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  • Bibliography:
    30 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    February 1994
  • Latest Book:
    May 2015
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Full Series List in Order

The Kipton Chronicles

1 - Kipton and Gruff (Jun-1995)
2 - Kipton and the Ovoid (Jan-1996)
3 - Kipton in Wonderland (Jan-1996)
4 - Kipton and the Monkey's Uncle (Jun-1996)
5 - Kipton: Murder on Stage (Jun-1996)
6 - Kipton and the Tower of Time (Jun-1996)
7 - Kipton and the Christmas Gift (Jan-1997)
8 - Kipton and the Android (Mar-1997)
9 - Kipton and the I Ching (Jun-1997)
10 - Kipton and the Voodoo Curse (Nov-1997)
11 - Kipton and the Caves of Mars (Jun-1998)
12 - Kipton and the Monorail Murder (Apr-1999)
13 - Kipton on Phobos (Apr-1999)
14 - Kipton at the Martian Games (Jul-1998)
15 - Kipton and the Matter Transmitter (Jan-1999)
16 - Kipton and the Martian Maidens (Mar-1999)
17 - Kipton and the Delusions of Tante Else (Jul-1999)
18 - Kipton and the Riddle of Sandstone (Apr-1999)

Book List in Order: 30 titles



  • THE SECRET WORLD OF CATS is about to be revealed in this all-new collection of tales about those mysterious felines who rule the animal and human kingdoms. Whether they are intently stalking their prey, making humans cater to their every whim, or co...



  • In the first novel of the Kipton series, Kipton is a 14-year-old girl and Gruff is a fully reasoning stuffed teddy bear (an extension of Kipton's subconsciousness) who talks to Kipton. He is a medium for her own inner cognitions. They become an inves...




  • Kipton in Wonderland. Kipton confronts espionage, assassination, and martian-style economics in her third adventure. She joins forces with Friedel, a classmate of German origin who has just discovered girls. They must solve a murder in a virtual-real...



  • Bored with daily life on the Pile, Kipton gladly accepts Nikolai's invitation to spend some vacation with his family at West Mars, his family's estate outpost a quarter of the way around Mars. Nikolai is of Russian origin. She goes with Dr. Burundi, ...



  • Kipton and the Tower of Time chronicles another Kipton visit to the West Mars, where a mysterious tower seems to offer the possibility of time travel. The Tower of Time gives the appearance of being an ancient artifact, left behind by an advanced civ...



  • Kipton: Murder on Stage begins when Kipton's class at school is performing a play, Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap. The curriculum includes a study of a dead body, teacher credentials, student oddities, and mass hypnosis. Kipton sticks to her studies...



  • Kipton and the Christmas Gift. Kipton meets some children whose widowed mother does not have the means to provide a happy Christmas. Christmas is not a universal holiday on Mars because it must be reckoned from the terrestrial calendar and falls twic...



  • Kipton and The Android is a very intellectually challenging mystery. An android kills its creator in violation of its commandments, and the philosophic and logic implications are fully exploited by the author to set Kipton on an investigation that st...






  • Kipton and The I Ching. An introduction to Chinese culture and the thrust of the Chinese government to gain a solid foothold on Mars by building a monorail between two colonies. The leader of the Chinese enterprise is murdered just after his daughter...



  • Kipton and The Voodoo Curse. To solve a crime involving naturally occurring poisons and their uses, Kipton strives to develop an understanding of another of Earth's cultures as it has been transported to Mars. This time, her good friend Daphne is in ...



  • Kipton and The Caves of Mars. An expedition to study plant and animal life forms discovered in a cave forces decisions by the expedition about whether it will pursue a scientific or intuitive approach to attempt to communicate with the life forms, an...



  • Sporting competitions are geared to martian gravity and the colonists life-styles. These are the first games on Mars, and emotions run high. A handsome, dark stranger seems to steal Kipton's heart...until a murder puts things back into perspective....



  • Scientists on Mars seem to have solved the problem of transmitting matter. Their machine is blamed for the disappearance of a scientist with his papers. Gruff and Kipton run the risk of disappearing similarly. But everyone is together at the end. And...



  • Kipton is one of the founders of Martian Maidens, a group modeled on the scouts on Earth.. Kipton, now an Ã'elderlyÃ" teen, befriends a young girl, Kellianne, with many of her own detecting qualities. They work together when death interrupts the camp...



  • Kipton and The Monorail Murder. Kipton and her good friend Akimi are off to a distant habitat to sell androids to an industrialist who has an expansive vision of Mars future. On their return journey, a chance companion on the monorail dies, and Kipto...



  • Kipton has gone to University, where she finds adults are as prone to mischief and mayhem as everywhere else she has been. At the end of the volume, Kipton gives Gruff to Kellianne, and hands over her unofficial position of girl detective on Mars to ...



  • Kipton takes part in an expedition to one of the martian moons. There the party encounters a very low gravity, which presents dangers of flying away forever into space. And unaccountably, there are dinosaurs on Phobos! It all becomes a mystery that o...









  • When John Lion Deveron meets April McCreagh, a young, beautiful secretary at his newspaper office, a strange fantasy should have warned him that his staid, comfortable (but childless) marriage is endangered. A pleasant summer of luncheons together ev...



  • MARS FOR THE MARTIANS! Dark Kensington had been dead for twenty-five years. It was a fact; everyone knew it. Then suddenly he reappeared, youthful, brilliant, ready to take over the Phoenix, the rebel group that worked to overthrow the tyranny that g...



  • This could well have been Montcalm's greatest opportunity; a chance to bring mankind priceless gifts from worlds beyond. But Montcalm was a solid family man--and what about that nude statue in the park?...



  • Charles Louis Fontenay was an American journalist and science fiction writer. He wrote science fiction novels and short stories...




  • Compiled in one book, the essential collection of books by  Charles Louis Fontenay: Atom Drive Disqualified The Gift Bearer The Jupiter Weapon Rebels of the Red Planet Service with a Smile Wind...



  • This volume contains the following four complete classic science fiction works about our neighboring planet, Venus.“Wind,” by Charles L. Fortenay“Spacewrecked on Venus,” by Neil R. Jones“The Lord of Death and the Qu...



  • Herbert was truly a gentlemanrobot. The ladies' slightestwish was his command.......



  • It was a race between the tortoise and the hare. But this hare was using some dirty tricks to make sure the ending would be different.......






  • When you have an engine with no fuel, and fuel without an engine, and a life-and-death deadline to meet, you have a problem indeed. Unless you are a stubborn Dutchman--and Jan Van Artevelde was the stubbornest Dutchman on Venus....


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Charles Louis Fontenay has published 30 books.

Charles Louis Fontenay does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Wind, was published in May 2015.

The first book by Charles Louis Fontenay, Cat O' Nine Tales, was published in February 1994.

Yes. Charles Louis Fontenay has 1 series.