Jack McKinney

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  • Bibliography:
    29 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    March 1987
  • Latest Book:
    April 2021
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Full Series List in Order

Black Hole Travel Agency

1 - Event Horizon (May-1991)
2 - Artifact of the System (Jul-1991)
3 - Free Radicals (Mar-1992)
4 - Hostile Takeover (Dec-1993)

Robotech

1 - Genesis (Mar-1987)
2 - Battle Cry (Mar-1987)
3 - Homecoming (Mar-1987)
4 - Battlehymn (Mar-1987)
5 - Force of Arms (May-1987)
6 - Doomsday (Jun-1987)
7 - Southern Cross (Jul-1987)
8 - Metal Fire (Aug-1987)
9 - The Final Nightmare (Sep-1987)
10 - Invid Invasion (Oct-1987)
11 - Metamorphosis (Nov-1987)
12 - Symphony of Light (Dec-1987)
18 - The End of the Circle (Jan-1990)
21 - Before the Invid Storm (Apr-1996)
Point of Departure (Apr-1988)

Robotech: Lost Generation

19 - The Zentraedi Rebellion (May-1994)
20 - The Masters' Gambit (Apr-1995)

Sentinels

1 - The Devil's Hand (Apr-1988)
2 - Dark Powers (May-1988)
3 - Death Dance (Jun-1988)
4 - World Killers (Jul-1988)
5 - Rubicon (Aug-1988)

Book List in Order: 29 titles

  • Battle Cry

    Robotech - 2

    EVEN MIRACLES HAVE THEIR DOWN SIDE... Some called it miraculous when the Super Dimensional Fortress crash-landed on Earth: the alien spacecraft's arrival had put a sudden end to almost a decade of global war Yet Henry J. Gloval, captain of the ...

  • Battlehymn

    Robotech - 4

    A HIGHER LOYALTY For three long months the Super Dimensional Fortress remained at its landing site in the Pacific, like an infant in a wading pool. And indeed her captain often felt as though he had been treated like a child. For two years, Cap...

  • Genesis

    Robotech - 1

    ABANDONED ALIEN BATTLE FORTRESS! It saved humanity from itself, but there was a price: hot on its trail came the most merciless enemy of all! The Global Civil War was about to make Humankind extinct, when the stupendous Super Dimensional Fortre...

  • Homecoming

    Robotech - 3

    THEY DIDN'T ESCAPE THE KILLING GROUND For over a year, the humans aboard the Super Dimensional Fortress fought and eluded a millions-strong armada of alien warships. Now the SDF- 1 would have to slug her way through the massed enemy fleet to re...

  • Force of Arms

    Robotech - 5

    APOCALYPSE! The alien armada had hunted the mighty Super Dimensional Fortress across the trackless void of space, repeatedly sending colossal fighting mecha against desperate human soldiers and refugees. But the giant invaders, who tried for so...

  • Doomsday

    Robotech - 6

    THE ROBOTECH DEFENDERS THOUGHT THE WAR WAS BEHIND THEM! A war without victors, that had brought two races to the brink of extinction. A war without spoils, save for the devastated Earth itself... A new-age ark, the Super Dimensional Fortress ha...

  • Southern Cross

    Robotech - 7

    A NEW ALIEN MENACE HAS COME TO RAVAGE EARTH-- Some twenty years before, the Robotech Masters sent their giant warrior-slaves, the Zentraedi, to plunder Earth of its Protoculture secrets. But heroic men and women repulsed the invasion in a war that...

  • Metal Fire

    Robotech - 8

    A DOWNED SHIP! An alien fortress had crashlanded on Earth. But the most recent arrival from the galaxy's more sinister side had been brought down deliberately. Now it sat silently overlooking Monument City, as though daring someone to penetrate it...

  • The Final Nightmare

    Robotech - 9

    FLOWER OF LIFE-FLOWER OF DEATH!! The Robotech Masters' war against Earth has become even more desperate: the Protoculture Matrix is now degenerating, transforming into the Flower of Life, which is sure to draw the savage, merciless lnvid across th...



  • Invid Invasion

    Robotech - 10

    A DESPERATE COUNTERINVASION... The Invid Regis had succeeded where the Zentraedi and their Robotech Masters had failed. She had driven her warrior horde across the far reaches of space to lay claim to the galaxy's last supply of the Flower of Life a...

  • Metamorphosis

    Robotech - 11

    UNLIKELY HEROES The Shapings of the Protoculture had never thrown together a less conventional band of champions: A downed pilot who is a stranger on his own homeworld. A former biker hellion who hides her compassion inside a leather-tough exterio...

  • Symphony of Light

    Robotech - 12

    THE DECISIVE BATTLE It had been a long hard road for Scott Bernard and his ragtag band of Robotech irregulars; but the Invid stronghold known as Reflex Point was finally close at hand, and reparations were under way for a full-scale assault. Bu...

  • The Devil's Hand

    Sentinels - 1

    SHIPS THAT PASS IN THE NIGHT... It was 2020. Six years had passed since the destruction of the Super Dimensional Fortresses 1 and 2, that final tragedy of the First Robotech War. But Earth was on the mend now, and from the wreckage of those ships...

  • Point of Departure

    Robotech

  • Dark Powers

    Sentinels - 2

    DESPERATE ALLIANCE! The Robotech Expeditionary Force had been stranded on the far side of the galaxy as the result of damage to their Super Dimensional Fortress during the battle with the Invid hordes. Their chances for survival were slim. Sudd...

  • Death Dance

    Sentinels - 3

    MAROONED ON A DOOMED WORLD! Four months passed without a word from the Sentinels, and the members of the Expeditionary Mission to Tirol were beginning to fear the worst. This, even as they entered into truce negotiations with the being who might h...

  • World Killers

    Sentinels - 4

    GO TO GUNS! The bearlike Karbarrans and the swashbuckling amazons from Praxis, the feral natives of Garuda and the Human Robotech heroes--these oddly met champions banded together with other races, from other planets, to form the Sentinels. Yet...

  • Rubicon

    Sentinels - 5

    A WORLD APART... Optera! Birthplace of the Flowers of Life and their agents of retribution, the Invid . . . nexus for an unfolding of events that had left the galaxy reshaped and redefined. .. and now the focal point of the Sentinels' long campaig...

  • The End of the Circle

    Robotech - 18

    A WARP IN THE SPACE-TIME CONTINUUM... The SDF-3 has remanifested from spacefold, but no one aboard has the faintest idea where they are. The ship appears to be grounded in some glowing fog, ensnared by light itself. Lang and Rem dub the phenomenon...



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  • Event Horizon

    Black Hole Travel Agency - 1

    GLOBAL WARNING In 21st-century America, ecological responsibility had spread like wildfire, cheeseburgers were in short supply, and citizens were recycling, reusing, end doing without -- all to reverse Earth's decline. But out beyond the recently ...

  • Artifact of the System

    Black Hole Travel Agency - 2

  • Free Radicals

    Black Hole Travel Agency - 3

  • Hostile Takeover

    Black Hole Travel Agency - 4

    The Black Hole Travel Agency held Earth in its grasp--it was on the way to turning the planet into nothing more than an alien tourist attraction. Although there were three crusaders who would fight to the death before it was completed. Meanwhile, els...

  • The Zentraedi Rebellion

    Robotech: Lost Generation - 19

    EARTH WAS NO PLACE FOR LOSERS! Not everyone was eager to share the planet Earth with the Zentraedi survivors of the First Robotech War. And nowhere was this more evident than the Southlands, into whose forested heart so many alien warships had plung...

  • The Masters' Gambit

    Robotech: Lost Generation - 20

  • Before the Invid Storm

    Robotech - 21

    SHIP OF DREAMS!
    The second Robotech War ended without victors. The Masters had been defeated, but the Army of the Southern Cross had suffered devastating losses, with Earth's cities reduced to rubble.
    Then a heavily armed warship arrived from T...

  • The Edge of Texas

    This book portrays the high peaks and low valleys of a self-made multimillionaire as life segments itself into some glorious times countered by devastating and catastrophic personal disasters. He struggles with character balance and ultimately ration...

  • Patron

    This is a grandiose portrayal of dynamic personalities beset by life’s unbending policy not to grant excuses, pardons, or favors based on net worth. Angela, a recently widowed mother, and her son Tony (a near carbon copy of his business-legend dad)...



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Jack McKinney has published 29 books.

Jack McKinney does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Patron, was published in April 2021.

The first book by Jack McKinney, Battle Cry, was published in March 1987.

Yes. Jack McKinney has 4 series.
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