Alastair Mayer

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  • Bibliography:
    15 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    February 2011
  • Latest Book:
    March 2020
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Full Series List in Order

Alpha Centauri

1 - First Landing (Oct-2016)
2 - Sawyers World (Jun-2017)
3 - The Return (Aug-2017)

Jason Curtis & the Starfire

1 - Into the Fire (Feb-2011)
2 - Renee and the Space Raiders (Feb-2011)

Book List in Order: 15 titles

  • Snowball

    In the distant future, aliens find mankind's footprints and hardware on the Moon, and a strangely changed Earth. What do they make of it all?This story originally appeared in print in the anthology Footprints, edited by Jay Lake and Eric T. Reynolds,...

  • Into the Fire

    Jason Curtis & the Starfire - 1

    This short story is the first adventure of Jason Curtis and his ship, the Starfire. In a not-too-distant future where small starships are as common as private jets, a skilled but impulsive pilot discovers that it's often easier to get himself into tr...

  • Renee and the Space Raiders

    Jason Curtis & the Starfire - 2

    Starship pilot Jason Curtis just wanted to find a beach for a little rest and relaxation. Then he met Renee. "'Starfire, this is Kakuloa control. Are you declaring an emergency?'Air hissed out of a bullet hole in my cockpit, yello...

  • Poetic Justice

    Edgar Allan Poe once said "Sleep, those little slices of death; Oh how I loathe them." Yet sleep - hibernation - may be the only way to make interstellar travel possible. Aboard the starship Raven, a crewman standing watch is surrounded by sleepin...

  • Stone Age

    This short story was first published in the June, 2011 issue of Analog Science Fiction magazine. It also appears in slightly different form in the novel, "The Chara Talisman".While archeologist Hannibal Carson explores ruins on a...

  • The Chara Talisman

    On a distant planet, archeologist Hannibal Carson finds the remains of a high-tech artifact in a primitive tomb.The Velkaryans, a ruthless cult, believe it's the clue to a lost cache of alien weapons. Homeworld Security enlists Carson and his old fla...

  • The Reticuli Deception

    UFOs?Hannibal Carson and the mysterious Quentin Ducayne have discovered more alien talismans.They provide a clue to the aliens’ home system...and to a legendary UFO abduction back on Earth, a connection which the Velkaryan cult is deadly serious ab...

  • First Landing

    Alpha Centauri - 1

    What else could go wrong?

    Franklin Drake’s six-ship expedition to Alpha Centauri is down to five ships. His injured lead exobiologist has been replaced by the backup . . . who is his second-in-command’s ex. And they haven’t even left the Sola...

  • Sawyers World

    Alpha Centauri - 2

    "Alpha Centauri: Sawyer's World" is the sequel to "Alpha Centauri: First Landing." When the exploration team discovers that the first of two Earth-like planets had been deliberately terraformed millions of years earlier, commander Elizabeth Sawyer ta...



  • The Return

    Alpha Centauri - 3

    In this sequel to Alpha Centauri: First Landing and Sawyer's World, The USS Heinlein returns to Earth, hoping to refit, refuel, and return to the Alpha Centauri system within weeks to pick up the stranded crew of the USS Poul Anderson. Things don't w...

  • The Eridani Convergence

    Star pilot Jackie Roberts just wants to run a little freight then head home to Tau Ceti. But she owes Ducayne, of Homeworld Security, a favor.Ducayne wants her to go to 82 Eridani to pick a mysterious package up from one of his agents.After archeolog...

  • Alastair Mayer - A Sampler

    Six previously published science-fiction short stories and a novel extract, including: "The Gremlin Gambit", "Snowball", "Light Conversation", "Into the Fire", "The Sock Problem", "Poetic Justice", and an excerpt from Alpha Centauri: First Landing....

  • Kakuloa

    In the Alpha Centauri trilogy, humans took their first steps to the stars, discovered terraformed worlds, and just maybe an anti-aging drug. Kakula, one of Alpha Centauri's planets and the only place that squidberries, the source of the drug, will gr...

  • The Centauri Surprise

    Beware of assumptions.The Alpha Centauri system is just full of surprises.They thought Rico was dead. But now he’s just woken up in a traumapod in a strange place, and nobody is giving him answers.The geologists, in Alpha Centauri: Sawyer's World, ...

  • The Pavonis Insurgence

    Just a walk in the park......if that park is dense jungle under a green sky, infested with venomous flying jade ribbon snakes, and inhabited by primitive but intelligent aliens. And when Jason Burnside has walked through all that, he's going unde...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Alastair Mayer has published 15 books.

Alastair Mayer does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Pavonis Insurgence, was published in March 2020.

The first book by Alastair Mayer, Snowball, was published in February 2011.

Yes. Alastair Mayer has 2 series.
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