Eric Brown

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  • Bibliography:
    79 Books (6 Series)
  • First Book:
    November 1994
  • Latest Book:
    April 2023
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Full Series List in Order

A Bengal Station Novel

1 - Necropath (Sep-2008)
2 - Xenopath (Jun-2009)
3 - Cosmopath (Jan-2010)

Binary/System

1 - Binary System (Aug-2017)

Helix

1 - Helix (Jun-2007)
2 - Helix Wars (Sep-2012)

A Langham and Dupre Mystery

1 - Murder by the Book (Jul-2013)
2 - Murder at the Chase (Dec-2014)
3 - Murder at the Loch (Jun-2016)
4 - Murder Take Three (Aug-2017)
5 - Murder Takes a Turn (Jul-2018)
6 - Murder Served Cold (Apr-2019)
7 - Murder by Numbers (Feb-2021)
8 - Murder at Standing Stone Manor (Sep-2021)
9 - Murder Most Vile (Apr-2022)

Multiplicity

1 - Jani and the Greater Game (Aug-2014)
2 - Jani and the Great Pursuit (Feb-2016)

Weird Space

1 - The Devil's Nebula (Jun-2012)
2 - Satan's Reach (Aug-2013)

Multi-Author Series List

The Web

3 - Untouchable ()
12 - Walkabout ()

Book List in Order: 79 titles

  • Engineman

    Once the Enginemen pushed bigships through the cobalt glory of the nada-continuum. But faster than light isn't fast enough anymore. The interfaces of the Keilor-Vincicoff Organisation bring planets light years distant a simple step away. Then a man w...

  • Blue Shifting

    Journeys into a universe where mankind has found the stars but still must face his own mortality. In this universe, bodies are augmented or altered, zebra-men talk to unicorn-women and the laws of physics are overturned in the cobalt glory of the nad...

  • Deep Future

    Deep Future collects ten tales of the past, present and future by the award-winning author of the best selling Helix. Whether he's writing about aliens coming to Earth, virtual reality, alternate worlds or immortal men, Brown imbues his fictions...

  • Poisoned Graves

    What scares you? Whatever your reason for needing to be scared, I'm happy to report that this book should do the job for you. Gail Davis, Eric S. Brown, and John Grover have all entertained with their stories in The Swamp and many other publications,...

  • Bengal Station

    Jeff Vaughan, a world-weary telepath employed by the spaceport on Bengal Station, discovers a sinister cult that worships a mysterious alien god. The Church of the Adoration of the Chosen One uses drugs to commune with the ultimate - and murder to si...

  • New York Dreams

    In a futuristic variation upon the modern detective story, we follow Hal as he returns from retirement, seeking the answer to the mysterious disappearance of his ex-girlfriend, last seen with a child prodigy and an unknown older man. We accompany him...

  • Approaching Omega

    -Mission to locate Earth-temperate planet for colonisation: failed ... -1000 years out from Earth base, damage to colony sleeper hangars 1, 3 and 4 sustained ... all lives lost ... hangars 2 and 5 still operational ... -Mission parameters adjusted: A...

  • British Front

    Al and Amy set off on a camping trip and suddenly find themselves transported 50 years into the future - a dreadful future where a National Front-like party have taken over and there are no ethnic minorities left in Britain. Can they do anything to p...

  • Threshold Shift

    This unique collection of science fiction stories focuses on the human emotions that have no place in a world made unrecognizable by science and technology. Three stories that deal with the Kethani aliens -- a group that has come to present-day Eart...



  • Helix

    Helix - 1

    Five hundred years from its launch, the colony vessel Lovelock is deep into its sub-lightspeed journey, carrying four thousand humans in search of a habitable planet.When a series of explosions tear the ship apart, it, it is forced to land on the nea...

  • An Alien Ate Me for Breakfast

    Mouse and Millie are kidnapped by aliens, and find themselves on the menu! Can they escape? This is fresh, funny sci-fi, with a message about friendship. Barrington Stoke specialises in books for reluctant, struggling and dyslexic readers....

  • Race Against Time

    Al and Jenny set off on a camping trip and suddenly find themselves transported 50 years into the future - a dreadful future where a National Front-like party have taken over and there are no ethnic minorities left in Britain. Can they do anything to...

  • Twocking

  • Kethani

    It takes an alien race to show us our humanity. When a mysterious alien race known as the KĂ©thani make contact with the people of Earth they bring with them the dubious gift of eternal life. These enigmatic aliens will change the course of the human...

  • Necropath

    A Bengal Station Novel - 1

    Bengal Station: an exotic spaceport that dominates the ocean between India and Burma. Jaded telepath, Jeff Vaughan, is employed by the spaceport authorities to monitor incoming craft for refugees from other worlds. When he discovers a sinister cult t...

  • Salvage Rites

    in We Think Therefore We Are

    STEPHEN BAXTER * BRIAN STABLEFORD * ERIC BROWN JAMES LOVEGROVE * ADAM ROBERTS * TONY BALLANTYNE STEVEN UTLEY * MADLY YOUMANS * ROBERT REED PAUL DI FILIPPO * PATRICK O'LEARY * GARRY KILWORTH KEITH BROOKE * IAN WATSON * CHRIS ROBERSON Scientists...

  • Unabridged, Unabashed and Undead

    From the "Master of the Zombie Short Story" comes this "Best of Eric S. Brown". 47 incredible stories of the Zompocalypse .. all together for the very first time. Take a breath between each of these stories ... You'll need them to scream!!...

  • Xenopath

    A Bengal Station Novel - 2

    Telepath Jeff Vaughan is working for a detective agency on Bengal Station, an exotic spaceport that dominates the ocean between India and Burma, when he is called out to the colony world of Mallory to investigate recent discoveries of alien corpses. ...

  • Cosmopath

    A Bengal Station Novel - 3

    Having been sent to Canopus VII to find out what happened had to a lost crew, Necropath Jeff Vaughan finds himself drawn into a deepening mystery not only as to the fate of the crew but also the intentions of his benefactor....



  • Season of Rot

    Features five diverse tales of the living dead from zombie fiction master Eric S. Brown! SEASON OF ROT: Safe from the walking dead that rule the streets, a band of survivors holes up in a hospital. When their supplies run low, they must either migrat...

  • Guardians of the Phoenix

    For ten years, Paul has scrabbled for survival among the sand-shrouded ruins of the once-great city of Paris. The seas have dried up, deserts cover much of the Earth's surface, and humanity has been all but annihilated, as much by the drought as by t...

  • A Writer's Life

    Mid-list writer Daniel Ellis becomes obsessed with the life and work of novelist Vaughan Edwards, who disappeared in mysterious circumstances in 1996. Edwards' novels, freighted with foreboding tragedy and a lyrical sense of loss, echo something in E...

  • The Blue Portal

  • The Kings of Eternity

    Powerful and Epic SF with rich characterisation. One to watch for in upcoming genre award lists. The discovery of a strange artefact lauches a story that spans two different eras and leads to unbelievable changes in the lives of its characters. 19...

  • Meridian Days

    'I survive. I live from day to day â€" a Meridian day which humanity has created from one eternal stretch of daylight.'Meridian, twenty light years from Earth and with just a tiny scattering of inhabitable islands, seems the perfect place for Bob Ben...

  • The Time-Lapsed Man

    He made a sound of pleasure as the hot water needled his tired skin. Yet he heard nothing. The silence was more absolute than any he had experienced before. After more than fifty shifts, a lifetime among the stars, this was his first rehabilitation p...

  • The Death of Cassandra Quebec

    Cassandra Quebec: an artist who had shown the world her soul. At the height of her career she was the world's most celebrated artist, but then she announced her betrothal to minor laser-sculptor Nathaniel Maltravers. A year later she was dead. And...

  • Last Stand in a Dead Land

    A small band of survivors is on the run during the zombie apocalypse. Led by a mysterious man with an arsenal of deadly military weapons, they must work together to stay alive. In a desperate attempt to locate other survivors, they find sanctuary in ...

  • Why Do I Get Sick?...and Why Do I Get Better?



  • Penumbra

    When a young tug pilot's career is ruined by a collision in Earth orbit he has no choice but to accept a commission to fly an eccentric ship builder to a planet far from the trade routes. When they discover alien ruins on the planet and the hulk of a...

  • Ghostwriting

    Over the course of a career spanning twenty five years, Eric Brown has written just a handful of horror and ghost stories - and all of them are collected here. They range from the gentle, psychological chiller "The House" to the more overtly fantasti...

  • The Angels of Life and Death

    The Angels of Life and Death collects eleven science fiction stories from two times winner of the BSFA short story award, including one never before published. From cyberpunk visions of post-human futures to traditional tales of alien encounter and t...

  • Mammoth Books presents The Vanishing of the Atkinsons

    Victor Trevor, an old friend of Holmes's calls him to Trincomalee, Ceylon, to investigate the vanishing of the Atkinson brothers, whose disappearance was as sudden as it was mysterious. For sixth months the people of Trincomalee have remained baffled...

  • The Devil's Nebula

    Weird Space - 1

    Best-selling author Eric Brown has created a brand new shared world for Abaddon Books: Weird Space. This thrilling space-opera series will begin with the release of The Devil's Nebula. Brown will introduce readers to the human smugglers, veterans and...

  • A Pack of Wolves II

    Brown continues his series about a family of werewolves fighting evil through time. Skyfall sees the Lycans fighting off an alien invasion, while introducing some new characters with lethal abilities. Also includes two new short stories by Brown feat...

  • Helix Wars

    Helix - 2

    The Helix: a vast spiral of ten thousand worlds turning around its sun. Aeons ago, the enigmatic Builders constructed the Helix as a refuge for alien races on the verge of extinction. Two hundred years ago, humankind came to the Helix aboard a gre...

  • The Time-Lapsed Man and other stories

    He made a sound of pleasure as the hot water needled his tired skin. Yet he heard nothing. The silence was more absolute than any he had experienced before. After more than fifty shifts, a lifetime among the stars, this was his first rehabilitation p...

  • Infinity Plus

    Emerging from flux after three months of mind-pushing a starship through the nada-continuum, Thorn realised he could not hear. He was on his second drink, an hour later, when a sound startled him. But it was the wrong sound... Classic short science f...

  • The Serene Invasion

    The Serene are an alien race. The Earth in 2025 is an ailing world, and the Serene an end to poverty and violence - but not everyone supports the seemingly benign invasion. There are forces out there who wish to return to the bad old days, and will s...



  • Beverly Hills Bishop

    Brothers Frederick and Michael Williams lost their parents in a tragic shooting and grow far apart as they age, each living a life leading to a different end. Michael becomes a bishop, while Frederick follows his dream to create his father's mansion....

  • Salvage

    When Salvageman Ed saves Ella Rodriguez from spider-drones on the pleasure planet of Sinclair’s Landfall, he has no idea what he’s letting himself in for. Ella is not at all what she seems, as he’s soon about to find out.

    What follows, ...

  • Murder by the Book

    A Langham and Dupre Mystery - 1

    London, 1955. When crime writer Donald Langham’s literary agent asks for his help in sorting out â€a delicate matter’, little does Langham realize what he’s getting himself into. For a nasty case of blackmail leads inexorably to murder as Lon...

  • Satan's Reach

    Weird Space - 2

    Satan’s Reach is the second volume in the Weird Space series, a fast-paced action-adventure that pits humanity against the unimaginable Terror from Beyond. A thrilling Space Opera series created by master SF author Eric Brown. Telepath Den Harpe...

  • Unconventional Means

    Under cover of illegal immigration and drug smuggling, war has come to America. In a 24- hour period, the upstart El Grupo Cartel simultaneously executes a U.S. Congressman and 52 local, state, and federal officials. The American public wants blood....

  • Rites of Passage

    Rites of Passage gathers four long stories, one of which is original to the collection. "Bartholomew Burns and the Brain Invaders" features a Victorian London facing the threat of alien invasion and the mysterious 'Guardian' who saves the day. "Guard...

  • Jani and the Greater Game

    Multiplicity - 1

    Jani and the Greater Game is the first book in a rip-roaring, spice-laden, steampunk action adventure series set in India and featuring a heroine who subverts all the norms... It’s 1910 and the British rule the subcontinent with an iron fist â€"...

  • Murder at the Chase

    A Langham and Dupre Mystery - 2

    Crime writer sleuth Donald Langham is faced with the classic locked-room conundrum in this engaging historical mystery July, 1955. Donald Langham has interrupted his romantic break in rural Suffolk with the delectable Maria Dupre to assist a fello...

  • Jani and the Great Pursuit

    Multiplicity - 2

    Jani and her stalwart companions Lieutenant Alfie Littlebody and Anand Doshi find themselves chased from India, via Greece, to London by the British authorities, Russian spies and a Hindu priest -- who all want what Jani carries, the ventha-di: the k...

  • The Fall of Tartarus

    In myth Tartarus was the lowest region of hell. In reality it is a world about to die...

    I'd heard many a tale about Tartarus Major, how certain continents were technological backwaters five hundred years behind the times; how the Church gov...



  • Murder at the Loch

    A Langham and Dupre Mystery - 3

    Crime writer sleuth Donald Langham is invited to a remote Scottish castle to solve an intriguing mystery. It’s the bitterly cold December of 1955, and Donald Langham has been asked by his friend, private detective Ralph Ryland, to assist him on ...

  • Binary

    On what should have been a routine mission to the star system of 61 Cygni A, Delia Kemp finds herself shunted thousands of light years into uncharted space. The only survivor of a catastrophic starship blow-out, Delia manages to land her life-raft on...

  • Space Ace

    A fun, fast-paced story filled with facts about the solar system, and the perfect celebration of grandparents and grandchildrenBilly''s grandfather is a retired astronaut who likes to take Billy on trips around planet Earth. But when the ship''s comp...

  • Crazy Love

    “Hi, I’m Trish. This is my diary. It was the most important week of my life. I didn’t like myself before that week. I was a bitch, a real bitch. Then I met someone, and things began to get a lot better. And then things got a lot worse...” Cra...

  • A Dinosaur Ate My Socks

    Mouse and Millie’s homework is all about dinosaurs. So when the alien Umba-Wumba comes to visit in his space-time ship, the three friends decide to go back in time â€" to see the dinosaurs close up! But the dinosaurs get too close…Can they escape...

  • Fire Bug

    “One match,” he said. “One match is all it’d take.” Danny has moved to a new town and things are not going well. No-one has taken an interest in him â€" he’s bored and lonely and bullied by the cruel and violent Ross Davis. But then Dann...

  • Guilty?

    A dead body. Blood on the knife. Nicky’s fingerprints are everywhere. But is he guilty â€" did Nicky kill Kev Carson? You can be the Judge… Guilty is the story of a terrible crime and what happened next. Written, edited and designed for teen read...

  • A Monster Ate My Marmite

    Mouse and Millie are back! This time, their homework is to write a story about knights. Luckily they have Umba-Wumba’s space-time ship and can go back in time to see for themselves. They meet a real knight, but he has a problem. He has to kill a mo...

  • Revenge

    Dan’s got everything â€" and everything to lose.Dan Radford has it all. He’s a professional footballer with a big house, fast cars, cash â€" and a drink problem.But when the star striker finds a burglar in his house, he’s dragged into a nightma...

  • System

    Stranded on a hostile alien world thousands of light years from Earth, Delia Kent has no hope of ever seeing her homeworld again... and little chance of surviving the attentions of the evil locust-like aliens known as the Skelt. Having escaped from t...

  • Binary System

    Binary/System - 1

    A devastating starship crash. An alien world. An incredible adventure. After surviving a catastrophic starship blow-out, Delia Kemp finds herself stranded on the inhospitable, ice-bound world of Valinda, populated by the Skelt, a race of hostile a...

  • Murder Take Three

    A Langham and Dupre Mystery - 4

    1950s Private Investigator Donald Langham discovers that truth is stranger than fiction when he investigates a murder on an American movie set. 1956. Having just started work as a professional private investigator, Donald Langham’s first client...

  • The Martian Simulacra

    The year is 1907, the setting is Baker Street, London. When the Martian Ambassador arrives at Holmes’ door seeking the Great Detective’s help in solving a grizzly murder, how can he refuse?  

    The case will involve a trip to the Red Plan...

  • New York Blues

    Hal Halliday runs a missing persons business in mid 21st century New York. It is a city that is drowning in refugees after terrorist outrages have left much of America a radioactive wasteland. People colour their grim lives with endless hours spent i...

  • Murder Takes a Turn

    A Langham and Dupre Mystery - 5

    A country house weekend in rural Cornwall ends in murder and mayhem for crime-writer sleuth Donald Langham and his wife Maria. “It’s time to let bygones be bygones. Water under the bridge, right? What happened … happened a long time ago.” ...

  • Murder Served Cold

    A Langham and Dupre Mystery - 6

    The theft of a painting takes crime-writer sleuth Donald Langham to a country house full of seething tensions, resentment and dark secrets. November, 1956. Lord Elsmere, an old friend of Donald Langham’s literary agent, Charles Elder, is in...

  • The Martian Menace

    A new addition to the Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes series from science fiction and crime author Eric Brown.A second wave of Martians has come to Earth - the first wave having succumbed to lethal Terran pathogens. The second wave, arriving so...

  • Murder by Numbers

    A Langham and Dupre Mystery - 7

    And then there was one . . . can Donald Langham and Maria Dupré stop a killer who's picking off victims one by one? December, 1956. Donald Langham's wife Maria Dupré receives a chilling invitation to attend a death at the home of Maxwell Falwell...

  • Ace Doubles

    Ed Bentley's wife has left him and he's been dropped by his publisher. Still, it's not the end of the world. All he has to do is ghost-write a science-fiction novel for Tuppy Cotton, a YouTuber young enough to be his daughter... When Ed uncovers an u...

  • On Arcturus VII

    Award-winning author Eric Brown delivers a fabulous slice of planetary romance, traditional in style but wholly contemporary in its delivery.Former pilot and planetary pioneer Jonathan James is tempted out of retirement by an offer he can't refuse. I...

  • Murder at Standing Stone Manor

    A Langham and Dupre Mystery - 8

    Donald Langham and Maria Dupré must navigate a rocky road to find a killer when a body is found next to a standing stone. Newlyweds Donald Langham and Maria Dupré have moved to the country. They're excited about starting a new life in the pictur...

  • Murder Most Vile

    A Langham and Dupre Mystery - 9

    The search for a missing artist draws Donald Langham and Ralph Ryland into London's criminal underworld with deadly consequences. London. April, 1957. Private investigator Donald Langham is approached by retired businessman Vernon Lombard to find h...

  • Wormhole

    An eighty year old cold case murder investigation that stretches across light years and risks the future of mankind’s new home. A hard SF/crime crossover from two respected and well-likednames in SF.---2110. Earth is suffering major resource shorta...

  • Pilgrimm's Progress

    Graham Pilgrimm, a middle-aged, divorced and underachieving local government officer, inadvertently finds himself framed for murder by the seductive Frieda. This book tells the story of his fight to prove his innocence from the safety of an allotment...

  • The Disciples of Apollo

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    THE DISCIPLES OF APOLLO collects Eric Brown's finest short fiction, from the contemporary title story, in which the victims of a terrible malaise retreat to a sequestered island to see out their final months, to the far future of Dark Calvary, s...

  • The Ice Garden & Other Stories

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    This collection gathers eight stories as varied in space and time as they are in theme, and features such tropes as alien visitors, space opera, near future satire, cloning, and even murder-mystery. 'Conway and the Aliens' is set in his popular Stars...

  • New York Nights

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    New York in 2040 is a city of the lost. A good place to work in Missing Persons. But business is not quite good enough for Hal Halliday to forget his sister, burned alive when only child all those years ago. And now VR offers the chance of bringing h...

  • The Telemass Quartet

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    When Matt Hendrick's daughter Sam is kidnapped by his ex-wife Maatje and the malign Dr Hovarth, Hendrick embarks on a quest to track her down and return her to Earth. His journey from planet to exotic planet takes him to . . .Fomalhaut IV . . . What ...

  • Untouchable

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  • Walkabout

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Eric Brown has published 79 books.

Eric Brown does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Pilgrimm's Progress, was published in April 2023.

The first book by Eric Brown, Engineman, was published in November 1994.

Yes. Eric Brown has 6 series.
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