Edmund Cooper Books in Order

Journalist Philip Shane infiltrates Britain's Moon programme to investigate the unexplained deaths of scientists. As he follows the story from London to Woomera, sabotage and murder threaten the mission and those working on it.

John Markham awakens after 146 years in suspended animation to find a society transformed by atomic war and android labour. His old ideas about work and human purpose place him at odds with the new order.

Ten people board the self-contained starship Solarian on a voyage intended to preserve humanity. Across generations and centuries, their descendants must sustain a society whose survival depends on the ship and its uncertain destination.

Flying saucers descend over London, turning a familiar morning into an encounter with the unexpected. This collection gathers Cooper’s short science fiction, bringing speculative possibilities into recognizable settings where ordinary assumptions can suddenly cease to hold.

A little Plasticine man named Wish comes alive in a land of unwanted toys. His adventures introduce companions and dangers, while activities after each chapter invite children to model the characters and objects they encounter.

Richard Avery touches a strange object and finds himself transported to a distant world with three other humans. Their encounter with the Golden Ones draws both groups into a contest arranged by beings with mysterious purposes.

An extraordinary change in the Sun ushers in years of endless summer and a wave of suicides. As conventional society collapses, the eccentrics and outsiders who survive must find ways to live in the altered world.

Psychiatrist Paul Marlow becomes the sole survivor of a human expedition to an alien planet. Living among the Bayani, he struggles to reconcile his scientific outlook with their beliefs while searching for a way to survive.

In a future society where women outnumber men and dominate public life, troubadour Dion Quern refuses to conform. His resistance brings him into conflict with a social order that has assigned men a subordinate role.

Russell Grahame and his fellow airline passengers awaken in strange green coffins instead of reaching London. Emerging into a world inhabited by medieval knights, Stone Age warriors and gremlins, they confront a bewildering displacement in time.

Two thousand years after a catastrophic war devastated Earth, descendants of Black colonists on Mars launch an expedition to their ancestral planet. Its supposedly dead surface still shelters inhabitants whose future hangs in the balance.

Failed sculptor Gabriel Chrome interrupts Camilla Greylaw's suicide attempt and discovers that she carries an infection capable of suppressing aggression. He sees a chance to transform a violent world, but making humanity peaceful proves complicated.

Michael notices that some children bleed and others do not, while London's familiar historical figures coexist with impossible technologies. He and his friends form a society to investigate the contradictions surrounding their apparently ordinary lives.

Nine science fiction stories bring together encounters with visitors, imagined worlds and uncertain futures. Cooper introduces a collection including The Menhir, Intruders and The Lizard of Woz, alongside tales published across different years of his career.

In a future ruled by women who reproduce without men, Rura Alexandra is assigned to exterminate the remaining male population in Scotland. An encounter with rebel leader Diarmid MacDiarmid complicates her mission and her loyalties.

After technological disasters, Britain enters a new medieval age under a church that condemns machines. Kieron, an artist's apprentice, dreams of building a flying machine despite the dangers of defying his society's religious prohibitions.

Earth's final escape ship leaves for Mars as pollution, hunger and disease destroy its home planet. When its captain awakens five thousand years later, he faces an unfamiliar world and a struggle he must undertake alone.

Seventeen-year-old telepath Vanessa Smith escapes a school where gifted children are trained for government exploitation. Determined to erase evidence of the programme, the Prime Minister orders other telepaths to track her down and kill her.

Clan chief Berry protects his people from forest dangers and rival tribes, but mysterious silver raiders keep abducting women. Following the captives beyond his familiar world, he confronts the powers responsible for his clan's dwindling population.

Criminals offered pardons join the Expendables to investigate alien worlds for possible human settlement. Their mission to Kratos places that bargain under strain when the explorers encounter enormous, hostile lifeforms that threaten their survival.

Commander James Conrad leads the Expendables to Tantalus, where unexplained rings suggest a technologically advanced past. A derelict spacecraft and dangerous organisms complicate their attempt to determine whether the planet can support a human colony.

Conrad's Expendables arrive on Zelos expecting a promising colony site, only to discover humans governed through lethal annual games. To gain permission for settlement, the explorers must enter the contest and risk their own lives.

The Expendables hope their fourth planetary survey will be straightforward, but Argus conceals deadly plants and predatory insects. Hallucinogenic pollen then turns members of the crew violent, bringing the planet's dangers into their own ranks.

On Christmas Eve in early twenty-first-century England, Maggie Minerva, the widow of a trade union leader, experiences a series of terrifying events. What happens to her carries consequences for those involved and for British society.

Cooper considers possible futures through stories that range from serious speculation to satire. Questions about judgment day, humanity’s possible Martian ancestry and the destruction of the world shape a collection including Death Watch and The Brain Child.

The novella The Firebird joins shorter fantasies drawn from Cooper’s career, including two stories written for this collection. Tragic, humorous and satirical elements run through imagined worlds whose concerns often reflect those of ordinary reality.