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  • Bibliography:
    14 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    September 2011
  • Latest Book:
    March 2025
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Full Series List in Order

Ack-Ack Macaque

1 - Ack-Ack Macaque (Jan-2013)
2 - Hive Monkey (Jan-2014)
3 - Macaque Attack! (Jan-2015)

Embers of War

1 - Embers of War (Feb-2018)
2 - Fleet of Knives (Feb-2019)
3 - Light of Impossible Stars (Feb-2020)

Book List in Order: 14 titles



  • Parallel stories set in present day and 400 years in the future connect in unexpected and profoundly moving ways. Love affairs, betrayal, family rivalries, space travel. When his brother disappears into a bizarre gateway on a London Underground e...



  • In 1944, as waves of German ninjas parachute into Kent, Britain's best hopes for victory lie with a Spitfire pilot codenamed 'Ack-Ack Macaque'. The trouble is, Ack-Ack Macaque is a cynical, one-eyed, cigar-chomping monkey, and he's starting to doubt ...



  • GOT A MONKEY ON YOUR BACK? In order to hide from his unwanted fame as the Spitfire-pilot-monkey who emerged from a computer game to defeat the nefarious corporation that engineered him, the charismatic and dangerous Ack-Ack Macaque is working as a...



  • The Spitfire pilot monkey Ack-Ack Macaque faces a world on the brink in this adventure, the conclusion to his astonishing, award-winning trilogy. In the thrilling conclusion of the Macaque Trilogy, the dangerous but charismatic Ack-Ack Macaque fin...



  • In an age where interstellar travel is dangerous and unpredictable, and no-one knows exactly where they’ll end up, Avril Bradley is a Communications Officer aboard a ship sent to re-contact as many lost souls as possible. But a mysterious explosion...



  • Award-winning science fiction writer Gareth L. Powell delivers his first collection in nearly a decade. Gathering together twenty stories, including four that are previously unpublished as well as some of the author’s best-loved tales, the conte...



  • “YOU’VE MET YOUR DEADLINE.” Someone’s killing journalists, and with the mayoral elections looking to set Mega-City One on fire, the pressure’s on Judge Joe Dredd " two years out of the Academy, and already a legend " to find the killer....



  • THE FIRST IN A SCI-FI TRILOGY: This “smart, funny, tragic” space opera puts a fresh spin on genre tropes with Firefly vibes, “gosh-wow ideation, and thriller-style action” (Locus). “Fast-paced and fun and full of adventure.” -- Ann Lecki...



  • From award-winning author Gareth L. Powell, the second book in the critically acclaimed Embers of War space opera series.The former warship Trouble Dog and her crew follow a distress call from the human starship Lucy's Ghost, whose crew have sought r...






  • Nominated for the British Science Fiction Award 2020In Gareth L. Powell's Ragged Alice a detective in a small Welsh town can literally see the evil in people's souls.Orphaned at an early age, DCI Holly Craig grew up in the small Welsh coastal town of...



  • BSFA Award-winning author Gareth L. Powell delivers an explosive conclusion to his epic Embers of War trilogy.Low on fuel and hunted by the Fleet of Knives, the sentient warship Trouble Dog follows a series of clues that lead her to the Intrusion--an...



  • A stunningly inventive action-packed science-fiction epic adventure for fans of Becky Chambers and Ann Leckie from the multi BSFA award-winner, Gareth L. Powell. Seventy-five years from today, the human race has been cast from a dying Earth to wan...



  • From the award-winning author comes a gripping, fast-paced and fascinating science fiction adventure. Vividly imagined and sharply written, fans of Ann Leckie and Becky Chambers will be engrossed.When Nicola Mafalda’s scout ship comes under attack,...



  • A gripping and heartfelt horror-tinged space adventure from the BSFA award-winning author of Stars and Bones and Embers of War. Readers of James S.A. Corey and Becky Chambers will love this fast-paced story of space piracy, deadly alien artifacts and...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Gareth L. Powell has published 14 books.

The next book by Gareth L. Powell, Future's Edge, will be published in March 2025.

The first book by Gareth L. Powell, The Recollection, was published in September 2011.

Yes. Gareth L. Powell has 2 series.