Stephen B Pearl Books in Order
Explore Stephen B Pearl books in order, with series guides, short summaries, author background, and simple advice on where to start reading.
Last updated: July 10, 2026
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Stephen B Pearl books in publication order
16 books
The Hollow Curse
by Stephen B Pearl
2009
Ben and Alysia are soulmates cursed in a past life to be torn apart by age, class, and convention. Their love story unfolds across multiple incarnations as old hatred keeps finding new ways to hunt them.
Tinker's Plague
by Stephen B Pearl
2009
After oil collapse, tinker Brad Cooper is stranded inside a plague-struck quarantine zone in future Guelph. With supplies thin and panic rising, he must improvise a cure while fear, sabotage, and politics threaten to wreck the response.
Slaves of Love
by Stephen B Pearl
2010
In 2105 Toronto, ex-cop private eye Race carries an implanted sociopath from his undercover days. When a mind-altering drug ensnares the woman he loves, he must risk losing himself to break a crime syndicate's grip.
Nukekubi
by Stephen B Pearl
2012
A drug called Terror is leaving people dead of unimaginable fear, and wizard Ray McAndrues learns an ancient Japanese predator is behind it. To stop the killings in Toronto, he must hunt a monster that hides inside human form.
Lover's Choice
by Stephen B Pearl
2013
A short introduction to Ray McAndrues, a modern wizard moving through a world where magic hides in plain sight. Personal feelings and supernatural trouble collide, giving a quick taste of the series' mix of mystery and paranormal danger.
War of the Worlds 2030
by Stephen B Pearl
2013
Doctor Richard Green thought alien visitors came in peace, until war turns humanity against mutant beasts. When the Darmuks make Ashley part of their biological computer, Richard and Zane gamble everything to strike back.
Worlds Apart
by Stephen B Pearl
2013
Markus, a wizard from a parallel Earth, comes to England to stop a blight consuming his world. There he joins forces with priestess Alcina, whose custody battle over her son pulls magic, love, and danger into the same fight.
Horn of the Kraken
by Stephen B Pearl
2015
During Fimbulwinter, a bastard pretender uses a magical horn to send a kraken against his rival's ships. A band of untested heroes must steal the horn before war, ambition, and the freezing sea swallow them whole.
Tinker's Sea
by Stephen B Pearl
2016
In a battered future around the Great Lakes, tinker Tabby Drivensky follows clues to a pirate nuclear submarine stalking Lake Huron. Her search becomes a tense mix of pursuit, survival, and hard choices on open water.
Cats
by Stephen B Pearl
2018
In a future shaped by brain-linked tech and near-real virtual reality, Amanda takes her little sister gaming for a birthday treat. Then a virus traps the group inside the game, turned into cats, with death in play threatening the real world.
Cloning Freedom
by Stephen B Pearl
2020
Rowan believes she's fighting alien pirates, but she's really a cloned star inside an immersive entertainment empire. When technician Ryan Chandler helps her escape, they ignite a chase that could turn clone rights into a galactic crisis.
Dead Man's Blade
by Stephen B Pearl
2020
This adventure set in the world of Horn of the Kraken sends a band of Viking heroes to investigate why Jarl Erik Bloodaxe's ships keep vanishing. Sea threats, crusaders, and Fimbulwinter all stand between them and the truth.
Havens in the Storm
by Stephen B Pearl
2020
Left for dead in war, Prince Dominel finds refuge with undead mages in a ruined stronghold. Their forbidden magic may help him stop the monstrous Storm, but only if it does not break him first.
Freedom's Law
by Stephen B Pearl
2021
Rowan is free from legal slavery only as long as she stays out of United Earth Systems space, but she needs human medical care to survive. Ryan's search for help pulls them deeper into clone politics, pursuit, and rebellion.
Freedom's Myth
by Stephen B Pearl
2022
Ryan and Rowan survive one escape only to face a dangerous relief mission to Murack Five. Back home, unrest grows among the cloned entertainers, pushing the fight for freedom toward something larger and far more dangerous.
Revenant
by Stephen B Pearl
2022
After defeating one supernatural terror, Ray McAndrues hopes for a quieter life. Instead he and Cathy uncover a pattern behind a wave of suicides, and the force driving it is older and crueler than they guessed.
Where to start with Stephen B Pearl
If you want post-apocalyptic science fiction: Tinker's Plague → Tinker's Sea
If you like urban fantasy and supernatural mystery: Lover's Choice → Nukekubi → Revenant
If you want big-idea space opera: Cloning Freedom → Freedom's Law → Freedom's Myth
If you prefer mythic Norse adventure: Horn of the Kraken → Dead Man's Blade
Stephen B Pearl sub-series and character series
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Author bio
Stephen B Pearl was born in St. Catharines, Ontario, and he has described Hamilton as his home town. Southern Ontario turns up again and again in his fiction. Toronto, Guelph, Hamilton, Niagara, and the Great Lakes are not just backdrops in his books. They are working landscapes, places where strange ideas can collide with ordinary life.
Place matters to him.
So does hands-on knowledge. Pearl has written and spoken about interests that range from science, alternative energy, and environmental technology to mysticism, meditation, history, sword fighting, home repair, and backyard mechanics. He has also drawn on experience as a lifeguard, swim instructor, and scuba diver. That mix helps explain why even his wildest premises usually come with solid physical detail and a sense that somebody in the story has to figure out how things actually work.
He has been open about how much older books shaped him. In writing about himself, he points to Tolkien's characters as formative influences and credits the written word with pushing him toward a life in stories. That background shows in his work. Even when the setup involves monsters, clones, or apocalyptic winters, he keeps circling back to practical human questions about duty, loyalty, fear, and what people owe each other.
Pearl does not stay in one lane. Tinker's Plague and Tinker's Sea imagine a future Ontario after energy collapse, where improvised technology and medical know-how can mean the difference between survival and disaster. Nukekubi takes urban fantasy into Toronto with a monster drawn from Japanese legend. Cloning Freedom turns clone rights, immersive entertainment, and interstellar politics into a fast-moving space opera.
He likes big setups.
He also likes changing the furniture from book to book. Horn of the Kraken moves into Norse fantasy during Ragnarok and builds a heist story out of Viking politics and sea-borne terror. Worlds Apart mixes parallel worlds, modern pagan magic, and romance. Cats goes cyberpunk and virtual reality. The Hollow Curse stretches across reincarnated lives, while Havens in the Storm leans into swords-and-sorcery fantasy. Across all of it, readers tend to find cross-genre plotting, practical worldbuilding, and stories that would rather test an idea than sit still with it.
That range can look scattered on paper, but the themes are fairly steady. Pearl likes hidden systems of power, people trapped inside larger structures, and characters who have to use skill, nerve, or stubbornness to push back. He also returns often to the cost of love, the danger of fear, and the question of what happens when society treats some people as disposable.
That practical streak never really leaves.
Pearl has long been active at conventions, readings, seminars, and discussion panels on subjects such as worldbuilding, environmental technology, better aliens, myths and legends, and creative writing. He continues to write from Ontario and to work across science fiction, fantasy, paranormal fiction, romance, and the spaces between them. The through line in his bibliography is not one formula, but a habit of asking what happens next, then following the answer into whatever genre can hold it.
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