Peter Cawdron

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  • Bibliography:
    37 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    July 2011
  • Latest Book:
    March 2023
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Full Series List in Order

Retrograde

1 - Retrograde (Sep-2017)
2 - Reentry (Jun-2019)

Zombie Nightmares

1 - What We Left Behind (Jan-2015)
2 - All Our Tomorrows (Aug-2015)

Book List in Order: 37 titles

  • The Road to Hell

    How do you solve a murder when the victim comes back to life with no memory of recent events?In the 22nd century, America struggles to rebuild after the second civil war. Democracy has been suspended while the reconstruction effort lifts the country ...

  • Anomaly

    Anomaly examines the prospect of an alien intelligence discovering life on Earth. The technological gulf between mankind and the alien species is measured in terms of millions of years. The only way to communicate is using science, but not everyone i...

  • Serengeti

  • Trixie & Me

    Trixie & Me is the second in a series of stand-alone novellas exploring alternatives to the Rare Earth Hypothesis in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Trixie and Berry are trapped on an alien space ship. Berry can't move, but he seems to ...

  • Savannah

  • War

  • Galactic Exploration

    Galactic Exploration looks at the Rare Earth hypothesis through the fictional adventures of three interstellar space craft exploring the galaxy, looking for evidence of intelligent extraterrestrial life. This novel is the compilation of the stories:Â...

  • Monsters

    Monsters is a dystopian novel set against the backdrop of the collapse of civilization. The fallout from a passing comet contains a biological pathogen, not a virus or a living organism, just a collection of amino acids, but these cause animals to re...

  • Xenophobia

    Xenophobia is set in Malawi, Africa, with US soldiers acting as peacekeepers to stop a civil war erupting. When an alien spacecraft arrives in orbit, America is thrown into turmoil and US troops are withdrawn from hotspots around the globe to provide...



  • Little Green Men

    Little Green Men is a tribute to the works of Philip K. Dick, hailing back to classic science fiction stories of the 1950s. The crew of the Dei Gratia set down on a frozen planet and are attacked by little green men. Chief Science Officer David Micha...

  • Feedback

    Twenty years ago, a UFO crashed into the Yellow Sea off the Korean Peninsula. The only survivor was a young English-speaking child, captured by the North Koreans. Two decades later, a physics student watches his girlfriend disappear before his eyes, ...

  • My Sweet Satan

    The crew of the Copernicus are sent to investigate Bestla, one of the remote moons of Saturn. Bestla has always been an oddball, orbiting Saturn in the wrong direction and at a distance of thirty million kilometers, so far away Saturn appears smaller...

  • Hello World

    Hello World is a science fiction short story speculating on the possibility that an extraterrestrial intelligence could observe humanity via social media. Professor Franco Corelli has noticed something unusual. The twitter account @QuestionsLots is h...

  • What We Left Behind

    Zombie Nightmares - 1

    Everyone has a different term for zombies. I call them Zee because that's the term my mother used before she turned, speaking about the whole horde as though it was just one individual. Grammar has no place in the zombie apocalypse.… Hazel is a ...

  • Alien Space Tentacle Porn

  • All Our Tomorrows

    Zombie Nightmares - 2

    Hazel is alone in a crowd. No one understands her, not even her father. The only people that ever really understood her were Steve, David and Jane. But they're dead. If they're not dead, they're dying stranded outside the compound. Hazel can't accept...

  • Free Fall

    This short story first appeared in The Z Chronicles, and serves as a prequel to What We Left Behind.Jackson is an astronaut testing a prototype interstellar craft in deep space. When he returns home, there’s no one to greet him. Earth has fallen si...

  • Starship Mine

    James Patterson is a gay accountant living in Keyes, Oklahoma -- deep in the Bible Belt -- the religious heartland of America. He’s also the first person to make contact with an extraterrestrial intelligence seeking to understand our world, and tha...

  • Welcome to the Occupied States of America

    Ashley Kelly is your typical American teenager-or she would be if it wasn't for the cluster bomb that crippled her. Seven years after the invasion, over a hundred million Americans have been displaced by the war, with millions more dead. Ash has spen...



  • Mars Endeavour

    “NASA prepared us for every eventuality on Mars, but they never prepared us for what could go wrong on Earth.” Mankind has long dreamed of reaching out to live on other planets, and with the establishment of the Mars Endeavour colony, that dream ...

  • Nosferatu

    Vampires walk among us, using folklore to hide, and relying on superstitions to discredit the very notion of their existence. Lurking in the shadows, and remaining in the background, they have preyed on humanity for thousands of years. Bram Stoker ca...

  • Maelstrom

    Tunguska, Roswell, the Bermuda Triangle, the Mary Celeste... For hundreds of years, the danger posed by colliding worlds has been ignored as a crackpot theory, until now, and now it's too late. Maelstrom contains three novellas set in the Colliding...

  • Retrograde

    Retrograde - 1

    “For lovers of Andy Weir’s The Martian, here’s a true hard-science-fiction tale set on the red planet -- a terrific blend of high tech and high tension, of science and suspense, of character and crisis.” -- Robert J. Sawyer, Hugo Awardâ€"...

  • The Curious Case of the Hounds of Hell

  • Losing Mars

    Disaster strikes in orbit around Mars. A Chinese spacecraft is disabled, stranded near Phobos. Well over a hundred million miles from Earth, their only hope for rescue is from an American base on the edge of the Vallis Marineris on the surface of Mar...

  • Mister Fluffy Bunny

    WARNING: Contains violence, drug references and cute stuffed toys.Dana was found wandering alone in the Mexican desert in the midst of a drug war. Sheriff Garcia takes her to the Silver Plains orphanage, having her declared a ward of the state te...

  • Shadows

    Shadows is fan-fiction set in Hugh Howey's WOOL universe as part of the Silo Saga.Life within the silos follows a well-worn pattern passed down through the generations from master to apprentice, 'caster to shadow. Don't ask! Don't think! Don't questi...

  • Reentry

    Retrograde - 2

    After almost dying on Mars, astronaut Liz Anderson returns to Earth, but not to a hero’s welcome. America is in turmoil. The war is over, but the insurgency has just begun. So while life on Mars may have been deadly, at least up there she knew who ...

  • 3zekiel

    Deep within the Congo, a team of scientists prepares for the greatest adventure in humanity, making First Contact with an intelligent extraterrestrial species, only they're not alone. Could First Contact be our last?FIRST CONTACT is a series of stand...



  • But The Stars

    FIRST CONTACT is a series of stand-alone novels that explore humanity's first interaction with extraterrestrial life.But the stars that marked our starting fall away. We must go deeper into greater pain, for it is not permitted that we stay.Dante Ali...

  • Wherever Seeds May Fall

    FIRST CONTACT is a series of stand-alone novels that explore humanity's first interaction with extraterrestrial life.The Prince of Darkness is coming. Comet Anduru skimmed the clouds of Saturn. Rather than being drawn into the gas giant, it skipped b...

  • Cold Eyes

    Cold Eyes is a First Contact novel, written as a tribute to the 1974 science fiction classic, The Mote in God's Eye, by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.The UN warship Magellan is twelve light-years from Earth, exploring a cold eye, a tidally-locked s...

  • Dispatches from the War

    Dispatches from the War is a series of four short stories set in the fictional world of the novel Welcome to the Occupied States of America.Extraterrestrial seedpods have landed in the northern hemisphere. The creatures that have emerged are composit...

  • Generation of Vipers

    Generation of Vipers is the sequel to Wherever Seeds May Fall.Two years have passed since comet Anduru skimmed the clouds of Saturn on its way to Earth. Kath and Nolan are looking for answers, trying to find ways to protect Earth from the possibility...

  • Clowns

    First Contact occurred a decade ago with a traveling circus in the high-altitude desert plateau of Uzbekistan. The US Government has been covertly monitoring extraterrestrial activity around Earth since then but has struggled to make contact. They've...

  • The Tempest

    Marc and Emma are on the graveyard shift onboard the Sycorax, an interstellar spacecraft bound for New Haven, a colony world fifty light years from Earth. Eighteen thousand colonists lie in suspended animation, awaiting a new life around another star...

  • Apothecary

    In 1558, during the reign of Bloody Mary, Earth is visited by extraterrestrials who initiate First Contact. Their mission is to gather samples of life on Earth and observe, but not interact with humanity. After witnessing a brutal execution, their pa...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Peter Cawdron has published 37 books.

Peter Cawdron does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Apothecary, was published in March 2023.

The first book by Peter Cawdron, The Road to Hell, was published in July 2011.

Yes. Peter Cawdron has 2 series.
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