Simon Kewin

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  • Bibliography:
    35 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    February 2010
  • Latest Book:
    August 2023
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Full Series List in Order

The Cloven Land Trilogy

0.5 - Hyrn (Sep-2015)
1 - Hedge Witch (Dec-2014)
2 - Wyrm Lord (Dec-2015)
3 - Witch King (Jun-2016)

Engn

1 - The Clockwork King (Feb-2017)
2 - The Clockwork War (Nov-2019)

Genehunter

1 - The Wrong Tom Jacks (Apr-2013)
2 - The Zombies Of Death (May-2013)
3 - The Clone Who Didn't Know (May-2013)
4 - A Soldier Of Megiddo (May-2013)
5 - Boneyard (May-2013)

The Triple Stars

0.5 - Home World (Jan-2020)
1 - Dead Star (Mar-2020)
2 - Red Star (Aug-2020)
3 - God Star (Oct-2020)

Book List in Order: 35 titles

  • The Armageddon Machine

    The last, battered remnant of the feared Draconian starfleet limps through space, shadowed by ships of the victorious Million Star worlds. But the Draconian ship is still a terrible threat: it is the Draconian's final weapon, a device that can trigge...

  • Live from the Continuing Explosion

    A terrorist sets off a bomb in New York's Grand Central Station. But it is immediately obvious this is no ordinary explosion. Everybody nearby is caught within a bubble of space-time inside which time grinds almost to a halt. The world watches in hor...

  • Guitar Heroes

    Screaming Machinery are a power-trio from Manchester, playing rock gigs to rapturous crowds. But their fans don't realise they're also mighty heroes, regularly saving the world with magic and sword.They are called upon again when Manchester comes und...

  • Museum Beetles

    For the people who live in the vast, uncharted halls of the Museum, the world is changing. Great Beetles escape their gold and crystal display cabinet and begin to colonise the other rooms. Devouring, growing, changing. Slowly, the people's world is ...

  • Perfect Circles

    Collected short stories, 1999 - 2011The fantasy short stories from Spell Circles, the SF short stories from Eccentric Orbits and the mainstream stories from Life Cycles, collected together in one super-collection.Desperate magic worked in the face of...

  • Eccentric Orbits

    An astronaut alone in the void of deep space. An alien starship capable of destroying all creation. A DNA Detective in search of the genetic code of The Beatles. A terrorist explosion trapped inside a bubble of space/time. A new life-form found in th...

  • Spell Circles

    Desperate magic worked in the face of terrible danger. An old house with a hidden secret. An interview with a zombie. A woman allergic to the twenty-first century. A necromancer with evil written all over his face. Literally.Spell Circles contains tw...

  • The Wrong Tom Jacks

    Genehunter - 1

    Simms is a genehunter: a detective paid by megarich collectors to track down the DNA of the famous for their private zoos. He's employed to locate the genetic code of Tom Jacks. But not the rock star Tom Jacks, just an unknown namesake.The job bugs S...

  • Boneyard

    Genehunter - 5

    The Genehunter Case 5: BoneyardSimms finally uncovers the truth about Boneyard. With Ballard's help, he hatches a dangerous plan to deal with Forty Days. Problem is, Simms isn’t sure whose side he’s even on. Meanwhile, he meets up again with both...



  • The Clone Who Didn't Know

    Genehunter - 3

    The Genehunter Case 3: The Clone Who Didn’t Know A clONE death-squad catches up with Simms. But instead of killing him they give him a damn job. Which makes no sense at all. Meanwhile, Simms starts to work the Boneyard case, without knowing what th...

  • A Soldier Of Megiddo

    Genehunter - 4

    The Genehunter Case 4: A Soldier Of Megiddo Simms is caught between clONE, Forty Days and the GMA, all of them wanting a piece of him. All he wants to do is uncover the truth of his own genetic origins. The answer to that puzzle brings him back in t...

  • The Zombies Of Death

    Genehunter - 2

    The Genehunter #2: The Zombies Of Death Simms begins to uncover the truth about Boneyard. Problem is that nearly gets him badly killed and now he has to walk a line between a bunch of religious fanatics and the GMA who want him to spy on them. Mean...

  • Engn

    Lost in the great machine. Finn's childhood in the valley is idyllic, but across the plains lies a threat. Engn is an ever-growing steam-powered fortress that needs a never-ending supply of workers. Generation after generation have been taken away, e...

  • Witching Hour

    The Standing Stones of ErelongElian returns to the valley she was born in, the valley where all her family were slaughtered by the Marauders. Now only a circle of standing stones remains to mark the place. But the stones harbour a secret, a secret on...

  • Remembrance Day

    Magnus is a broken-down veteran of the Basilisk war, running a bar on the Möbius Strip. Most of his customers are trying to forget their pasts. He spends his time trying to remember his.A woman he once knew comes seeking his help on a dangerous miss...

  • Faces in the Shadows

    Three ghostly short stories.Her Long Hair ShiningSmith spends his days wandering the backstreets of the city looking for lost souls to rescue. He is accompanied by Tom, the ghost of a young boy. When they catch a glimpse of a ghost in a deserted mill...

  • Life Cycles

    Tilting at windmills in the twenty-first century. A dying woman's surprising final wish. The unlikely connections between a Manchester woman and a 17th century Renaissance man. A chance encounter on a motorway. A woman allergic to the modern world.Li...

  • Seek Alternative Route

    Slaughtered Pig is an ageing punk, the singer with grindcore band Catharsis. Buckley is a stressed-out company executive, late for another meeting.When the two meet in a traffic jam on the motorway they know they’re going to hate each other. But th...

  • Slay Ride

    Oh, the weather outside is frightful...Christmas ghosts, the true story of Good King Wenceslas, some alternative Christmas tree decorations and a meeting with a certain very jolly present-giver...Slay Ride is a collection of twelve short fantasy and ...



  • Hedge Witch

    The Cloven Land Trilogy - 1

    Two worlds, one nightmare... Fifteen year-old Cait Weerd has no idea she's being sought by the undain: sorcerous creatures that feed off the spirit of the living. She doesn't know they need her blood to survive. She doesn't even know she's a witch, d...

  • We, the People of the Clouds

    Reality is broken...For Marlon Smith the afterlife is a beach. The computer-generated world his consciousness inhabits provides for his every need. But then flaws begin to appear in the fabric of reality around him. Flaws that shouldn't be possible. ...

  • Future City Blues

    A tech noir collection, containing the stories The Wrong Tom Jacks by Simon Kewin, Tripler: The Beginning by Neil Vogler and Doppelgänger's Curse by Milo James Fowler.The Wrong Tom Jacks by Simon KewinSimms is a genehunter, paid by megarich collecto...

  • Hyrn

    The Cloven Land Trilogy - 0.5

    Some wounds are too wide to heal...The world changes one bright morning in spring. The ageing king of Angere turns to necromancy to prolong his existence, and the price of dark magic is paid in innocent lives. The land descends into chaos as loyaltie...

  • Malware

    Malware

    Jay Marston works for XOr AntiVirus, fighting malware outbreaks. A new virus starts to infect computers the world over. They defeat it, but it bugs Jay. It was too easy. Something else is going on, something much bigger.He calls in fa...

  • Wyrm Lord

    The Cloven Land Trilogy - 2

    Lost in the land of nightmares…Cait Weerd has reached Angere in the company of Ran, Nox and the dead witch-girl she carries within her. Now all she has to do is cross the land of the undain without being captured, steal the Grimoire from the Witch ...

  • Witch King

    The Cloven Land Trilogy - 3

    The war for Andar begins... The mighty river An freezes from shore to shore, and the army of horrors from Angere marches across to devour peaceful and beautiful Andar. Cait, Hellen and the others head north, hoping to slow the invasion. At Islagray, ...

  • The Clockwork King

    Engn - 1

    When Siggurd is given a task to perform by the Wirfather, he knows he is being sent to his death in punishment for his sins. For the Wirfather instructs him to track down and capture the Clockwork King of Pirathia, the fabled silver and brass homuncu...

  • Other Worlds

    A constellation of wondrous stars. Other Worlds collects together fifty-two science fiction and fantasy stories that graced the pages of some of the planet's finest speculative fiction magazines and anthologies between 20...

  • The Clockwork War

    Engn - 2

    The wheels of the great machine turn again…Three years after the destruction of Engn, Finn is awoken by a shattering earthquake. As the people of the valley flee the ruins, rumours circulate that the machinery of Engn is working once more. Finn is ...



  • Home World

    The Triple Stars - 0.5

    The unfolding mysteryThree warring worlds attempt to resolve their differences over a disputed planet, but the peace talks upon the central Nexus world of Coronade are thrown into chaos when one of the delegates is brutally murdered. Conciliator Magd...

  • Dead Star

    The Triple Stars - 1

    A hidden trail among the starsThe galaxy is in flames under the harsh theocratic rule of Concordance, the culture that once thrived among the stars reduced to scattered fragments. Selene Ada, last survivor of an obliterated planet, joins forces with ...

  • Red Star

    The Triple Stars - 2

    The return of an ancient galactic threat

    Selene and Ondo piece together the secrets of Concordance’s ascension to galactic domination, and the truth of what it was Vulpis encountered at the heart of the galaxy three hundred years previously...

  • The Eye Collectors

    When Danesh Shahzan gets called to a crime scene, it’s usually because the police suspect not just foul play but unnatural forces at play.   Danesh is an Acolyte in Her Majesty’s Office of the Witchfinder General, a shadowy arm of the Britis...

  • God Star

    The Triple Stars - 3

    The darkness at the heart of the galaxyFollowing the clues given them by the Aetheral, the Radiant Dragon and Toruk, Selene and Ondo close in on the existential threat to galactic life unleashed by Vulpis.They battle Concordance all the way, aided by...

  • Head Full of Dark

    Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?   There is clearly someone in the Office of the Witchfinder General who is working for or with English Wizardry, and Danesh and the Crow are determined to track them down. It might even be one of the Lord High Witc...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Simon Kewin has published 35 books.

Simon Kewin does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Head Full of Dark, was published in August 2023.

The first book by Simon Kewin, The Armageddon Machine, was published in February 2010.

Yes. Simon Kewin has 4 series.
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