Robert J. Sawyer Reading Order

24 books (1991–2025)

Start with Dante's Disciples, the first of 24 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Dante's Disciples 1991Buy 🇺🇸
2	Northern Stars 1994Buy 🇺🇸
3	Tesseracts 6 1997Buy 🇺🇸
4	Time Machines 1997Buy 🇺🇸
5	Guardsmen of Tomorrow 2000Buy 🇺🇸
6	Over the Edge 2000Buy 🇺🇸
7	Unnatural Selection of Darwinian Nightmares 2000Buy 🇺🇸
8	I Have This Nifty Idea 2001Buy 🇺🇸
9	Stars: Original Stories Based on the Songs of Janis Ian 2003Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Hard SF Renaissance 2003Buy 🇺🇸
11	Fall and Rise 2007Buy 🇺🇸
12	Nebula Awards Showcase 2007 2007Buy 🇺🇸
13	Campus Chills 2009Buy 🇺🇸
14	Distant Early Warnings 2009Buy 🇺🇸
15	Federations 2009Buy 🇺🇸
16	Tesseracts 14: Strange Canadian Stories 2010Buy 🇺🇸
17	Triangulation: Last Contact 2011Buy 🇺🇸
18	Tesseracts Sixteen: Parnassus Unbound 2012Buy 🇺🇸
19	The Geek's Guide to the Galaxy #82-84 2013Buy 🇺🇸
20	The Second Time Travel Megapack 2014Buy 🇺🇸
21	Enigma Front 2015Buy 🇺🇸
22	The Time Travel Chronicles 2015Buy 🇺🇸
23	Humanity 2.0 2016Buy 🇺🇸
24	Appalachian Strong: A Charity Anthology Benefiting the Survivors of Hurricane Helene 2025Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2023–2025)

Start with The Downloaded and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Downloaded 2023Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Downloaded 2: Ghosts in the Machine 2025Buy 🇺🇸

41 books (1985–2025)

Start with L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 1, the first of 41 books in the L. Ron Hubbard Presents: Writers of the Future series.

#	Title
1	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 1 1985Buy 🇺🇸
2	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 2 1986Buy 🇺🇸
3	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 3 1987Buy 🇺🇸
4	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 4 1988Buy 🇺🇸
5	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 5 1989Buy 🇺🇸
6	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 6 1990Buy 🇺🇸
7	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 7 1991Buy 🇺🇸
8	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 8 1992Buy 🇺🇸
9	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future9 1993Buy 🇺🇸
10	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 10 1994Buy 🇺🇸
11	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 11 1995Buy 🇺🇸
12	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 12 1996Buy 🇺🇸
13	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 13 1997Buy 🇺🇸
14	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 14 1998Buy 🇺🇸
15	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 15 1999Buy 🇺🇸
16	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 16 2000Buy 🇺🇸
17	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 17 2001Buy 🇺🇸
18	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 18 2002Buy 🇺🇸
19	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 19 2002Buy 🇺🇸
20	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 20 2004Buy 🇺🇸
21	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 21 2005Buy 🇺🇸
22	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 22 2006Buy 🇺🇸
23	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 23 2007Buy 🇺🇸
24	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 24 2008Buy 🇺🇸
25	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 25 2009Buy 🇺🇸
26	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 26 2010Buy 🇺🇸
27	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 27 2011Buy 🇺🇸
28	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 28 2012Buy 🇺🇸
29	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 29 2013Buy 🇺🇸
30	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 30 2014Buy 🇺🇸
31	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 31 2015Buy 🇺🇸
32	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 32 2016Buy 🇺🇸
33	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 33 2017Buy 🇺🇸
34	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 34 2018Buy 🇺🇸
35	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 35 2019Buy 🇺🇸
36	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 36 2020Buy 🇺🇸
37	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 37 2021Buy 🇺🇸
38	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 38 2022Buy 🇺🇸
39	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 39 2023Buy 🇺🇸
40	L. Ron Hubbard Presents: Writers of the Future 40 2024Buy 🇺🇸
41	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 41 2025Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2002–2003)

Start with Hominids and read in order.

#	Title
1	Hominids 2002Buy 🇺🇸
2	Humans 2003Buy 🇺🇸
3	Hybrids 2003Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (1996–1996)

#	Title
1	Relativity 1996Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1992–1994)

Start with Far-Seer and read in order.

#	Title
1	Far-Seer 1992Buy 🇺🇸
2	Fossil Hunter 1993Buy 🇺🇸
3	Foreigner 1994Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1997–2004)

Start with The Hand You're Dealt (in Iterations) and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Hand You're Dealt (in Iterations) 1997Buy 🇺🇸
2	Fallen Angel 2000Buy 🇺🇸
3	Shed Skin 2004Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (2000–2019)

Start with Iterations and Other Stories, the first of 5 books in the Short Story Collections series.

#	Title
1	Iterations and Other Stories 2000Buy 🇺🇸
2	Identity Theft and Other Stories 2008Buy 🇺🇸
3	Earth 2019Buy 🇺🇸
4	Space 2019Buy 🇺🇸
5	Time 2019Buy 🇺🇸

38 books (2003–2015)

Start with Seven Seasons of Buffy(By: Scott Westerfeld,Charlaine Harris,Chelsea Quinn Yarbro,Kevin Andrew Murphy,Christie Golden,Sherrilyn Kenyon,Nancy Holder,Lawrence Watt-Evans,David Brin,Jacqueline Lichtenberg,Jean Lorrah,Laura Resnick,Sarah Zettel,Nancy Kilpatrick,Michelle West,Glenn Yeffeth,Margaret L. Carter,Peg Aloi,Marguerite Krause,Jennifer Crusie,Carla Montgomery), the first of 38 books in the Smart Pop series.

#	Title
1	Seven Seasons of Buffy(By: Scott Westerfeld,Charlaine Harris,Chelsea Quinn Yarbro,Kevin Andrew Murphy,Christie Golden,Sherrilyn Kenyon,Nancy Holder,Lawrence Watt-Evans,David Brin,Jacqueline Lichtenberg,Jean Lorrah,Laura Resnick,Sarah Zettel,Nancy Kilpatrick,Michelle West,Glenn Yeffeth,Margaret L. Carter,Peg Aloi,Marguerite Krause,Jennifer Crusie,Carla Montgomery) 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!(By: David Brin) 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 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 🇺🇸

15 books (1990–2020)

Start with Golden Fleece, the first of 15 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	Golden Fleece 1990Buy 🇺🇸
2	End of an Era 1994Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Terminal Experiment 1995Buy 🇺🇸
4	Starplex 1996Buy 🇺🇸
5	Frameshift 1997Buy 🇺🇸
6	Illegal Alien 1997Buy 🇺🇸
7	Factoring Humanity 1998Buy 🇺🇸
8	Flashforward 1999Buy 🇺🇸
9	Calculating God 2000Buy 🇺🇸
10	Mindscan 2005Buy 🇺🇸
11	Rollback 2007Buy 🇺🇸
12	Triggers 2012Buy 🇺🇸
13	Red Planet Blues 2013Buy 🇺🇸
14	Quantum Night 2016Buy 🇺🇸
15	The Oppenheimer Alternative 2020Buy 🇺🇸

22 books (2015–2023)

Start with Alt.History 101(By: Samuel Peralta,Ann Christy,Sam Best), the first of 22 books in the The Future Chronicles series.

3 books (2009–2011)

Start with Wake and read in order.

#	Title
1	Wake 2009Buy 🇺🇸
2	Watch 2010Buy 🇺🇸
3	Wonder 2011Buy 🇺🇸