,Kim Lakin-Smith,Ian Whates,Paul Cornell, Jr.,Kay Kenyon,Adrian Tchaikovsky,Martin Sketchley,Allan Steele) 2013Buy 🇺🇸 |
Standalone Novels Series
Likely Complete19 books (1992–2022)
Start with Meridian Days, the first of 19 books in the Standalone Novels series.
| # | Title |
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| 1 | Meridian Days 1992Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 2 | Engineman 1994Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 3 | Penumbra 1999Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 4 | Twocking 2001Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 5 | Fire Bug 2003Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 6 | Bengal Station 2004Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 7 | British Front 2005Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 8 | Space Ace 2005Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 9 | Crazy Love 2006Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 10 | An Alien Ate Me for Breakfast 2007Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 11 | Kéthani 2008Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 12 | Race Against Time 2008Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 13 | A Dinosaur Ate My Socks 2009Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 14 | Guilty? 2009Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 15 | Guardians of the Phoenix 2010Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 16 | The Kings of Eternity 2011Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 17 | Salvage 2013Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 18 | The Serene Invasion 2013Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 19 | Wormhole(With: Keith Brooke) 2022Buy 🇺🇸 |
Starship Seasons Series
Complete6 books (2007–2016)
Start with Starship Summer, the first of 6 books in the Starship Seasons series.
Stephen Baxter Collections Series
Complete5 books (1998–2018)
Start with Traces(By: Stephen Baxter), the first of 5 books in the Stephen Baxter Collections series.
Telemass Quartet Series
Complete5 books (2014–2019)
Start with Famadihana on Fomalhaut IV, the first of 5 books in the Telemass Quartet series.
The Further Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes Series
Ongoing38 books (1974–2024)
Start with The Adventure of the Peerless Peer(By: Philip Jose Farmer), the first of 38 books in the The Further Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes series.
| # | Title |
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| 1 | The Adventure of the Peerless Peer(By: Philip Jose Farmer) 1974Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 2 | War of the Worlds(By: Manly Wade Wellman,Wade Wellman) 1975Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 3 | The Giant Rat of Sumatra(By: Richard L. Boyer) 1976Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 4 | Sherlock vs Dracula(By: Loren D. Estleman) 1978Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 5 | The Stalwart Companions(By: H. Paul Jeffers) 1978Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 6 | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Holmes(By: Loren D. Estleman) 1979Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 7 | The Ectoplasmic Man(By: Daniel Stashower) 1985Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 8 | The Seventh Bullet(By: Daniel D. Victor) 1992Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 9 | The Whitechapel Horrors(By: Edward B. Hanna) 1992Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 10 | Seance for a Vampire(By: Fred Saberhagen) 1994Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 11 | Sherlock Holmes and the Railway Maniac(By: Barrie Roberts) 1994Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 12 | The Angel of the Opera(By: Sam Siciliano) 1994Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 13 | The Titanic Tragedy(By: William Seil) 1996Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 14 | The Star of India(By: Carole Buggé) 1998Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 15 | The Haunting of Torre Abbey(By: Carole Buggé) 2000Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 16 | The Man from Hell(By: Barrie Roberts) 2000Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 17 | The Veiled Detective(By: David Stuart Davies) 2004Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 18 | Between the Thames and the Tiber(By: Ted Riccardi) 2011Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 19 | The Web Weaver(By: Sam Siciliano) 2012Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 20 | The Grimswell Curse(By: Sam Siciliano) 2013Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 21 | The Devil's Promise(By: David Stuart Davies) 2014Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 22 | The Albino's Treasure(By: Stuart Douglas) 2015Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 23 | Murder at Sorrow's Crown(By: Steven Savile,Robert Greenberger) 2016Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 24 | The Counterfeit Detective(By: Stuart Douglas) 2016Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 25 | The Ripper Legacy(By: David Stuart Davies) 2016Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 26 | The White Worm(By: Sam Siciliano) 2016Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 27 | Imagination Theatre's Sherlock Holmes of Scripts From The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes(By: David Marcum) 2017Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 28 | The Moonstone's Curse(By: Sam Siciliano) 2017Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 29 | The Devil and the Four(By: Sam Siciliano) 2018Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 30 | The Improbable Prisoner(By: Stuart Douglas) 2018Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 31 | The Instrument of Death(By: David Stuart Davies) 2019Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 32 | The Crusader's Curse(By: Stuart Douglas) 2020Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 33 | The Martian Menace 2020Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 34 | The Venerable Tiger(By: Sam Siciliano) 2020Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 35 | Sherlock Holmes and the Four Kings of Sweden(By: Steven Savile) 2021Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 36 | Revenge from the Grave(By: David Stuart Davies) 2022Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 37 | Deathly Relics(By: Sam Siciliano) 2023Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 38 | The Gentleman Burglar(By: Sam Siciliano) 2024Buy 🇺🇸 |
The Web - 2027 Series
Complete6 books (1997–1997)
Start with Dreamcastle(By: Stephen Bowkett), the first of 6 books in the The Web - 2027 series.
The Web - 2028 Series
Complete7 books (1998–1999)
Start with Avatar(By: Pat Cadigan), the first of 7 books in the The Web - 2028 series.
| # | Title |
|---|---|
| 1 | Avatar(By: Pat Cadigan) 1998Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 2 | Computopia(By: James Lovegrove) 1998Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 3 | Cydonia(By: Ken MacLeod) 1998Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 4 | Spindrift(By: Maggie Furey) 1998Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 5 | Walkabout 1998Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 6 | Webcrash(By: Stephen Baxter) 1998Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 7 | The Web: 2028(With: Pat Cadigan,Stephen Baxter,Ken MacLeod,James Lovegrove,Maggie Furey,Simon Spanton) 1999Buy 🇺🇸 |
Virex Trilogy Series
Complete3 books (2000–2004)
Start with New York Nights and read in order.
Weirdspace Series
Complete4 books (2012–2016)
Start with The Devil's Nebula, the first of 4 books in the Weirdspace series.
Zenith: The Best in New British Science Fiction Series
Complete2 books (1989–1989)
Start with Zenith 2: The Best In New British Science Fiction and read in order.
Frequently Asked Questions
- How many books has Eric Brown written?
- Eric Brown has written 198 books across 24 series. Their published works span from 1974 to 2024.
- What is the first book in each Eric Brown series?
- Here are the first books in Eric Brown's series: Anthologies: Zenith 2: The Best In New British Science Fiction; Bengal Station: Necropath; Binary/System: Binary; Helix: Helix; Imaginings: Cold Grey Stones / Colder Greyer Stones(By: Tanith Lee).
- What order should I read Eric Brown's books?
- We recommend reading Eric Brown's series in publication order. Each series can be read independently.
- Is Eric Brown still writing new books?
- Yes, Eric Brown has 1 ongoing series: The Further Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes.

