Charles Stross

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  • Bibliography:
    44 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1990
  • Latest Book:
    April 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Empire Games

1 - Empire Games (Jan-2017)
2 - Dark State (Jan-2018)
3 - Invisible Sun (Mar-2020)

A Laundry File

1 - The Atrocity Archives (May-2004)
2 - The Jennifer Morgue (Nov-2006)
2.5 - Overtime (Jun-2010)
2.6 - Down on the Farm (Jul-2010)
3 - The Fuller Memorandum (Jul-2010)
4 - The Apocalypse Codex (Jul-2012)
4.5 - Equoid (Oct-2013)
5 - The Rhesus Chart (Jul-2014)
6 - The Annihilation Score (Jul-2015)
7 - The Nightmare Stacks (Jul-2016)
8 - The Delirium Brief (Jul-2017)
9 - The Labyrinth Index (Nov-2018)
10 - Dead Lies Dreaming (Oct-2020)
11 - Quantum of Nightmares (Jan-2022)
11.5 - Escape from Puroland (Mar-2022)

The Merchant Princes

1 - The Family Trade (Nov-2004)
2 - The Hidden Family (Jun-2005)
3 - The Clan Corporate (May-2006)
4 - The Merchants' War (Oct-2007)
5 - The Revolution Business (Apr-2009)
6 - Trade of Queens (Mar-2010)

Related Books

1 - Halting State (Oct-2007)
2 - Rule 34 (Jul-2011)

Singularity

1 - Singularity Sky (Aug-2003)
2 - Iron Sunrise (Jul-2004)
3 - Accelerando (Jul-2005)

Multi-Author Series List

Warhammer 40,000

Monastery of Death (1990)

Book List in Order: 44 titles

  • Monastery of Death

    in Deathwing
    • / Space Opera
    • Buy Buy
    Warhammer 40,000

    A new collection of short stories chronicles the exploits of the Deathwing, the secretive inner circle of the Emperor's warriors, the Dark Angels, in the stark and brutal universe of Warhammer 40,000. Original....

  • Rogue Farm

    in Live Without a Net
    • / Science Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    Imagine a future without cyberspace... without the Web or virtual reality.... What would happen in an alternate Information Age? What would you do? What would you fear? What wouldn't you know? You can't imagine. Today's top masters of specula...

  • Toady And Dr Miracle

    "Bruce Sterling on speed? The imagination of Sterling squared? All of the glitz, glibly tossed-off newly invented, or hybrid tech-terms thrown at the reader like an info blizzard at hurricane force, but with more core storyline than in some of Sterli...

  • Singularity Sky

    Singularity - 1

    In the twenty-first century, life as we know it changed. Faster-than-light travel was perfected, and the Eschaton, a superhuman artificial intelligence, was born. Four hundred years later, the far-flung colonies that arose as a result of these events...

  • The Atrocity Archives

    A Laundry File - 1

    The first novel in Hugo Award-winning author Charles Stross's witty Laundry Files series.Bob Howard is a low-level techie working for a super-secret government agency. While his colleagues are out saving the world, Bob's under a desk restoring los...

  • Iron Sunrise

    Singularity - 2

    A G2 star doesn't just explode--not without outside interference. So the survivors of the planet Moscow, which was annihilated in just such an event, have launched a counterattack against the most likely culprit: the neighboring system of New Dresden...

  • The Family Trade

    The Merchant Princes - 1

    It begins the day she is fired. Miriam Beckstein, a successful reporter for a hi-tech magazine in Boston, finds ironclad evidence of a money-laundering scheme. But when she takes it to her editor, she's fired on the spot and gets a death threat fr...

  • The Hidden Family

    The Merchant Princes - 2

    The six families of the Clan rule the kingdom of Gruinmarkt from behind the scenes, a mixture of nobility and criminal conspirators whose power to walk between their world and ours makes them rich in both. Miriam, a hip tech journalist from Boston...

  • Accelerando

    Singularity - 3

    The Singularity. It is the era of the posthuman. Artificial intelligences have surpassed the limits of human intellect. Biotechnological beings have rendered people all but extinct. Molecular nanotechnology runs rampant, replicating and reprogramming...



  • The Clan Corporate

    The Merchant Princes - 3

    IN The Family Trade and The Hidden Family, Miriam got in touch with her roots. Now those roots have begun to strangle her. A young business journalist from Boston, Miriam discovered that her family comes from a parallel timeline, that she is very we...

  • Glasshouse

    When Robin wakes up in a clinic with most of his memories missing, it doesn't take him long to discover that someone's trying to kill him. It's the twenty-seventh century, when interstellar travel is by teleport gate and conflicts are fought by netwo...

  • The Jennifer Morgue

    A Laundry File - 2

    SAVING THE WORLD FROM EVIL IS A 24/7 JOB -- NO OVERTIME PAY INCLUDED. Ruthless software billionaire Ellis Billington has unearthed a device that will enable him to raise an eldritch horror, code-named "JENNIFER MORGUE," from the ocean's depths for t...

  • Missile Gap

    It's 1976 again. Abba are on the charts, the Cold War is in full swing -- and the Earth is flat. It's been flat ever since the eve of the Cuban war of 1962; and the constellations overhead are all wrong. Beyond the Boreal ocean, strange new continent...

  • Eschaton 3

    Sometime in the twenty-third century, humanity went extinct, leaving only androids behind to fulfill humanity’s dreams. And, having learned well from their long-dead masters, they’ve established a hierarchical society -- one with humanoid aristo ...

  • Halting State

    Related Books - 1

    n the year 2018, Sergeant Sue Smith of the Edinburgh constabulary is called in on a special case. A daring bank robbery has taken place at Hayek Associates -- a dot-corn start-up company that's just floated onto the London stock exchange. But this cr...

  • The Merchants' War

    The Merchant Princes - 4

    Miriam Beckstein is a young, hip, business journalist in Boston. She discovered in The Family Trade and The Hidden Family that her family came from an alternate reality, that she was very well-connected, and that her family was too much like the mafi...

  • Saturn's Children

    Sometime in the twenty-third century, humanity went extinct, leaving only androids behind to fulfill humanity's dreams. And, having learned well from their long-dead masters, they've established a hierarchical society -- one with humanoid aristo rule...

  • The Revolution Business

    The Merchant Princes - 5

    THE WAR ON TERROR IS ABOUT TO GO TRANDIMENSIONAL. Things are going badly for the Clan in this SF novel of the Merchant Princes, the immensely popular series by Charles Stross. Locked in a vicious civil war for control over the kingdom of Niejwein, t...

  • Wireless

    This selection of speculative fiction runs the gamut -- from "Palimpsest," a decidedly nontraditional time-travel novella, to "Down on the Farm," an adventure of hapless secret agent Bob Howard (star of the Laundry novels: The Atrocity Archives, The ...



  • Trade of Queens

    The Merchant Princes - 6

    A dissident faction of the Clan, the alternate universe group of families that has traded covertly with our world for a century or more, have carried nuclear devices between the worlds and exploded them in Washington, DC, killing the President of the...

  • Overtime

    A Laundry File - 2.5

    Introduced to readers in the novels The Atrocity Archive and The Jennifer Morgue, the Laundry is a secret British government agency charged with preventing dark interdimensional entities from destroying the human race. Now, in "Overtime," the Laundry...

  • The Fuller Memorandum

    A Laundry File - 3

    Computational demonologist Bob Howard is taking a much-needed break from the field to catch up on his filing in the Laundry archives when a top secret dossier known as the Fuller Memorandum vanishes -- along with his boss, who the agency's executives...

  • Down on the Farm

    A Laundry File - 2.6

    In Charles Stross's novel The Atrocity Archive and its sequels, the "Laundry" is a secret British agency responsible for keeping dark interdimensional entitities from destroying the cosmos and, not incidentally, the human race. The battles with creat...

  • Rule 34

    Related Books - 2

    Detective Inspector Liz Kavanaugh is head of the Rule 34 Squad, monitoring the Internet to determine whether people are engaging in harmless fantasies or illegal activities. Three ex-con spammers have been murdered, and Liz must uncover the link betw...

  • Palimpsest

    Welcome to the Stasis, the clandestine, near-omnipotent organization that stands at the heart of Charles Stross's Hugo Award-winning novella, Palimpsest. By mastering the mysteries of the Timegate, the Stasis has repeatedly steered mankind away fr...

  • The Apocalypse Codex

    A Laundry File - 4

    Bob Howard may be humanity’s last hope. Start praying… For outstanding heroism in the field (despite himself), computational demonologist Bob Howard is on the fast-track for promotion to management within The Laundry, the super-secret British...

  • A Tall Tail

    From the author of "Rule 34" and "Halting State", a tale of deception, engineering, and the most unlikely rocket propulsion technology imaginable....

  • Neptune's Brood

    The year is AD 7000. The human species is extinct--for the fourth time--due to its fragile nature. Krina Alizond-114 is metahuman, descended from the robots that once served humanity. She's on a journey to the water-world of Shin-Tethys to find ...

  • Equoid

    A Laundry File - 4.5

    The "Laundry" is Britain's super-secret agency devoted to protecting the realm from the supernatural horrors that menace it. Now Bob Howard, Laundry agent, must travel to the quiet English countryside to deal with an outbreak of one of the worst horr...



  • The Rhesus Chart

    A Laundry File - 5

    As a newly appointed junior manager within the Laundry -- the clandestine organization responsible for protecting Britain against supernatural threats -- Bob Howard is expected to show some initiative to help the agency battle the forces of darkness....

  • Three Tales from the Laundry Files

    Enjoy two short stories and a novella from the Laundry Files. Originally published on Tor.com, these stories by Charles Stross continue the adventures of the Laundry, a secret division of the British government dedicated to tracking down and containi...

  • The Annihilation Score

    A Laundry File - 6

    Dominique O’Brien -- her friends call her Mo -- lives a curious double life with her husband, Bob Howard. To the average civilian, they’re boring middle-aged civil servants. But within the labyrinthine secret circles of Her Majesty’s Government...

  • The Nightmare Stacks

    A Laundry File - 7

    The Laundry Files continues as Hugo Award-winning author Charles Stross assigns a day trader to a permanent position on the night shift... After stumbling upon the algorithm that turned him and his fellow merchant bankers into vampires, Alex Schwa...

  • Empire Games

    Empire Games - 1

    Charles Stross builds a new series with "Empire Games." Expanding on the world he created in the Family Trade series, a new generation of paratime travellers walk between parallel universes. The year is 2020. It's seventeen years since the Revolution...

  • The Delirium Brief

    A Laundry File - 8

    Someone is dead set to air the spy agency’s dirty laundry! Bob Howard’s career in the Laundry, the secret British government agency dedicated to protecting the world from unspeakable horrors from beyond spacetime, has entailed high combat, bri...

  • Dark State

    Empire Games - 2

    Hugo Award-winning author Charlie Stross dives deep into the underbelly of paratime espionage, nuclear warfare, and state surveillance in this provocative techno-thriller set in The Merchant Princes multi-verse DARK STATE ups the ante on the alrea...

  • The Labyrinth Index

    A Laundry File - 9

    The Lovecraftian Singularity has descended upon the world in The Labyrinth Index, beginning an exciting new story arc in Charles Stross' Hugo Award-winning Laundry Files series! Since she was promoted to the head of the Lords Select Committee on ...

  • Invisible Sun

    Empire Games - 3

    The alternate timelines of Charles Stross' Empire Games trilogy have never been so entangled than in Invisible Sun -- the techno-thriller follow up to Dark State -- as stakes escalate in a conflict that could spell extermination for humanity across a...

  • Dead Lies Dreaming

    A Laundry File - 10

    When magic and superpowers emerge in the masses, Wendy Deere is contracted by the government to bag and snag supervillains in Hugo Award-winning author Charles Stross' Dead Lies Dreaming: A Laundry Files Novel. As Wendy hunts down Imp -- the cyberpun...



  • Quantum of Nightmares

    A Laundry File - 11

    A unique blend of espionage thrills and Lovecraftian horror, Hugo Award-winning author Charles Stross's Laundry Files continues with Quantum of Nightmares. It’s a brave new Britain under the New Management. The avuncular Prime Minister is an...

  • Escape from Puroland

    A Laundry File - 11.5

    Regular readers of Charles Stross's Laundry Files might have noticed Bob Howard's absence from the events of The Nightmare Stacks, and his subsequent return from Tokyo at the start of The Delirium Brief.Escape from Yokai Land explains what he was doi...

  • Ghost Engine

  • Season of Skulls

    Season of Skulls continues Hugo Award-winning author Charles Stross's Lovecraftian Laundry Files series.Welcome to the sunlit uplands of the 21st century! Britain's avuncular Prime Minister is an ancient eldritch god of unimaginable power. Crime is p...

  • Escape from Yokai Land

    Regular readers of Charles Stross's Laundry Files might have noticed Bob Howard's absence from the events of The Nightmare Stacks, and his subsequent return from Tokyo at the start of The Delirium Brief.Escape from Yokai Land explains what he was doi...

Award-Winning Books by Charles Stross

Accelerando
2006 Locus Award -- Science Fiction
Missile Gap
2007 Locus Award -- Novella


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Charles Stross has published 44 books.

Charles Stross does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Escape from Yokai Land, was published in April 2024.

The first book by Charles Stross, Monastery of Death, was published in January 1990.

Yes. Charles Stross has 5 series.
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