Gareth L Powell Books in Order

Fifteen science fiction stories range from near-future possibilities to distant times, following characters through speculative adventures. Unusual ideas and changing imagined worlds give each tale a different setting for encounters that stretch familiar assumptions about the future.

Communications officer Avril Bradley travels aboard a ship reconnecting scattered human settlements. When an explosion strands her, she becomes caught in a struggle among spies, corporate assassins, and digital ghosts over computer data hidden for nearly a century.

Ed and Alice Rico enter a portal beneath London while searching for a missing family member. Centuries later, a starship captain's race against a rival converges with their journey as an ancient threat endangers life across the stars.

A monkey fighter pilot begins questioning his existence amid a bizarre version of World War II. A century later, a journalist hunting her husband's killer and a fugitive royal become entangled in a conspiracy threatening an alternate Britain and France.

Ack-Ack Macaque hides from his fame by piloting a nuclear-powered airship. When a passenger's dying double appears aboard, he is drawn into a new struggle involving a hostile collective intelligence, time-traveling saboteurs, and murderous Neanderthals.

Ack-Ack Macaque leads monkeys across dimensions against an android invasion while facing impending fatherhood. Elsewhere, Victoria Valois fights to preserve her dead husband's electronic ghost, and a message from Mars brings another warning.

Twenty science fiction stories bring together new work and tales from twelve years of writing. Enhanced soldiers, time-traveling bounty hunters, and other characters face unusual dangers in imagined futures where technological possibilities complicate personal lives and ordinary choices.

Haunted by her role in wartime genocide, the sentient warship Trouble Dog joins a rescue organization. A mission to find a missing civilian vessel draws her crew and an intelligence officer into a conflict with consequences far beyond the rescue.

Powell shares practical advice and encouragement drawn from his experience writing and publishing fiction. This guide considers the work of becoming an author, offering insights into creative practice and the challenges of sustaining a writing life.

Trouble Dog answers a distress call from survivors sheltering aboard an ancient alien generation ship. As her crew confronts dangers within the vessel, an overwhelming armada enforcing peace decides that Trouble Dog herself must be destroyed.

Detective Holly Craig returns to her Welsh coastal hometown to investigate an apparent hit-and-run. Her ability to perceive evil becomes crucial as the case turns increasingly deadly and exposes disturbing connections to her own past.

Teenage outcast Lee makes a disastrous choice when his friend Kerri becomes involved with a bully. Years later, apparent professional success cannot free him from its consequences, as strange forces threaten the world and his chance to save her.

Hunted by an apparently unbeatable fleet, Trouble Dog ventures toward a region where reality breaks down. Meanwhile, a young salvager's mysterious connection to abandoned alien technology may offer hope as human civilization collapses.

Humanity wanders space aboard enormous arks after leaving Earth. Searching for her missing sister, Eryn discovers a deadly threat on an alien world, then must find a reclusive figure who may know how to save the fleet.

Scout Nicola Mafalda’s dangerous past resurfaces when a former lover asks for help stopping an ancient machine. Infiltrating a vast alien vessel requires them to work together despite unresolved trauma, with the survival of others depending on their success.

After Earth’s destruction, archaeologist Ursula Morrow is recruited from a refugee camp to retrieve the alien artifact that infected her. Its potential to save humanity sends her into hostile territory, where desperate piracy may be their last remaining option.

Thirty-two stories take troubled characters from Mars to flooded Amsterdam, Buenos Aires, and the edge of a singularity. Personal crises collide with extraordinary circumstances, forcing decisions between self-preservation and the possibility of making amends for past mistakes.

Bounty hunter Copernicus Brown pursues fugitives across a vast new frontier built from the remains of Jupiter and Saturn. Rescuing pirate-attack survivor Amber Roth makes his sentient ship and crew targets of factions seeking the information hidden inside her.