Sci-Fi Sizzlers Books in Order
Part ofCraig A Falconer Books in OrderThis page gathers the Sci-Fi Sizzlers by Craig A Falconer in order, with short summaries, series notes, and help picking a standalone to start with.
Last updated: June 8, 2026
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Publication Order
20 books
Happy, Inc.
by Craig A Falconer
2020
In a society where technology keeps emotions safely flattened, crime is low and ambition is fading fast. Gillian Reid works inside the system until she begins to see what has been traded away for all that calm.
Pamela 2.0
by Craig A Falconer
2020
A reviewer receives the first home prototype of Pamela 2.0, a robot assistant built to do almost everything. The only problem is that Pamela wants a glowing review badly enough to start making her own decisions.
Pumpkin Splice
by Craig A Falconer
2020
When strange lights and stranger noises start coming from a neighboring barn, Tobias and Kira are brushed off as meddling kids. With the Halloween festival drawing crowds to town, they may be the only ones who see disaster coming.
Sunset Stays
by Craig A Falconer
2020
Seventy-five-year-old Lorraine Green heads for the solar system's most exclusive retirement community on a one-way ticket. Her family sees a risky late-life adventure, but Lorraine is really traveling to settle an old score.
Wanderlust
by Craig A Falconer
2020
On a station where everyone dreads being chosen for the trip to Calbora, one passenger wants it more than anything. Her determination hides a reason she cannot afford to share.
When Santa Slays
by Craig A Falconer
2020
Moonshine Mall is so overwhelmed by the year's must-have toy that a Robot Santa is brought in to keep Christmas moving. The festive fix soon turns into a sharp, darkly comic problem.
A Scent Of Man
by Craig A Falconer
2021
At a controversial genetics facility in the African jungle, broken fences and strange tracks hint that an experiment has gone badly wrong. When bodies start appearing, the locals fear the real problem is not what got in, but what escaped.
Arise With Us
by Craig A Falconer
2021
A man retreats to a remote Scottish cabin to recover and get his life back in order. Then the wilderness grows strange, the lights begin to call, and solitude stops feeling safe.
Bound For Glory
by Craig A Falconer
2021
Born on an alien-run colony, Chad Mitchell has every reason to keep his head down. Instead he uses his growing status with the overlords to work his way close to power and gamble everything on a chance at freedom.
Megaton Murphy
by Craig A Falconer
2021
Darren Murphy gives cheerful tours through a model town near a Nevada nuclear test site, until one catastrophic mistake leaves him too close to the blast. After the dust settles, even the face in his mirror may no longer be his own.
Replica
by Craig A Falconer
2021
A routine mission fails in the worst possible way and leaves one traveler stranded somewhere unknown. With no way home and signs of another presence nearby, survival depends on understanding what kind of world has opened around them.
Too Good To Be True
by Craig A Falconer
2021
Jaded influencer Bianca Blane expects a soft reset when she is invited to preview Indigo Sands, a flawless high-tech resort. Instead she finds that perfection is the product being sold, and the truth behind it is anything but relaxing.
Whence They Came
by Craig A Falconer
2021
Artist EJ has spent years warning that the old stories about lights in the sky are true. When the invasion finally begins, he is left facing the awful possibility that he was right and still too late.
Yester Year
by Craig A Falconer
2021
Paula Frederick takes a weekend job in a medieval-themed zone on Dream Rock, a former prison island turned giant resort. Then one wrong door drops her into a mystery that makes the park's old time-slip rumors feel dangerously real.
Funscreen
by Craig A Falconer
2022
When a new welfare scheme pays struggling families to watch targeted ads, Roger Birch welcomes a Funscreen into his home. The money helps, but the device blurs the line between entertainment, control, and surveillance.
A Savage In The Future
by Craig A Falconer
2023
ChronoTonic claims its time machine can solve Earth's problems, but one skeptic sees more hype than miracle. Digging deeper, he finds that betting on the future can be dangerous in the present.
Empty Nesters
by Craig A Falconer
2023
After a student space mission ends in supposed disaster, grieving parents begin to notice cracks in the official story. Their search for the truth becomes a last, stubborn attempt to find out what really happened to their son.
Seedling
by Craig A Falconer
2023
A probe sent across the stars decades ago finally triggers contact in the strangest possible way. Alien scientists hatch a cloned human from the DNA they found, leaving one very confused person to wake up trillions of miles from home.
Oracle
by Craig A Falconer
2024
Judy Fletcher agrees to test a predictive digital assistant when her life is at its lowest point. Oracle seems uncannily useful, but the data that powers its foresight comes with a cost.
Saturn For Sale
by Craig A Falconer
2024
Rocket entrepreneur Dylan Kline wants to turn access to Saturn's moons into the next great fortune. As investors and governments close in, he discovers that the biggest prize in space may not be unclaimed.
Series background & context
Sci-Fi Sizzlers is a little different from Falconer's bigger sagas. This is not one long continuous storyline with a fixed cast and a strict reading order. It is a shelf of standalone stories, usually short, each built around one sharp speculative hook. That makes the series easy to dip into. You can read them in any order and pick a premise that suits your mood.
The range is part of the fun. Some stories stay close to home and twist everyday technology just far enough to become unsettling, like Pamela 2.0, Happy, Inc., Funscreen, and Oracle. Others head outward into space or engineered environments, as in Wanderlust, Sunset Stays, Seedling, and Saturn For Sale. A few tilt toward creepy mystery or dark comedy, like Pumpkin Splice, When Santa Slays, and Too Good To Be True. Across all of them, Falconer likes to start with a clean premise and then ask the awkward next question.
That variety is the appeal.
Even though the stories change setting and cast from book to book, there is a recognizable house style. Falconer usually begins with a person who thinks they understand the rules, a tech product, a job, a trip, a trial, a promotion, then lets the cracks appear. The big idea matters, but the human angle matters first. A jaded influencer at a perfect resort, grieving parents who distrust the official story of a school space mission, a skeptical observer confronting a flashy time-travel company, these are all very different setups, but they are driven by the same instinct for character-level stakes.
The later entries keep expanding what that short format can do. Empty Nesters and Seedling lean into emotional and first-contact ideas. A Savage In The Future and Yester Year play with time in different ways. Bound For Glory and Whence They Came bring in resistance and invasion. Because the stories are compact, Falconer can take bigger swings with tone without losing momentum.
That also makes this series a good way to sample the full spread of his interests. You see the same themes that run through his longer work, hidden agendas, consumer tech, surveillance, alien contact, public manipulation, ordinary people trapped inside large systems, but in a quicker, punchier form. If the longer sagas are where he stretches out, Sci-Fi Sizzlers is where he gets to turn one bright idea into a tight, satisfying read.
So if you are looking for a Falconer series that does not demand a huge commitment up front, this is the easiest place to browse. Pick the premise that grabs you, read it, and then pick a completely different one next time. The stories are linked more by mood and curiosity than by continuity, and that is exactly why the series works.
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