W. Michael Gear

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  • Bibliography:
    34 Books (8 Series)
  • First Book:
    November 1988
  • Latest Book:
    May 2024
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Full Series List in Order

The Athena Trilogy

1 - Athena Unleashed (Jan-2024)
2 - Genesis Athena (Feb-2024)
3 - Athena's Wrath (Mar-2024)

Donovan

1 - Outpost (Feb-2018)
2 - Abandoned (Nov-2018)
3 - Pariah (May-2019)
4 - Unreconciled (May-2020)
5 - Adrift (Jun-2021)
6 - Reckoning (Nov-2022)

Flight of the Hawk

1 - The River (Jan-2018)
2 - The Plains (Jun-2019)

Forbidden Borders

1 - Requiem for the Conqueror (Jul-1991)
2 - Relic of Empire (Aug-1993)
3 - Countermeasures (Aug-1993)

Saga of the Mountain Sage

1 - The Morning River (Jul-1996)
2 - White Mist Dog (Jun-2023)
3 - A Panther's Scream (Jun-2023)

Team Psi

1 - The Alpha Enigma (Nov-2020)
2 - Implacable Alpha (Jun-2022)

The Warriors of Spider

1 - The Warriors of Spider (Apr-1990)
2 - The Way of Spider (Jan-1989)
2 - The Web of Spider (Jul-1989)

The Wyoming Chronicles

1 - Dissolution (Jun-2021)
2 - Fourth Quadrant (Jan-2022)
3 - After The Eagle Has Fallen (Mar-2023)

Book List in Order: 34 titles

  • Long Ride Home

    Theo Belk is the quintessential gunfighter: rootless, ruthless, and deadly. In the fierce and lawless Western frontier of 1874 these traits were what was needed to stay alive. Haunted by the ghosts of the men he's killed, there is one man he has s...

  • The Way of Spider

    The Warriors of Spider - 2

    The thrilling sequel to Gear's groundbreaking sci-fi debut, The Warriors of SpiderRebellion on Sirius threatened to become the spark that would set the galaxy ablaze, bringing on the destruction of the Directorate-run empire -- a tyranny powered by a...

  • The Web of Spider

    The Warriors of Spider - 2

    The conclusion to Gear's thriling Spider sci-fi trilogyThe Sirian rebellion had proved the catalyst for the rise of two powerful new forces in the galaxy. Ngen Van Chow, leader of the failed rebellion, had fled to a distant world, establishing a base...

  • The Artifact

    IN A GALAXY ON THE BRINK OF CIVIL WAR the Brotherhood seeks to keep the peace through diplomacy, subterfuge, and control of both technological advances and the carefully gathered knowledge of countless worlds. But now Speaker Archon, formerly a priv...

  • The Warriors of Spider

    The Warriors of Spider - 1

    The 20th anniversary edition of groundbreaking space opera that launched Gear’s sci-fi career First contact between two disparate space colonies -- one run by genetically-altered humans, the other by mysterious native warriors -- has the power to...

  • Starstrike

    SPACE WARS First contact had been an event some humans had dreamed of, others had dreaded, and still others believed would never happen. When it finally did, no one was prepared for when the Ahimsa came, the course of human destiny was changed in ...

  • Requiem for the Conqueror

    Forbidden Borders - 1

    THE FINAL CONFLICT IS ABOUT TO BEGIN.... The Forbidden Borders form a seemingly unassailable gravity-powered barrier, cutting humankind off from the wider universe, confining rival empires to a few star systems, and leaving them to strive endlessl...

  • Countermeasures

    Forbidden Borders - 3

    In the stunning conclusion to Gear's remarkable sci-fi trilogy, the rift between father and son -- both trained killing machines -- will reach an explosive climax. The Forbidden Borders -- an unassailable gravity-powered barrier -- confines riva...

  • Relic of Empire

    Forbidden Borders - 2

    THE CALL TO BATTLE... The Forbidden Borders, an unassailable gravity-powered barrier, confine rival human empires to a few star systems, leaving them to strive endlessly against one another for domination. Now the balance of power has shifted so dra...



  • The Big Horn Legacy

    The race is on in this novel of the American west, Big Horn Legacy, from the New York Times bestselling author W. Michael Gear

    It is 1850 in St. Louis, and Abriel Catton receives the last will and testament of his father, Web catton, an en...

  • The Morning River

    Saga of the Mountain Sage - 1

    During the winter of 1825, Richard Hamilton--a timid Harvard philosophy student--arrives in St. Louis on business for his father. Robbed and beaten, desperate to save his life, he reluctantly joins the crew of the Maria, a fur trader's keelboat. Boun...

  • Coyote Summer

    Upper Missouri River, 1825

    Against the wild grandeur of the Rocky mountains and a richly woven tapestry of Indian cultures--Sioux, Mandan, Crow, Shoshoni--Coyote Summer unfolds into an unforgettable tale of love and reconciliation, destiny, ...

  • The Athena Factor

    Bizarre celebrity thefts are occurring all over the world: A piece of hair from John Lennon, Julia Roberts's bed linens .... Sheela Marks, Hollywood's hottest actress, is hounded by obsessed fans literally out for a piece of her. Terrified and desper...

  • The River

    Flight of the Hawk - 1

    Once again, New York Times and internationally best-selling author W. Michael Gear turns his master’s hand to the frontier West. In the vein of his best-selling Coyote Summer, Gear now takes us to the 1812 Missouri Fur Trade. An intimate of the Bur...

  • Outpost

    Donovan - 1

    From the bestselling co-author of the People novels comes a riveting science fiction adventure on a planet with danger around every corner Donovan is a world of remarkable wealth, a habitable paradise of a planet. It sounds like a dream come true...

  • This Scorched Earth

    THIS SCORCHED EARTH is an amazing tour de force depicting a family’s journey from near-devastation in the Civil War to their rebirth in the American West. The Civil War tore at the very roots of our nation and destroyed most of a generation. ...

  • Abandoned

    Donovan - 2

    The second book in a thrilling sci-fi action adventure, set on Donovan, a treacherous alien planet where corporate threats and dangerous creatures imperil the lives of the planet's colonists.New York Times bestselling author W. Michael Gear returns u...

  • Pariah

    Donovan - 3

    The third book in the thrilling Donovan series, a sci-fi action adventure set on a treacherous alien planet where corporate threats and dangerous creatures imperil the lives of the colonists.Corporate assassin Tamarland Benteen's last hope is the sur...

  • The Plains

    Flight of the Hawk - 2

    A New York Times Bestselling AuthorA Novel of the American WestJohn Tylor has a free shot into the wilderness where no one will ever know his name or his shame. As he and Will Cunningham head west into the northern Plains, Tylor rescues a wounded haw...



  • Unreconciled

    Donovan - 4

    The fourth book in the thrilling Donovan sci-fi series returns to a treacherous alien planet where corporate threats and dangerous creatures imperil the lives of the colonists.Where does one put a messianic cult of practicing cannibals? That becomes ...

  • The Alpha Enigma

    Team Psi - 1

    A thrilling new science fiction mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of the Donovan novelsDr. Timothy Ryan, head of the military psychiatric unit at Grantham Barracks, is meeting a new patient, a woman known as "Prisoner Alpha." As she ...

  • Adrift

    Donovan - 5

    The fifth book in the thrilling Donovan sci-fi series returns to a treacherous alien planet where corporate threats and dangerous creatures imperil the lives of the colonists.The Maritime Unit had landed in paradise. After a terrifying ten-year trans...

  • Dissolution

    The Wyoming Chronicles - 1

    FROM WESTERN WORD-SLINGER AND ANTHROPOLOGIST W. MICHAEL GEAR, COMES AN ENTIRELY NEW TYPE OF WESTERN - A CONTEMPORARY APOCALYPTIC WESTERN.For anthropology graduate student Sam Delgado, headed to the wilds of Wyoming, this is his last chance to save hi...

  • Fourth Quadrant

    The Wyoming Chronicles - 2

    FROM WESTERN WORD-SLINGER AND ANTHROPOLOGIST W. MICHAEL GEAR, COMES THE SEQUEL TO THE BESTSELLING CONTEMPORARY APOCALYPTIC WESTERN, DISSOLUTION.Lauren Davis is closing on her twenty-first birthday when a cyberattack leads to the collapse of the Ameri...

  • Implacable Alpha

    Team Psi - 2

    New York Times bestselling author Gear continues the thrilling sci-fi mystery of Prisoner Alpha in book two of the Team Psi novels.Called the 'Ennoia,' the woman who came within a heartbeat of killing prisoner Alpha in the Grantham parking garage is ...

  • Reckoning

    Donovan - 6

    The sixth book in the thrilling Donovan sci-fi series returns to a treacherous alien planet where corporate threats and dangerous creatures imperil the lives of the colonists.Three years after Ashanti spaced for Solar System, Turalon reappears in the...

  • After The Eagle Has Fallen

    The Wyoming Chronicles - 3

    FROM WESTERN WORD-SLINGER AND ANTHROPOLOGIST W. MICHAEL GEAR, COMES THE THIRD INSTALLMENT IN THE BESTSELLING CONTEMPORARY APOCALYPTIC WESTERN SERIES, THE WYOMING CHRONICLES!In the aftermath of Sam Delgado and Breeze Tappan's ambush of the posse at Sl...

  • A Panther's Scream

    Saga of the Mountain Sage - 3

    Having made the decision to leave Richard and the whites, Willow packs, only to discover that all of the expedition's horses, including her own, have been stolen--a fact the scarred hunter, Travis Hartman can't abide! For Richard, the pursuit of the ...

  • White Mist Dog

    Saga of the Mountain Sage - 2

    The thrilling adventure continues in Book Two of Saga of the Mountain Sage, White Mist Dog! Beaten and humiliated, young Richard Hamilton is dropped, bound and filthy, onto the deck of Dave Green's boat, the Maria. In no time, he's looking into the b...



  • Children of the Dawnland: Part One

    Experience the gripping historical adventure tale of young heroes during the end of the Ice Age, a time of melting glaciers, mass extinctions, and unpredictable dangers. Twelve-year-old Twig has a unique gift-she's a Dreamer, often experiencing spiri...

  • Athena Unleashed

    The Athena Trilogy - 1

    Prepare to have your perspective on Hollywood, fame, and your own genetic makeup forever transformed by the first installment in The Athena Trilogy, a gripping series by New York Times bestselling author W. Michael Gear.Sheela Marks, her new Oscar in...

  • Genesis Athena

    The Athena Trilogy - 2

    Taken from today's headlines and insidiously prophetic, part two in the evocative and acclaimed Athena Trilogy will have you questioning the boundaries of morality and the sordid depths of today's celebrity obsession.As the eerie game of cat and mous...

  • Athena's Wrath

    The Athena Trilogy - 3

    With Athena's Wrath, New York Times bestselling author W. Michael Gear brings the multilayered and provocative Athena Trilogy to an unsettling and stunning conclusion.Determined to rescue Christal Anaya, Sheela Marks plays the role of a lifetime as s...

  • Shadowed Forest

    In their latest masterpiece, renowned authors W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear delve into the chilling narrative of Native American protagonists facing an unfathomable evil.Winter is settling over the autumn forests, but War Chief Koracoo and...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

W. Michael Gear has published 34 books.

W. Michael Gear does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Shadowed Forest, was published in May 2024.

The first book by W. Michael Gear, Long Ride Home, was published in November 1988.

Yes. W. Michael Gear has 8 series.
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