SM Stirling Books in Order

In the far-future ruins of civilization, Shkai'ra grows up in a harsh tribal world where survival comes first and trust is scarce. It is lean, wintry fantasy with old wounds and stubborn endurance.

In the corrupt city of Illizbuah, a wandering swordswoman is drawn into intrigue among priests, rulers, and hidden powers. The book mixes far-future fantasy, urban danger, and hard choices.

In an alternate World War II, the slaveholding Draka fight in the Caucasus and reveal how terrifying their society has become. The book mixes campaign action with a cold look at power built on conquest.

Betrayed, enslaved, and left for broken, Megan Thanesdoom escapes and sets out for revenge. Her road home becomes a fast-moving adventure of allies gained, enemies hunted, and old scores finally faced.

After the Draka conquer Europe, resistance survives in secret while collaborators and occupiers learn what their new masters really are. It is a grim occupation novel about fear, loyalty, and slow-burning revolt.

The cold war between the Alliance and the Draka turns hot through espionage, conquest, and weapons that could end civilization. Fred and Marya Lefarge are caught at the center of the final, ugliest phase of the struggle.

Megan Thanesdoom learns that her kidnapped son may still be alive, and the search pulls her back into politics, danger, and old loyalties. The Fifth Millennium world stays personal even when the stakes get large.

On the fallen colony world of Bellevue, young officer Raj Whitehall discovers Center, a surviving battle computer with plans for civilization's return. Their alliance turns one gifted commander into the hinge of a world war.

This expanded version of The Sharpest Edge returns to the Fifth Millennium, where swordswomen, priests, and schemers collide in the corrupt city of Illizbuah. It is far-future fantasy with street intrigue and a hard edge.

Raj Whitehall leads a brutal southern campaign across Bellevue, fighting outnumbered battles while court politics snap at his heels. It is a military adventure built on maneuver, discipline, and thin margins.

A young ruler in Pournelle's CoDominium future learns that power is never secure for long. Mercenaries, court politics, and battlefield lessons shape a hard military coming-of-age story.

Raj Whitehall has nearly broken the back of Bellevue's enemies, but success makes him dangerous to men at court. With Center advising him, he has to finish the war without losing the state he is trying to save.

Raj's victories have not ended the struggle for Bellevue. As rivals maneuver and the war widens, he must keep his Companions together and push Center's plan forward before the old order destroys itself.

This Fifth Millennium adventure turns toward sea routes, fragile alliances, and the kind of danger that grows once a journey leaves home behind. It keeps the series' mix of trade, swordplay, and political strain.

Raj Whitehall's long campaign to reunite Bellevue enters a sharper political phase as victory brings new enemies. Battles still matter, but court intrigue and succession questions may be even deadlier.

A Draka warrior from a nightmare future lands in 1990s New York and decides modern Earth is ripe for conquest. Police, spies, and one very dangerous fugitive race to stop a new Domination from being born.

Civilization on Hafardine has sunk even lower than on Bellevue, and Adrian Gellert becomes the next man pushed toward history. Guided by unseen allies, he faces a stagnant empire that badly needs change.

A young spacer is pulled into a much larger conflict in this opening Flight Engineer novel, where technical skill is only the start of surviving among warships, merchants, and ambitious powers. It is classic collaboration-era space opera.

Nantucket and the Coast Guard ship Eagle are hurled back to the Bronze Age in an instant. Survival is hard enough, but a rival from the modern world plans to use guns, knowledge, and ambition to conquer the past.

Nantucketers build alliances, ships, and trade in the ancient world, but one of their own has chosen conquest instead. William Walker's growing empire forces the islanders toward a wider and more dangerous war.

The middle Flight Engineer book shifts from training and survival toward piracy, commerce raiding, and broader political trouble. It keeps the series in space-opera mode, with engineering know-how mattering as much as courage.

On the fallen world of Hafardine, Adrian Gellert tries to rebuild a decaying empire before it collapses again into darkness. This branch of The General universe shifts from conquest to the harder work of real reform.

This anthology opens up the Draka universe with stories by several writers set across the Domination's grim history. It adds texture to the world, from military campaigns to the everyday logic of a slave empire.

The first official prose sequel to Terminator 2 follows Sarah and John Connor as a new infiltrator works to rebuild Cyberdyne and restore Skynet's future. The threat is smarter, more human, and harder to spot.

Nantucket's long war with William Walker reaches its climax across an altered Bronze Age world. Sea power, alliances, and the fate of whole civilizations ride on who can master the oceans first.

The Flight Engineer trilogy ends with bigger fleets, harder choices, and command responsibilities that can no longer be dodged. What began as a personal adventure turns into a test of leadership on an interstellar scale.

Stirling imagines the Venus of old pulp adventures as a real place, hot, dangerous, and full of ruins and alien life. A Cold War expedition quickly turns into a fight over who will understand the planet first.

Sarah and John Connor try to stay ahead of Skynet's new plans as the reshaped timeline hurtles back toward Judgment Day. The trilogy widens from stalking terror to a larger war in the making.

After a nineteenth-century disaster devastates Europe, the British Empire survives from India. Two young officers uncover a conspiracy that threatens the raj's fragile order in a world of cavalry, railways, and imperial intrigue.

A hidden passage leads to an alternate California untouched by European conquest, and a small group of veterans decide to exploit it. Wealth comes fast, but so do empire, betrayal, and the cost of living a double life.

The final T2 novel jumps fully into the war against the machines, where John Connor's resistance has to survive long enough to send history back on itself. It gives the franchise the all-out future battlefield the films only glimpsed.

A sudden global change makes electricity, engines, and gunpowder stop working, collapsing the modern world overnight. In Oregon, a pilot, a folk singer, and a ruthless medievalist build very different answers to the end of civilization.

Eight years after the Change, Mike Havel and Juniper Mackenzie have built strong communities in the Willamette Valley. Norman Arminger wants their land, and the fight between freedom and feudal rule is about to turn open.

The war for Oregon reaches a turning point as the Bearkillers, Clan Mackenzie, and their allies confront Norman Arminger's expanding Protectorate. Strategy, diplomacy, and one decisive campaign will shape the post-Change West.

A generation after Corvallis, Rudi Mackenzie rides east on a quest toward Nantucket, where answers may wait. Behind him, the Church Universal and Triumphant is growing into a deadly, organized threat.

An expedition to a living Mars is pulled into canal-city politics, desert travel, and the troubles of a very old civilization. Stirling plays planetary romance straight, with modern characters dropped into a dying world.

Rudi Mackenzie continues his perilous journey across a shattered America while the fanatical Sethaz tightens his grip in the West. The road east is full of allies, ruins, and enemies who think destiny is theirs.

Rudi's long journey east brings him closer to Nantucket and the truth behind the Change, while his friends fight for survival back home. Quest fantasy and post-collapse statecraft meet head-on here.

Ellen Tarnowski thinks she has been betrayed by the man she loves, then learns he belongs to a hidden race behind vampire and werewolf legends. Her heartbreak becomes the doorway into a secret war.

A generation after the Change, Rudi's quest for answers leads back to Nantucket and toward a crown he never sought. Old powers are stirring, and the post-Change world is starting to feel mythic as well as broken.

War with the Church Universal and Triumphant spreads across the changed West as Rudi and his allies press the fight. The book widens the map and shows how costly it is to turn hard-won unity into victory.

Ellen and her Shadowspawn allies are drawn deeper into a hidden struggle among near-human predators who have shaped history from the dark. The conspiracy gets wider, and far more dangerous.

Now crowned Artos the First, Rudi Mackenzie has won major battles but not the war. To finish it, he must face the enemy's last strength and the weight of prophecy in the high country.

A cross-genre anthology edited by George RR Martin and Gardner Dozois, built around women who are dangerous in different ways. The lineup ranges from fantasy and science fiction to historical and crime tales, each centered on agency, risk, and consequences.

The Shadowspawn war spreads into open crisis as old bloodlines, hidden courts, and human loyalties collide. The finale pushes the series toward a larger reckoning without losing its urban-fantasy secrecy.

Montival and its allies gather for a last, costly struggle against forces that are hostile to human freedom and human life. The stakes are not just military, but spiritual and civilizational.

A new generation takes over the Change world as Princess Órlaith faces a rising imperial threat from Korea. To secure alliance with Japan, she and Reiko set out to find the legendary Grass-Cutting Sword.

In the dinosaur-haunted Exiled world, a band of Mrem fights sickness, hunger, and capture while trying to save their clan. The scale is intimate, but the struggle for survival is relentless.

This shared-world anthology expands the Emberverse far beyond Montival. Stories from different writers show how people survived, traded, fought, and rebuilt after the Change in places from Australia to the Mediterranean.

Órlaith and her allies press on with their dangerous quest for the Grass-Cutting Sword, a relic that could strengthen Montival's alliance with Japan. The journey runs through hostile country where politics and myth are equally sharp.

Swept across the Pacific, Prince John must survive pirates, sea monsters, and shifting island loyalties far from Montival. Back home, his apparent loss forces his family to prepare for a larger war.

Change Year 46 finds Órlaith and Prince John at the center of a widening struggle on land and sea. While John is far from home among island powers, Montival prepares for war against human and inhuman foes.

In a 1916 where Theodore Roosevelt is back in power, a secret American intelligence service hunts a plot that could shatter coastal cities. Alternate history and spy-thriller energy fit together neatly here.

In the last Change novel, Crown Princess Órlaith tries to hold together the peace won by her father while old enemies and stranger threats close in. Politics, prophecy, and hard fighting all come due at once.

Luz O'Malley and Ciara Whelan go undercover in wartime Europe to uncover a German weapon that could change the balance of World War I. It is the Black Chamber series at its most globe-trotting and spy-driven.

With the Great War locked in stalemate, Black Chamber agents race to protect a vital American gas facility from German attack and sabotage. The book blends espionage, alternate history, and looming industrial horror.

Set early in Conan's wandering life, this standalone novel sends the Cimmerian against armies, sorcerers, and monsters in the Hyborian Age. It is a straight-ahead sword-and-sorcery chase with plenty of blood on the blade.