William Shatner

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  • Bibliography:
    36 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    July 1989
  • Latest Book:
    September 2017
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Full Series List in Order

Jake Cardigan

1 - TekWar (Oct-1989)
2 - TekLords (May-1991)
3 - Tek Vengeance (1991)
4 - Teklab (Dec-1991)
5 - Tek Secret (Oct-1993)
6 - Tek Power (Nov-1994)
7 - Tek Money (1995)
8 - Tek Kill (1996)
9 - Tek Net (Nov-1997)

Quest for Tomorrow

4 - Beyond the Stars (Feb-2000)
Delta Search (Feb-1997)
In Alien Hands (Aug-1998)
Step into Chaos (Feb-1999)

Samuel Johnson

1 - Zero-G (Oct-2016)
2 - Zero-G: Green Space (Sep-2017)

Multi-Author Series List

Star Trek

Captain's Log (Jul-1989)
TekWar (Oct-1989)
Tek Vengeance (1991)
TekLords (May-1991)
Teklab (Dec-1991)
Star Trek Memories (Oct-1993)
Star Trek Movie Memories (Nov-1994)
The Ashes of Eden (Jun-1995)
The Return (Apr-1996)
Avenger (May-1997)
Odyssey (Sep-1998)
Spectre (Oct-1998)
Get a Life! (May-1999)
Dark Victory (Apr-2000)
Preserver (Jul-2000)
Captain's Blood (Dec-2003)
Captain's Glory (Jun-2005)
Collision Course (Oct-2007)

Book List in Order: 36 titles

  • Captain's Log

    Star Trek

  • TekWar

    Jake Cardigan - 1
    Star Trek

    TekWar is the story of ex-cop Jake Cardigan, who's framed for dealing an addictive brain stimulant called Tek and sentenced to fifteen years of suspended animation. Now, mysteriously released after four years in the "Freezer," Cardigan is on the loos...

  • Tek Vengeance

    • / Space Opera
    • Buy Buy
    Jake Cardigan - 3
    Star Trek

    While his girlfriend travels to Berlin to testify against the most dangerous TekLords, ex-cop Jake Cardigan is called to Brazil to speak to a witness and discovers that he has been tricked into leaving his lover's side. Reprint....

  • TekLords

    Jake Cardigan - 2
    Star Trek

    Known to millions as STAR TREK's Captain Kirk, actor-director and bestselling author William Shatner returns to the stunning future world he created in TEKWAR. Ex-cop Jake Cardigan is back. A synthetic plague is sweeping the city. And a top drug-cont...

  • Teklab

    Jake Cardigan - 4
    Star Trek

    Star Trek's William Shatner won widespread acclaim as a major science fiction writer with his electrifying novels, TekWarand TekLords. Now he's back--with his most harrowing adventure. Investigator Jake Cardigan enters the blasted ruins of twenty-fir...

  • Believe

  • Tek Secret

    Jake Cardigan - 5

    Searching for the missing daughter of the world's wealthiest robotics industrialist, Jake Cardigan locates his target at the Mentor Psych Center where she has been brainwashed to prevent her from telling about a murderous plot. Reprint....

  • Star Trek Memories

    Star Trek

    Encompassing plot summaries of all seventy-nine TV episodes and the six hit films, "Captain Kirk" shares his reminiscences about the making of "Star Trek," a history of the show as a cultural phenomenon, and behind-the-scenes antics...

  • Tek Power

    Jake Cardigan - 6

    Uncovering a treacherous plot to replace the president of the United States with an android replica, investigator Jake Cardigan, the sworn enemy of the evil Teklords, is stunned when the plot is carried out before his very eyes. Reprint....



  • Star Trek Movie Memories

    Star Trek

    Including up-to-the-minute reports from the Star Trek VII, set, the leader of the Enterprise crew tells the inside stories in the making of the first six Star Trek movies. 300,000 first printing. $250,000 ad/promo. Tour....

  • Tek Money

    • / Science Fiction
    • Buy Buy
    Jake Cardigan - 7

    Private investigator Jake Cardigan must race against time to save the life of his son and get the deadliest weapons in the world out of the hands of the most dangerous criminals in the universe In the seventh book of the TekWar Series by bestselling ...

  • The Ashes of Eden

    Star Trek

    Following his reluctant retirement, Captain James Kirk is offered an irresistible adventure by a mysterious young woman that will force Kirk to confront the fragile peace between the Federation and the Klingons...

  • Tek Kill

    • / Science Fiction
    • Buy Buy
    Jake Cardigan - 8

    When Jake Cardigan's boss, Walter Bascomb, is arrested for murder it looks like an open-and-shut case of jealous rage, but Cardigan, looking to clear his boss's name, begins a dangerous search for the real murderer. Reprint....

  • Man O' War

    In retaliation for stepping on some high-ranking toes, maverick career diplomat Benton Hawkes finds himself posted to Mars, where slavelike living conditions, unfulfilled promises, and discontent have brought the planet to a state of open revolt. Rep...

  • The Return

    Star Trek

    Veridian III: A world has been saved, the U.S.S. Enterprise 1701-D lies in ruins, and one of the galaxy's greatest heroes rests beneath a simple cairn of rocks on a lonely hillside. But as a legendary Vulcan ambassador comes at last to the grave o...

  • Delta Search

    Quest for Tomorrow

    The key to the stars is the key to empire. And to a young man's future... Young Jim Endicott has but one dream--to attend the Solis Space Academy, the gateway to the stars and the far-flung civilization known as the Confederation. But unbeknownst ...

  • Avenger

    Star Trek

    A lethal virus, inimical to all conventional forms of plant life, threatens the entire Federation with starvation and dissolution. With the Federation already on the brink of overpopulation, Starfleet's resources are stretched to the limit. Whole wor...

  • Tek Net

    Jake Cardigan - 9

    The latest addition to the Tek series, this futuristic tale puts detectives Sid Gomez and Jake Cardigan on the trail of Sid's ex-wife, who disappears while working on an unauthorized TekLord biography, and a secretive industrialist who was supposedly...

  • The Law of War

    The peaceful, free society recently created on Mars is once again under fire as a series of assassination attempts threatens to undermine it, and Prime Minister Benton Hawkes must risk a full-scale military confrontation to achieve final peace, in th...



  • In Alien Hands

    Quest for Tomorrow

    One man holds the key to an Empire as vast as the stars

    Jim Endicott is a man with a secret--hidden even from himself. Encoded in his DNA is a cybernetic weapon that can alter the balance of power in the Galaxy--for good or evi...

  • Odyssey

    Star Trek

    Gathers the New York Times best-selling trilogy, written by the real-life James Tiberius Kirk, into one volume, pitting Kirk and Dr. Spock against a ruthless interplanetary conspiracy, among other adventures. Original....

  • Spectre

    Star Trek

    Retired and happily in love, Kirk believes his adventuring days are over. But as he returns to Earth for the first time since his apparent "death" upon the Enterprise-B, events elsewhere in the galaxy set in motion a mystery that may provide Kirk wit...

  • Step into Chaos

    Quest for Tomorrow

    After defeating the dreaded Hunzza fleet, Jim Endicott wants a "normal" life. But his wish is not to be, for a new and even more terrible conflict is stirring. Earth's former ally, the Alba Packlord, suspects that humans are about to "Leap"--transcen...

  • Get a Life!

    Star Trek

    Get A Life! with the possible exception of "Beam me up, Scotty," is clearly the most repeated catchphrase in the history of Star Trek®. Poking fun at Star Trek's gung-ho fans and conventions in a now infamous Saturday Night Live sketch, William Shat...

  • Beyond the Stars

    Quest for Tomorrow - 4

    A new life...or is it"?

    Jim Endicott isn't himself. Becoming one with the Omega Point, he used its awesome intelligence to alter his own past and save the lives of the only parents he's ever known, But does the alternate Jim...

  • Dark Victory

    Star Trek

    The Mirror Universe is a dark and twisted reflection of our own, where all that is noble and compassionate is instead cruel and barbaric. Now our universe has been invaded by that other reality's most feared tyrant: the dreaded Emperor Tiberius, the ...

  • Preserver

    Star Trek

    Veridian III: A world has been saved, the U.S.S. Enterprise 1701-D lies in ruins, and one of the galaxy's greatest heroes rests beneath a simple cairn of rocks on a lonely hillside. But as a legendary Vulcan ambassador comes at last to the grave of h...

  • Star Trek: The Ashes of Eden

    An original adaptation of William Shatner's first Star Trek novel, in which the aging Kirk, facing a dull retirement, embraces a chance to be a hero once again, with disastrous consequences for the Federation....

  • Shadowplanet



  • Captain's Blood

    Star Trek

    Following the explosive events of Star Trek® Nemesis, the Romulan Star Empire is in disarray, and Ambassador Spock attempts to render aid by launching a last-ditch effort to reunify the Romulans with their distant forebears, the Vulcans. But when Spo...

  • Shadow Planet

    The scum of the galaxy are the last hope of humankind . . .

    Aboard the stolen, renamed starship Endeavor, the Stone Cowboys rocket across the heavens toward a confrontation they cannot avoid . . . and, most likely, will no...

  • Captain's Glory

    Star Trek

    During James T. Kirk's five-year mission as captain of the Starship Enterprise, a mysterious alien threat called "The Totality" commenced its invasion, intending to conquer the Milky Way galaxy as it had conquered the Andromeda. A war unlike any othe...

  • Collision Course

    Star Trek

    If you think you know how it all began, think again... Young Jim Kirk wants nothing to do with Starfleet, and never wants to leave Earth. In the summer of 2249, he's a headstrong seventeen-year-old barely scraping by in San Francisco, haunted...

  • I'm Working On That

    Over five decades, Star Trek's celebration of mankind's technical achievements and positive view of the future have earned it an enduring place in our global culture. Its scientific vision has also had a profound effect on the past thirty years of te...

  • Zero-G

    Samuel Johnson - 1

    A new science fiction adventure from William Shatner -- famous for his role as Captain Kirk on Star Trek -- about the intrepid, eighty-year-old FBI deputy director Samuel Lord and his quest to stop the Chinese from using a weapon that, unknown to the...

  • Zero-G: Green Space

    Samuel Johnson - 2

    In the second installment of William Shatner’s Zero-G series, Director Samuel Lord must identify a mole sabotaging the top-secret NASA project aboard the US space station Empyrean, while also fighting a fast-replicating virus that threatens humanit...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

William Shatner has published 36 books.

William Shatner does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Zero-G: Green Space, was published in September 2017.

The first book by William Shatner, Captain's Log, was published in July 1989.

Yes. William Shatner has 3 series.
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