Michael Coney

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  • Bibliography:
    17 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    September 1973
  • Latest Book:
    October 2013
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Full Series List in Order

Song of Earth

1 - The Celestial Steam Locomotive (Sep-1983)
2 - Gods of the Greataway (Sep-1984)

Book List in Order: 17 titles

  • The Hero of Downways

    Once there was a Hero who confronted the dreaded Daggertooth and slew it. Unfortunately he was also slain by it - but the legend persisted. If it could be done once, then another Hero could be raised to do it again. Because the Daggertooth was danger...

  • The Jaws that Bite, the Claws that Catch

  • Charisma

    WORLDS APART: Two tall trees lashed by an invisible hurricane on a calm summer day...a hauntingly beautiful girl who would eerily vanish, then reappear ... a mysterious research station in the hills .... They were all linked, John Maine knew and his ...

  • Neptune's Cauldron

    Pursued by the interplanetary police for a crime he did not commit, space traveller Tyg is forced down on the planet Storm, where he finds a revolution brewing among the Tadda against King Caiman, the planet's tyrannical ruler. He must prove his inn...

  • The Celestial Steam Locomotive

    Song of Earth - 1

    The Songs of Earth series beings with “a daring, often dazzling storytelling feat—and absolutely not to be missed” (Kirkus Reviews). It is the year 143,624 Cyclic, and Earth possesses only a past. The immortal Alan-Blue-Cloud, remem...

  • Gods of the Greataway

    Song of Earth - 2

    Millennia ago Starquin visited the Solar System. Because he is huge - some say bigger than the Solar System itself - he could not set foot on Earth personally. yet events here were beginning to interest him, and he wanted to observe more closely.So h...

  • Dorothy Past and Present

    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...

  • Suspicion

    in Crime Through Time III

    ANDREW GREELEY introduces a monk of the Middle Ages who investigates corruption in the Vatican to crack "The Case of the Murdered Pope"... Sir John Fielding, a blind eighteenth-century magistrate, confronts crime at a stuffy dinner party in BRUCE ALE...

  • Cat Karina

    Few true humans remain on the future Earth, where caimen, shrugleggers, and felinas dominate. The peoples are descendents of crocodiles, alien races, and jaguars, and they are much different than the humans--they are products of genetic experiments, ...



  • Winter's Children

    The countryside is hundreds of feet deep in snow, and a small community is managing to exist in the bell-tower of a church, just above the snow level. For sustenance they make journeys to the shops of the village far below by tunnels. They also stay ...

  • Brontomek

    The planet Arcadia was on the verge of economic collapse. Its human colony had been decimated by the strange Relay Effect; in the aftermath, still more colonists were leaving for other worlds. The Hetherington Organisation promised to change that. If...

  • Charisma

    A secret research station near the Cornish fishing village of Falcombe has discovered the existence of an apparently infinite series of parallel worlds, each a slightly distorted reflection of our own. It has also developed a technique for investigat...

  • Friends Come in Boxes

    The Conversationalist sat among the boxes, trying to interest the friends in history. "The Compulsory Transfer Act was passed in 2056," he was saying, "with the dual object of reducing the birthrate and preventing the wastage of valuable minds throug...

  • The Girl With a Symphony in Her Fingers

    Call them the spare parts of people. They chose the risk - jail for convicted crimes or semi-freedom as someone's bonded servant for the same term. The price was that they were body insurance. If their master lost a leg or an internal organ, they wou...

  • Mirror Image

    If an alien creature can so perfectly imitate a human being that not only is it physically and mentally indistinguishable from a man but it actually believes itself to be one, what do you do with it? Is it human?This is the question which confronts A...

  • Syzygy

    Once every fifty-two years Arcadia's six erratic moons come together in a constellation that plays havoc with the ecological balance of the planet.As a marine biologist at Riverside Research Centre, Mark Swindon is chiefly concerned about the effect ...

  • The Ultimate Jungle

    "Mankind will cease to exist at 6pm GMT on 28th March 3256". A computer prediction which threw the world into panic. What to do? Build a starship and take the chosen few to a new home in the stars. Or search for an alternative timestream where mankin...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Michael Coney has published 17 books.

Michael Coney does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Ultimate Jungle, was published in October 2013.

The first book by Michael Coney, The Hero of Downways, was published in September 1973.

Yes. Michael Coney has 1 series.
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