Wil McCarthy Books in Order

An alien armada advances from Orion, wiping out human settlements as it travels. Marine Corporal Kenneth Jonson and the Aggressor Six team become humanity’s chance to understand the attackers well enough to stop an apparently unstoppable campaign of extermination.

Earth scientists travel forty light years to investigate an unusual mineral discovered by struggling colonists on Unua. A greater mystery awaits near the neighbouring black hole, where an alien artifact appears to defy everything they understand about the universe.

Young physicist David Sanger becomes a murder suspect after a confrontation with an influential older scientist. His groundbreaking nanotechnology research draws him into a struggle for survival as powerful interests try to prevent his discoveries from changing society.

After two thousand years in suspended animation, Malyene Andreivne awakens to find humanity transformed and her old world gone. As she struggles to understand unfamiliar descendants and an unthinkable alliance, the threat of the Waisters returns.

Self-replicating machines have consumed the inner Solar System, leaving humanity sheltering around the outer planets. Seven astronauts embark on a dangerous voyage back to Earth, where an alien ecology born from human technology threatens their expedition and their species.

Programmable matter and tiny black holes have transformed an almost immortal humanity. When a sabotaged ring of collapsium threatens the Sun, rival scientists Bruno de Towaji and Marlon Sykes must cooperate to prevent a catastrophe engulfing their civilisation.

Visits to laboratories and conversations with researchers introduce quantum dots and the possibility of programmable matter. McCarthy examines how controlling artificial atoms could change materials’ properties, connecting the underlying physics with potential applications in everyday life.

Prince Bascal faces an endless wait for a throne held by immortal parents. With other restless young people, he builds a spacecraft and escapes confinement, drawing Conrad Mursk into an adventure that becomes a rebellion against their seemingly perfect society.

Exiles aboard the Newhope cross the century-long distance to Barnard’s Star to establish a colony. Their leader Bascal and his companions confront the limits of rejuvenation technology when building a new society makes death and scarcity real again.

Returning from a failed interstellar colony, Conrad Mursk finds an overpopulated Solar System divided by rebellion and a cult of death. King Bruno sends him and Xmary on a desperate mission involving the Moon and the survival of billions.

A brain-hacking experiment sends Harv Leonel and Tara Mukherjee into ancestral memories preserved in human genes. They encounter a sophisticated prehistoric world behind humanity’s oldest legends, where the dangers preceding a devastating flood are painfully real.

Four trillionaires dominate space exploration, pursuing projects ranging from a lunar monastery to Martian entertainment. Governments send an elite team of women undercover among the colonists, but infiltrating the billionaires’ plans proves more complicated than expected.

A losing Martian reality-show contestant joins a monk, an escaped miner, and a hydroponics specialist in a struggle over control of the Moon. A fellow contestant’s death complicates their involvement with a lunar monastery and its labour disputes.

Igbal Renz’s interstellar expedition stops far short of Alpha Centauri amid rumours of alien contact. While a hundred scientists and diplomats travel in frozen sleep, stealth ships and rival trillionaires manoeuvre around a discovery that could reshape humanity’s future.

Three young strangers drive a replica station wagon across a fractured twenty-second-century America. Their journey through competing communities and ruined landscapes unfolds beneath the threat of an artificial intelligence whose control can turn even electric light into a weapon.

Pirates steal technology from the alien Fracture without understanding the danger they have unleashed. As the CV Defender pursues them, rival oligarchs and rogue artificial intelligences turn the chase into a threat extending across the Solar System.