Margaret Killjoy Books in Order
Margaret Killjoy's books in order, including the Danielle Cain novellas, A Country of Ghosts, and nonfiction, with publication dates and series reading guides.
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Margaret Killjoy books in publication order
12 books
A Steampunk's Guide to the Apocalypse
by Margaret Killjoy
2007
This illustrated survival manual explores practical responses to disaster using accessible tools and mechanical technology. Its guidance covers water, food, shelter, health, security, and communication, asking how communities might function when modern infrastructure fails.
Mythmakers and Lawbreakers
by Margaret Killjoy
2009
Margaret Killjoy interviews anarchist fiction writers about the relationship between storytelling and political belief. Contributors including Ursula K. Le Guin and Michael Moorcock discuss craft, imagined societies, and fiction's possibilities for challenging established power.
What Lies Beneath the Clock Tower
by Margaret Killjoy
2011
In this interactive adventure, readers guide events beneath a city where colonizing gnomes and indigenous goblins struggle over power. Branching choices lead through subterranean dangers, political resistance, romance, and the possibilities of collective liberation.
White Is the Color of Death
by Margaret Killjoy
2011
Three stories unfold in a frozen, postapocalyptic version of Victorian England, where winter and twilight never end. Communities struggle to survive the bitter conditions while the mysterious Afflicted threaten those trying to endure them.
A Country of Ghosts
by Margaret Killjoy
2014
Journalist Dimos Horacki joins an imperial army expecting to report on its campaign. Encountering the anarchist communities of Hron instead exposes the realities of conquest and challenges his assumptions about patriotism, government, and resistance.
Everything That Isn't Winter
by Margaret Killjoy
2016
In a world rebuilding after catastrophe, a fighter defends a tea-growing commune in the Pacific Northwest. The task raises a difficult question: where do people trained for destruction belong when others are creating a peaceful future?
The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion
by Margaret Killjoy
2017
Investigating her best friend's suicide, Danielle Cain reaches an anarchist settlement in Iowa. A blood-red deer summoned to protect the community has begun attacking its own people, forcing Danielle and new allies to confront it.
The Barrow Will Send What it May
by Margaret Killjoy
2018
On the run, Danielle Cain and her novice demon-hunting friends reach a town with an anarchist occult library. Claims of residents returning from death draw them into a necromancer's schemes and the threat of apocalypse.
We Won't Be Here Tomorrow
by Margaret Killjoy
2022
Speculative stories follow people living at society’s margins through encounters with demons, mermaids, spaceships, and apocalypse. Hackers challenge corporate power, lovers navigate death cults, and displaced communities seek new ways to survive a changing and often hostile world.
Escape from Incel Island
by Margaret Killjoy
2023
A government scheme traps misogynistic men on a remote island under the promise of receiving women. Years later, mercenary Mankiller Jones and Dr. Morrison arrive on a military mission and must escape hostile factions within the isolated prison.
The Sapling Cage
by Margaret Killjoy
2024
Lorel joins a coven in her best friend’s place, hoping to become a witch despite having been raised as a boy. A spreading magical blight and a duchess’s ambitions threaten the kingdom while Lorel fears discovery by her new companions.
The Immortal Choir Holds Every Voice
by Margaret Killjoy
2025
Hiding from magical authorities in the Idaho wilderness, Danielle Cain and her friends wait through Samhain around a campfire. Their shared stories explore magic through troll cults, murderous faeries, and riot police as the boundary between life and death thins.
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