Jack McDevitt Reading Order

9 books (1989–2023)

Start with A Talent for War, the first of 9 books in the Alex Benedict series.

#	Title
1	A Talent for War 1989Buy 🇺🇸
2	Polaris 2004Buy 🇺🇸
3	Seeker 2005Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Devil's Eye 2008Buy 🇺🇸
5	Echo 2010Buy 🇺🇸
6	Firebird 2011Buy 🇺🇸
7	Coming Home 2014Buy 🇺🇸
8	Octavia Gone 2019Buy 🇺🇸
9	Village in the Sky 2023Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1996–2015)

Start with Ancient Shores and read in order.

#	Title
1	Ancient Shores 1996Buy 🇺🇸
2	Thunderbird 2015Buy 🇺🇸

20 books (1985–2017)

Start with The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection, the first of 20 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection 1985Buy 🇺🇸
2	Full Spectrum 1 1988Buy 🇺🇸
3	Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, October 1992 1992Buy 🇺🇸
4	Time Machines 1997Buy 🇺🇸
5	Explorers 2000Buy 🇺🇸
6	Breach the Hull 2007Buy 🇺🇸
7	Nebula Awards Showcase 2007 2007Buy 🇺🇸
8	Fast Forward 2 2008Buy 🇺🇸
9	Sideways In Crime 2008Buy 🇺🇸
10	Lightspeed: Year One 2011Buy 🇺🇸
11	Going Interstellar 2012Buy 🇺🇸
12	Futuredaze: An Anthology of YA Science Fiction 2013Buy 🇺🇸
13	Impossible Futures 2013Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Other Half of the Sky 2013Buy 🇺🇸
15	Carbide Tipped Pens 2014Buy 🇺🇸
16	Galaxy's Edge Magazine Issue 11, November 2014 2014Buy 🇺🇸
17	Beyond Watson 2016Buy 🇺🇸
18	The Best of Defending the Future 2016Buy 🇺🇸
19	To Shape the Dark 2016Buy 🇺🇸
20	Ex Libris: Stories of Librarians, Libraries, and Lore 2017Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1996–2009)

Start with Standard Candles and read in order.

#	Title
1	Standard Candles 1996Buy 🇺🇸
2	Outbound 2006Buy 🇺🇸
3	Cryptic 2009Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (2013–2021)

Start with Dogs of War(By: Brenda Cooper,David Sherman,Danielle Ackley-McPhail,Mike McPhail), the first of 5 books in the Defending the Future series.

#	Title
1	Dogs of War(By: Brenda Cooper,David Sherman,Danielle Ackley-McPhail,Mike McPhail) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
2	Man and Machine(By: James Chambers,Jennifer Brozek,Brenda Cooper,Aaron Rosenberg,Nancy Jane Moore,Bud Sparhawk,Jeff Young,Robert E. Waters,Danielle Ackley-McPhail,Patrick Thomas,Mike McPhail,Judi Fleming,Anton Kukal,Eric V. Hardenbrook,Ronald Garner) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Best of Defending the Future 2016Buy 🇺🇸
4	In Harm's Way(By: Mike McPhail) 2019Buy 🇺🇸
5	Best Laid Plans(By: Jack Campbell,James Chambers,John L. French,Jack Campbell Jr.,Keith R.A. DeCandido,Jeff Youngquist,Nancy Jane Moore,Bud Sparhawk,David Sherman,Jeff Young,Maria V. Snyder,Jeff Young,Danielle Ackley-McPhail,Jeffrey Lyman,Judi Fleming,Eric V. Hardenbrook,Peter Prellwitz,Eric V. Hardenbrook) 2021Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2013–2020)

Start with The Other Half of the Sky and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Other Half of the Sky 2013Buy 🇺🇸
2	To Shape the Dark 2016Buy 🇺🇸
3	Retellings of the Inland Seas(By: Judith Tarr,Alexander Jablokov,James L. Cambias,Melissa Scott,Shariann Lewitt,Athena Andreadis,Elana Gomel,Christine Lucas,Eleni Tsami,Kelly Jennings,Dimitra Nikolaidou,Genevieve Williams,A.M. Tuomala,F.J. Doucet) 2020Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1988–2024)

Start with The Fort Moxie Branch (in Full Spectrum 1) and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Fort Moxie Branch (in Full Spectrum 1) 1988Buy 🇺🇸
2	Time Travelers Never Die (in Asimov's) 1996Buy 🇺🇸
3	Doorway to the Stars 2024Buy 🇺🇸

9 books (1986–2022)

Start with The Hercules Text, the first of 9 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	The Hercules Text 1986Buy 🇺🇸
2	Eternity Road 1997Buy 🇺🇸
3	Moonfall 1998Buy 🇺🇸
4	Hello Out There 2000Buy 🇺🇸
5	Infinity Beach / Slow Lightning 2000Buy 🇺🇸
6	Time Travelers Never Die 2009Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Cassandra Project(With: Mike Resnick) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
8	A Voice in the Night 2018Buy 🇺🇸
9	Return to Glory 2022Buy 🇺🇸

8 books (1994–2018)

Start with The Engines of God, the first of 8 books in the The Academy series.

#	Title
1	The Engines of God 1994Buy 🇺🇸
2	Deepsix 2000Buy 🇺🇸
3	Chindi 2002Buy 🇺🇸
4	Omega 2003Buy 🇺🇸
5	Odyssey 2006Buy 🇺🇸
6	Cauldron 2007Buy 🇺🇸
7	Starhawk 2013Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Long Sunset 2018Buy 🇺🇸