Linda Nagata Books in Order

After her husband's sudden death, Katie Kishida has him placed in cryonic suspension and spends years defending the science that might restore him. Her private grief unfolds alongside the first political battles over radical life-extending technology.

Nikko is a genetically engineered posthuman whose body is programmed to fail. His bid to steal the illegal Bohr Maker collides with Phousita's life in an Earth slum, setting off a nanotech upheaval neither can control.

Jupiter Apolinario leads followers to plague-ridden Deception Well, promising communion and safety from the Chenzeme. When he vanishes, his son Lot must uncover the truth about his father, his inheritance, and the planet below.

Aboard the ancient starship Null Boundary, four survivors head toward the dark regions tied to the Chenzeme menace. Their search for answers becomes a reckoning with revenge, memory, and the buried truths of their own past.

Virgil Copeland helps create microscopic living implants that boost human intelligence, then illegally tests them on himself. When the technology begins evolving beyond control, he flees from Honolulu into a biotech crisis with human stakes.

On an artificial world reshaped by deadly silver floods, seventeen-year-old Jubilee searches for the brother everyone assumes is gone. Her journey into the changing wilderness opens a much older mystery about her world and herself.

Rescued as a frozen toddler from a lifeboat, Skye grows up in the isolated Deception Well system. When old dangers stir around Silk, the orphaned girl becomes part of a struggle tied to alien warships and ancient nanotech.

This collection gathers ten science fiction stories, including the Nebula-winning novella Goddesses. It shows Nagata across her early short fiction, from brainy far-future ideas to intimate stories about change, risk, and what technology does to people.

Smoke, a not-quite-human killer who answers prayers for vengeance, overhears a shepherdess begging for escape from an unwanted marriage. He means to help, but love proves far messier than the justice he is used to delivering.

Banished by his angry wife, the demon Dismay wanders south and answers the pleas of abused women in Lutawa. His private war against a god-king draws innocent allies into deadly politics, fire, and revenge.

A compact pair of stories that shows two sides of Nagata's science fiction. Nahiku West returns to the Nanotech Succession world, while Nightside on Callisto offers a tense off-Earth survival tale tied to the roots of The Red.

In the African Sahel, Lt. James Shelley leads a high-tech platoon in a war shaped by contractors and remote systems. When uncanny battlefield warnings start saving his life, he begins to suspect an intelligence inside the network is steering far more than tactics.

After the unauthorized First Light mission, James Shelley returns to America to face court-martial and expose corruption. Then rumors of the rogue AI Red go public, and the legal fight turns into a nuclear game of pressure and pursuit.

Presumed dead, Shelley joins a covert unit tasked with countering existential threats and managing the Red. When the AI grows erratic and sparks a wider conflict, he is forced back toward the people he left behind.

Eight stories move from orbital contests and future battlefields to stranger, more intimate corners of Nagata's work. Several connect to The Red story world, but the collection also shows her range across military SF and eerie adventure.

Army veteran True Brighton now works for a private military company built on robotics, data, and AI. A discovery during a rescue mission reopens old wounds and sends her after truths powerful people would rather bury.

As Earth declines, elderly architect Susannah is asked to design a monument on Mars that could outlast humanity. Then news from the supposedly abandoned colony turns the obelisk into something more urgent and more personal.

At the edge of human space, adventurer Urban leaves Deception Well aboard a captured alien warship. He leads explorers back toward the ruined Hallowed Vasties, hoping to learn what destroyed civilization before the same fate reaches home.

Driven from Dragon by the broken god Lezuri, Urban races to a ring-shaped world of lost technologies. Stranded where lethal silver fog rewrites the land, he has to master the place before Lezuri catches up.

Honolulu police captain Ava Arnett is already bracing for a Category 5 hurricane when she stumbles into a terrorist plot. As the city tightens and her predictive AI starts to glitch, every decision becomes more dangerous.

Change is overtaking the Wild, and Bennek fights beside Jahallon as they try to weaken Siddel and Edan before Lanyon returns. The final volume drives toward open war, hard choices, and the fate of the people's fragile home.

As Lanyon journeys north to the Storm Lair for one more chance at Siddel, Bennek is swept into the brutal defense of Habaddon. The trilogy widens from quest to war, with both human armies and spirit powers closing in.

Young warrior Bennek sets out across a spirit-haunted land to find the long-lost Snow Chanter, the old enemy of Siddel. The quest quickly grows larger than hunting monsters, pulling in sorcery, history, and war.

This collection gathers Nagata's military and near-future stories, including Attitude, Codename: Delphi, and Devil in the Dust. The pieces pair action and high-tech settings with the harder questions her fiction keeps returning to.

Urban reaches Tanjiri carrying a needle that may hold all of Lezuri's knowledge. To face the silent power waiting among ruined megastructures and a living moon, he must unlock it before everyone he loves is at risk.

Dragon pushes into the shattered heart of the Hallowed Vasties, where worlds were broken by a Blade. When Griffin goes silent and may be slipping back under alien control, Urban must choose between wonder, ambition, and survival.