Lisa Mason

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  • Bibliography:
    30 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1990
  • Latest Book:
    May 2021
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Full Series List in Order

The Garden of Abracadabra

1 - Life's Journey (Oct-2012)
2 - In Dark Woods (Oct-2012)
3 - The Right Road (Oct-2012)

A Lily Modjeska Mystery

1 - The Heartland (May-2013)
2 - Jewel of the Golden West (Mar-2013)
3 - The Celestial Kingdom (Feb-2014)

Pangaea

1 - Imperium Without End (May-1999)
2 - Imperium Afire (May-2000)

Book List in Order: 30 titles

  • Arachne

    When unexplained telelink blackouts and bizarre hallucinations mar mechanically modified attorney Carly Nolan's appearance before a computer-generated court, she discovers that she is involved in an artificial intelligence scheme to steal human souls...

  • The Golden Nineties

    In twenty-fifth-century China, Zhu Wong is part of a paramilitary cadre dedicated to enforcing the Generation-Skipping Law, but when she is arrested for attempted murder, she must travel into the past, to San Francisco in 1895, to search for a slave ...

  • Cyberweb

    Carly Nolan was once a professional telelinker with a powerful corrupt legal firm. Now she lives an outlaw life at the bottom of the human garbage heap -- a penniless recovering cram addict wanted by the authorities for dubious crimes against the Dat...

  • Summer of Love

    In the height of the 1960s, fourteen-year-old Susan Stein, alias Starbright, meets Chiron Cat's Eye, a boy from the future who must find a specific hippie whose fate will affect many generations to come. Reprint....

  • Imperium Without End

    Pangaea - 1

    A powerful, visionary epic from a celebrated voice in speculative fiction.For millennia, the Imperium has held sway over Pangaea. The pure dreams of its great dreamers are used to elevate and pacify the consciousness of a society strictly divided by ...

  • Imperium Afire

    Pangaea - 2

    In a world on the brink of destruction, there is no safe place to run.Book Two in an epic of astonishing originality by one of the most imaginative voices in science fiction.The once stable world of Pangaea is coming apart....Mysterious earthshocks c...

  • The Gilded Age

    A New York Times Notable Book A New York Public Library Recommended Book The sequel to Summer of Love, A Time Travel (A Philip K. Dick award Finalist and San Francisco Chronicle Recommended Book) The year is 1895 and immigrants the world over are flo...

  • The Sixty-third Anniversary of Hysteria

    The year is 1941, and Hitler’s armies have swept across Europe. Nora, a budding young Surrealist artist, has fled to Mexico with B.B., a much older and acclaimed Surrealist playwright down on his luck. Hundreds of European artists and writers have ...

  • Daughter of the Tao

    Sing Lin is a mooie jai, a girl sold into slavery at the age of five to a wealthy merchant in Tangrenbu, the ghetto of her people in the new country across the sea. One lucky day, while she is out shopping by herself, she meets another mooie jai, Kwa...



  • Every Mystery Unexplained

    The year is 1895, and Danny Flint is a young man living in the shadow of his controlling father, a famous stage magician whose fortunes are fading. Uncle Brady, Professor Flint’s trusted assistant and business manager and Danny’s best friend, can...

  • Shaken

    “The Net” meets “Conspiracy Theory” with EarthquakesEmma “J” for Joy Pearce is at her editorial offices on the twenty-second floor of Three Embarcadero in downtown San Francisco when the long-dreaded next Great Earthquake devastates the B...

  • In Dark Woods

    The Garden of Abracadabra - 2

    At her mother’s urgent deathbed plea, Abby Teller enrolls at the Berkeley College of Magical Arts and Crafts to learn Real Magic. To support herself through school, she signs on as the superintendent of the Garden of Abracadabra, a mysterious magic...

  • Life's Journey

    The Garden of Abracadabra - 1

    At her mother’s urgent deathbed plea, Abby Teller enrolls at the Berkeley College of Magical Arts and Crafts to learn Real Magic. To support herself through school, she signs on as the superintendent of the Garden of Abracadabra, a mysterious magic...

  • The Right Road

    The Garden of Abracadabra - 3

    At her mother’s urgent deathbed plea, Abby Teller enrolls at the Berkeley College of Magical Arts and Crafts to learn Real Magic. To support herself through school, she signs on as the superintendent of the Garden of Abracadabra, a mysterious magic...

  • Celebration of the Summer Solstice

    The year is 1967 and something new is sweeping across America: good vibes, bad vibes, psychedelic music, psychedelic drugs, anti-war protests, racial tension, free love, bikers, dropouts, flower children. An age of innocence, a time of danger. The Su...

  • A New Moon in Virgo

    A Philip K. Dick Award Finalist. A San Francisco Chronicle Recommended Book of the Year.The year is 1967 and something new is sweeping across America: good vibes, bad vibes, psychedelic music, psychedelic drugs, anti-war protests, racial tension, fre...

  • Jewel of the Golden West

    A Lily Modjeska Mystery - 2

    Lily is not quite a typical woman in Toledo, Ohio, 1896. She may be repressed and dependent on her husband, but she supports the vote for women and has a mind of her own. When Johnny Pentland is found dead at a notorious brothel, Lily discovers her h...

  • The Heartland

    A Lily Modjeska Mystery - 1

    Lily is not quite a typical woman in Toledo, Ohio, 1896. She may be repressed and dependent on her husband, but she supports the vote for women and has a mind of her own. When Johnny Pentland is found dead at a notorious brothel, Lily discovers her h...

  • The Garden of Abracadabra

    “So refreshing. . . .Stephanie Plum in the world of Harry Potter.”At her mother’s urgent deathbed plea, Abby Teller enrolls at the Berkeley College of Magical Arts and Crafts to learn Real Magic. To support herself through school, she signs on ...



  • U F uh-O

    Knocked Up meets E.T.Josh and Nikki really want a child but have infertility issues. Mike and Gretchen, a very different couple, have the same problem. When Nikki meets Gretchen at the Happy Daze Family Clinic in Pasadena, they discover that they sha...

  • Strange Ladies

    “A must-read collection.” The San Francisco Review of Books As Lisa Mason mulled over her short fiction, she found seven wildly different stories with one thing in common -- a heroine totally unlike her. Mason is the girl next door. She has no id...

  • Hummers

    Laurel, in the terminal stages of cancer, is obsessed with the Egyptian Book of the Dead. Jerry, her homecare nurse whose lover is dying of AIDS, gives her a surprising gift. A hummingbird feeder.As Laurel comes to grips with her own death, she learn...

  • Tomorrow's Child

    The Omni Story That Sold To Universal Studios.A high-powered executive is about to lose his estranged teenage daughter to critical burn wounds and only desperate measures may save her life.“Tomorrow’s Child” started as a medical documentary for...

  • The Celestial Kingdom

    A Lily Modjeska Mystery - 3

    Lily is not quite a typical woman in Toledo, Ohio, 1896. She may be repressed and dependent on her husband, but she supports the vote for women and has a mind of her own. When Johnny Pentland is found dead at a notorious brothel, Lily discovers her h...

  • Time Travels to San Francisco

    This is a boxed set of Summer of Love, Lisa Mason’s classic time travel to 1967, and the sequel, The Gilded Age, her classic time travel to 1895. In Summer of Love, teenager Susan Bell runs away to San Francisco. There she meets a strange young ma...

  • Illyria, My Love

    From the extinguished HomeWorld, the Settlers traveled across the stars to NewWorld with hopes of starting over again.In the war-torn nation of Illyria, Maya just wants to grow vegetables and live in peace. But she has a dark secret she can never rev...

  • One Day in the Life of Alexa

    How long do you want to live? Alexa Denisovitch, a refugee from Kosovo during the 1999 war, is just seventeen when she is accepted by GenGineer Laboratories as a Tester for Longeva, a revolutionary additive that may significantly extend her longevity...

  • Chrome

    From New York Times Notable Author Book Lisa MasonCHROMETwo hundred fifty years ago, a purveyor of poisons and the creator of genetically modified organisms—Emirk Corporation—launched into the Moon's orbit around the Earth an artificial...

  • Oddities

    Here You EnterYesterday, Tomorrow & FantasyWhen Lisa Mason was mulling over stories to publish in her second story collection, she noticed the stories fell into historical, futuristic, and fantasy categories.ODDITIES: 22 Stories includes those pr...



  • Teardrop

    On the exotic planet dubbed XYK-834, rogue human John Dixon has fallen in love with the alluringly alien NanaNini--but that puts him in bad with the corporate Network goons. Yet maybe the enigmatic Sparkle can set everything right.The Paul Di Filippo...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Lisa Mason has published 30 books.

Lisa Mason does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Teardrop, was published in May 2021.

The first book by Lisa Mason, Arachne, was published in January 1990.

Yes. Lisa Mason has 3 series.
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