Kevin J. Anderson

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  • Bibliography:
    158 Books (8 Series)
  • First Book:
    July 1988
  • Latest Book:
    December 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Dan Shamble, Zombie P.I.

1 - Death Warmed Over (Sep-2012)
1.5 - Stakeout at the Vampire Circus (Nov-2012)
2 - Unnatural Acts (Dec-2012)
2.5 - Road Kill (May-2013)
3 - Hair Raising (May-2013)
3.5 - Naughty and Nice (Nov-2013)
4 - Slimy Underbelly (Feb-2014)
5 - Working Stiff (Jan-2015)
6 - Tastes Like Chicken (Dec-2017)
7 - Services Rendered (Oct-2018)
8 - Double-Booked (Nov-2022)
9 - Bats in the Belfry (Nov-2023)

Gamearth

1 - Gamearth (Mar-1989)
2 - Game Play (Oct-1989)
3 - Game's End (Sep-1990)

Hexworld

1 - Roll (May-2021)

The Jedi Academy Trilogy

1 - Jedi Search (Feb-1994)
2 - Dark Apprentice (Jun-1994)
3 - Champions of the Force (Sep-1994)

Saga of Seven Suns

1 - Hidden Empire (Aug-2002)
2 - A Forest of Stars (Aug-2003)
3 - Horizon Storms (Aug-2004)
4 - Scattered Suns (Jul-2005)
5 - Of Fire and Night (Jul-2006)
6 - Metal Swarm (Jul-2007)
7 - The Ashes of Worlds (Jul-2008)

Saga of Shadows

1 - The Dark Between the Stars (Jun-2014)
2 - Blood of the Cosmos (Jun-2015)
3 - Eternity's Mind (Sep-2016)
Whistling Past the Graveyard (Sep-2016)

Terra Incognita

1 - The Edge of the World (Jun-2009)
2 - The Map of All Things (Jun-2010)
3 - The Key to Creation (Jul-2011)

Wake the Dragon

1 - Spine of the Dragon (Jun-2019)
2 - Vengewar (Jan-2021)
3 - Gods and Dragons (Jan-2022)

Multi-Author Series List

DC Comics: JSA: Justice Society of America

Justice Society of America (JSA): Strange Adventures (Feb-2010)

Dragonflight

Born of Elven Blood (Jun-1995)

Famous Characters: Superman

The Last Days of Krypton (Oct-2007)

Star Trek

Jedi Search (Feb-1994)
Dark Apprentice (Jun-1994)
Champions of the Force (Sep-1994)
Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Gorn Crisis (Oct-2002)
Star Trek Classics, Volume 1: The Gorn Crisis (Dec-2011)

Star Wars

Star Wars Jedi Academy Trilogy (Jan-1994)
Jedi Search (Feb-1994)
Dark Apprentice (Jun-1994)
Champions of the Force (Sep-1994)
Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina (Jul-1995)
Darksaber (Nov-1995)
Tales from Jabba's Palace (Dec-1995)
Star Wars Tales of the Jedi #6: The Sith War (Aug-1996)
Star Wars Jabba's Palace Pop-Up Book (Oct-1996)
Tales of the Bounty Hunters (Nov-1996)
Star Wars Tales of the Jedi #2: Fall of the Sith Empire (May-1998)
Leviathan (Aug-2000)

Titan A.E.

Akima's Story (May-2000)
Cale's Story (May-2000)

The X-Files

3 - Ground Zero (Dec-1995)
4 - Ruins (May-1996)
5 - Antibodies (Sep-1997)

Book List in Order: 158 titles

  • Resurrection, Inc.

    IT IS THE FUTURE AND THE DEAD WALK THE STREETS... Resurrection, Inc. found a profitable way to do it. All it took was a microprocessor brain, a synthetic heart and blood, and, presto, anyone with the price could buy a Servant with no mind of its o...

  • Gamearth

    Gamearth - 1

    A fantasy role-playing game has unexpected results when the mythical, magical world created by David, Tyrone, Scott, and Melanie comes to life and its inhabitants refuse to vanish with the end of the game...

  • Game Play

    Gamearth - 2

    The Gamearth Trilogy continues. It was written in the Rules--Save the World! Over the past two years, a group of four players had given so much to their role-playing world that it had developed a magic of its own. The creatures, warriors, sorcerer...

  • Lifeline

    In shock and grief the last remnants of the human race watched from space as the holocaust of war raged across the face of the Earth. Now the future rested in the hands of three fragile space colonies: Aguinaldo -- The Philippine L-5 colony whose ...

  • Game's End

    Gamearth - 3

    The finale to the Gamearth Trilogy. Itââ,¬â"˘s all-out war between the players and characters in a role-playing game that has taken on a life of its own. The fighter Delrael, the sorcerer Bryl, as well as famed scientists Verne and Frankenstein, use...

  • Assemblers of Infinity

    Earth’s thriving lunar colony faces a mysterious, growing threat on the far side of the Moon . . . an alien invasion or nanotechnology run amuck. The crew of Moonbase Columbus makes an amazing discovery on the far side of the Moon --...

  • Jedi Search

    The Jedi Academy Trilogy - 1
    Star Trek
    Star Wars

    As the war between the Republic and the scattered remnants of the Empire continues, two children--the Jedi twins--will come into their powers in a universe on the brink of vast changes and challenges. In this time of turmoil and discovery, an extraor...

  • Dark Apprentice

    The Jedi Academy Trilogy - 2
    Star Trek
    Star Wars

    As the New Republic takes devastating losses in the ongoing war with the scattered remnants of the Empire, the galaxy's future depends on three small children--among them the Jedi twins--born to incredible powers and perils, as an extraordinary new S...

  • Champions of the Force

    The Jedi Academy Trilogy - 3
    Star Trek
    Star Wars

    VOLUME 3 OF THE JEDI ACADEMY TRILOGY As the New Republic continues its struggle for survival, a scattered but powerful remnant of the shattered Empire seeks to destroy three precious children among them Han and Leia's Jedi twins--who represent the...



  • Climbing Olympus

    A group of surgically altered exiles plot to destroy a corrupt plot to colonize Mars in this science fiction adventure by a New York Times bestseller. In order to terraform Mars, Earth first had to transform people . . . The Red Plane...

  • Born of Elven Blood

    Dragonflight

    Escaping into the world of Faery when her own home begins to fall apart, Maria Blanca joins in the fight against the savage trogs that threaten the eleven great elven cities and is taken into the heart of the trog empire....

  • Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina

    Star Wars

    In a far corner of the universe, on the small desert planet of Tatooine, there is a dark, nic-i-tain-filled cantina where you can down your favorite intoxicant while listening to the best jizz riffs in the universe. But beware your fellow denizens of...

  • Blindfold

    Where truth is sacred, a false accusation spells doom. A cosmic crime thriller from the New York Timesâ€"bestselling author of The X-Files novels.   Atlas is a struggling colony on an untamable world, a fragile society held together by the Truth...

  • Darksaber

    Star Wars

    Luke returns home with Han Solo, hoping to make contact with Obi-Wan Kenobi. Instead, what they find is disturbing news: the Hutts, criminal warlords of the galaxy, are building a secret superweapon, a reconstruction of the original Death Star superl...

  • Ground Zero

    The X-Files - 3

    FBI agents Mulder and Scully take on a radioactive case in this eerie thriller by the New York Timesâ€"bestselling author . . .Dr. Gregory, a renowned nuclear weapons researcher, is not only dead -- he’s been charred to a radioactive...

  • Tales from Jabba's Palace

    Star Wars

    In the dusty heat of twin-sunned Tatooine lives the wealthiest gangster in a hundred worlds, master of a vast crime empire and keeper of a vicious, flesh-eating monster for entertainment (and disposal of his enemies). Bloated and sinister, Jabba the ...

  • War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches

    In the spirit of H.G. Wells''s classic tale of Martian invasion comes this anthology of some of today''s leading authors'' own renditions of the Martian invasion as it might have been seen through the eyes of such notables as Jack London, H.P. Lovecr...

  • Ruins

    The X-Files - 4

    Based on the Emmy-award winning tv series, special agents Mulder and Skully investigate ancient Mayan ruins for paranormal phenomena.Meet Mulder and Scully, FBI: the agency maverick and the female agent assigned to keep him in line. Their job is to i...

  • Star Wars Tales of the Jedi #6: The Sith War

    Star Wars



  • Star Wars Jabba's Palace Pop-Up Book

    Star Wars

    Jubnuk the Gamorrean guard searches high and low through the palace after Jabba the Hutt loses his lucky charm, in a colorful, interactive book complete with pop-up illustrations, pull-tabs, and music and sound effects....

  • Tales of the Bounty Hunters

    Star Wars

    In a wild and battle-scarred galaxy, assassins, pirates, smugglers, and cutthroats of every description roam at will, fearing only the professional bounty hunters--amoral adventurers who track down the scum of the universe...for a Rebellion by target...

  • Antibodies

    The X-Files - 5

    THE PROMISE OF ETERNAL LIFE OR INSTANT DEATH? When a disease-ravaged body is found in the burned ruins of a federally funded genetic research lab, Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully fear that a deadly, man-made plague is on the loose. As the FBI agen...

  • Star Wars Tales of the Jedi #2: Fall of the Sith Empire

    Star Wars

    Now that the Sith Empire has rallied its forces to crush the Republic, their only threat is Jori Daragon, a mapper of hyperspace who happened to stumble upon the plans of the Sith and a lone woman who may become the savior of the Republic. Original....

  • Afterimage Aftershock

    Afterimage Aftershock the trade omnibus reprinting of Afterimage and the never before published sequel Aftershock. Afterimage He was known as the Joan of Arc killer-a sadistic rapist who burned his victims before he murdered them. Rebecca Tamerlane h...

  • Lethal Exposure

    At the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois, Nobel physics candidate Georg Dumenco is bombarded with a lethal dose of radiation, and must join forces with FBI Special Agent Craig Kreident to find his killers and protect America's most vi...

  • The Outer Limits: Armageddon Dreams

  • Frontiers of the Mind

  • Supernova

    Karl Larson: "I think you're making a big mistake, Captain. Nick: [spins on his heels] Oh, yeah? You want to clarify that? Karl Larson: I'm offering you the opportunity of a lifetime and you're passing it up for all of us. Nick: For all of us? Your o...

  • Akima's Story

    Titan A.E.

    Akima, a refugee from Earth living in a Drifter colony, risks everything to become the best possible starship pilot, so she can go in search of the legendary ship called Titan, which may enable the human race to regain its freedom....



  • Cale's Story

    Titan A.E.

    Cale Tucker, whose father escaped from Earth on the starship Titan, grows up a refugee under the care of an alien guardian, one step ahead of the Drej, who know something Cale doesn't--that he has the secret that will save the human race....

  • Leviathan

    Star Wars

    Eight years after the fall of the Empire, Luke Skywalker and his newly trained Jedi Knights, including his best student Kyp Durron, are asked to defend the Republic in a dangerous expedition that leads to the site of mining excavations....

  • Fantastic Voyage: Microcosm

    After an unidentified flying object is shot down by Russian MiG fighters, a team of scientists from Project Proteus and their ship are reduced to a size smaller than a human cell and sent to penetrate the surface of the mysterious object and uncover ...

  • Dogged Persistence

    This short story collection is from the bestselling author well known for his novels based on Star Wars and The X-Files. The title story is a gritty tale of the ultimate use of nanotechnology -- immortality. Â"Human, Martian -- One, Two, Three” i...

  • Hopscotch

    Suppose you could switch bodies with another person? What exciting new experiences would you choose to explore? What forbidden desires would you indulge? Suppose someone stole your lifeâ€"how far would you go to get it back?

    From New York Time...

  • Hidden Empire

    Saga of Seven Suns - 1

    THE ENEMY UNKNOWN Having colonized the worlds of the spiral arm, mankind's three branches--the Terran Hansa, starship-dwelling Roamers, and telepathic Green Priests--are certain the galaxy is theirs for the taking. But when scientists success-full...

  • Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Gorn Crisis

    Star Trek

    The Enterprise has been sent to request aid from the Gorn during a time of severe internal dissent within the Gorn populace, making their quest that much more difficult, as not all of the Gorn have fond memories of the Federation....

  • Artifact

    Six adrenalin junkies who call themselves the Daredevils Club hold the fate of the world in their hands. In an ancient undersea cavern, one of them, oil man Frik van Alman, discovers a set of stones that are unlike anything else on Earth. Fitted toge...

  • A Forest of Stars

    Saga of Seven Suns - 2

    DEADLY FACTIONS Five years after attacking the human-colonized worlds of the Spiral Arm, the hydrogues maintain absolute control over stardrive fuel...and their embargo is strangling human civilization. On Earth, mankind suffers from renewed attac...

  • The Martian War

    What if the Martian invasion was not entirely the product of H.G. Wells's vivid imagination? What if Wells witnessed something that spurred him to write The War of the Worlds as a warning?

    From drafty London flats to the steamy Sahara, to the...



  • Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

    In New York City in 1939, a reporter discovers that world's leading scientists are vanishing mysteriously and teams up with a skilled pilot and daring associate to uncover the truth and stop a made scientist out to achieve world domination. Original....

  • Horizon Storms

    Saga of Seven Suns - 3

    Caught in the middle of a titanic struggle between two alien superpowers, the factions of humanity and their allies, the Ildirans, are under siege. Can they resolve their differences to fight a common threat? For the leader of the Roamers, survival m...

  • The ORC's Treasure

    In the tradition of Lord of the Rings and The Sword of Shannara, Gree is a workaday Orc without many aspirations, as greedy and nasty as they come. But soon, after he and his fellow orcs lay siege to a human castle, Gree comes upon a hidden treasure,...

  • Scattered Suns

    Saga of Seven Suns - 4

    The war between the hydrogues and the faeros rages, reducing suns to blackened shells--including one of the fabled seven suns of the Ildiran Empire. But the humans and Ildirans caught in the crossfire are as much at risk from internal strife. The man...

  • X-Files, Volume 2

    The X-Files had a nine-year run and enjoyed immense popularity and critical acclaim - garnering sixteen Emmy awards and five Golden Globe awards. The X-Files Topps comic book series that began in the early 90s was a force in its own right - with orig...

  • Landscapes

    Bestselling author Kevin J. Anderson is best known for his epic science fiction novels such as Hidden Empire, Dune: House Atreides (with Brian Herbert), and Star Wars: Jedi Search. This collection of twenty-two tales and two essays displays the range...

  • Of Fire and Night

    Saga of Seven Suns - 5

    THE EXTERMINATION OF EARTH is at hand. With his increasingly irrational leadership, Basil Wenceslas, chairman of the Hansa, has driven humanity into a corner. His punitive treatment of the Hansa colonies and the Roamers has made enemies for the peopl...

  • Metal Swarm

    Saga of Seven Suns - 6

    In the aftermath of a devastating war, swarms of ancient black robots built by the lost insectoid Klikiss race continue their depredations on helpless worlds with stolen and heavily armed Earth battleships. Among the humans, the Hansa's brutal Cha...

  • The Last Days of Krypton

    Famous Characters: Superman

    THE LAST DAYS OF KRYPTON is the epic story of the politics and betrayals that blind both heroes and villains to the coming disaster and culminate in the escape of only a single infant child. While exploring on the planet Krypton with its famous citie...

  • The Ashes of Worlds

    Saga of Seven Suns - 7

    Galactic empires clash, elemental beings devastate whole planetary systems, and the factions of humanity are pitted against each other. Heroes rise and enemies make their last stands in the climax of an epic tale seven years in the making. The Saga o...



  • Enemies & Allies

    As America and the Soviet Union race to build their nuclear stockpiles, two extraordinary heroes must form an uneasy alliance. These studies in opposites--shadow and light--must overcome their distrust of each other to battle evil and injustice. ...

  • The Edge of the World

    Terra Incognita - 1

    Terra Incognita - the blank spaces on the map, past the edge of the world, marked only by the words "here be monsters." Two nations at war, fighting for dominion over the known, and undiscovered, world, pin their last hopes at ultimate victory on fi...

  • Justice Society of America (JSA): Strange Adventures

    DC Comics: JSA: Justice Society of America

    Renowned science fiction novelist Kevin J. Anderson (THE SAGA OF SEVEN SUNS: VEILED ALLIANCES) comes to the DCU for this epic starring the World's First Super-Team!
    Set during the Golden Age, STRANGE ADVENTURES begins when fumbling Johnny Thunder ...

  • Drilling Deep

  • Frog Kiss

    A humorous short fantasy tale. An evil wizard has turned the entire royal family into frogs and set them loose in the marshes, and only a kiss can restore them to their natural forms . . . but there are so many frogs, and so much swamp, who is willi...

  • The Map of All Things

    Terra Incognita - 2

    After terrible atrocities by both sides, the religious war between Tierra and Uraba has spread and intensified, irreparably dividing the known world. What started as a series of skirmishes has erupted into a full-blown crusade. Now that the Uraban ...

  • Fondest of Memories

    Everyone tends to edit their memories of lost loved ones, emphasizing the admirable qualities and good times, downplaying the unpleasant aspects. For a man given the chance to have his dead wife cloned, he can rebuild and restore her memories . . . ...

  • Redmond's Private Screening

    From a New York Timesâ€"bestselling author, a short story set during the turn of the century about movie director with a taste for capturing the grotesque.   A hard-edged horror tale. For a shady filmmaker in the early days of Hollywood, it seem...

  • Collaborators

    A collaboration is a close synergy between two creative artists, where one idea is a catalyst for another, and another. But when two people join their minds to create virtual universes, the artwork is so vast they begin to lose their own identities....

  • Job Qualifications

    The expectations we place on our politicians seem impossible for any person to achieve. A candidate needs to be all things, know all walks of life, understand every segment of his constituency. How could one person achieve so much . . . without a l...

  • Prisons

  • Blood Lite II: Overbite

    From the Horror Writers Association comes a brand-new collection of darkly humorous tales! The Big Questions of Life (and Death) Can a killer's basement blood-feast be a tax write-off (under Entertainment)? Not if Vlad the IRS agent nails him first...

  • Dark Labyrinth 1: Final Performance / Special Makeup / Much at Stake / The Sum of His Parts

    Collection of four horror tales from the mind of Kevin J. Anderson, each with a short introduction by the author. Includes: ???Final Performance,??? ???Special Makeup,??? ???Much at Stake,??? and ???The Sum of His Parts.???...

  • The Nebula Awards Showcase 2011

    With this inaugural volume at Tor, the annual Nebula Award collection is reborn as a fiction-only anthology. This collection of nominees for 2010’s Nebula Awards includes all of the prior year’s most celebrated stories, and will be published in t...

  • Mythical Creatures

    An original, standalone story in the TERRA INCOGNITA universe: A prester in search of penance accepts an assignment to the rugged Soeland Islands, but he must confront his faith after he is cast overboard and then rescued by a mythical creature that ...

  • Alternitech

    New York Timesâ€"bestselling author Kevin J. Anderson presents a collection of parallel reality stories in this imaginative collection.  Alternitech is a company that sends prospectors into alternate but similar timelines where tiny differences ...

  • The Key to Creation

    Terra Incognita - 3

    Brave explorers and mortal enemies across the world clash at a mysterious lost continent. After long voyages, encountering hurricanes and sea monsters, Criston Vora and Saan race to Terravitae, the legendary promised land. Saan's quest is to find the...

  • Dark Labyrinth 2

    Four dark fantasy tales from the mind of Kevin J. Anderson, each with a short introduction by the author. Includes: “New Recruits,” “Santa Claus is Coming to Get You,” “Splinter” (written with Rebecca Moesta), and “Redmond’s Private S...

  • Fantastic Realms 2: The Old Man and the Cherry Tree / The Ghost of Christmas Always / Sea Wind / Sea Dreams

  • Captain Nemo

    Captain Nemo is the fictional life story of one of Jules Verne's most memorable characters from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and The Mysterious Island. It covers his boyhood friendship with the dreamer, Jules Verne, adventures aboard sailing ships, b...

  • Tastes Funny

    The third book in the hilarious and horrifying national bestselling anthology series from the Horror Writers Association—a frightfest of sidesplitting stories from such New York Times bestselling authors as Jim Butcher, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Heathe...

  • Tau Ceti

    Main Story by Kevin J. Anderson. Sequel Novelette by Steven Savile. The Stellar Guild Series.

    Jorie Taylor has lived her whole life on the generation ship Beacon. Fleeing an Earth tearing itself apart from its exhaustive demand for resources, the B...

  • Veiled Alliances

    In this novella, humanity begins its expansion into outer space only to discover that for centuries a multitude of other planets have been interacting on a cosmic scale. It is a time of great beginnings. Set a century before the grand events of the S...

  • Star Trek Classics, Volume 1: The Gorn Crisis

    Star Trek

    • With a fierce war raging and resources running low, the U.S.S Enterprise has been assigned a sensitive diplomatic mission -- to enlist aid from the alien race known as the Gorn. But the Gorn have a crisis of their own, a brewing revolution...

  • Blood Lite III: Aftertaste

    Sink your teeth into a smorgasbord of macabre morsels laced with horrific humor in this all-new Blood Lite collection! Whether you shriek with laughter or scream in fear . . . well, that’s simply a matter of taste. Jim Butcher’s wizardly PI Ha...

  • Clockwork Angels

    From a New York Times bestseller, “firmly planted in the steampunk genre, an epic-scale story . . . with beautiful illustrations” based on the album from Rush(Booklist).   A remarkable collaboration that is unprecedented in it...

  • Death Warmed Over

    Dan Shamble, Zombie P.I. - 1

    Ever since the Big Uneasy unleashed vampires, werewolves, and other undead denizens on the world, it’s been hell being a detective -- especially for zombie P.I. Dan Chambeaux. Taking on the creepiest of cases in the Unnatural Quarter with a human...

  • Tucker's Grove

    From NY Times Bestselling author Kevin J. Anderson (Over 28 million copies of books in print).

    The rise and fall of a cursed town in rural Wisconsin, Tucker's Grove, where legends and nightmares lurk in the shadows, a place where the dead don't nec...

  • Stakeout at the Vampire Circus

    Dan Shamble, Zombie P.I. - 1.5

    Stakeout at the Vampire Circus: Dan Shamble Zombie PI Mini 1Zombie PI Dan Shamble and his ghost girlfriend are called to the Vampire Circus when a fortune teller’s cards go missing. Not exactly the glamorous life, but the stakes escalate when a...

  • Unnatural Acts

    Dan Shamble, Zombie P.I. - 2

    To Be Dead Or Not To Be Dead In the Unnatural Quarter, golems slave away in sweatshops, necromancers sell black-market trinkets to tourists, and the dead rise up -- to work the night shift. But zombie detective Dan Shamble is no ordinary working s...

  • Alien Landscapes 1

    Collection of four science fiction tales from the mind of Kevin J. Anderson, each with a short introduction by the author. Includes: "Landscapes," "Fondest of Memories," "Controlled Experiments," and "Human, Martian-One, Two,...

  • Alien Landscapes 2

    Four science fiction tales from the mind of Kevin J. Anderson, each with a short introduction by the author. Includes: “Collaborators” (written with Rebecca Moesta), “Good Old Days,” “Job Qualifications,” and “Prisoner of War.”...

  • Fantastic Realms 1

    Collection of four fantasy tales from the mind of Kevin J. Anderson, each with a short introduction by the author. Includes: “Loincloth,” “Frog Kiss,” “Short Straws,” and “Technomagic.”...

  • Hellhole Awakening

    General Adolphus knows the Monarchy crackdown is coming. Now he needs to pull together all the resources of the Hellhole colony, the ever-expanding shadow-Xayan settlement, and his connections with the other Deep Zone worlds. On Sonjeera, Diadem Mich...

  • Road Kill

    Dan Shamble, Zombie P.I. - 2.5

    Road Kill: A Dan Shamble AdventureWith Introduction by Kevin J. AndersonWhen Dan Shamble, Zombie PI wakes up in a coffin in the back of a semi truck, he knows it's not going to be a good day. He has to escape, figure out what's going on, foil a black...

  • Hair Raising

    Dan Shamble, Zombie P.I. - 3

    Ready-To-Were The fur really flies when a serial scalper stalks the supernatural citizens of the Unnatural Quarter, targeting werewolves -- and what’s sadder than a chrome-domed lycanthrope? Zombie P.I. Dan Shamble is on the case, trying to stop...

  • Five by Five 2 No Surrender

    Five short novels by five masters of military science fiction. It’s a war out there. In these pulse-pounding tales, the best (or worst) soldiers in the galaxy are pitted against powerful aliens on distant battlefields. Never before published storie...

  • A Fantastic Holiday Season

    Festive and fanciful tales that capture the spirit of Christmas from Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Jerry Oltion, Larry Correia, and others.   What if Santa were naughty and not nice at all? In A Fantastic Holiday Season, eighteen...

  • Naughty and Nice

    Dan Shamble, Zombie P.I. - 3.5

    A zombie detective must save Christmas after someone steals Santa’s list in this humorous mystery short story by a New York Timesâ€"bestselling author. Dan Shamble, Zombie P.I., finds himself tackling a bizarre Christmas case when Santa Claus himse...

  • The Dragon Business

    King Cullin may be known as “the Dragon Slayer,” but he fears his son’s legacy will be as “King Maurice Who Speaks with Proper Grammar.” The boy keeps his nose buried in parchments, starry-eyed at the idea of noble knights and eager to hand...

  • Slimy Underbelly

    Dan Shamble, Zombie P.I. - 4

    Flushing Out Evil There's something fishy going on in the Unnatural Quarter. Bodies are floating face-down, the plumbing is backing up, and something smells rotten even to a zombie detective like Dan Shamble. Diving into the slimy underbelly of a d...

  • X-Files Classics, Volume 3

    • Mulder and Scully continue to chase down leads in the most bizarre and unexplained cases the FBI has ever seen!
    • Collecting issues #20â€"29, X-Files Classics Volume 2 features the two-part "Family Portrait," "Donor," "Silver Lining,...

  • Gameplay

    Book 2 in the Gamearth TrilogyGameplay: It was written in the Rules -- Save the World! Over the past two years, a group of four players had given so much to their role-playing world that it had developed a magic of its own. The creatures, warriors, s...

  • Mentats of Dune

    Gilbertus Albans has founded the Mentat School, a place where humans can learn the efficient techniques of thinking machines. But Gilbertus walks an uneasy line between his own convictions and compromises in order to survive the Butlerian fanatics, l...

  • Comrades in Arms

    A damaged cyborg soldier and an enemy alien fighter turn their backs on the war and try to escape. But the human and alien governments can't tolerate the two deserters working together, so they join forces to hunt them down....

  • Island in a Sea of Stars

    An adventure from The Saga of Shadows: The Dark Between the Stars...

  • The Dark Between the Stars

    Saga of Shadows - 1

    Twenty years after the elemental conflict that nearly tore apart the cosmos in The Saga of Seven Suns, a new threat emerges from the darkness. The human race must set aside its own inner conflicts to rebuild their alliance with the Ildiran Empire for...

  • The Best of Penny Dread Tales

    Four years of Penny Dread Tales have revealed some fantastic talent. In this edition we’ve collected the cream of the crop. Herein lies the very Best of Penny Dread Tales: fourteen stories of boiler-splitting steampunk with a blend of sci-fi, paran...

  • Target Zone

    An anthology of five military sci-fi novellas capture the action and adventure of futuristic wars -- on and off the battlefield.   TARGETS ARE LOCKED! Michael A. Stackpole -- The Star Tigers are commandeered by a powerful alien overseer on a cov...

  • In Shambles

    Stakeout at the Vampire Circus: Dan Shamble Zombie PI Mini 1Zombie PI Dan Shamble and his ghost girlfriend are called to the Vampire Circus when a fortune teller’s cards go missing. Not exactly the glamorous life, but the stakes escalate when a vam...

  • Working Stiff

    Dan Shamble, Zombie P.I. - 5

    From a New York Timesâ€"bestselling author, seven hilarious mystery stories starring a zombie detective who won’t let death stop his pursuit of justice. Even being murdered doesn’t keep a good detective down, and in the Unnatural Quarter -- inhab...

  • Dark Carbuncle

    A hilarious horror rocker from New York Times bestselling author Kevin J. Anderson and Grammy winner Janis Ian. Greatest hits -- back from the dead! A famous one-hit-wonder rock star might think his career is over (being dead, for starters), but a g...

  • Blood of the Cosmos

    Saga of Shadows - 2

    An epic space opera of the titanic conflict of several galactic civilizations against a life-destroying force of shadows, a dark cosmic force that has swept through the undercurrents of the human interstellar empire. The intertwined plots, overflo...

  • Clockwork Angels: The Graphic Novel

    The graphic novel adaptation of the unprecedented concept album and novel from the multi-platinum, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame music legends RUSH and NY Times Bestselling author Kevin J. Anderson!Owen Hardy, like all the people of Albion, has lived his ...

  • Clockwork Lives

    In this stand-alone sequel to the New York Timesâ€"bestselling Clockwork Angels, a woman embarks on adventures to discover her own epic life story. Some lives can be summed up in a sentence or two. Other lives are epics. In Clockwork Angels, number-o...

  • X-Files Classics: Ground Zero

    • Adapting the best-selling novel by Kevin J. Anderson! Dr. Gregory, a renowned nuclear weapons researcher, is not only dead -- he's been charred to a radioactive cinder. Since this is a death on Federal property, Mulder and Scully are hasti...

  • 2113: Stories Inspired by the Music of Rush

    The music of Rush, one of the most successful bands in music history, is filled with fantastic stories, evocative images, thought-provoking futures and pasts. In this anthology, notable, bestselling, and award-winning writers each chose a Rush song a...

  • The Daredevils Club ARTIFACT

    Six adrenalin junkies who call themselves the Daredevils Club hold the fate of the world in their hands. In an ancient undersea cavern, one of them, oil man Frik van Alman, discovers a set of stones that are unlike anything else on Earth. Fitted toge...

  • Eternity's Mind

    Saga of Shadows - 3

    Eternity’s Mind is the climactic final book in Kevin J. Anderson’s Saga of Shadows Trilogy, which began with the Hugo nominee The Dark Between the. The Saga of Shadows, as well as its predecessor series, the international bestselling Saga of Seve...

  • Whistling Past the Graveyard

    Saga of Shadows

    In the prequel to the Saga of Shadows trilogy and Hugo Award nominee The Dark Between the Stars, humanity recovers from war as new threats loom. Nine years have passed since the end of the titanic Elemental War, and the human race is still picking up...

  • Battles For The Night

    Battles For The Night is a 10 ebook boxset about planetary conquest by some of today's best storytellers!Comrades in Arms By Kevin J. AndersonEuropa Nightmare By Wayne Faust & Charles Eugene AndersonThe Final Survey of Andrei Kreutzmann By Stefon Mea...

  • Blood Prize

    As seen in HEAVY METAL magazine Colt the Outlander is a brash, tough, and ruthless bounty hunter, trying to make a living on the post-apocalyptic world of Neb-6. He has fast vehicles, big weapons, and two beautiful -- and deadly -- female companions....

  • Ghosts Phantoms Wraiths

    12 Ghostly Tales and Those They HauntWorking Stiff By Kevin J. AndersonRevenant By Steve VernonMore Ghosts and Ghoulies By Deb LoganUnlocking Her Heart By Karen L. AbrahamsonThe Popcorn Thief By Leah CutterThe Soul Thief By Leah CutterThe Haunting of...

  • Time Marches On

    10 Time Travel Tales. Time Waits For No One!Table of Contents1. "The Trinity Paradox" by Kevin J. Anderson and Doug Beason2. "Destiny's Hourglass" by Nic Tatano3. "Bloody Betty, Queen of the Pirates" by Russ Crossley4. "Her Highland Laird" by Debbie ...

  • Space Race

    '8 Missions Of Daring!''Failure Is Not An Option!'Ignition By Kevin J. Anderson and Doug BeasonDin Ba Din By Kate MacLeodLenin of the Stars By Robert JeschonekWalking on the Sea of Clouds By Gray RinehartThe Royale Project By M. L. BuchmanHomecoming ...

  • Tastes Like Chicken

    Dan Shamble, Zombie P.I. - 6

    A zombie detective faces feral chickens, a serial-killer demon, redneck vampires, and more, in this humorous mystery by a New York Timesâ€"bestselling author. Dan Shamble, zombie PI faces his most fowl case yet, when a flock of murderous feral chicke...

  • Remembering Warriors

  • Undercurrents

    Fear is primal. Instinctive. Unavoidable. And right now, there is something you fear -- and you can feel it. Creeping up behind you. Lurking in the darkness that lives under your bed, or in your closet. A nameless dread. In Undercurrents: An Antholog...

  • Planetary

    Mars, the red planet and our closest neighbor. It has haunted our imaginations for centuries, inspiring tales of heroic deeds and courage. . Mars is also the god of war and the father of fear and panic. Here are 18 tales of war and adventure set in a...

  • Avatar Dreams

    A science fiction fantasy short story collection by award-winning and New York Timesâ€"bestselling authors featuring the adventures of human avatars.   The development of “Avatar” technology -- the fusion of human awareness consciousness wit...

  • Stalag-X

    Best-selling author, Kevin. J. Anderson (DUNE: HOUSE ATREIDES, STAR WARS: TALES OF THE JEDI, STAR WARS: JEDI ACADEMY) and veteran screenwriter, Steven L. Sears (XENA: WARRIOR PRINCESS, THE A-TEAM) team up with artist Mike Ratera, to bring you STALAG-...

  • Clockwork Lives: The Graphic Novel

    Some lives can be summed up in a sentence or two. Other lives are epics.Marinda Peake is a woman with a quiet, perfect life in a small village; she long ago gave up on her dreams and ambitions in order to take care of her ailing father, an alc...

  • Selected Stories: Science Fiction

    Kevin J. Anderson is one of the best-selling novelists working in the field today, but over the course of his long career he has also produced a steady stream of short fiction, ranging from hard science fiction, to fantasy, to horror, dark fantasy, a...

  • Selected Stories: Fantasy

    Award-winning, #1 international bestselling author Kevin J. Anderson has published nearly 150 books, which have appeared in 30 languages worldwide, in genres ranging from science fiction, epic fantasy, humorous horror, gritty suspense, steampunk, and...

  • Services Rendered

    Dan Shamble, Zombie P.I. - 7

    From a New York Timesâ€"bestselling author, nine hilarious mysteries -- two original to this collection -- starring a zombie detective who puts the P.I. in R.I.P. Dan Chambeaux was a human private investigator in the Unnatural Quarter, where all the ...

  • XCOM 2: FACTIONS

    Human rebels fight to overthrow the alien occupation in this epic graphic novel based on the hit video game XCOM 2.It’s 2035 and the war is over. For two decades, the alien invaders have lived side by side with their human conquests, preaching peac...

  • Slimy Chicken Zomnibus

    Together in one volume, two frighteningly hilarious Dan Shamble, Zombie P.I. adventures. SLIMY UNDERBELLY: There’s something fishy going on in the Unnatural Quarter. Bodies are floating face-down, the plumbing is backing up, and something smells ro...

  • Spine of the Dragon

    Wake the Dragon - 1

    New York Times bestselling author Kevin J. Anderson triumphantly returns to epic fantasy with the Wake the Dragon series. Spine of the Dragon is a politically charged adventure of swords, sorcery, vengeance, and the rise of sleeping giants. Two co...

  • Mr. Wells & the Martians

    In this science fiction adventure by a New York Timesâ€"bestselling author, H. G. Wells leads a group of scientists against an alien invasion. Millions thrilled to H. G. Wells’s brilliant account of the Martian invasion. But what if that account pr...

  • Monsters, Movies & Mayhem

    “A fun, nostalgia-filled anthology of twenty-three original, lighthearted horror tales riffing on the movie monsters of both modern cinema and B-movie favorites.” -- Publishers Weekly Lights! Camera! Monsters? Sometimes you go to the movies. An...

  • Stake

    Vampire hunter or serial killer? That depends on whether vampires exist . . . Simon Helsing believes the only way to stop a bad guy with fangs is a good guy with a stake. He has devoted his life to ridding the world of vampires. He hunts them, fi...

  • It Came from the Multiplex

    Welcome to tonight's feature presentation, brought to you by an unholy alliance of our spellcasters at Hex Publishers and movie-mages at the Colorado Festival of Horror. Please be advised that all emergency exits have been locked for this special nos...

  • Drumbeats

    This dark fantasy set in Africa is a collaboration between a New York Timesâ€"bestselling author and the drummer from the multi-platinum rock band, Rush.   A chilling tale of African drums and human souls from #1 international bestselling author...

  • Vengewar

    Wake the Dragon - 2

    Kevin J. Anderson's sequel to Spine of The Dragon brings bitter rivalry and blood feud-that might be the downfall of the human kingdoms. Two continents at war, the Three Kingdoms and Ishara, have been in conflict for a thousand years. But when...

  • War of the Worlds

    The Martian Invasion! Accounts of the War of the Worlds as told from celebrity eyewitnesses all around the globe!• Jules Verne reports on the Martian attacks on Paris• Teddy Roosevelt, big game hunter, goes after the most dangerous game.....

  • Roll

    Hexworld - 1

    It was supposed to be just another Sunday night fantasy role-playing session between friends...But after years of playing, the game had become so real to David, Tyrone, Scott, and Melanie that all their creations now had existences of their own.And w...

  • Escape Hatch

  • The Mammoth Book of Nebula Awards SF

  • Prisoner of War

  • The Ghost of Christmas Always

    “A sentimental yarn in which Charles Dickens’s long-deceased sister-in-law inspires him to write A Christmas Carol.” -- Publishers Weekly   A Dickensian tale for the holidays!   Charles Dickens, struggling writer, is haunted by the g...

  • Gods and Dragons

    Wake the Dragon - 3

    Co-author of the Dune sequels, Kevin J. Anderson's Gods and Dragons marks his triumphant return to epic fantasy, featuring a politically charged adventure of swords, sorcery, vengeance, and the awakening of sleeping giants. Two continents at w...

  • Clockwork Destiny

    The final volume in the New York Timesâ€"bestselling, award-winning steampunk trilogy by Kevin J. Anderson and legendary Rush drummer Neil Peart In Clockwork Angels and Clockwork Lives, readers met the optimistic young hero Owen Hardy, as well as the...

  • Double-Booked

    Dan Shamble, Zombie P.I. - 8

    Dragons are creatures of legend. Of magic. Of wisdom, nature, and the power of creation. They have been in every culture and mythology since the beginning of time. Writers are creatures of legend. With magic, wisdom, and the power of creation at thei...

  • Dune: House Harkonnen #4

    Although Leto and Kailea’s blossoming romance brings about the expectation of their first child, political complications put a strain on their thoughts, while a traitor looms in their midst. On Lankiveil, Glossu Rabban turns trophy hunting into wh...

  • Merciless Mermaids

    Think deep.The deep of the sea, the deep of space, the deep of our souls, our fears … ourselves.Fear not the monsters under your bed—but the mermaids under your boat.Merciless Mermaids: Tails from the Deep features thirty original s...

  • Skeleton in the Closet

    The Princess Bride meets Dirty, Rotten Scoundrels Join former scamp Cullin and his merry band of confidence men (and one liberated princess) as they put The Sting in the Middle Ages. With dreams of being a hero, or at least a storyteller, Cullin ...

  • Unioverse: Stories of the Reconvergence

    Common Paperback Edition- Original Cover Art- 20 Black & White Interior IllustrationsIn the year 2145 AD, Malcolm Orion, destined to go down in history as the Brave Traveler, made his historic jump through space, launching his consciousness across th...

  • The Funny Business

    Sometimes you just want to be silly. #1 Bestselling author Kevin J. Anderson is known for his grand science fiction sagas, his epic fantasies, his fast-paced adventures, or his steampunk Clockwork chronicles. But Kevin J. Anderson also has a ligh...

  • Unbreakable

    Joe Ledger fans rejoice! Ledger returns with more dynamic adventures with his friends in the industry. 16 adventures edited by Jonathan Maberry and Bryan Thomas Schmidt.Joe Ledger: Unbreakable presents 15 all new stories and a bonus reprint by Ne...

  • Bats in the Belfry

    Dan Shamble, Zombie P.I. - 9

    Ace Ventura meets the Addams Family! A shambling horde of new cases hits Dan Shamble, Zombie P.I. in the Unnatural Quarter. Dan and his gang -- including his ghost girlfriend, feisty lawyer partner, cop best friend, and little vampire half-daughter...

  • Persephone

    The immense ark-ship Odyssey and its ten thousand hibernating settlers have left behind a dying Earth-journeying for fifty years to the nearest star and its lone habitable planet, Proxima-b.This new home for humanity is perpetually bombarded by deadl...

  • Fantasy Stories Volume 1

    Kevin J. Anderson is one of the best-selling novelists working in the field today, but over the course of his long career he has produced a steady stream of short stories, ranging from hard science fiction, to fantasy, to horror, dark fantasy, and hu...

  • Science Fiction Stories Volume 1

    Kevin J. Anderson is one of the best-selling novelists working in the field today, but over the course of his long career he has produced a steady stream of short fiction, ranging from hard science fiction, to fantasy, to horror, dark fantasy, and hu...

  • Horror and Dark Fantasy Stories Volume 1

    Kevin J. Anderson is one of the best-selling novelists working in the field today, but over the course of his long career he has produced a steady stream of short fiction, ranging from hard science fiction, to fantasy, to horror, dark fantasy, and hu...

  • Science Fiction Stories Volume 2

    Kevin J. Anderson is one of the best-selling novelists working in the field today, but over the course of his long career he has produced a steady stream of short fiction, ranging from hard science fiction, to fantasy, to horror, dark fantasy, and hu...

  • Horror and Dark Fantasy Stories Volume 2

    Kevin J. Anderson is one of the best-selling novelists working in the field today, but over the course of his long career he has produced a steady stream of short fiction, ranging from hard science fiction, to fantasy, to horror, dark fantasy, and hu...

  • Nether Station

    From New York Times bestselling author Kevin J. Anderson comes Nether Station, a thrilling mix of epic science fiction and Lovecraftian horror.Space is vast. Space is full of wonders. Space is terrifying.In the darkest part of the solar system lies a...

  • Science Fiction Stories Volume 3

    Kevin J. Anderson is one of the best-selling novelists working in the field today, but over the course of his long career he has produced a steady stream of short fiction, ranging from hard science fiction, to fantasy, to horror, dark fantasy, and hu...

  • Fantasy Stories Volume 2

    Kevin J. Anderson is one of the best-selling novelists working in the field today, but over the course of his long career he has produced a steady stream of short fiction, ranging from hard science fiction, to fantasy, to horror, dark fantasy, and hu...

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Kevin J. Anderson has published 158 books.

The next book by Kevin J. Anderson, Fantasy Stories Volume 2, will be published in December 2024.

The first book by Kevin J. Anderson, Resurrection, Inc., was published in July 1988.

Yes. Kevin J. Anderson has 8 series.
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