Kevin J Anderson Books in Order

In a future where resurrected corpses serve the wealthy, living workers lose their jobs and unrest spreads. Danal, a dead servant who retains his memories, challenges the company whose profitable technology has helped tear society apart.

Four gamers discover that their invented world has developed its own magic and living inhabitants. As factions form among players and characters, strange connections between the two worlds turn their disagreement into a struggle over everyone's future.

Four friends' fantasy game has become real to the creatures living inside it. When the players threaten to end their creation, warriors and magic users seek a way to bend the rules and save their world.

The inhabitants of Gamearth fight an open war against the players who want to destroy their world. Fighter Delrael and sorcerer Bryl seek help from unlikely allies, exploiting the game's rules to keep their reality intact.

After war devastates Earth, humanity survives in three space colonies with different resources and dangerous secrets. Cooperation could give them a future, but mistrust and rivalry threaten to turn their remaining technology into weapons against one another.

Anti-nuclear activist Elizabeth Devane is transported to Los Alamos in 1944, where the Manhattan Project is underway. Faced with a changed wartime history, she must weigh sabotaging the bomb against consequences she cannot reliably predict.

On a harsh prison planet, the warden and staff are trapped almost as thoroughly as the convicts. A dangerous escape attempt offers the possibility of freedom, forcing everyone involved to risk their lives for a way out.

A lunar colony discovers an enormous structure assembling itself through microscopic machines that consume everything they touch. As the threat grows and Earth panics, scientists must determine its origin before the machines engulf humanity's home.

Maria Blanca escapes her collapsing world through a passage into Faery, only to discover another land under threat. Developing her own magical abilities, she joins the elves' fight against enemies determined to destroy their cities.

Luke Skywalker struggles for survival on the spirit plane while Imperial agents threaten Han and Leia's children. Han pursues Kyp Durron, whose stolen Sun Crusher and destructive crusade put the New Republic in renewed danger.

Prisoners altered to survive on Mars have helped prepare the planet for ordinary settlers. As terraforming makes their new home uninhabitable for them, the exiles resist a colonization scheme that treats their sacrifices as disposable.

Admiral Daala attacks peaceful worlds while the New Republic debates the fate of the Sun Crusher. At Luke Skywalker's academy, a gifted student's attraction to forbidden knowledge awakens a threat rooted in the dark side.

Luke Skywalker searches for students to rebuild the Jedi Order while Han Solo and Chewbacca are imprisoned in Kessel's spice mines. The New Republic's uncertain future depends on finding new allies amid the Empire's surviving threats.

This interactive adventure casts the reader as a scout separated from a patrol in Greyhawk. A band of orcs threatens a crucial outpost, and the choices made along the way determine how the danger unfolds.

On Atlas, telepathic Truthsayers deliver supposedly infallible justice, yet Kalliana condemns an innocent man. Discovering that her abilities are failing, she and Troy Boren investigate a conspiracy that threatens the colony's entire system of law.

Jacen and Jaina Solo find a crashed TIE fighter near Luke Skywalker's academy, and Jaina wants to repair it. The original Imperial pilot watches from hiding, hoping their work will finally let him return to duty.

An oil company releases engineered microbes to clean up a disastrous San Francisco Bay spill. The organisms spread through the air and consume petroleum-based materials, threatening plastics, fuel, and the infrastructure modern civilization relies on.

Dark Jedi Brakiss builds a rival academy dedicated to training servants of the Empire. His plan to kidnap the heirs of the Skywalker family puts Jacen, Jaina, and their friends in danger of forced conversion.

Ralph McQuarrie's paintings and Kevin J. Anderson's text explore the worlds and inhabitants of Star Wars. This illustrated guide gives readers a closer view of alien environments, expanding the settings seen across the original films.

Visiting Coruscant, Jacen and Jaina Solo reunite with their old friend Zekk, a talented street orphan. Their different lives strain the friendship, while someone connected to the dark side offers Zekk a dangerous alternative future.

This comic follows Jedi Exar Kun's pursuit of forbidden Sith knowledge and Ulic Qel-Droma's entanglement with dark forces. Ambition and the desire to confront evil threaten to draw both men away from their Jedi loyalties.

Jacen, Jaina, and Lowbacca visit Kashyyyk for his sister's dangerous rite of passage. Zekk's assignment to raid a major city brings their former friend into direct conflict with them as he seeks status among the Dark Jedi.

The Shadow Academy arrives above Yavin 4, and a commando attack destroys the Jedi academy's shields. Luke Skywalker and his young students must defend their home against Dark Jedi and stormtroopers seeking to crush the new order.

With the Shadow Academy training enemies, Luke Skywalker decides his students must build their own lightsabers. Jacen, Jaina, and their friends learn that mastering the weapon demands a personal connection to the Force as well as skill.

Ralph McQuarrie’s artwork presents the worlds, characters and designs behind Star Wars in a boxed art collection. Accompanying biographical writing explores the artist’s life and contribution, connecting his imaginative images with the films they helped shape.

FBI investigator Craig Kreident examines a physicist's murder inside Lawrence Livermore's heavily restricted research facilities. Security rules conceal evidence, while scientific rivalries and political interference make identifying the killer harder than navigating the laboratory's bureaucracy.

Searching for Raynar Thul's missing father, the young Jedi Knights enlist a reprogrammed IG-88. Depending on a notorious assassin droid gives them a powerful ally, but leaves them questioning whether its dangerous capabilities can stay controlled.

The Eagle's Claw militia infiltrates the Device Assembly Facility at the Nevada Nuclear Test Site. FBI agent Craig Kreident faces a nuclear terrorism threat, where secure technology and extremist determination create dangers extending far beyond the facility.

Terrorists capture Kennedy Space Center and hold the shuttle Atlantis and its crew hostage. Grounded astronaut Iceberg Friese, sidelined by a broken foot, moves through Cape Canaveral's swamps and launch facilities to try to stop them.

Lowbacca travels to Ryloth to learn about the Diversity Alliance, unaware that leaving may be impossible. Jacen, Jaina, and their friends attempt a rescue on a planet where hostility toward humans puts them at a severe disadvantage.

Jacen and Jaina Solo visit the remains of Alderaan to collect a fragment as a gift for their mother. Their journey through the destroyed world's debris brings them into contact with an old enemy of their family.

Thousands of years before Luke Skywalker, explorers Gav and Jori Daragon stumble into the Sith Empire. Their journey intersects with Jedi Odan-Urr and Empress Teta, setting two galactic powers on a dangerous course toward each other.

Anja Gallandro's addiction and divided loyalties drive her to steal a ship and leave the Jedi academy. Jacen, Jaina, and their friends follow her to Crystal Reef, entering a larger scheme that threatens them all.

Naga Sadow prepares a Sith fleet to attack the Republic, while Jori Daragon races to warn its leaders. The explorers' discoveries have become the basis for a war that forces the Jedi and Empress Teta into action.

A lethal radiation exposure leaves physicist Georg Dumenco with only days to live. FBI agent Craig Kreident suspects deliberate sabotage, but needs the dying scientist's expertise to identify whoever turned Fermilab's research equipment into a weapon.

Han Solo takes Jacen and Jaina to a race on Ord Mantell, where they meet lightsaber-wielding Anja Gallandro. Her knowledge of Han's past and concealed intentions threaten to turn the family trip into a dangerous confrontation.

Nolaa Tarkona learns where Bornan Thul has hidden a devastating plague and seeks to unleash it. As opposing forces clash, Jacen, Jaina, and their allies race to destroy the weapon before it can threaten the galaxy.

A vacation at Lando Calrissian's Cloud City amusement park draws the young Jedi Knights into a suspicious death. Their mysterious friend Anja Gallandro accompanies them as business intrigue and hidden enemies undermine what should have been a holiday.

Young Leto Atreides learns to rule while rival houses and imperial ambitions reshape the universe around him. On Arrakis, Pardot Kynes investigates the spice, as Shaddam Corrino schemes to seize power and transform the Imperium.

This reference guide assembles Star Wars history into a single timeline, tracing ancient conflicts, the Empire, and the New Republic. Events from films and novels connect characters' lives with the wars and political changes surrounding them.

After surviving Earth's destruction, Akima grows up among humanity's scattered colonies and dreams of finding the mysterious Titan. Learning to fly offers a path toward that hope, but leaving safety exposes her to the hostile Drej.

After the Drej destroy Earth, Cale Tucker grows up among the stars with his alien guardian, Tek. Their repeated escapes leave Cale angry and isolated, unaware that he carries a secret the Drej want to destroy.

Duke Leto rises in power while Baron Harkonnen pursues his ambitions and Jessica trains with the Bene Gesserit. Shaddam's plans for synthetic spice and Kynes's hopes for Arrakis draw their rival interests into a wider struggle.

When miners on Corbos send a distress call, Luke Skywalker dispatches Kyp Durron and Dorsk 82 to investigate. The Jedi discover an abandoned settlement and evidence of a catastrophe involving a creature awakened beneath the planet.

Stripped of his connection to the Force, Ulic Qel-Droma lives in isolation until young Vima Sunrider seeks him out as a teacher. Her disappearance draws others to him, including a Jedi determined to avenge her mate.

A rescue hospital ship answers a salvage vessel's distress signal in the twenty-second century. Its crew encounters a black hole and a mysterious survivor whose changing body poses a deadly threat alongside the danger outside their ship.

This collection revisits The Outer Limits through prose adaptations and continuation stories, alongside Harlan Ellison's original Soldier script. Its tales include The Man Who Was Never Born and new developments following Soldier and The Human Factor.

Eighteen stories explore imagined futures, strange encounters and persistent human desires. Collaborations with Brian Herbert and Neil Peart appear alongside Anderson’s other short fiction, spanning worlds of Dune, Martian settlement and unsettling possibilities of scientific change.

After Russian fighters bring down an alien spacecraft, American and Russian scientists join a mission into its surviving occupant. Miniaturized aboard Proteus, they must navigate an unfamiliar body and uncover the secrets of the extraterrestrial visitor.

Harkonnen patrols enforce Rabban's rule over Arrakis, reminding desert settlements that their rulers are always watching. Stilgar and his fellow Fremen move against Harkonnen guards in a short tale of resistance under the planet's oppressive occupation.

Emperor Shaddam tries to contain House Harkonnen's ambitions while Duke Leto's enemies threaten his future. Jessica's defiance of the Bene Gesserit and conflicts on Ix and Arrakis complicate an increasingly dangerous struggle for control of the Imperium.

A storm exposes an ancient alien artifact on the struggling colony world of Bhekar Ro. Terran, Protoss and Zerg forces converge to claim its secrets, placing the human colonists at the center of a dangerous contest.

André Nemo, a French shipbuilder's son and friend of Jules Verne, leaves home after his father's death. His adventures through distant lands, encounters with pirates and mysterious creatures become the basis of this reimagined life of Captain Nemo.

Humanity expands across the galaxy with help from the Ildirans, while archaeologists uncover technology left by the vanished Klikiss. An experiment to turn a gas giant into a sun provokes an unknown alien civilization and threatens humanity's colonies.

In a society where people can exchange bodies, Eduard Swan earns money by enduring other people's discomfort. When a powerful client refuses to return his body, Eduard becomes a fugitive struggling to reclaim his own life.

Ten thousand years before Paul Atreides, humanity struggles beneath the rule of thinking machines. Serena Butler and Xavier Harkonnen fight for freedom, while Vorian Atreides must question the loyalty to machine masters that shaped his upbringing.

During the Dominion War, Captain Picard brings the Enterprise to the Gorn to seek an alliance. A violent struggle for power among the Gorn threatens the diplomatic mission and pulls the crew into a dangerous conflict.

More than twenty years into humanity's struggle against thinking machines, Serena Butler's crusade has gained little ground. Exhaustion spreads through the human worlds as military leaders and inventors seek ways to break the costly stalemate against Omnius.

Five years into the hydrogue war, humanity's colonies face restricted travel and dwindling fuel. While King Peter and Chairman Wenceslas impose rationing, an investigation into missing archaeologists raises the possibility of new routes between worlds and fresh dangers.

Tara uses an illegal device to connect her mind with her husband's virtual reality workspace, hoping to help him overcome a creative block. Their artistic partnership opens possibilities that also test the boundaries of their marriage.

In the early days of Hollywood, a shady filmmaker receives an extraordinary offer from a disgraced samurai: to perform a ritual suicide on camera. His eagerness to capture the spectacle leads him into a disturbing encounter.

In 1899, Allan Quatermain, Captain Nemo, Mina Murray and other extraordinary figures join a secret mission to protect the British Empire. They must pursue the masked Fantom across the globe before his schemes plunge the world into war.

When developers threaten to demolish Frankenstein’s castle, aging monsters leave their care home for one last adventure. Frankenstein, Dracula, the Wolfman and the Mummy reunite, determined to confront the changes endangering a place from their past.

As elemental warfare devastates the Spiral Arm, Chairman Wenceslas tries to force humanity's independent factions into unity. The Roamers and Theroc resist, while a colonization program using ancient Klikiss gateways promises opportunities shadowed by unknown risks.

After giant robots attack New York in 1939, pilot Joe Sullivan and reporter Polly Perkins investigate the threat. Their search takes them around the world toward an evil genius whose plans endanger far more than one city.

Omnius retreats to a final stronghold and prepares a strategy that could reverse humanity's victories. Vorian Atreides and inventor Norma Cenva seek new advantages as the long conflict with thinking machines approaches its decisive confrontation.

Editors Del Howison and Jeff Gelb bring together twenty original horror stories involving vampires, zombies, obsession and other terrors. Contributors including Ray Bradbury, Clive Barker and Ramsey Campbell explore supernatural threats alongside the darker workings of human minds.

In modern New Orleans, detective Carson O’Connor and her partner Michael Maddison investigate a serial murderer as Deucalion, a man carrying a centuries-old secret, arrives in town. Their cases converge on Victor Frankenstein, whose experiments have created a terrifying conspiracy.

As war strains civilizations across the Spiral Arm, Chairman Wenceslas turns against independent human colonies. Meanwhile, Mage-Imperator Jora'h confronts an Ildiran rebellion, facing the suffering of his people through the psychic network that binds them together.

This alternate history imagines that H. G. Wells based The War of the Worlds on real encounters rather than invention. Wells and his companions travel from London and the Sahara toward the moon while confronting a Martian threat.

Gree is an ordinary orc whose greed leads him into a siege of a human castle. The treasure he discovers offers more than gold, forcing him to reconsider what he wants and changing the course of his life.

Fourteen-year-old cousins Gwen and Vic are accidentally transported to Elantya, an island combining magic and strange technology. Caught in conflict with sea-dwelling merlons and rival sages, they must also confront questions about their own families.

Duncan Idaho, Sheeana and a ship of refugees flee into an uncharted galaxy as a mysterious Enemy threatens humanity. Reviving important figures from Dune's past may offer them the knowledge and strength needed to survive.

Science fiction, fantasy and horror stories appear alongside essays about the outdoors. Parallel worlds, cloned mammoths, enchanted frogs and unusual legal disputes share the collection with reflections on climbing, linking imagined adventures with experiences of the natural world.

Humanity faces possible extermination as its war against the hydrogues worsens. Chairman Wenceslas drives away potential allies, independent factions seek their own survival, and a rebellion by computerized soldiers threatens what remains of Earth's military strength.

Del Howison and Jeff Gelb assemble another collection of original horror tales, with an introduction by Ray Harryhausen. Stories by writers including James Sallis, Steve Niles and Caitlin R. Kiernan explore fear and the macabre.

Ancient Klikiss robots attack worlds using stolen Earth battleships, while the supposedly extinct Klikiss return to reclaim their territory. King Peter's new Confederation also faces resistance from the Hansa's chairman, leaving humanity divided against mounting threats.

Gwen and Vic are kidnapped by their underwater enemies just as they learn that Vic's missing father has reached Elantya. Imprisoned beneath the sea, they face the dark sage Azric and discover a threat to their island.

Duncan Idaho and the refugees aboard the Ithaca continue their search for a new home while evading a relentless Enemy. Their journey becomes part of a wider confrontation between humanity and the thinking machines that threaten its future.

Scientist Jor-El and his wife Lara struggle to convince Krypton's leaders that their world faces destruction. As General Zod pursues power and Brainiac threatens the capital, the couple must protect their family amid political turmoil.

Paul Atreides's victory on Arrakis begins a struggle to control an empire and the Fremen jihad spreading in his name. The story moves between his youth and early reign, tracing the conflicts behind his rise to power.

Gwen, Vic and their friends prepare to challenge Azric through the magical Ring of Might. When Sharif's flying city of Irrakesh falls under attack, their battle moves into the skies amid competing demands of duty and destiny.

As the galaxy tries to recover from war, fiery faeros and returning Klikiss threaten worlds already inhabited by humans. Chairman Wenceslas's determination to restore his authority creates another obstacle to cooperation among civilizations facing renewed destruction.

Editors Del Howison and Jeff Gelb gather horror stories about hauntings by spirits, memories and obsession. Contributors including Clive Barker, Heather Graham and Kevin J. Anderson explore how desire, pain and lingering fears intrude on ordinary lives.

During the Cold War, Batman and Superman must overcome mutual distrust as Lex Luthor exploits international tensions. Investigations into his business and a rumored flying saucer draw the two heroes toward an uneasy alliance against a shared threat.

A tragic accident destroys a hard-won peace between rival religious nations and reignites war. Both sides send ships into uncharted seas, hoping that a legendary lost land will provide the means to secure their victory.

With Paul Atreides absent, Alia struggles to hold the Imperial government together as opposition to their family grows. Jessica's return brings a mounting conflict between mother and daughter over the empire and Paul's legacy.

When a family needs a new well, drilling into the earth becomes more than a practical chore. A geologist's explanations of buried history take on a frightening meaning as the work releases a long-hidden power.

A rock drummer cycling through the African wilderness reaches a village known for making unusual drums. His journey takes an ominous turn in this dark fantasy linking music, local craftsmanship, and the fate of human souls.

A widower uses cloning and his recorded memories to recreate the woman he lost. A relativistic space voyage brings him closer to her renewed life while raising unsettling questions about identity and whose memories shape a person.

Keric kisses frogs in a swamp hoping to reverse an enchantment that has transformed members of the royal family. Evil spells, the possibility of an unwanted royal transformation, and giant alligators complicate his search for romance.

Political candidate Berthold faces expectations that he understand every walk of life. Clones offer a disturbing shortcut, living through hardship so he can acquire their experiences and claim the qualifications needed to represent his constituents.

Aspiring writer Johnny Thunder records the Justice Society’s adventures with encouragement from Jack Williamson. When Lord Dynamo unleashes robotic zombies and an airborne threat, heroes including Hawkman, the Flash and Green Lantern must protect the city.

A school field trip to the Challenger Center becomes a real mission when Commander Zota sends selected students into the future. Stranded at a moonbase in trouble, they must develop the skills needed to help save humanity.

As the religious war between Tierra and Uraba escalates, an ancient map sends Saan across uncharted seas seeking the Key to Creation. Captain Criston Vora pursues Terravitae on a rival voyage haunted by his earlier disaster.

Four science fiction stories explore Anderson’s imagined futures, bringing together Collaborators, Good Old Days, Job Qualifications and Prisoner of War. Introductions by the author accompany each tale, providing context for this selection of his shorter work.

A company sends prospectors into alternate timelines to discover differences it can sell in their own world. Lost music, unexpected medical breakthroughs, and changed histories offer profits, but encountering lives that diverged from their own brings unsettling personal consequences.

Four horror stories bring together Final Performance, Special Makeup, Much at Stake and The Sum of His Parts. Anderson introduces each tale, gathering this selection of his darker short fiction into a single volume for readers.

Exiled rebel General Tiber Adolphus builds a coalition on the ravaged frontier world Hellhole against the corrupt Constellation. His struggle for independence encounters a new complication when colonists uncover remnants of an alien civilization beneath the planet's surface.

Three science fiction stories bring together Reflections in a Magnetic Mirror, Rescue at L-5 and Prisons. This collection includes work written with Doug Beason, offering a selection of Anderson’s shorter fiction alongside their collaborative storytelling.