Jay Lake Reading Order
1 series · 94 books
Jay Lake was a prolific American science fiction and fantasy author who created primarily standalone novels rather than extended series. With nearly a hundred published works, he demonstrated remarkable versatility across speculative fiction genres, crafting imaginative worlds that ranged from hard science fiction concepts to fantastical settings. A recognized talent early in his career, Lake gained attention winning the Writers of the Future competition and went on to establish himself as a distinctive voice in contemporary speculative fiction.
Standalone Novels Series
94 books
Jay Lake's Standalone Novels series comprises 94 individual works spanning short fiction collections, anthologies, and single stories published across various platforms and years. These books should be read in publication order, beginning with A Water Matter: A Tor.Com Original (Green). The series includes short story collections like Almost All the Way Home From the Stars and Clockwork Fairy Tales alongside standalone pieces that appeared in publications such as Clarkesworld magazine. The completion status of this series remains unclear.
Start with A Water Matter: A Tor.Com Original (Green), the first of 94 books in the Standalone Novels series.
| # | Title |
|---|---|
| 1 | A Water Matter: A Tor.Com Original (Green) |
| 2 | Almost All the Way Home From the Stars: Science Fiction Short Stories |
| 3 | Almost All the Way Home From the Stars: Seven Science Fiction Stories |
| 4 | American Sorrows |
| 5 | Angle of My Dreams |
| 6 | Baby Killers |
| 7 | Cats Steampunk Alphabet |
| 8 | Clarkesworld Issue 100 |
| 9 | Clarkesworld Issue 129 |
| 10 | Clarkesworld: Year Four |
| 11 | Clockwork Fairy Tales |
| 12 | Death Of A Starship |
| 13 | Death of a Starship |
| 14 | Dogs in the Moonlight |
| 15 | Edward |
| 16 | Eighth Science Fiction Megapack |
| 17 | Endurance |
| 18 | Endurance |
| 19 | Endurance |
| 20 | Escapement |
| 21 | Escapement |
| 22 | Escapement |
| 23 | Fantasy For Good |
| 24 | Footprints |
| 25 | Goat Cutter |
| 26 | Grants Pass |
| 27 | Green |
| 28 | Green |
| 29 | Green |
| 30 | Green Grow the Rushes-Oh |
| 31 | Green Universe Trilogy |
| 32 | Greetings From Lake Wu |
| 33 | Guests |
| 34 | H. P. Lovecraft's Magazine of Horror |
| 35 | Hitching to Aurora |
| 36 | JADE |
| 37 | Jack's House |
| 38 | Kalimpura |
| 39 | Kalimpura |
| 40 | Last Drink Bird Head : A Flash Fiction Anthology for Charity |
| 41 | Last Plane to Heaven: The Final Collection |
| 42 | Last plane to Heaven |
| 43 | Launch Pad |
| 44 | Leviathan 4 |
| 45 | Looking for Truth in a Wild Blue Yonder |
| 46 | Love in the Time of Metal and Flesh |
| 47 | Madness of flowers |
| 48 | Mainspring |
| 49 | Mainspring |
| 50 | Metatropolis |
| 51 | Other Earths |
| 52 | Over the Walls of Eden |
| 53 | Pinion |
| 54 | Pinion |
| 55 | Polyphony |
| 56 | Polyphony |
| 57 | Polyphony |
| 58 | Realms 2: The Second Year of Clarkesworld Magazine |
| 59 | Rocket Science |
| 60 | Scent of Rotting Roses |
| 61 | Soul Bottles |
| 62 | Space Opera Megapack |
| 63 | Spicy slipstream stories |
| 64 | Starship Mechanic |
| 65 | Steampunk |
| 66 | Steampunk Megapack |
| 67 | Straying From the Path |
| 68 | Subterranean |
| 69 | TEL |
| 70 | Template - A Novel of the Archonate (Planet Stories) |
| 71 | That Is Not Dead |
| 72 | The 10th Science Fiction MEGAPACK |
| 73 | The 13th Science Fiction MEGAPACK |
| 74 | The Baby Killers [hc] |
| 75 | The Best of Subterranean |
| 76 | The Fifth Science Fiction MEGAPACK ® |
| 77 | The Lone star stories reader |
| 78 | The Mammoth Book of Angels & Demons |
| 79 | The River Knows Its Own |
| 80 | The Sky That Wraps Collected Short Fiction |
| 81 | The Specific Gravity of Grief |
| 82 | The Specific Gravity of Grief |
| 83 | The Speed of Time: A Tor.Com Original |
| 84 | The Stars Do Not Lie Hugo and Nebula Nominated Novella |
| 85 | The Steampunk MEGAPACK®: 26 Modern and Classic Steampunk Stories |
| 86 | The Werewolf Megapack: 22 Classic and Modern Tales of Shape-Shifters! |
| 87 | The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2011 |
| 88 | The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 2 |
| 89 | The exquisite corpuscle |
| 90 | Trial of Flowers |
| 91 | Trick of Disaster |
| 92 | Two Stories: A Tor.Com Original |
| 93 | Weird Tales #355 |
| 94 | Werewolf Megapack |
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