Stephen Baxter Reading Order

3 books (2003–2007)

Start with Time's Eye and read in order.

#	Title
1	Time's Eye 2003Buy 🇺🇸
2	Sunstorm 2005Buy 🇺🇸
3	Firstborn 2007Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2012–2017)

Start with The Wheel of Ice and read in order.

58 books (1989–2024)

Start with Zenith 2: The Best In New British Science Fiction, the first of 58 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Zenith 2: The Best In New British Science Fiction 1989Buy 🇺🇸
2	Asimov's Science Fiction, June 1994 1994Buy 🇺🇸
3	Asimov's Science Fiction, May 1997 1997Buy 🇺🇸
4	Shakespearean Whodunnits 1997Buy 🇺🇸
5	Year's Best SF 2 1997Buy 🇺🇸
6	Bending the Landscape: Science Fiction 1998Buy 🇺🇸
7	Dark Terrors 4 1998Buy 🇺🇸
8	Nanotech 1998Buy 🇺🇸
9	Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, July 1999 1999Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Ant-Men of Tibet and Other Stories 1999Buy 🇺🇸
11	Year's Best SF 4 1999Buy 🇺🇸
12	Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, October/November 2000 2000Buy 🇺🇸
13	Asimov's Science Fiction, April 2000 2000Buy 🇺🇸
14	Explorers 2000Buy 🇺🇸
15	Asimov's Science Fiction: August 2001, Vol. 25, No. 8 2001Buy 🇺🇸
16	Futures 2001Buy 🇺🇸
17	Space Soldiers 2001Buy 🇺🇸
18	Starlight 3 2001Buy 🇺🇸
19	Dark Terrors 6 2002Buy 🇺🇸
20	The Mammoth Book Of Science Fiction 2002Buy 🇺🇸
21	Stars: Original Stories Based on the Songs of Janis Ian 2003Buy 🇺🇸
22	The Hard SF Renaissance 2003Buy 🇺🇸
23	A.I.s 2004Buy 🇺🇸
24	The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels 2005Buy 🇺🇸
25	Forbidden Planets 2006Buy 🇺🇸
26	The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction 2006Buy 🇺🇸
27	The Space Opera Renaissance 2006Buy 🇺🇸
28	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection 2006Buy 🇺🇸
29	Year's Best SF 11 2006Buy 🇺🇸
30	Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: 30th Anniversary Anthology 2007Buy 🇺🇸
31	Fast Forward 1: Future Fiction from the Cutting Edge 2007Buy 🇺🇸
32	The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction 2007Buy 🇺🇸
33	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection 2007Buy 🇺🇸
34	Asimov's Science Fiction, September 2008 2008Buy 🇺🇸
35	Sideways In Crime 2008Buy 🇺🇸
36	The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 21 2008Buy 🇺🇸
37	The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 22 2008Buy 🇺🇸
38	Golden Age SF 2009Buy 🇺🇸
39	The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF 2009Buy 🇺🇸
40	Asimov's Science Fiction, June 2010 2010Buy 🇺🇸
41	Masked 2010Buy 🇺🇸
42	Starship Vectors 2010Buy 🇺🇸
43	Steampunk II: Steampunk Reloaded 2010Buy 🇺🇸
44	Alien Contact 2011Buy 🇺🇸
45	Fables from the Fountain 2011Buy 🇺🇸
46	Lightspeed: Year One 2011Buy 🇺🇸
47	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection 2012Buy 🇺🇸
48	Flotsam Fantastique: The Souvenir Book of World Fantasy Convention 2013 2013Buy 🇺🇸
49	Multiverse 2014Buy 🇺🇸
50	Sci-Fi: Days of Fear and Wonder 2014Buy 🇺🇸
51	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection 2014Buy 🇺🇸
52	Bridging Infinity 2016Buy 🇺🇸
53	Darker Terrors 7 2016Buy 🇺🇸
54	Stories of Hope and Wonder: In Support of UK's Healthcare Workers 2020Buy 🇺🇸
55	Burning Brightly 2021Buy 🇺🇸
56	Collision: Stories From the Science of CERN 2023Buy 🇺🇸
57	Life Beyond Us 2023Buy 🇺🇸
58	Best of British Science Fiction 2023 2024Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1993–2015)

Start with Anti-Ice and read in order.

#	Title
1	Anti-Ice 1993Buy 🇺🇸
2	Newton's Aliens 2015Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (1998–2018)

Start with Traces, the first of 5 books in the Collections series.

#	Title
1	Traces 1998Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Hunters of Pangaea 2004Buy 🇺🇸
3	Universes 2013Buy 🇺🇸
4	Project Clio 2016Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Spacetime Pit Plus Two(With: Eric Brown) 2018Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (2003–2006)

Start with Coalescent, the first of 4 books in the Destiny's Children series.

#	Title
1	Coalescent 2003Buy 🇺🇸
2	Exultant 2004Buy 🇺🇸
3	Transcendent 2005Buy 🇺🇸
4	Resplendent 2006Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2008–2015)

Start with Flood and read in order.

#	Title
1	Flood 2008Buy 🇺🇸
2	Ark 2009Buy 🇺🇸
3	Landfall 2015Buy 🇺🇸

12 books (2012–2016)

Start with Cold Grey Stones / Colder Greyer Stones(By: Tanith Lee), the first of 12 books in the Imaginings series.

#	Title
1	Cold Grey Stones / Colder Greyer Stones(By: Tanith Lee) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
2	Last and First Contacts 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(By: Eric Brown) 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 🇺🇸

1 book (2015–2015)

5 books (2012–2016)

Start with The Long Earth, the first of 5 books in the Long Earth series.

#	Title
1	The Long Earth 2012Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Long War 2013Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Long Mars 2014Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Long Utopia 2015Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Long Cosmos 2016Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1999–2002)

Start with Silverhair / Mammoth and read in order.

#	Title
1	Silverhair / Mammoth 1999Buy 🇺🇸
2	Long Tusk 2000Buy 🇺🇸
3	Icebones 2002Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (1999–2002)

Start with Time, the first of 4 books in the Manifold series.

#	Title
1	Time 1999Buy 🇺🇸
2	Space 2000Buy 🇺🇸
3	Origin 2001Buy 🇺🇸
4	Phase Space 2002Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1996–1998)

Start with Voyage and read in order.

#	Title
1	Voyage 1996Buy 🇺🇸
2	Titan 1997Buy 🇺🇸
3	Moonseed 1998Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (1985–2010)

Start with Deep Future, the first of 5 books in the Non-Fiction series.

#	Title
1	Deep Future 1985Buy 🇺🇸
2	Hardyware: The Art of David A. Hardy(With: Chris Morgan,David A. Hardy) 2001Buy 🇺🇸
3	Ages in Chaos 2004Buy 🇺🇸
4	Revolutions In The Earth 2004Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Science of Avatar 2010Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (2010–2012)

Start with Stone Spring, the first of 4 books in the Northland series.

#	Title
1	Stone Spring 2010Buy 🇺🇸
2	Bronze Summer 2011Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Northland Way 2011Buy 🇺🇸
4	Iron Winter 2012Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2013–2016)

Start with Proxima and read in order.

#	Title
1	Proxima 2013Buy 🇺🇸
2	Ultima 2014Buy 🇺🇸
3	Obelisk 2016Buy 🇺🇸

7 books (1997–2017)

Start with Moon Six, the first of 7 books in the Short Stories/Novellas series.

#	Title
1	Moon Six 1997Buy 🇺🇸
2	On the Orion Line 2000Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Gravity Mine 2000Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Ghost Pit 2001Buy 🇺🇸
5	Last Contact 2007Buy 🇺🇸
6	Vacuum Lad 2010Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Martian in the Wood 2017Buy 🇺🇸

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 2005Buy 🇺🇸
13	The War of the Worlds 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 🇺🇸

3 books (2011–2013)

Start with Solaris Rising and read in order.

#	Title
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 🇺🇸

12 books (1995–2025)

Start with The Time Ships, the first of 12 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	The Time Ships 1995Buy 🇺🇸
2	Reality Dust 2000Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Light of Other Days(With: Arthur C. Clarke) 2000Buy 🇺🇸
4	Omegatropic 2001Buy 🇺🇸
5	Cilia-of-Gold 2007Buy 🇺🇸
6	The H-Bomb Girl 2007Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Massacre of Mankind 2017Buy 🇺🇸
8	Galaxias 2021Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Thousand Earths 2022Buy 🇺🇸
10	Creation Node 2024Buy 🇺🇸
11	Fortress Sol 2024Buy 🇺🇸
12	Hearthspace 2025Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (2017–2020)

Start with All Hallows Horror(By: Stephen Jones,John Llewellyn Probert), the first of 4 books in the The Lovecraft Squad series.

#	Title
1	All Hallows Horror(By: Stephen Jones,John Llewellyn Probert) 2017Buy 🇺🇸
2	Waiting 2017Buy 🇺🇸
3	Dreaming 2018Buy 🇺🇸
4	Rising(By: Stephen Jones) 2020Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2016–2016)

#	Title
1	The Medusa Chronicles(With: Alastair Reynolds) 2016Buy 🇺🇸

6 books (1997–1997)

Start with Dreamcastle(By: Stephen Bowkett), the first of 6 books in the The Web - 2027 series.

#	Title
1	Dreamcastle(By: Stephen Bowkett) 1997Buy 🇺🇸
2	Gulliverzone 1997Buy 🇺🇸
3	Lightstorm(By: Peter F. Hamilton) 1997Buy 🇺🇸
4	Sorceress(By: Maggie Furey) 1997Buy 🇺🇸
5	Spiderbite(By: Graham Joyce) 1997Buy 🇺🇸
6	Untouchable(By: Eric Brown) 1997Buy 🇺🇸

7 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(By: Eric Brown) 1998Buy 🇺🇸
6	Webcrash 1998Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Web: 2028(With: Pat Cadigan,Ken MacLeod,James Lovegrove,Eric Brown,Maggie Furey,Simon Spanton) 1999Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (2006–2008)

Start with Emperor, the first of 4 books in the Time's Tapestry series.

#	Title
1	Emperor 2006Buy 🇺🇸
2	Conqueror 2007Buy 🇺🇸
3	Navigator 2007Buy 🇺🇸
4	Weaver 2008Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2019–2020)

Start with Destroyer and read in order.

#	Title
1	Destroyer 2019Buy 🇺🇸
2	Creator 2020Buy 🇺🇸

12 books (1991–2019)

Start with Raft, the first of 12 books in the Xeelee Sequence series.

#	Title
1	Raft 1991Buy 🇺🇸
2	Timelike Infinity 1992Buy 🇺🇸
3	Flux 1993Buy 🇺🇸
4	Ring 1994Buy 🇺🇸
5	Vacuum Diagrams 1997Buy 🇺🇸
6	Riding the Rock 2002Buy 🇺🇸
7	Mayflower II 2004Buy 🇺🇸
8	Xeelee Endurance 2005Buy 🇺🇸
9	Starfall 2009Buy 🇺🇸
10	Gravity Dreams 2011Buy 🇺🇸
11	Vengeance 2017Buy 🇺🇸
12	Redemption 2019Buy 🇺🇸

18 books (1996–2013)

Start with Year's Best SF, the first of 18 books in the Year's Best SF Anthology series.

#	Title
1	Year's Best SF 1996Buy 🇺🇸
2	Year's Best SF 2 1997Buy 🇺🇸
3	Year's Best SF 3 1998Buy 🇺🇸
4	Year's Best SF 4 1999Buy 🇺🇸
5	Year's Best SF 5 2000Buy 🇺🇸
6	Year's Best SF 6 2001Buy 🇺🇸
7	Year's Best SF 7 2002Buy 🇺🇸
8	Year's Best SF 8 2003Buy 🇺🇸
9	Year's Best SF 9 2004Buy 🇺🇸
10	Year's Best SF 10 2005Buy 🇺🇸
11	Year's Best SF 11 2006Buy 🇺🇸
12	Year's Best SF 12 2007Buy 🇺🇸
13	Year's Best SF 13 2008Buy 🇺🇸
14	Year's Best SF 14 2009Buy 🇺🇸
15	Year's Best SF 15 2010Buy 🇺🇸
16	Year's Best SF 16 2011Buy 🇺🇸
17	Year's Best SF 17 2012Buy 🇺🇸
18	Year's Best SF 18 2013Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1989–1989)

Start with Zenith 2: The Best In New British Science Fiction and read in order.

#	Title
1	Zenith 2: The Best In New British Science Fiction 1989Buy 🇺🇸
2	Zenith(By: Lisa Tuttle,David S. Garnett,Elizabeth Sourbut) 1989Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2002–2002)

#	Title
1	Evolution 2002Buy 🇺🇸