James Gunn

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  • Bibliography:
    49 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    March 1953
  • Latest Book:
    April 2022
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Full Series List in Order

Transcendental

1 - Transcendental (Sep-2013)
2 - Transgalactic (Mar-2016)
3 - Transformation (Jun-2017)

Multi-Author Series List

Star Trek

The Joy Machine (Sep-1996)

Star Trek: The Original Series

80 - The Joy Machine (Sep-1996)

Book List in Order: 49 titles

  • Breaking Point

    The ship was proof against any test, but the men inside her could be strained and warped, individually and horribly. Unfortunately, while the men knew that, they couldn't really believe it. The Aliens could - and did....

  • Killer and Others

    Science Fiction Grand Master James Gunn started his career writing short stories in the 1950s. Here are three stories that show some of his diversity of style. The Gravity Business: When an extended family land on an explored planet and their ant...

  • The Burning

    Scientist John Wilson cannot deny the accusations coming from the beautiful blonde girl with the burning eyes, nor can he refuse her offer. But in accepting her proposal, John must forgo his first love, science, and resign himself to the will of a hi...

  • The Immortals

    • / Science Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    YOU CAN LIVE FOREVER IN THIS WORLD...BUT NOT IN YOUR OWN BODY. One single error can land you in a medical bank, awaiting removal of your eyes, arteries -- any working organ that could help rebuild a broken body. But there is an ultimate weapo...

  • Listeners

    A classic of science fiction, this book predicted and inspired the creation of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) -- the organization dedicated to the search for extraterrestrial life. A tale of contact with alien life hailed by lead...

  • The End of the Dreams

    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    Three short novels about space, happiness, and immortality. Science fiction hungers to see the infinite, from the infinitesimally small to the edges of the universe, and from the beginning of things to their final end. In three powerful short novels ...

  • Nebula Award Stories 10

  • Kampus

    1984 is the good old days. On America's campuses, professors hawk their courses, dozens of political groups compete in violence and computer-dating means having sex with a computer. It may not be all grind, but it isn't fun and games--as one senior f...

  • Road to Science Fiction 1



  • Road to Science Fiction 2

  • Road to Science Fiction 3

  • The Dreamers

    It?s an age where high tech rules supreme. Computers do all the work while humans spend their lives enjoying drug-induced fantasies. Only a handful live and work in the traditional sense?managing the few affairs that still need attention. At the cent...

  • Mind Master

  • Road to Science Fiction 4

  • The Joy Makers

    • / Science Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    Happiness, Guaranteed... In the not-too-distant future, money truly can buy happiness, and Hedonics, Inc., is willing to sell it to you. They'll even offer you a money-back guarantee, if you're not "happy" with the product. But with their team of psy...

  • Future Imperfect

    Master of science fiction James Gunn explores the infinite possibilities of the unknown world in his collection of short stories Future Imperfect . From planets where social status is based on poverty to a human zoo that serves as a refrigerator for...

  • The Joy Machine

    Star Trek
    Star Trek: The Original Series - 80

    Timshel was once the vacation spot of the galaxy, full of culture, natural beauty, and friendly, hospitable inhabitants. But now Timshel has cut itself off from the universe. No one is allowed to enter or leave. Concerned, the Federation has sent age...

  • Crisis!

    Johnson is plagued by his absence of memory and the strange dreams of horrific futures that he somehow knows will become reality if he does not act. He was born in a hopeless future and is doomed to travel in the past and repair humanity's problems b...

  • Station in Space

    At one time, outer space was seen as the last frontier, the final challenge to human ingenuity. But those days are gone as the galaxy becomes the stomping ground for humans encountering strange new machinery and green-faced Martians. Depicted with st...



  • Millennium Blues

    Wow, the millennium is off to a great start, the notorious Y2K bug was no problem, and the world didn¿t end; time to take a break and relax¿¿¿Well, not exactly. The millennium didn't really get underway until January 1, 2001. You thought you were...

  • The Toy Collector

    A tragicomic novel about nostalgia, addiction, and 1970s action figures.

    The Toy Collector is a wickedly funny portrait of a young man who sells stolen pharmaceuticals to finance his growing addiction to memorabilia. An orderly at a Times Sq...

  • From Heinlein To Here

    James Gunn is one of the preeminent science fiction scholars working in the field today, and his Road to Science Fiction historical anthology series has been called "as definitive an SF anthology as one can obtain," by Publishers Weekly. This thi...

  • Human Voices

    In Human Voices you will find stories covering the past three decades of James Gunn's career: imaginative, entertaining speculations revealing insight-and foresight-into human nature now and in the future, which are the unmistakable hallmarks of his ...

  • The Road to Science Fiction: From Wells to Heinlein

    Now in Paperback!Between an ancient Roman's trip to the moon and the fantastic tales of H.G. Wells lies a journey through time and space and an awesome evolution in scientific thinking. From Gilgamesh's search for immortality to Lucian's odyssey on t...

  • From Here To Forever

    Volume 4 From Here to Forever covers the period from 19501992, illustrating how science fiction can be as concerned with language and character as much as traditional fiction and anything in the mainstream. Includes stories by Jorge Luis Borges, Rich...

  • Witching Hour

    "WE SUMMON THEE, PRINCE, RULER OF DARKNESS, LORD OF EVIL: YOUR WORSHIPPERS SUMMON THEE TO RECEIVE OUR SACRIFICE.." James E. Gunn's sci-fi world has veered into the realm of the unholy with the Witching Hour, three novelettes of satanic scenery and de...

  • Gift from the Stars

    The age-old question about alien existence and human contact is explored in a new way in this collection of six novellas, previously anthologized in Analog magazine. When disillusioned aerospace engineer Adrian Mast buys a book at a remainder sale, t...

  • Deadlier Than the Male

  • Reading Science Fiction

    Reading Science Fiction brings together world class scholars and fiction writers to introduce the history, concepts and contexts necessary to understanding this fascinating genre. 

    Comprehensive and engaging, Reading Science Fiction includ...



  • This Fortress World

    William Dane is a man with a nasty but valuable secret, one that all the cutthroats in the galaxy are itching to get their hands on. Dane must perfect the art of concealing himself from the crazed factions yearning for the power that this secret can ...

  • The Magicians

    Struggling PI Casey thinks he's finally found an easy score: an elderly woman has just walked into his office and offered him a thousand dollars to find out the real name of a man who calls himself Solomon. Solomon is a magician. Not only does he car...

  • Page from a Tennessee Journal

    It is 1913, shortly before the start of the First World War, and Annalaura is alone again. Her gambling, womanizing husband has left the plot they sharecrop in rural Tennessee -- why or for how long, she does not know. Without food or money and wit...

  • Some Dreams are Nightmares

    These stories share a common concept: man has dreamed for centuries about space flight, about happiness, about immortality. If only I could fly to the moon, he has told himself, if only I could find true happiness, if only I could live forever ... th...

  • Paratexts

    In the mid-1980s, Easton Press began publishing a series of leather-bound collector editions called “Masterpieces of Science Fiction” and “Masterpieces of Fantasy,” which featured some of the most important works in these genres. James Gunn w...

  • Transcendental

    Transcendental - 1

    Riley, a veteran of interstellar war, is one of many beings from many different worlds aboard a ship on a pilgrimage that spans the galaxy. However, he is not journeying to achieve transcendence, a vague mystical concept that has drawn everyone else ...

  • Transgalactic

    Transcendental - 2

    When Riley and Asha finally reached the planet Terminal and found the Transcendental Machine, a matter transmission device built by an ancient race, they chose to be "translated." Now in possession of intellectual and physical powers that set them ab...

  • The Gravity Business

  • Transformation

    Transcendental - 3

    TRANSFORMATION continues the journey started by science fiction grandmaster James Gunn in TRANSCENDENTAL and TRANSGALACTIC. Riley and Asha, now transcended beings courtesy of the Transcendental Machine, join forces with Earth's Pedia in order to f...

  • Alternate Worlds



  • Pilgrims to Transcendence

    A space opera in ten parts...An expanded version of the pilgrims' tales in the first book in the Transcendental Machine trilogy...PILGRIMS is a set of related stories about how the pilgrims in TRANSCENDENTAL gathered at Terminal waiting for the begin...

  • Triax

    Three original short science fiction novels by legends in the genre: Jack Vance, James Gunn, and Keith Roberts. Freitzke's Turn by Jack Vance: A classic Vance tale with beautifully imagined worlds, tracing the exploits of a future detective's...

  • Star Bridge

    The galaxy's inhabited planets are held together by the repressive Eron Company, the apparent holder of the secret to faster-than-light travel through the Tubes, the network linking the scattered worlds together. Mysterious parties have hired the adv...

  • Tiger! Tiger!

    An object that shouldn't be there passed within a hundred yards of the space station._No one deduced from the waving of the tall grass and the frightened chatter of birds the shape of the tiger moving silently through the jungle clearing.__Tiger!__Yo...

  • The Unpublished Gunn

    An exciting collection of SFWA Grandmaster James Gunn's never before published stories. Includes:- INTRODUCTION- SANE ASYLUM- JUDGMENT DAY- BROKEN RECORD- THE BLACK MARBLE- THE WHIP- JACKPOT FOR JULIE- THE MAN WITH ONE TALENT- THE BIG ONE- PEST HOUSE...

  • Trouble Don't Set Up Like Rain

    At the funeral of his girlfriend's father, Johnny finds himself having a connection with another woman.As he comically narrates us through his life, we see the sorrowful crumbling of one relationship and the blossoming of a new one. The story...

  • The Reading Protocols of Science Fiction

    The invitation came online, probably an e-mail. I was aware of the existence of SFF.net, a website that specialized in discussions of science fiction issues, often by authors who were too impatient to get their opinions published in the SFWA Bulletin...

  • Against the Stars

    As the AI-in-a-box of Harry's dead wife, Lisa, says, Luck is only what we call a turn of events for which we haven't discovered an explanation--propelling Harry and Lisa on a quest through the late 21st Century to figure out just why there are sooooo...

  • The Stilled Patter

    This is the end of the world. It did not come through fire or ice, with a bang or a whimper, from solar catastrophe or man’s suicidal mis-use of atomic power or any of the other fearful possibilities with which the Sunday-supplement writers once te...

  • Breaking Point and two more stories



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

James Gunn has published 49 books.

James Gunn does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Breaking Point and two more stories, was published in April 2022.

The first book by James Gunn, Breaking Point, was published in March 1953.

Yes. James Gunn has 1 series.
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