SD Perry Books in Order

If you want the main Resident Evil arc: Zero Hour → The Umbrella Conspiracy → Caliban Cove → City of the Dead
If you want more Resident Evil fallout: Underworld → Nemesis → Code
If you want a standalone original horror novel: The Summer Man
If you want adventure outside horror: Uncharted → Marvel's Midnight Suns
If you want lore-heavy companion books: Alien → Anatomy of a Metahuman

S.D. Perry writes the kind of books that move fast, know their monsters, and respect the worlds they borrow. She has spent most of her career working in shared universes, turning games, films, comics, and TV tie-ins into readable, story-first novels. She lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband and two children, and she has long described herself in simple terms: a horror nerd, an introvert, and a working writer.

She grew up in a house where writing looked like a real job.

That mattered. Perry is the daughter of science fiction writer Steve Perry, and she has said that seeing her father work made the whole thing feel possible. Early on, he helped her get a foot in the door and collaborated with her on a couple of projects. She wrote first drafts, learned the mechanics, and got a close-up look at deadlines, editing, and the less glamorous side of making books for a living.

That practical start shaped the career that followed. Perry has said tie-in fiction suited her when she was younger because the boundaries were clear. The characters, settings, and tone were already there, but there was still room to solve story problems and make the material breathe. For a writer building confidence, it was a good apprenticeship, and it became her specialty.

Her name is probably still most closely tied to Resident Evil. She was literally playing the first game when the call came asking if she wanted to work on the novels, and she jumped at it. The result was a run that began with The Umbrella Conspiracy and continued through Caliban Cove, City of the Dead, and several later tie-ins. Those books move quickly but still leave space for atmosphere, teamwork, and the gross little details that make survival horror fun.

She knows how to write people under pressure.

That shows up outside Resident Evil, too. In The Summer Man, one of her original novels, she shifts into small-town dread and lets a stranger's arrival tilt ordinary lives into violence. In Alien: The Weyland-Yutani Report, she turns franchise lore into an in-world document without losing the creep factor. Later books like Uncharted and Marvel's Midnight Suns show the same instinct for pace, clear stakes, and characters who have to improvise when things go bad.

A lot of Perry's work circles the same kinds of pressure cookers: sealed facilities, hostile ships, hidden labs, corrupted institutions, and people trying to stay useful after the plan has fallen apart. She likes teams, survivors, fixers, soldiers, cops, and uneasy allies. Even when the setting is huge and franchise-heavy, the stories usually come back to a small group trying to keep their heads.

These days, that steady adaptability may be the best way to understand her career. She has moved from aliens to zombies to superheroes to treasure hunters, usually as a hired hand, and she has been open about the fact that she writes to deadline and does the work in front of her. There is nothing fancy about that. It is part of why her books feel so direct.

Perry's bibliography is a reminder that tie-in fiction is still fiction. Someone has to translate mood, character, and spectacle into prose that actually reads well. That quiet, dependable job has been her lane for decades, and she seems perfectly at home in it.