Jay Lake

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  • Bibliography:
    41 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    September 2000
  • Latest Book:
    May 2021
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Full Series List in Order

Clockwork Earth

1 - Mainspring (Jun-2007)
2 - Escapement (Jul-2008)
3 - Pinion (Apr-2010)

Green

1 - Green (Jun-2009)
2 - Endurance (Nov-2011)
3 - Kalimpura (Feb-2013)

Book List in Order: 41 titles

  • Dogs In The Moonlight

    Dogs in the Moonlight showcases yet another of the powerful voices of one of speculative fiction's hottest new writers. Less than three years after his first publication, Jay Lake has already been nominated for the John W. Campbell Award, the Hugo Aw...

  • River Knows Its Own

  • Greetings From Lake Wu

    Greetings From Lake Wu has nine of Jay Lake's stories with new illustrations by Frank Wu; in addition, the tenth story, Who Sing But Do Not Speak, was written as a prose response to one of Frank's original paintings, itself inspired by James Tiptree,...

  • American Sorrows

    Includes the Hugo Award finalist Novelette Into the Gardens of Sweet Night. From Americas you almost recognize to Americas that never could have been, these four extraordinary tales will transport you into a landscape of true American strangeness. Ja...

  • Rocket Science

    In ROCKET SCIENCE, Jay Lake's first novel, Vernon Dunham's friend Floyd Bellamy has returned to Augusta, Kansas after serving in World War II, but he hasn't come back empty-handed: he's stolen a super-secret aircraft right from under the Germans. Ver...

  • Tel: Stories

  • Trial of Flowers

    The City Imperishable's secret master and heir to the long-vacant throne has vanished from a locked room, as politics have turned deadly in a bid to revive the city's long-vanished empire. The city's dwarfs, stunted from spending their childhoods in ...

  • Mainspring

    Clockwork Earth - 1

    Jay Lake's first trade novel is an astounding work of creation. Lake has envisioned a clockwork solar system, where the planets move in a vast system of gears around the lamp of the Sun. It is a universe where the hand of the Creator is visible to an...

  • Escapement

    Clockwork Earth - 2

    In his novel Mainspring, Lake created an enormous canvas for storytelling with his hundred mile high Equatorial Wall that holds up the great Gears of the Earth. Now in Escapement, he explores more of that territory. Paolina Barthes is a young woman o...



  • Madness of Flowers

    The battle has been fought and won, and all have been transformed by the struggle. Imago of Lockwood has become Lord Mayor of the City Imperishable, though at a price beyond his wildest imagination. Bijaz the Dwarf has been imbued with a godlike powe...

  • "In the Forests of the Night"

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    Five original tales set in a shared urban future―from some of the hottest young writers in modern SF

    More than an anthology, Metatropolis is the brainchild of five of science fiction's hottest writers―Elizabeth Bear, Tobias Buckell, Jay ...

  • Green

    Green - 1

    She was born in poverty, in a dusty village under the equatorial sun. She does not remember her mother, she does not remember her own name--her earliest clear memory is of the day her father sold her to the tall pale man. In the Court of the Pomegran...

  • Death of a Starship

    In a distant future in which the empire of humanity has spread throughout the stars, the Xenic Bureau of the Grand Ekumenical Security Directorate investigates any hint of aliens, strange disappearances, or other anomalous events. When rumors spread ...

  • Pinion

    Clockwork Earth - 3

    Paolina Barthes, young sorceress, is crossing the Equatorial Wall, attempting to take herself and her magic away from the grasp of powerful men in the empires of the north. Emily Childress is still aboard the renegade Chinese submarine, along with h...

  • Daddy's Caliban

    What happens when the armies of Elfland lay down their swords and get jobs at the mill? "Daddy's Caliban" is a post-industrial fantasy about the price of peace, coming of age, and what it truly means to live among the promises of your history...

  • Our Lady of American Sorrows

    A novella of alternate history, nuclear threat and religion from award-winning speculative fiction writer Jay Lake. Mayan magic, Papal politics, and the grinding burdens of colonial life meet in this retelling of the Cuban missile crisis in a very...

  • A Water Matter

    A tale of magic, revenge, and bitter death -- on the rain-spattered streets of the great city. This is epic fantasy not “in the tradition of Tolkien,” but, instead, sensual, ominous, shot through with the sweat of fear and the intoxication of pow...

  • Grants Pass

    The apocalypse has arrived. Humanity was decimated by bio-terrorism; three engineered plagues were let loose on the world. Just a year before the collapse, Grants Pass, Oregon, USA, was publicly labelled as a place of sanctuary in a whimsical online,...

  • The Sky That Wraps

    This collection of short fiction from award winning-author Jay Lake represents his favorites of his own work, both current and classic. With an emphasis on recent publications since his last short fiction collection in 2007, The Sky That Wraps showca...



  • The Goat Cutter

    ""The Goat Cutter" is Southern gothic horror short story that has met widespread critical acclaim, reprinted numerous times and translated into multiple languages. Two boys in the woods of Central Texas meet the devil. You will never look at duct t"...

  • Guests: Science Fiction from the End of Time

    What happens after the world has run down?A pair of deep time science fiction short stories from award-winning author Jay Lake. Includes the critically-acclaimed "The Courtesy of Guests", winner of the Soft Science Fiction Award...

  • The Scent of Rotting Roses

  • The Soul Bottles

    ""The Soul Bottles" is a story of the City Imperishable, precursor to the novels Trail of Flowers and Madness of Flowers, as well as works ofshort fiction. At the intersection of the New Weird and steampunk, this strange and brutal short"...

  • The Trick of Disaster

    A brief, post-apocalyptic fairy tale by award-winning science fiction and fantasy author Jay Lake. What happens when true Innocence meets the harvester of sin? The trick of disaster is the result, yet somehow life goes on for the living....

  • The Angle of My Dreams

  • The Baby Killers

    A fast-paced, critically acclaimed steampunk adventure set in an alternate Philadelphia, chronicling the intersection of ancient Russian vampires, firesetters, a mad scientist and a most unusual French secret agent. From award-winning science fict...

  • Hitching to Aurora

    A brief and sordid tale of rednecks, UFOs and redemption. One of the few humor pieces from award-winning science fiction writer Jay Lake, "Hitching to Aurora" chronicles the true fate of the alien buried in Aurora, TX in 1897....

  • Jack's House

    A parable of divinity and redemption among the Rats and Cats who live on in the house that Jack built high in the mountains of the American west, long after their master has gone. From award-winning science fiction writer Jay Lake....

  • The Speed of Time

    Strange things are happening in deep space, and then closer to home, and then closer; someone has pulled the plug on the universe....



  • Over the Walls of Eden

    A lost colony short story from award-winning writer Jay Lake. Looking for a missing colony, Emissary lands on a planet of children working the fields and quoting literary classics. Where are the adults? What has happened? Will it happen to him?...

  • Endurance

    Green - 2

    Green is back in Copper Downs. Purchased from her father in sunny Selistan when she was four years old, she was harshly raised to be a courtesan, companion, and bedmate of the Immortal Duke of Copper Downs. But Green rebelled. Green killed the Duke, ...

  • The Steampunk Megapack

    The Steampunk Megapack collects 26 tales of high adventure through Victorian and Edwardian eras--past, present, and future! Included this time are: MIDNIGHT AT VALDOSTA’S, by Jay Lake THE CASE OF THE PECULIAR SAFECRACKER, by G. D. Falksen THE ACQUI...

  • Kalimpura

    Green - 3

    Green is hounded by the gods of Copper Downs and the gods of Kalimpura, who have laid claim to her and her children. She never wanted to be a conduit for the supernatural, but when she killed the Immortal Duke and created the Ox god with the power sh...

  • The Stars Do Not Lie

    Gemma Carlson didn't plan on waking up married.

    She also didn't count on running into her old flame -- and her son's father-turned-country rock star -- Travis Bowers, followed by a night of drunken dares. Apparently one of those involved a r...

  • The Stars Do Not Lie Hugo and Nebula Nominated Novella

    Jay Lake’s critically acclaimed novella takes a new look at a classic theme.A world strictly governed by religious dogma is challenged by a scientist who has discovered a key piece of information challenging long-held beliefs.An intricately created...

  • Love in the Time of Metal and Flesh

    • Markus Selvage has been bent by life, ground up and spit out again. In San Francisco's darkest sexual underground, he is a perpetual innocent, looking within bodies ― his own and others’ ― for the lost secrets of satisfaction. But extr...

  • Metastasis: An Anthology to Support Cancer Research

    “Walk with us.” - Jay Lake Walk with us as we explore the world of cancer as seen through a speculative lens. Hold our hands while we venture into the world of what ifs. Take a journey at our side as we experience the full spectrum of what cancer...

  • The Wings We Dare Aspire

    In a near future Pacific Northwest, the mysterious Tygre Tygre shows up unannounced at the hidden city of Cascadiapolis, and sets events in motion that lead to the destruction of that city -- and the ultimate surfacing of an end-game millennium in th...

  • Last Plane to Heaven

    Last Plane to Heaven is the final and definitive short story collection of award-winning SF author Jay Lake, author of Green, Endurance, and Kalimpura. Long before he was a novelist, SF writer Jay Lake, was an acclaimed writer of short stories. I...



  • The Specific Gravity of Grief

    This is the trade paperback version of Jay Lake's novelette. The story, although fiction, parallels Jay Lake's own battle with cancer. Fifty percent of proceeds will be donated to the Clayton Memorial Medial Fund....

  • Our Lady of the Islands

    Set in the lush and dangerous world of Jay Lake's Green, Our Lady of the Islands is a vibrant, enchanting tale of political intrigue and divine mystery."Our Lady, heal us ..."Sian Katte is a successful middle-aged businesswoman in the tropical island...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Jay Lake has published 41 books.

Jay Lake does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Our Lady of the Islands, was published in May 2021.

The first book by Jay Lake, Dogs In The Moonlight, was published in September 2000.

Yes. Jay Lake has 2 series.
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