John Maddox Roberts

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  • Bibliography:
    42 Books (6 Series)
  • First Book:
    September 1979
  • Latest Book:
    October 2011
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Full Series List in Order

Cingulum

2 - Cloak of Illusion (Mar-1998)

Cingulun

1 - The Cingulum (Mar-1998)
3 - The Sword, the Jewel and the Mirror (Mar-1998)

Gabe Treloar

1 - A Typical American Town (Dec-1994)
2 - The Ghosts of Saigon (Jul-1996)

Hannibal's Children

1 - Hannibal's Children (May-2002)
2 - The Seven Hills (Apr-2005)

SPQR

1 - SPQR // The King's Gambit (Sep-1990)
2 - The Catiline Conspiracy (Apr-1991)
3 - The Sacrilege (May-1992)
4 - The Temple of the Muses (Sep-1992)
5 - Saturnalia (Oct-1999)
6 - Nobody Loves a Centurion (Sep-2001)
7 - The Tribune's Curse (Mar-2003)
8 - The River God's Vengeance (Jan-2004)
9 - The Princess and the Pirates (Jan-2005)
10 - A Point of Law (May-2006)
11 - Under Vesuvius (Dec-2007)
12 - Oracle of the Dead (Dec-2008)
13 - The Year of Confusion (Feb-2010)
14 - Beware the Snake (Oct-2011)

Stormlands

1 - The Islander (Nov-1990)
2 - The Black Shields (Jun-1991)
3 - The Poisoned Lands (Feb-1992)
4 - The Steel Kings (Apr-1993)
5 - Queens of Land and Sea (Sep-1994)

Multi-Author Series List

Classics

1 - Murder in Tarsis (1996)

Conan

Conan the Valorous (Sep-1985)
Conan the Champion (Apr-1987)
Conan the Bold (Apr-1989)
Conan the Rogue (Nov-1991)
Conan the Marauder (Dec-1992)
Conan and the Treasure of Python (Aug-1994)
Conan and the Manhunters (Oct-1994)
Conan and the Amazon (Apr-1999)

Dragonlance

Murder in Tarsis (1996)

Book List in Order: 42 titles

  • Space Angel

    SHIP'S BOY For Kelly, it was an impossible dream come true when he shipped out on the Space Angel. Ship's boy was the most menial job aboard, but it was excitement enough just to be in space. Things became more exciting than even Kelly wanted w...

  • King of the Wood

    In 1450 A.D. Treeland is home to the glorious Vikings, but it is also a land of many other peoples: Christian Norsemen, Spanish Muslims, Norwegian pagans, and Skraelings, the original inhabitants of America One man, cast from his homeland for kins...

  • Cestus Dei

  • Conan the Valorous

    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    Conan

    In his native Cimmeria, Conan discovers foreign sorcerers defiling the most sacred place in the land as they struggle for the power to command the very gods. As ancient blood-enemies of his people invade, Conan must unite the ever-feuding clans to fa...

  • Conan the Champion

    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    Conan

    NEXT IN THE CONAN SERIES. THIS TIME CONAN THE CIMMERIAN IS STRANDED IN THE FURTHEST NORTHERN REACHES OF BRYTHUNIA AND HE PLEDGES HIMSELF AS THE CHAMPION OF THE HAUGHTY, BEAUTIFUL QUEEN ALCUINA. THE MIGHTY BARBARIAN IS ENMESHED IN A WAR WITH TWO KINGS...

  • Spacer: Window of the Mind

    Rescued by the crew of the freighter, Space Angel, Kiril, a street urchin, must use her telepathic powers to prevent the ship from being used as a pawn in an insane attempt to start an intergalactic war...

  • Conan the Bold

    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    Conan

    It began with murder most foul, and an oath of revenge to the knife, until the last murdering dog was dead. The oath sent a youth named Conan out of the hills of Cimmeria on an odyssey of fate. With the beautiful Kalya, sleek and as deadly as hims...

  • The Enigma Variations

    They changed his name, wiped his memory clean, and replaced his hand with a thing of polished steel. But the man called Slate will stop at nothing to regain his past and the woman whose face he almost remembers. Who or what is Slate? The giant corpor...

  • SPQR // The King's Gambit

    SPQR - 1

    FOR THE SENATE AND PEOPLE OF ROME... They were evil times for the great Republic of Crassus and Pompey-- when vicious gangs ruled the streets, routinely preying on plebeian and patrician alike. So the garroting of a lowly ex-slave and the disembow...



  • The Islander

    Stormlands - 1

    Long ago, in the Days of Evil, men warred with weapons of wizardry, weapons that could strike around the world, weapons that even wounded the moon. So it is said. Now things are changed. Only the names of constellations remain from the ancient days, ...

  • The Catiline Conspiracy

    SPQR - 2

    WE WHO ARE ABOUT TO DIE... It was a summer of glorious, triumph for the mighty Roman Republic. Her invincible legions had brought all foreign enemies to their knees. But in Rome, there was no peace. The fetid streets ran with the blood of murdered...

  • The Black Shields

    Stormlands - 2

    Long ago, so legend says, the world was destroyed, and everything changed. Once there were animals called bull, and bear; now men ride horned cabos, and avoid the deadly long-neck. Now there are new nations, new empires, for the hearts of men have ch...

  • Conan the Rogue

    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    Conan

    Everyone in the corrupt city of Sicas wants the priceless treasure Conan of Cimmeria has come there to find. Beautiful women who offer smiles, kisses--and maybe a knife in the back. A priest who may be closer to his goddess than he thinks. Noble lord...

  • The Poisoned Lands

    Stormlands - 3

    The world has changed. Once there were animals called 'bull' and 'bear' -- now men ride horned cabos. But the hearts of men have not changed. Ansa, son of King Hael, wanted only to see new lands when he rode south. Then he met Fyanna, a Canyoner w...

  • The Sacrilege

    SPQR - 3

    "CAESAR'S WIFE MUST BE ABOVE SUSPICION!" So decrees Caius Julius Caesar himself Rome's pontifex maximus, guardian of religious procedure. But scandal rocks the Imperial City when a sacred women's rite presided over by Caesar's spouse, Pompeia, is ...

  • The Temple of the Muses

    SPQR - 4

    WHEN ROMAN JUNIOR SENATOR DECIUS CAECILIUS Metellus the Younger has a chance to join a diplomatic mission to Alexandria, he welcomes the opportunity to temporarily elude his enemies in the Eternal City … even though it means leaving his beloved Rom...

  • Conan the Marauder

    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    Conan

    In the fabled lands far beyond the Vilayet Sea, Conan of Cimmeria faces his most deadly challenge. The warlord Bartatua plans to unite the Hyrkanian tribes and sweep across the world in conquest, while the Turanian wizard Khondemir plots to use Barta...

  • The Steel Kings

    Stormlands - 4

  • Conan and the Treasure of Python

    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    Conan



  • Queens of Land and Sea

    Stormlands - 5

    Long ago, in the Days of Evil, men warred with weapons of wizardry, weapons that even wounded the moon. The world has changed, but the hearts of men have not. Long ago, in the Days of Evil, men warred with weapons of wizardry, weapons that even wou...

  • Conan and the Manhunters

    Conan

    Treasure beyond imagining waited in the temple of Ahriman, a god so evil and terrifying that even the despicable priests of Set aided in his banishment. None dared to steal the treasure--until Conan the Cimmerian came to Shapur. Now he must smuggle t...

  • A Typical American Town

    Gabe Treloar - 1

    Gabe Treloar is a burnt-out California cop on his way east to start over as a private investigator, but his trip is temporarily sidetracked and he ends up in his hometown of Monticello, Ohio, a self-proclaimed "typical American town." Mentally and ph...

  • Murder in Tarsis

    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy
    Classics - 1
    Dragonlance

    Who killed Ambassador Bloodarrow? When the Lord of Tarsis finds himself with a politically volatile murder on his hands, he turns to the three most expendable inhabitants of the city of a solution. A mercenary, a poet-assassin, and a thief might n...

  • The Ghosts of Saigon

    Gabe Treloar - 2

    Private eye Gabe Treloar's second caper is even more complicated and dangerous than his first. Talk about ghosts: He's off booze, his wife Rose is dead, and he's an ex-LAPD cop with no desire to return to Los Angeles. But Vietnam buddy Mitch Queen in...

  • Desperate Highways

    Since shamus Gabe Treloar can't say no to his boss, he drops his caseload in Knoxville and takes off after doting Randall (Kit) Carson's daughter Sibyl, who seems to have traded grad school--despite her all-American credentials--for the dubious compa...

  • The Cingulum

    Cingulun - 1

    Haakon, an ex-naval captain, and master criminal Rama, a genetic cross between woman and cat, lead a team of misfits into the Cingulum, one of the last star systems to hold out against the Bahadur's tyranny...

  • Cloak of Illusion

    Cingulum - 2

    To Mughal, planet of opulence, go Haakon, Rama and the rest of the crew of Eurynome. Caught between the government of Mughal, the planet's underworld, and rebels plotting revolution, Haakon and Rama must seek out the top secret project, Precious Pear...

  • The Sword, the Jewel and the Mirror

    Cingulun - 3

  • The Etruscan House

    in Crime Through Time II

    A GOOD MYSTERY IS TIMELESS Crime Through Time was the remarkable first collection. Now, bestselling mystery authors Miriam Grace Monfredo and Sharan Newman present Crime Through Time II -- featuring even more never-before-published historical myster...



  • Conan and the Amazon

    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy
    Conan

    Roaming the hills of Brythunia Conan comes face to face with a legend--Achilea, once Queen of a tribe of savage women, is a consummate warrior, as fierce as she is beautiful. Together they set out to uncover the riches of the long-lost Janagar, a mig...

  • Saturnalia

    SPQR - 5

    EVERY CULTURE HAS ITS WILD ENTERTAINMENT, but the Roman Saturnalia is looked upon as the granddaddy of them all. John Maddox Robert’s vivid fictional account of the annual event takes place in the first-century Rome is a historically correct pictur...

  • Nobody Loves a Centurion

    SPQR - 6

    LIKE SO MANY YOUNG MEN IN LATER GENERATIONS, Roman playboy/detective Decius Caecilius Metellus the Younger is faced with the necessity of serving in his country's armed forces. Since a dangerous enemy has become powerful in the politics of Rome, Deci...

  • Hannibal's Children

    Hannibal's Children - 1

    WHAT IF THE PAST HAD BEEN DIFFERENT? 215 B.C. The Third Punic War has left Rome defeated and in ruins. Under the leadership of the legendary Hannibal, the troops of Carthage are prepared to slaughter their enemies. But Hannibal gives them a choice: ...

  • The Tribune's Curse

    SPQR - 7

    Decius Caecilius Metellus is happy. The weather is beautiful and he is standing for office (literally; standing, in the Roman Forum soliciting votes) with a sure chance of winning. And Caesar's ongoing dreary war is far off in Gaul. Decius is confide...

  • The River God's Vengeance

    SPQR - 8

    HE WOULD RISE UP AS SAVIOR OF THE STATE, BUT DECIUS CAECILIUS Metellus the Younger already has a lot on his mind. In the year of his aedileship, Decius is expected to stage elaborate and expensive games out of his own pocket. Along with his duties of...

  • The Princess and the Pirates

    SPQR - 9

    As I walked back through the City, my mood was moderately elevated. This appointment did not displease me nearly as much as I pretended. Like most Romans I abhorred the very thought of sea duty, but this was one of the rare occasions when I was looki...

  • The Seven Hills

    Hannibal's Children - 2

    Roberts continues the story of Hannibal's Children (2002), in which Hannibal conquered Rome, and the banished Romans retreated to the Danube, conquered those living along it, and built a Rome in exile. In this book, Rome has reconquered Italy and is ...

  • A Point of Law

    SPQR - 10

    Being under suspicion of murder did not hamper my freedom. This is because Romans are civilized people and don't clap suspects into prison like barbarians do. It would take an order of a lawfully convened court even to place me under house arrest. ...

  • Under Vesuvius

    SPQR - 11

    Things are going well for Decius Caecilius Metellus. He is Praetor Peregrinus, which means he has to judge a case or two, but those cases are outside of the City. His cases will be those dealing with foreigners, and all of Italy is his province. His ...



  • Oracle of the Dead

    SPQR - 12

    Decius Caecilius Metellus, this year's magistrate for cases involving foreigners, is living the good life in southern Italy, happy to be away from Rome, a city suffering war jitters over Caesar's impending actions. He thinks he is merely visiting one...

  • The Year of Confusion

    SPQR - 13

    Readers looking for a crafty and entertaining journey to the past won't be disappointed. --Publishers Weekly on SPQR XI: Under Vesuvius Caius Julius Caesar, now Dictator of Rome, has decided to revise the Roman calendar, which has become out of sync ...

  • Beware the Snake

    in Down These Strange Streets
    SPQR - 14

    All new strange cases of death and magic in the city by some of the biggest names in urban fantasy.

    In this all-new collection of urban fantasy stories, editors George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois explore the places where mystery waits at the en...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

John Maddox Roberts has published 42 books.

John Maddox Roberts does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Beware the Snake, was published in October 2011.

The first book by John Maddox Roberts, Space Angel, was published in September 1979.

Yes. John Maddox Roberts has 6 series.
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