John Birmingham

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  • Bibliography:
    30 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1992
  • Latest Book:
    April 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Dave vs. the Monsters / The David Hooper Trilogy

1 - Emergence (May-2015)
2 - Resistance (Jun-2015)
3 - Ascendance (Jul-2015)

Disappearance

1 - Without Warning (Feb-2009)
2 - After America (Aug-2010)
3 - Angels of Vengeance (Apr-2012)

A Novel of the Axis of Time

1 - Weapons of Choice (Jun-2004)
2 - Designated Targets (Oct-2005)
3 - Final Impact (Feb-2007)

Book List in Order: 30 titles

  • The Henfield Prize Stories

  • The Tasmanian Babes Fiasco

    Can a bunch of hapless losers hope to defeat such an unholy alliance? When JB and his flatmates took in the new guy, they had their doubts. The Celine Dion albums, the fluffy hordes of stuffed animals and the plastic-covered floral-pattern love s...

  • Weapons of Choice

    A Novel of the Axis of Time - 1

    In the year 2021, a military experiment thrusts an American-led multinational armada back to 1942, right into the middle of the U.S. naval task force speeding toward Midway Atoll. Shock is followed by jubilation at the time travelers' awesome new fi...

  • Designated Targets

    A Novel of the Axis of Time - 2

    It's World War II and the A-bomb is here to stay. The only question: Who's going to drop it first? The Battle of Midway takes on a whole new dimension with the sudden appearance of a U.S.-led naval task force from the twenty-first century, the re...

  • Final Impact

    A Novel of the Axis of Time - 3

    In the year 2021 a multinational fleet -- experimenting with untested weapons technology -- pitched through time, crash-landing in 1942. The world is thrown into chaos as Roosevelt, Hitler, Churchill, Tojo, and Stalin scramble to adapt to new, high-t...

  • Without Warning

    Disappearance - 1

    In Kuwait, American forces are locked and loaded for the invasion of Iraq. In Paris, a covert agent is close to cracking a terrorist cell. And just north of the equator, a sailboat manned by a drug runner and a pirate is witness to the unspeakable. I...

  • After America

    Disappearance - 2

    March 14, 2003, was the day the world changed forever. A wave of energy slammed into North America and devastated the continent. The U.S. military, poised to invade Baghdad, was left without a commander in chief. Global order spiraled into chaos. Now...

  • Leviathan

    An electrifying, epic history of the city of Sydney as you have never seen her before. 'To peer deeply into this ghost city, the one lying beneath the surface, is to understand that Sydney has a soul and that it is a very dark place indeed.' Benea...

  • A Captain of the Gate

    John Birmingham, a worldwide bestselling author, with a fabulous story in the 'Without Warning' trilogy. A 'What if' story of the Cold War ... a small piece of alternate history of the period told via a biography of one of its players, Lieutenant Bra...



  • Angels of Vengeance

    Disappearance - 3

    When an inexplicable wave of energy slammed into North America, millions died. In the rest of the world, wars erupted, borders vanished, and the powerful lost their grip on power. Against this backdrop, with a conflicted U.S. president struggling to ...

  • Rome

    Alternate history master John Birmingham unleashes an astounding new installment in his Axis of Time series: an original eBook novella that begins when the future and the past collide. The year is 1955, ten years after a battle fleet from 2021 e...

  • He Died with a Felafel in his Hand

    These hilarious tales of urban terror reveal the dark truth hidden behind three seemingly innocent words -- a phrase that you have seen a hundred times before but will never view in the same light again --

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  • Emergence

    Dave vs. the Monsters / The David Hooper Trilogy - 1

    For fans of Jim Butcher and Kevin Hearne comes an action-packed new urban fantasy series featuring a tough, bleakly funny, down-on-his luck oil rig worker with an unlikely destiny as a monster-slayer and savior of the planet. “Monsters,” said...

  • Resistance

    Dave vs. the Monsters / The David Hooper Trilogy - 2

    When you drop a monster-killer on the Strip, all bets are off. Holed up in Las Vegas after the tumultuous Battle of New Orleans, Dave is enjoying the VIP perks afforded a champion monster-slayer. He may be a superhero of swag and the toast of th...

  • Ascendance

    Dave vs. the Monsters / The David Hooper Trilogy - 3

    For fans of Jim Butcher and Kevin Hearne comes an exhilarating new urban fantasy series featuring monster-slayer Dave Hooper and his magical splitting maul. "Kids, there are no monsters under the bed. They’re in the front yard." As a hard...

  • Here Be Monsters

    Time travelling zombie-stomping action.

    Is your military zombie-prepped?

    The convicts and marines of the First Fleet thought they were sailing to the ends of the earth. When the undead attack they must face the end of the world. Le...

  • A Protocol for Monsters

    The much anticipated companion volume to Emergence, the story of Dave Hooper's superhero embiggening. When an oil rig drills too deep under the Gulf of Mexico it breaks the capstone separating our world from the UnderRealms - home to monsters, daemon...

  • Soul Full of Guns

    When monsters and dark magicks came back into the world it looked like Dave Hooper, aka 'Super Dave', might be our only hope. Thankfully not. Super Dave is dumpster fire of regret and disappointment for anyone who relies on him.Colonel Ekaterina Vara...

  • A Girl in Time

    On the eve of a huge, breakout success, a poor but brilliant young game developer is pulled out of her world, and time itself, by a cowboy desperately searching for the daughter he lost two hundred years ago.

    Cady McCall is ready to be ric...



  • Stalin's Hammer

    Ten years have passed since Admiral Kolhammer's 21st-century battlefleet was dragged into a wormhole and thrown across oceans of time, emerging with disastrous consequences and shattering the history of the Second World War. Hitler and the Nazis ...

  • Fortune and Glory

    Three adventurers bold take on cannibals, pirates and a city of the dead in this ripping tale by best-selling author John Birmingham. Set in S.M. Stirling’s epic storyworld of The Change, ‘Fortune and Glory’ drops readers into the dead heart of...

  • The Golden Minute

    Cady McCall, a foul-mouthed geek grrl of the Twenty-First Century, teams up with frontier lawman Deputy Marshal John Titanic Smith to search the centuries for the daughter he lost in 1874. Standing in their way? A Puritan Jihad, actual Nazis and the ...

  • The Cruel Stars

    With a ruthless sect of humanity intent on wiping out their species, five intrepid heroes must think like their enemies in this epic sci-fi adventure for fans of The Expanse and Battlestar Galactica. The galaxy was once terrorized by the Sturm, a ...

  • Zero Day Code

    Every modern city has one week's worth of food to feed itself. Then it will collapse. 

    Cut off the resources to New York, Sydney, or even a mid-size metropolis, and millions will soon starve. In Zero Day Code we see those immense and open, ...

  • On Father

  • The Shattered Skies

    "A group of intrepid heroes must rebuild and protect civilization after a long dormant enemy shattered their once-peaceful empire in this thrilling sequel to The Cruel Stars.

    The Sturm, a group of ""species purists"" intent on destroying any h...

  • World War 3.1

    WORLD WAR 3.1The year is 1954. A decade has passed since Berlin and Tokyo were consumed by nuclear fire, but war claws its way back to a world forever altered. The ailing Soviet dictator, Josef Stalin, strikes NATO with a colossal orbital assault, pr...

  • Sleeper Agent

    In the town of Gainesville, Cooper Fox has a special place in people's hearts. Since the car accident that wiped his memories, Cooper has been...a little foggy. Cooper doesn't know how to do much, but one thing he instinctively seems to know about is...

  • American Kill Switch

    On Zero Day of the first and last cyberwar in human history, the internet went dark, transport and power grids collapsed and cities began to starve, showing just how vulnerable the world could be to a targeted campaign of online sabotage. This final ...



  • Fail State

    On Zero Day of the first and last cyberwar in human history, the internet went dark, transport and power grids collapsed, and cities began to starve. Ten days later, millions have died from thirst and starvation, from violence and from the simple fai...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

John Birmingham has published 30 books.

John Birmingham does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, American Kill Switch, was published in April 2024.

The first book by John Birmingham, The Henfield Prize Stories, was published in January 1992.

Yes. John Birmingham has 3 series.
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