Allen Steele

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  • Bibliography:
    43 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    November 1989
  • Latest Book:
    May 2021
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Full Series List in Order

Coyote

1 - Coyote: A Novel of Interstellar Exploration (Nov-2002)
2 - Coyote Rising (Dec-2004)
3 - Coyote Frontier (Dec-2005)
4 - Spindrift (Apr-2007)
5 - Galaxy Blues (Apr-2008)
6 - Coyote Horizon (Mar-2009)
7 - Coyote Destiny (Mar-2010)
8 - Hex (Jun-2011)

Near-Space

1 - Orbital Decay (Nov-1989)
2 - Clarke County, Space (Dec-1990)
3 - Lunar Descent (Oct-1991)

Book List in Order: 43 titles

  • Orbital Decay

    Near-Space - 1

    HELP WANTED. LONG HOURS, DANGEROUS CONDITIONS. MUST BE WILLING TO RELOCATE... They are the men and women who are building the future. The beamjacks. The zero-gee construction workers hired to assemble gigantic satellites in the vacuum of space. ...

  • Clarke County, Space

    Near-Space - 2

    The future of an orbiting space colony is threatened by a fugitive and the assassin on her trail in this science fiction adventure from three-time Hugo Award winner Allen Steele Skycorp has always expected the near-Earth space colony Clarke County to...

  • Lunar Descent

    Near-Space - 3

    The former head of a lunar mining operation returns to the moon and is immediately sucked into a dangerous morass of labor troubles, lies, larceny, and corporate wrongdoing in this wildly entertaining science fiction thrill ride There is big trouble ...

  • Rude Astronauts

    • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
    • Buy Buy

    This collection features not only Allen Steele's compelling short fiction--including his first published story, "Live from the Mars Hotel," and the Diamondback Jack trilogy--but several fascinating nonfiction pieces dating from Steele's days as a sci...

  • Labyrinth of Night

    On Mars, a research team encounters an ancient puzzle that only a guitarist can solveIn 2029, an American research team ventures to Mars to investigate an astounding find: a labyrinth older than humanity itself, whose maze of rooms conceals the deepe...

  • The Jericho Iteration

    In the year 2013, after a massive earthquake has devastated much of the U.S. and left thousands of people homeless, investigative reporter Gerry Rosen becomes a fugitive in his own city when people close to him start to die. Reissue....

  • The Weight

  • The War Memorial

    in Future War
    • / Science Fiction
    • Buy Buy

  • The Tranquillity Alternative

    On the dark side of the moon, six missile silos stand in silence, poised for a war that never happened. Today, they will be taken over by corporate interests. Tomorrow, they will be activated......



  • All-American Alien Boy

    All-American Alien Boy collects 11 of Steele's most powerful short tales--including the Hugo Award-winning story, The Good Rat. Here Steele, with his endless daring and imagination, explores a strange and wonderful place--our own Earth....

  • All-American Alien Boy: The United States As Science Fiction

    All-American Alien Boy collects 11 of Steele's most powerful short tales--including the Hugo Award-winning story, The Good Rat. Here Steele, with his endless daring and imagination, explores a strange and wonderful place--our own Earth....

  • A King of Infinite Space

    Welcome to Heaven. Here's a map. It's not that simple, of course. First you have to die. Grunge rock, bad acid, and an eighteen-wheeler will do that. Then you have to survive. Not too complicated, toward the century's end, for a neglected rich kid...

  • Oceanspace

    A novel in which mankind's future lies not among the stars ... but beneath the waves. It is called Tethys--the first completely self-sufficient undersea research station, situated hundreds of feet below the Atlantic. It is the stepping-stone to a ...

  • Chronospace

    One of the biggest disasters in history has been averted. What went wrong? On May 6th, 1937, at precisely 7:25 P.m., the Hindenburg successfully lands in Lakehurst, New Jersey. Among its passengers: two 24th-century chrononauts from the time ship ...

  • Labyrinth of Night: A Novel of Mars

  • Coyote

    Coyote marks a dramatic new turn in the career of Allen Steele, Hugo Award-winning author of Chronospace. Epic in scope, passionate in its conviction, and set against a backdrop of plausible events, it tells the brilliant story of Earth’s first int...

  • Coyote: A Novel of Interstellar Exploration

    Coyote - 1

    Coyote marks a dramatic new turn in the career of Allen Steele, Hugo Award-winning author of Chronospace . Epic in scope, passionate in its conviction, and set against a backdrop of plausible events, it tells the brilliant story of Earth's first in...

  • American Beauty

  • Coyote Rising

    Coyote - 2

    The Hugo Award-winning author of the critically acclaimed Coyote returns to the setting of his grand novel of interstellar exploration with the continuing epic of Earth's first space colonists-- and a tale of revolution against a repressive governmen...



  • Coyote Frontier

    Coyote - 3

    The saga of Earth's first space colonists continues as the Hugo Award -- winning author of Coyote and Coyote Rising presents a riveting novel of their struggle to create a new civilization light-years away from the world--and the problems they though...

  • Spindrift

    Coyote - 4

    June 1, 2288 -- Europe's first starship, the EASS Galileo, launches on its maiden voyage to venture into unexplored space. Its classified mission: investigate an unidentified, possibly alien object traveling outside our solar system, code-named Spind...

  • The Horse Riders

  • The River Horses

  • Galaxy Blues

    Coyote - 5

    Since being expelled from the Union Astronautica space fleet, Jules Truffant isn’t having the best of luck. His first attempt at starting a new life lands him in prison on the colony world of Coyote. But now, instead of being deported back to Eart...

  • The Last Science Fiction Writer

    While The Last Science Fiction Writer consists of stories I wrote during a relatively short period of time, in some ways it also represents a cross-section of my career thus far. Moreau2 and High Roller are later entries in the Near-Space series not ...

  • Coyote Horizon

    Coyote - 6

    The planet of Coyote has become the last, best hope of humankind, but it has also become the principal point of contact with the hjadd, the alien race encountered by a European starship many years earlier. Although the hjadd have built an embassy nea...

  • Coyote Destiny

    Coyote - 7

    The unexpected arrival of a ship from Earth after their long isolation from their home world leaves the inhabitants of Coyote both hopeful and wary. The lone passenger brings news-both good and bad. The good news is that there was a survivor of th...

  • Hex

    Coyote - 8

    The two-time Hugo Award-winner expands the universe of his Coyote saga. The danui, a reclusive arachnid species considered the galaxy's finest engineers, have avoided contact with the Coyote Federation. Until, that is, the danui initiate trade neg...

  • Angel of Europa

    From the award-winning author of the Coyote series comes a tale of mystery and adventure at the far reaches of the solar system. In the early years of the 22nd century, an international space expedition is exploring the moons of Jupiter. Tragedy s...



  • Sex and Violence in Zero-G

    All the stories of Allen Steele's award-winning "Near Space" series?now in an expanded and revised second edition! Since its first publication in 1999, Sex and Violence in Zero-G has become one of the most long-sought and hard-to-find of Steele's boo...

  • Apollo's Outcasts

    Jamey Barlowe has been crippled since childhood, the result of being born on the Moon. He lives his life in a wheelchair, only truly free when he is in the water. But then Jamey's father sends him, along with five other kids, back to the Moon to esca...

  • V-S Day

    With a gift for visionary fiction that "would make Robert A. Heinlein proud" ("Entertainment Weekly") three-time Hugo Award-winning author Allen Steele now imagines an alternate history rooted in an actual historical possibility: what if the race to ...

  • Time Loves a Hero

    Earth’s past and future are altered by twenty-fourth-century time travelers in this “significant work of science fiction” from the author of Arkwright (Rocky Mountain News). Chrononaut Franc Lu has come a long, long way -- from the twenty-fourt...

  • Arkwright

    Written by a highly regarded expert on space travel and exploration, Allen Steele's Arkwright features the precision of hard science fiction with a compelling cast of characters. In the vein of classic authors such as Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, a...

  • Tales of Time and Space

    Journey Through the Past and Into Infinity with ALLEN STEELE!From the multiple Hugo Award-winning author of Coyote comes twelve astounding stories of science fiction (yes, old-timers, the pun is intentional). Twelve tales of adventure, mystery, and r...

  • Avengers of the Moon

    Curt Newton has spent most of his life hidden from the rest of humankind, being raised by a robot, an android, and the disembodied brain of a renowned scientist. This unlikely trio of guardians has kept his existence a closely guarded secret after th...

  • Captain Future

    Blistering space warfare with the fate of the Solar System in the balance awaits CAPTAIN FUTURE and the Futuremen as they face Ul Quorn and his plans to unleash THE HORROR AT JUPITER.Charged with the assassination of Solar Coalition president James C...

  • The Doppler Effect

    THREE SHORT NOVELS OF SCIENCE FICTION SUSPENSE From the Hugo-winning author of Coyote, Arkwright, and Avengers of the Moon come three novellas that combine science fiction, mystery, and crime:The Doppler Effect -- Never before published, a satiric...

  • Sanctuary

    An edge of your seat hard SF adventure as colonists on a new world find that nothing is what they expected and that travelling to a distant star is far more dangerous than they’d ever imagined...in Allen Steele's Sanctuary.At the Publisher's requ...



  • The Doppler Effect and Other Stories

    This is a collection of three stories, each a short novel in itself. Strictly speaking, they're science fiction, but that label doesn't describe them accurately. The truth is, when Allen Steele wrote these stories, he "was deliberately playing wit...

  • The Guns of Pluto

    At the edge of the Solar System, CAPTAIN FUTURE and the Futuremen discover a plot of interstellar proportions as they confront THE GUNS OF PLUTO.“Cold Hell” was what they called the Sputnik Planitia Penal Colony on Pluto: the toughest, de...

  • 1,500 Light Years from Home

    Journey far beyond the solar system to a planet of danger with CAPTAIN FUTURE as he confronts the greatest menace humankind has ever faced … 1,500 LIGHT YEARS FROM HOME!No ship from Earth has ever ventured past the outer worlds of the system. B...

  • Allen Steele Super Pack

    Allen Steele burst onto the Science Fiction field like a literary supernova with his novel Orbital Decay in 1989. Since then he has won three Hugo Awards, the Robert A. Heinlein Award, as well as multiple Reader's Awards from Locus, Asimov's, and Sci...

Award-Winning Books by Allen Steele

Orbital Decay
1990 Locus Award -- First Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Allen Steele has published 43 books.

Allen Steele does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Allen Steele Super Pack, was published in May 2021.

The first book by Allen Steele, Orbital Decay, was published in November 1989.

Yes. Allen Steele has 2 series.
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