Stephen Goldin

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  • Bibliography:
    48 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1977
  • Latest Book:
    February 2023
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Full Series List in Order

Agents of ISIS

1 - Tsar Wars (Mar-2010)
2 - Treacherous Moon (Mar-2010)
3 - Robot Mountain (Mar-2010)
4 - Sanctuary Planet (Mar-2010)
5 - Stellar Revolution (Mar-2010)
6 - Purgatory Plot (Mar-2010)
7 - Traitors' World (Mar-2010)
8 - Counterfeit Stars (Mar-2010)
9 - Outworld Invaders (Mar-2010)
10 - Galactic Collapse (Mar-2010)

Parsina Saga

1 - Shrine of the Desert Mage (May-1988)
2 - The Storyteller and the Jann (Oct-1988)
3 - Crystals of Air and Water (Jan-1989)

Multi-Author Series List

Star Trek

Trek to Madworld (Jan-1979)

Book List in Order: 48 titles

  • Assault on the Gods

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    Ardeva Korrell, captain of a small interstellar trading ship, has fought prejudice, both because she's a woman and because she's an Eoan, a native of a world with an unpopular religion. Now she's fighting the god-like rulers of a backward planet to s...

  • Mindflight

    In fourteen years with the Terran Intelligence Agency, Alain Cheney had been as exemplary agent. An accomplished telepath, he had never disobeyed an order, never failed an assignment, never performed at anything less than a level of supreme competenc...

  • Trek to Madworld

    Star Trek

    CAPTAIN'S LOG, STARDATE 6191.8 I am faced with one of the most difficult decisions of my career. Three days ago, the Enterprise, was ordered to proceed at maximum warp to Epsilon Delta 4, where 700 colonists are slowly dying of radiation poisoning...

  • A World Called Solitude

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    Birk Aaland is a fugitive from Earth's tyranny, stranded on a dead world for 11 years with no one but robots for company. Then, suddenly, his peaceful life is shattered when an interstellar war lands right on his doorstep -- and he is forced to take ...

  • And Not Make Dreams Your Master

    Wayne Corrigan is a professional Dreamer. He creates nighttime entertainment to thrill the minds of the sleeping public. But when one of his colleagues goes crazy and tries to commit suicide, he threatens to take the entire audience along for the rid...

  • The Eternity Brigade

    A member of the sleepers, an army of warriors frozen in a cryogenic state and awakened in times of war, rebels against the nature of his existence when he realizes he can be duplicated by computer and made to fight for all eternity...

  • Shrine of the Desert Mage

    Parsina Saga - 1

    When a magic urn containing the spirit of an army of demons is stolen from the Royal Temple, Jafar, his daughter Selima, and exiled prince Ahmad set out on an enchanted adventure to recover the urn, and keep the peace in the holy city of Ravan...

  • The Storyteller and the Jann

    Parsina Saga - 2

    THE WAR BETWEEN LIGHT AND DARKNESS An evil whirlwind blows across the golden lands of Parsina. After a centuries-long imprisonment, the Man Aeshma has escaped from his a magic urn and returned with a vengeance, leaving nothing but destruction in ...

  • Crystals of Air and Water

    Parsina Saga - 3

    The released Aeshma continues to plague Parsina with death and slavery. In Ravan, the holy city, the evil ruler, Shammara, plots a blasphemous union to strengthen evil's hold over Parsina. Jafar, Selima, and Prince Ahmad must continue to venture acro...



  • Caravan

    Peter Stone predicted the economic collapse of Western civilization, but that's small comfort as he's forced to wander through a harsh world trying, like so many others, just to survive. By chance, he encounters some people with a higher plan. Now al...

  • Crossroads of the Galaxy

    Young Alex Bredakoff thought he was prepared for anything when his family moved to the center of galactic commerce...but he never dreamed of meeting anyone like Kasinda Venderling. The daughter of an important interstellar trader, Kasinda has been ev...

  • Herds

    Wesley Stoneham thought he could get away with murdering his wife by blaming the crime on a hippie commune. What he didn't realize was that there was a witness: an alien creature exploring Earth by means of astral projection. Now the alien faces two ...

  • Jade Darcy and the Affair of Honor

    For the past five years, Jade Darcy has not seen another human being. A computer-augmented mercenary, she lives on the planet Cablans, a stopover point for traders from hundreds of worlds -- and a good place to meet customers who need the services of...

  • The Last Ghost and Other Stories

    THE LAST GHOST AND OTHER STORIES is the first comprehensive collection of Stephen Goldin's short fiction. Some of the stories have been reprinted before, such as the Nebula Award finalist story "The Last Ghost" and the oft-anthologized "Sweet Dreams,...

  • Treachery of the Demon King

    As the empire of evil sweeps across the land, the fate of Parsina rests on Jafar al-Sharif, the storyteller impersonating a wizard, and the exiled Prince Ahmad from the holy city of Ravan. But peril continues to dog their footsteps on the way to Moun...

  • Jade Darcy and the Zen Pirates

    At first, expecting her new job to be easy, Jade Darcy is oblivious to the religious strife wracking the world of Restappa. Jade and Megan Cafferty, her employer, discover that the Restappans are in the process of electing a new religious leader. Dur...

  • The Djinn Garden

    In a world of Arabian Nights adventure, a band of heroes is on a quest to reunite the Crystal of Oromasd and save the world. One of their number, the beautiful young djinn named Cari, vanishes on a mysterious island in the Central Sea and the others ...

  • Haunted Houses

  • Scavenger Hunt

    Scavenger Hunt is a romantic, sexy space opera adventure about a race across the galaxy. Life itself is on the line as the crew of the Honey B, the galaxy's most hedonistic space yacht, travels from planet to planet searching for exotic treasures and...



  • Alien Murders

    Although physical travel between the stars is impossible because of the vast distances involved, communication is instantaneous. There are a couple of different ways to visit alien worlds: veering (using virtual reality to project images), and teepin...

  • But As A Soldier, For His Country

  • Counterfeit Stars

    Agents of ISIS - 8

    Having had its plans thwarted too many times by the Imperial Special Investigation Service, the evil conspiracy declares war directly on the brave men and women who serve in the agency. Impostors sabotage the Service's work, and the Commissar himself...

  • Galactic Collapse

    Agents of ISIS - 10

    Finally the evil conspiracy reveals itself in all its true power, bringing the Empire to its knees. Even the Imperial Special Investigation Service is helpless in the face of the unexpected, overwhelming attack. But the Empire strikes back with all t...

  • Outworld Invaders

    Agents of ISIS - 9

    For centuries, now, humanity has expanded into space without encountering an alien civilization. Suddenly, the peaceful outlying planet Omicron is attacked by an ominous outside threat--and the Imperial Special Investigation Service finds itself join...

  • Purgatory Plot

    Agents of ISIS - 6

    An armed cadre of fundamentalist extremists threatens the security of the interstellar Empire, while uprisings of separatist traitors spark outrage on dozens of planets around the galaxy. The agents of the Imperial Special Investigation Service must ...

  • Robot Mountain

    Agents of ISIS - 3

    By sheer accident, the Imperial Special Investigation Service has stumbled across a fiendish plot against the Empire--using a time bomb to blow up the tsaritsa and throw the galaxy into chaos. Now, to learn the truth, its agents must infiltrate a hol...

  • Sanctuary Planet

    Agents of ISIS - 4

    The galaxy's top criminals have not only been getting away from police, they've disappeared from sight entirely. Suspecting something far more sinister than a mere crime wave, the top agents of the Imperial Special Investigation Service delve into th...

  • Stellar Revolution

    Agents of ISIS - 5

    A hidden conspiracy is plotting to use the tsaritsa's wedding as the occasion to overthrow the true ruler and start a bloody revolt to take over the throne for themselves. Meanwhile, in the depths of interstellar space, a flotilla of space pirates is...

  • Traitors' World

    Agents of ISIS - 7

    Space pirates harass interstellar shipping. On the frozen world of Gulag--where, for centuries, the Empire's worst traitors have been exiled--dangerous plots are hatching. Time is running out for agents of the Imperial Special Investigation Service t...



  • Treacherous Moon

    Agents of ISIS - 2

    Hundreds of thousands of people have visited the pleasure moon Vesa and simply vanished without a trace. Is this part of some vast galactic conspiracy? To find out, the Imperial Special Investigation Service dispatches its two best agents to look int...

  • Tsar Wars

    Agents of ISIS - 1

    Welcome to the first great space opera decalogy of the twenty-first century! With humanity scattered throughout the galaxy on hundreds of worlds, the Empire is the only force for order across the stars. Without it, interstellar conflicts would bring ...

  • Angel in Black

    Five supernatural tales from a master storyteller.Visit the Shop, where the mysterious proprietor will take you on journeys into the second sphere--a land of nightmares, the mystical realm where legendary creatures battle for the souls of humans, and...

  • The Last Ghost

    This was a Nebula Award finalist for Best Short Story of 1971.Solitude is corrosive. Love and companionship can heal wounds, but they take time. And even with all eternity to work in, there may never be enough time to do the job....

  • Polly!

    "Blasphemous ... highly offensive" ... and VERY funny Herodotus Shapiro has had an unbelievably bad week. His wife left him. The IRS is after him for thousands of dollars. His home/bookstore burned down. On his way to take refuge at his brother's pl...

  • The World Where Wishes Worked

  • Mindsearch

    The exciting sequel to Mindflight. On the planet Iwagen, Richard and Mara Cheney have taken over their late parents' project, a hospice for telepausal Dur-ill telepaths, hoping to start a new telepathic generation. But someone else is interested in D...

  • Grim Fairy Tale

  • Portrait of the Artist as a Young God

  • Apollyon Ex Machina



  • Of Love, Free Will, and Gray Squirrels on a Summer Evening

  • When There's No Man Around

    Goodyear Tires had an ad campaign in the mid-1970s showing a woebegone young woman kneeling beside her car with a flat tire, all alone on a deserted highway in the middle of the night. The caption read, "When there's no man around, Goodyear should...

  • Xenophobe

    This story is dedicated to the Republican Party. They do so well at drumming up distrust of homosexuals, foreigners and others who are different from their "norm" that one can only imagine what they'll do when we encounter true aliens....

  • Ghosts, Girls, & Other Phantasms

    GHOSTS, GIRLS, & OTHER PHANTASMS is a comprehensive collection of Stephen Goldin's solo short fiction, containing most of the stories from his earlier collection THE LAST GHOST AND OTHER STORIES. (The "Angel in Black" stories have been broken out int...

  • Quiet Post

    From the author of POLLY! and TREK TO MADWORLD comes a truly bizarre comedy of outlandish proportions.The Quasiverse: A land that's a combination of Oz, Wonderland, Discworld, and general surreality, where anything can happen and often does; a land o...

  • Agents of the Imperial Special Invesstigation Service

    The first great space opera decalogy of the 21st century, this boxed set represents the first time all 10 books have been gathered together in a single volume. It follows the exciting adventures of undercover agents working to preserve the peace and ...

  • Agents of the Imperial Special Investigation Service

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    The first great space opera decalogy of the 21st century, this boxed set represents the first time all 10 books have been gathered together in a single volume. It follows the exciting adventures of undercover agents working to preserve the peace and ...

  • Into the Out

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    Tamara Ruben and ten of her high school classmates are on a field trip in the California desert when they stumble across a long-dormant spaceship. Without warning, the ship takes off with them aboard, stranding them alone in interstellar space with n...

  • The Purity Plot

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Stephen Goldin has published 48 books.

Stephen Goldin does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Agents of the Imperial Special Invesstigation Service, was published in February 2023.

The first book by Stephen Goldin, Assault on the Gods, was published in January 1977.

Yes. Stephen Goldin has 2 series.
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