Jody Lynn Nye

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  • Bibliography:
    51 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    August 1987
  • Latest Book:
    April 2023
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Full Series List in Order

Concrete Dreams

1 - Witches, Warriors, and Wise Women (Jun-2020)

Dreamland

Waking in Dreamland (May-1998)
School of Light (Jun-1999)
The Grand Tour (Aug-2000)

Imperium

1 - The View from the Imperium (Apr-2011)
2 - Fortunes of the Imperium (Sep-2014)
3 - Rhythm of the Imperium (Dec-2015)

Taylor's Ark

1 - Taylor's Ark (Feb-1993)
2 - Medicine Show (Aug-1994)
3 - The Lady and the Tiger (Mar-2004)

The Wolfe Pack

Strong-Arm Tactics (Sep-2004)

Multi-Author Series List

Griffen McCandles

4 - Dragons Run (Oct-2013)

Myth

19 - Robert Asprin's Myth-Quoted (Dec-2012)
20 - Robert Asprin's Myth-Fits (Jun-2016)

The Ship Who

6 - The Ship Errant (1996)

Book List in Order: 51 titles

  • Dragonharper

  • Encyclopedia of Xanth

    ENTER THE ADVENTURE "The Zombie Master said there was a set of books once, the Encyclopedia of Xanth." Good Magician Humphrey's eyes gleamed. "They may have been stolen, or they may have walked away on their own. You find the Encyclopedia and bring ...

  • Dragonfire

  • Ghost of a Chance

  • Higher Mythology

    Third in the series of “hilarious enjoyable myth-adventures” from the New York Times"bestselling author of Mythology 101 and Mythology Abroad (Crescent Blues).   Holl, Keith Doyle’s best friend, has finally tied the knot with his beloved...

  • Mythology 101

    From a New York Times"bestselling author, a college student’s plan to renovate his school’s library is opposed by a group of resident elves.   Keith Doyle, believer in myths, goodhearted nerd, general busybody, and business major at Midwes...

  • Mythology Abroad

    Keith Doyle, business major at Midwestern University, with an unofficial minor in mystical studies and magic overseen by his Little Folk friends, flies off to spend the summer on an educational tour of archaeological sites of the British Isles and Ir...

  • Taylor's Ark

    Taylor's Ark - 1

    THE ANIMALS OF NOAH'S ARK SAVED THE WORLD. CAN THE ANIMALS OF TAYLOR'S ARK SAVE THE UNIVERSE? Colony after colony, a strange epidemic is spreading. Dr. Shona Taylor is determined to find the cure before it's too late. And she is not alone. By her ...

  • Medicine Show

    Taylor's Ark - 2

    IN CASE OF MEDICAL EMERGENCY, CALL TAYLOR'S ARK... It's the most unusual medical unit in the galaxy--and it makes house calls. A fully equipped starship lab, Taylor's Ark is run by Dr. Shona Taylor and a menagerie of very special assistants--inclu...



  • The Growling

    in Chicks in Chainmail

    Here they come, and they're out for blood. For too long, they say, have hot blooded babes in brass bras and chain-link bikinis been held up to scorn as the embodiment of male fantasy wish-fulfillment and non-functionality. You think their swords won'...

  • The Ship Errant

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    The Ship Who - 6

    Targeted by a humorless Inspector General who believes she has been damaged by a past trauma, brainship Carialle finds support from her brawn partner Keff and the globe-frog race they discovered together...

  • The Magic Touch

    He has the power of wonderworking -- and now everyone wants it. “Jody Lynn Nye’s irrepressible humor makes this story a delight.” -- Christopher Stasheff, author of The Warlock in Spite of Himself   Apprentice fairy godfather Raymond Cran...

  • Don't Forget Your Spacesuit, Dear

    A collection of humorous science fiction tales follows the adventures of brave heroes and leaders who are still under the thumb of mom, and includes contributions by Anne McCaffrey, Robert Asprin, Elizabeth Moon, Jody Lynn Nye, and others. Original....

  • Calling Them Home

    in Space Opera

    Twenty original science fiction tales based on the theme of music--by such authors as Marion Zimmer Bradley, Charles de Lint, and Gene Wolfe--include the story of a singer whose ear for music helps her fight crime. Original....

  • The Old Fire

    in Did You Say Chicks?!

    Those Chicks in Chainmail are baaaack -- and They Are Not Amused! A Brief Word from the Characters: We seem to have a Failure to Communicate here. Hey, it's okay with us that Chicks in Chainmail was so popular, and reached #3 on the Locus bestsell...

  • Waking in Dreamland

    Dreamland

    Ostracized as the only unchanging, "normal" person in Dreamland, a place where people go when they sleep and constantly change into other things, Roan must prevent an evil force from destroying the Seven Sleepers. Original....

  • Queen of the Amazons

    in Alternate Generals

    LEADERSHIP MAKES ALL THE DIFFERENCE At Gaugemela the Macedonians had Alexander and the Persians had--Darius. Result: world conquest. But what if the Persians had--Erwin Rommel. Or what if George S. Patton had commanded Southern forces at Bull Run,...

  • Power Corrupts

    in Mob Magic

    MICKEY ZUCKER REICHERT * MIKE RESNICK * SIMON HAWKE * JEFF GRUBB * MAX ALLAN COLLINS * ROLAND GREEN * JODY LYNN NYE * AND OTHER LITERARY GANGBUSTERS Ever since human society began there have been crimes, and even in the realm of the fantastic, the...

  • School of Light

    Dreamland

    PERFECTION IS A DANGEROUS ILLUSION Where does your mind go when you fall asleep. To the Dreamland, where seven Sleepers dream the ever-changing landscape drawn by trillions of sleeping minds from the Waking World. Where form follows function, s...



  • The Grand Tour

    Dreamland

    TOURISTS RUSH IN WHERE DREAMERS FEAR TO TREAD . . . Where does your mind go when you fall asleep? To the Dreamland, where seven Sleepers dream the ever-changing landscape drawn by the trillions of sleeping minds from the Waking World. Where ...

  • Applied Mythology

    College. We all know what college is all about right? Either we have been there ourselves, or know people who have and heard their stories. Well, we were wrong! In Applied Mythology, Jody Lynn Nye shows us just what we missed because of all that stud...

  • Conscript

    in Warrior Fantastic

    ALAN DEAN FOSTER * JEAN RABE DIANA L. PAXSON * FIONA PATTON TIM WAGGONER * DAVID BISCHOFF JANET PACK * PAULINE E. DUNGATE * NINA KIRIKI HOFFMAN * KRISTINE SCHWENGEL JODY LYNN NYE * BRADLEY H. SINOR BILL FAWCETT * GARY A. BRAUNBECK CHARLES DE L...

  • Everything to Order

    in Dracula in London

    A DAY IN THE LIFE OF COUNT DRACULA Brain Stoker's immortal tale of vampirism told the story of how Count Vlad Tepes came to London and met his demise at the hands of Abraham van Helsing's vampire hunters. But how did Dracula occupy his time when he ...

  • And So, Ad Infinitum

    in Familiars

    KRISTINE KATHRYN RUSCH * JODY LYNN NYE LAURA RESNICK * P. N. ELROD * VON JOCKS JEAN RABE * ANDRE NORTON * BILL MCcAY LAURA ANNE GILMAN * DIANE A. S. STUCKART GARY A. BRAUNBECK * SUSAN SIZEMORE JOSEPHA SHERMAN * JOHN HEIFERS MICHELLE WEST The...

  • For Whom the Bell Tolled

    in The Magic Shop

    SUSAN SIZEMORE * P. N. ELROD JODY LYNN NYE * INDIA EDGHILL LAURA RESNICK * ELIZABETH GILLIGAN MICHELLE WEST * BRADLEY H. SINOR JOSEPHA SHERMAN * BILL McCAY KRISTINE KATHRYN RUSCH * MEL ODOM GARY A. BRAUNBECK * VON JOCKS ROSEMARY EDGHILL Eve...

  • The Lady and the Tiger

    Taylor's Ark - 3

    In Taylor's Ark and Medicine Show, Shona Taylor fought death and disease--with a menagerie of very special assistants. Now, in an all-new novel, Dr. Taylor takes on a new assignment, and discovers a chilling reality behind a picture-perfect planet......

  • Strong-Arm Tactics

    The Wolfe Pack

    On the peanut-shaped planetoid of Ut, a 150-million-year-old computer named Mamacita rules with dictatorial control. Her every whim is a steadfast rule, and no command is stronger than the ban of Sudanna, the wind that sweeps across Ut spreading the ...

  • Rekindling the Light

    in In the Shadow of Evil

    TIM WAGGONER * JEAN RABE * RUSSELL DAVIS ISAAC SZPINDEL * RICK HAUTALA JULIE E. CZERNEDA * JANE LINDSKOLD BROOKS PECK * MICKEY ZUCKER REICHERT JODY LYNN NYE * GREGORY BENFORD TANYA HUFF * MICHELLE WEST * FIONA PATTON The struggle between goo...

  • An Unexpected Apprentice

    Halfling Tildi Summerbee has led a typical, unexciting life, tending the house for her brothers while they manage the family farm. Her days are boring, but happy...until a Thraik attack decimates her family. In an effort to provide for Tildi, the to...



  • A Forthcoming Wizard

    Halfling Tildi Summerbee led a typical, unexciting life, tending the house for her brothers while they managed the family farm...until she was forced to assume the identity of her recently deceased brother and accept his position as apprentice to...

  • No Good Deed

    in Terribly Twisted Tales

    Fairy tales are among the earliest fantasies we are exposed to when we are young and impressionable children. In one way or another they stay with us throughout our lives, whether in their original versions, or filtered through cartoon retellings. ...

  • There's No "I" in Coven

    in Witch Way to the Mall

    Featuring contributions from Harry Turtledove, Sarah A. Hoyt, S. M. Stirling, and Esther Friesner, this urban fantasy collection features spellbinding stories that reveal how witches from all walks of life cope with the idiosyncrasies of suburbia. Or...

  • Howl!

    in Strip Mauled

    HOWLY TERRORS Werewolves and the suburbs are a natural go-together. Okay, so they're not the Obligatory/Iconic Suburban Golden Retriever or Chocolate Labrador, but they've got a much better chance of taking home the Best in Show ribbon than their Un...

  • The View from the Imperium

    Imperium - 1

    P. G. Wodehouse meets space opera, as Ensign Thomas Innes Loche Kinago, fresh from the Academy is given his first command. A crumb from the upper crust, he's eager to uphold the traditions of his family, and in particular, his mother, a distinguished...

  • Cats Triumphant!

    Cats Triumphant! presents eleven short stories of mystery, fantasy and imagination in which cats play major roles, ranging from not-quite-so-helpless victim to hero, but they are always clever and inventive, and so is Jody Lynn Nye’s writing. As ...

  • Robert Asprin's Myth-Quoted

    Myth - 19

    A CAMPAIGN OF MYTH-INFORMATION Since it was founded, M.Y.T.H. Inc. has dealt with all manner of vile and evil creatures. But not even a magician of Skeeve’s caliber is prepared to face the most duplicitous monsters of all: politicians. Emo Weavi...

  • Dragons Run

    Griffen McCandles - 4

    In "New York Times" bestselling author Robert Asprin and Jody Lynn Nye's newest Big Easy dragon tale, Griffen McCandles is about to give the forces of evil a run for their money... Griffen already has his hands full running his gambling operation...

  • Fortunes of the Imperium

    Imperium - 2

    Jeeves in space! Rollicking adventure featuring a seemingly dense, lovable nobleman and his indespensible, droll aide, Parsons. Lieutenant Lord Thomas Kinago sets out from the Imperium homeworld for the Autocracy of the Uctu, a galactic region wit...

  • Advanced Mythology

    From a New York Times bestseller, the final book of Mythology 101 series, featuring elves who live in a university library.   Keith Doyle has made it to graduate school! In between classes and hanging out with his magical friends, the Little Fol...



  • Wishing on a Star

    “Innovative take on the well-loved theme of fairies and dangerous wishes.”'Publishers WeeklyPop goddess Selane has made some bad choices in her life on her road to success. All of her past connections have dropped her and she’s desperately tr...

  • A Circle of Celebrations

    It's a holiday celebration of stories! Celebrations help us to mark moments in time that are meaningful, some for religious reasons, others cultural and historical. New York Times bestselling author Jody Lynn Nye has written about holidays...

  • Rhythm of the Imperium

    Imperium - 3

    Lieutenant Lord Thomas Kinago and his trusty constant companion, the unflappable Parsons, are back. And this time they've got a planet to save. The Zang, an elder race of the galaxy, may be a shrinking population, but they're also intelligent, cur...

  • Gaslight & Grimm

    Once Upon a Time, ageless tales were told from one generation to the next, filled with both wonders and warnings. Tales of handsome princes and wicked queens, of good-hearted folk and evil stepmothers. Tales of danger and caution and magic...cla...

  • Robert Asprin's Myth-Fits

    Myth - 20

    Robert Asprin’s series continues with more antics from magician Skeeve and his eclectic team at M.Y.T.H., Inc. Business is slow for M.Y.T.H., Inc., and its president, Bunny, is getting nervous that the company might not meet its quarterly goal....

  • The Best of Bad-Ass Faeries

    “Have you heard about this book, Bad-Ass Faeries? I have to get a copy because faeries are not all goodness and light.” -- Brian Froud, Faeriecon 2007Ten years ago, four editors joined forces to bring the dark and dangerous root of the faerie le...

  • If We Had Known

    Beyond the Cradle of mankind, the universe is vast, unknown, dangerous to the unwary…or those caught in the path of intrepid explorers proceeding without forethought.Thirteen authors explore what it is to pioneer the future in tales fraught with da...

  • Humans Wanted

    Humans are tough. Humans can last days without food. Humans heal so quickly, they pierce holes in themselves or inject ink under their epidermis for fun. Humans will walk for days on broken bones in order to make it to safety. Humans will literally c...

  • After Punk

    While mankind can scarce hope to pierce the Veil without crossing it, a few intrepid souls will ever bend their will against the aether, combining artifice and the arcane to uncover its secrets. From voodoo death cults to the Day of the Dead, mu...

  • Swords, Sorcery, & Self-Rescuing Damsels

    THESE LADIES AREN'T WAITING.Twenty bestselling and award-winning authors offer enchanting tales of women and girls forging paths through darkness and peril. Cleverness, curiosity, and determinations make worthy heroines in fantastical new worlds.Feat...



  • Witches, Warriors, and Wise Women

    Concrete Dreams - 1

    Witches, Warriors, and Wise Women celebratesdiversity through urban fantasy stories featuring less-heardvoices and overlooked heroes. This, the first volume of the Concrete Dreams series, brings womento the fore with stories of witches solving murder...

  • Arise

    Hidden Villains: AriseThis fanciful collection of creative fantasy, science fiction, and horror will keep the reader bound to the page.Demons who play games. A loved one who betrays only to watch the knife turn. An astronaut caught in a tight place. ...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Jody Lynn Nye has published 51 books.

Jody Lynn Nye does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Arise, was published in April 2023.

The first book by Jody Lynn Nye, Dragonharper, was published in August 1987.

Yes. Jody Lynn Nye has 5 series.
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