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  • Bibliography:
    13 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    July 1994
  • Latest Book:
    February 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Rich Man's Sky

1 - Rich Man's Sky (Apr-2021)
2 - Poor Man's Sky (Jan-2023)
3 - Beggar's Sky (Feb-2024)

Book List in Order: 13 titles



  • An alien armada from the center of Orion makes its deadly way through the galaxy, destroying all human life in the process, and only Marine Corporal Kenneth Jonson and the Aggressor Six team can stop the onslaught. Original....



  • Struggling for survival despite limited technology and daily earthquakes, the mining colonists on Unua dig up a beautiful alien mineral just before Earth scientists discover an alien artifact that inexplicably rests beside a black hole. Original....



  • David Sanger, an ambitious young physicist, attends a party at which a pompous older scientist, who just happens to have thrwarted the younger man's innovative ideas, is murdered. Suddenly it is not just David's career, but his life that is at stake....



  • Awakened from a two-thousand-year cryostatis, Malyene Andreivne struggles to come to terms with the changes in her home world, which include the previously unthinkable union race of half-human and half-Waister beings. Original....



  • Mycora: technogenic life. Fast-reproducing, fast-mutating, and endlessly voracious. In the year 2106, these microscopic machine/creatures have escaped their creators to populate the inner solar system with a wild, deadly ecology all their own, pushin...



  • In this stunningly original tale, acclaimed author Wil McCarthy imagines a wondrous future in which the secrets of matter have been unlocked and death itself is but a memory. But it is also a future imperiled by a bitter rivalry between two brilliant...



  • In his Nebula Awardâ€"nominated novel The Collapsium, acclaimed author Wil McCarthy introduced a richly imagined future of boundless possibility, where poverty, war, and even death are banished forever. Only now that world’s exquisite perfection pr...



  • In a novel that challenges our expectations at every turn, acclaimed author Wil McCarthy sweeps us into the future as only he can imagine it. Here is a thrilling odyssey of discovery and adventure aboard a ship of exiled rebels coming of age in an et...



  • Once the Queendom of Sol was a glowing monument to humankind's loftiest dreams. Ageless and immortal, its citizens lived in peaceful splendor. But as Sol buckled under the swell of an immorbid population, space itself literally ran out.... Conrad ...






  • What if all our legends are true? A rousing, fast-paced novel of time travel unlike any other, from acclaimed author Wil McCarthy.DEEP DIVE Before disaster erased the coastlines and river valleys of the Antediluvian age -- before the mythic ...



  • A NEW NOVEL OF REAL SF FROM WIL McCARTHYWhen billionaires control the space program, where does that leave the rest of us? Space: a tycoon’s playground. From a space station full of women to a monastery on the Moon, from a Martian reality-...



  • THE LUNAR MONASTERY TAUGHT PEOPLE HOW TO LIVE IN SPACE . . . AND THEN ONE OF ITS STUDENTS WAS MURDEREDWho owns the future? Homicide detective Raimy Vaught is a losing contestant on the biggest reality show ever: the colonization of Mars. Brother...



  • A wildly original alien contact novel, set against a vivid backdrop of near-Earth corporate intrigue.Trillionaire Igbal Renz has constructed a starship capable of making the twenty-year journey to Alpha Centauri. So why is he stopping at barely one-t...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Wil McCarthy has published 13 books.

Wil McCarthy does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Beggar's Sky, was published in February 2024.

The first book by Wil McCarthy, Aggressor Six, was published in July 1994.

Yes. Wil McCarthy has 1 series.