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  • Bibliography:
    84 Books (9 Series)
  • First Book:
    December 1982
  • Latest Book:
    November 2022
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Full Series List in Order

The Age of Discovery Trilogy

1 - A Secret Atlas (Mar-2005)
2 - Cartomancy (Mar-2006)
3 - The New World (Jul-2007)

The Blood of Kerensky Trilogy

1 - Lethal Heritage (1989)
2 - Blood Legacy (Mar-1990)
3 - Lost Destiny (Feb-1991)

Crown Colonies

1 - At the Queen's Command (Mar-2001)
2 - Of Limited Loyalty (Nov-2011)

Dark Tide

1 - Onslaught (Feb-2000)
2 - Ruin (Jun-2000)

The Dragoncrown War Cycle

1 - Fortress Draconis (Nov-2001)
2 - When Dragons Rage (Nov-2002)
3 - The Grand Crusade (Dec-2003)

The Fiddleback Trilogy

1 - A Gathering Evil (Sep-1991)
2 - Evil Ascending (Jan-1992)
3 - Evil Triumphant (Sep-1992)

A Prelude to the DragonCrown War Cycle

The Dark Glory War (Mar-2000)

Realms of Chaos

1 - A Hero Born (May-1997)
2 - An Enemy Reborn (Mar-1998)

The Warrior Trilogy

1 - Warrior: En Garde (Aug-1988)
2 - Warrior: Riposte (Oct-1988)
3 - Warrior: Coupe (1989)

Multi-Author Series List

Battletech

Ghost War (Dec-2002)
Masters of War (Feb-2007)
CBT the Warrior Trilogy Compilation (Mar-2008)
Ghost of Christmas Present (Jul-2008)
A Clever Bit of Fiction (Mar-2019)
A Tiny Spot of Rebellion (Mar-2019)
Kell Hounds Ascendant: Three Kell Hounds Short Novels (Jul-2019)
Shrapnel, Issue #1 (Jun-2020)
Shrapnel, Issue #2 (Sep-2020)
Shrapnel, Issue #3 (Dec-2020)
5 - Natural Selection (Jul-1992)
13 - Assumption of Risk (Sep-1993)
19 - Lethal Heritage (1989)
20 - Blood Legacy (Mar-1990)
21 - Lost Destiny (Feb-1991)
22 - Bred for War (Jan-1995)
24 - Malicious Intent (Mar-1996)
34 - Grave Covenant (Sep-1997)
37 - Warrior: En Garde (Aug-1988)
38 - Warrior: Riposte (Oct-1988)
41 - Warrior: Coupe (1989)
42 - Prince of Havoc (Dec-1998)

Conan

Conan (Jul-2011)

Gears of War

Ephyra Rising (Nov-2021)

Mechwarrior: Dark Age

1 - Ghost War (Dec-2002)
24 - Masters of War (Feb-2007)

Mutant Chronicles: Apostate of Insanity

3 - Dementia (Dec-1994)

The New Jedi Order

2 - Onslaught (Feb-2000)
3 - Ruin (Jun-2000)

Pathfinder Tales

21 - The Crusader Road (Jul-2014)

Shadowrun

32 - Wolf and Raven (Jul-1998)

Star Trek

Rogue Squadron (Feb-1996)

Star Wars

Rogue Squadron (Feb-1996)
Wedge's Gamble (Jun-1996)
The Krytos Trap (Oct-1996)
The Bacta War (Jan-1997)
Star Wars: X-Wing Rogue Squadron #2: Battleground Tatooine (Apr-1998)
I, Jedi (May-1998)
Isard's Revenge (Apr-1999)
Star Wars: X-Wing Rogue Squadron #5: In the Empire's Service (May-1999)
Onslaught (Feb-2000)
Ruin (Jun-2000)
Star Wars: Union (Oct-2000)
Star Wars Omnibus: X-Wing Rouge Squadron Vol. 2 (Oct-2006)
Star Wars Omnibus: X-Wing Rouge Squadron Vol. 3 (Jun-2007)
Star Wars Legends Epic Collection: The New Republic Vol. 3 (Dec-2017)

Twilight of the Clans

2 - Grave Covenant (Sep-1997)
7 - Prince of Havoc (Dec-1998)

X-Wing

1 - Rogue Squadron (Feb-1996)
2 - Wedge's Gamble (Jun-1996)
3 - The Krytos Trap (Oct-1996)
4 - The Bacta War (Jan-1997)
8 - Isard's Revenge (Apr-1999)

Book List in Order: 84 titles




  • THE ARCHON-DESIGNATE UNDER SIEGE! Melissa Steiner, heir-apparent of the Lyran Commonw6alth, has been hijacked aboard her interstellar JumpShip, just when her secret betrothal to Prince Hanse Davion of the Federated Suns would cement the most powe...



  • For, over 250 years, war, petty hatreds, and slowly failing technology have halted all attempts to unify the Inner Sphere. Five Successor States, splintered remnants of the great Star League, now struggle for control. But all that will soon change...



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    THEY ARE COMING. From beyond the Periphery comes a threat. A military force of unknown origin. NOTHING WE HAVE CAN STOP THEM. Their power, speed, and ferocity are unparalleled. Some of the finest warriors and ablest units have challenged them an...



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    THE HONEYMOON OVER. The armies of Prince Hanse Davion continue to advance through the CapeIlan Confederation out unopposed. Maximillian Liao's realm crumbles around him, yet within the madman's court, his two faithful advisors plot Hanse Davion's ...



  • THEY HAVE ARRIVED. The Clan invaders have chosen their next objective--Luthien, capital of the Draconis Combine. House Kurita must now fight for survival on its homeworld. NOTHING WE HAVE CAN STOP THEM. Hanse Davion is presented with a situation...




  • THEY HAVE CONQUERED The Clan invaders are driving toward their ultimate objective--Terra, cradle of humankind and hub of the ComStar communications network. NOTHING WE HAVE CAN STOP THEM The heir to the throne of the Draconis Combine is missing....



  • Tycho Caine is a man with a mission. He's sure of that. But, waking up in a body bag with amnesia, he's not sure of much else. Except that someone wants him dead... The time is the near future. The place is Phoenix, Arizona. The streets are roofed...







  • 1993, Evil Ascending / Dark Conspiracy Series. Game Designers Workshop, Bloomington, IL. Paperback, 320 pages. "This novel is set in the Universe of Dark Conspiracy, a role-playing game of modern horror." The 2nd book of the Fiddleback trilogy....




  • THE CLAN WAR HAS ENDED IN AN UNEASY PEACE... sporadic Clan incursions into Inner Sphere territory supply mercenaries like the Kell Hounds with more work than they can handle ... border raids sharply divide the Federated Commonwealth's political fact...



  • Pygmalion pointed his index finger at one scout like a child making a gun from his hand. His thumb fell once, and the scout crumbled to dust. A second twitch, and a scout evaporated; a third, and a scout burst into flames. Pygmalion gestured one last...



  • THE FUTIRE OF THE REALM Solaris VII, the Game World, is the Inner Sphere in microcosm, and Kai Allard-Liao is its Champion, veteran of the war against challengers who wish his crown for their own. There is no place he would rather be. Then t...



  • A LEGEND COME TO LIFE Half a millennium ago Neal Elfward, a legendary human warrior, fought alongside his Elven friend Aarundel for the freedom of mankind against the tyranny of the sorcerous Reithrese empire. But Neal's victory began a genocidal ...



  • YOU ONLY DIE TWICE Cyril Dent is trying to recover from a horrible experience -- his own death. Resurrected and rebuilt by the high-tech MegaCorporation Cybertronic, his mind is now the ghost in a killing machine that is as resilient as it is deadly....



  • A PERILOUS LEGACY Along with the throne of the Federated Commonwealth, Prince Victor Steiner-Davion inherited a number of problems. Foremost among them is the Clans' threat to the peace of the Inner Sphere--and a treacherous sister who wants to su...



  • JOIN THE MOST ELITE FIGHTING FORCE IN SPACE ON A DO-OR-DIE MISSION ONLY THE X-WINGS WOULD DARE! They are sleek, swift, and deadly. They are the X-wing fighters. And as the struggle rages across the vastness of space, the fearless men and women who...






  • THEY KILLED HIS LEADER. THEY STOLE HIS CLAN. THEY WANT HIM DEAD. In the wake civil war that nearly devastated the Jade Falcons and pushed his own Wolf Clan into nonexistence, Vlad of the Wards emerges harboring a powerful secret. He intends to use...



  • Sleek, swift, and deadly, they are the X-wing fighters. And as the baffle against the Empire rages across the vastness of space, the pilots risk both their lives and their machines for the cause of the Rebel Alliance. Now they must embark on a danger...



  • CAN THE ROGUE SQUADRON SURVIVE I'TS GREATEST CHALLENGE YET? They are the galaxy's most elite fighting force. And as the battle against the Empire rages, the X-wing fighters risk life and machine to protect the Rebel Alliance. Now they face their g...



  • They are the galaxy's most elite fighting force. And as the battle against the Empire rages, the X-wing fighters risk life and machine to protect the Rebel Alliance. Now they must do the impossible: capture a hostile, fortified world--on their own. ...



  • THROUGH THE WALL An apprentice swordsman, Locke has ridden the narrow trail to the City of the Sorcerers to see with his own eyes the Ward Walls that hold back the realms of Chaos. It is Locke's dream to become a Chaos Rider, and seek his destiny ...



  • WHEN JUSTICE AND DUTY COLLIDE Justices--the select of the Talion, endowed with fearsome magick and lethal martial skills--roam the Shattered Empire, crushing the lawless and championing the oppressed. Their word is law and their judgment binding o...



  • ONLY ONE WAY TO STOP THE CLANS Possessing precious secret information that will lead them down the Exodus Road, the Inner Sphere Successor States can now meet the Clans on their own terms...and behind enemy lines. The Herculean task of amassing en...



  • DESTINY'S FIRSTBORN In Chaos, a new power has arisen, an evil more ancient and more awesome than Fialchar himself, who first broke the Seal of Reality and let the Wildness spill over the world. Locke became a Chaos Rider to find his lost father...



  • The crime and death caused by Jabba the Hutt is nothing compared to the chaos created in the wake of his demise. Jabba's legacy is a cache of stolen Imperial hardware and weapons, hidden somewhere on the desert world of Tatooine. Whoever finds the tr...



  • Corran Horn has distinguished himself as one of the best and brightest of Rogue Squadron's elite fighting force, Then his wife, Mirax, vanishes on a covert mission for the New Republic, and Corran vows to find her. To do so, he knows he must develop ...






  • A shaman in secret, Wolfgang Kies joins forces with his sole ally, Dr. Richard Raven--an elf and vigilante--to battle Seattle's crime kingpin Etienne La Plante and his gang of hired goons and ice pick-wielding samurai. Original....



  • A WORLD ON THE EDGE OF WAR Eight centuries ago, the legendary Keerana Dost conquered a vast empire. Now younger nations battle for the remnants of his realm. As the turmoil spreads, princes and spies, priests and heretics are drawn into the fray. ...



  • TO THE VICTOR GO THE SPOILS... Task Force Serpent has triumphed and Clan Smoke Jaguar is shattered beyond redemption. But the final battle is still to come, when Prince Victor Steiner-Davion braves the unknown and travels to the very heart of the ...



  • Sleek, swift, and deadly, the famed X-wing fighters have earned their reputation as the Rebel Alliance's ultimate strike force the hard way--first in battle, the last line of defense. Now they must make a deal with the devil herself--an enemy whose u...



  • Wedge Antilles and the talented fliers of the X-wing Rogue Squadron confront their ultimate challenge when Baron Fel, the Empire's greatest fighter ace, and the Imperial 181st Fighter Division are dispatched to destroy the pilots of the Rebel Allianc...



  • In this epic of unsurpassed action and imagination, Michael Stackpole helps to launch an exciting new era in Star Wars history. ONSLAUGHT pits the battle-tested heroes of the past--Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, and Leia Organa Solo--along with the next g...



  • MASKS OF DESTINY In the sacred season of the Moon Month, four young men don the masks that herald their coming-of-age celebration, a time of testing, ritual, festival, and romance. But for Tarrant Hawkins and his friends Leigh, Rounce, and Nay,...



  • A thrilling Star Wars adventure in which the Jedi Knights must fight their most treacherous battle -- against an unrelenting evil intent on devouring the galaxy. The alien Yuuzhan Vong have launched an attack on the worlds of the Outer Rim. They a...



  • When Luke Skywalker, the New Republic's greatest hero and sole Jedi Master, decides to marry Mara Jade, the woman who was once the Emperor's personal assassin, you can be sure that hands both Imperial and New Republican will be raised to stop the mar...



  • The colonies of Mistria are in turmoil. They face wars between the competing empires and and insurrection from natives and colonists alike. Prince Vladamier is a Norillian noble, and Nephew to King Richard. He has little political power, but struggle...






  • Once one of the grandest of human cities, Yslin now has a dark heart known as the Dimandowns. And when Will, an orphaned young thief from the Dim, plots to prove himself to his master by stealing a prize from the exiled Elves who share the fetid slum...



  • At the head of her merciless armies, the tyrant, Chytrine pursues her quest to become empress the world in a brutal campaign of bloodshed an unholy sorcery. While cities and kingdoms topple, her agents search the conquered lands for the shattered Dra...



  • A DARK AGE HAS DESCENDED... For generations, the Republic of the Sphere has known a Golden Age of peace. Mighty BattleMechs, once kings of the battlefields, now aid the reconstruction of war-torn worlds. But when terrorists destroy the interstella...



  • THE GRAND CRUSADE The hope of the future, Will Norrington, prophesied to bring down the northern tyrant Chytrine and redeem the world, is said to be dead, lost in the heart of a fiery volcano. The news has thrown the Council of Kings into a furor and...



  • In Nalenyr, the family of the Royal Cartographer stands in a unique position. They not only draw the maps, but also explore uncharted territories, expanding and updating the existing knowledge of the world. Their talent has yielded them enormous powe...



  • New York Times Bestselling Author

    A New York Times Bestselling author of fantasy and science fiction novels, Michael A. Stackpole is well-known as the author of award-winning books and stories in gaming and media universes like Star Wars(r) and Ba...



  • Under the shadow of invasion by a nameless enemy, there seems only one way to save Nalenyr from oblivion. The old heroes who once defended the land must be awakened. And accomplishing that requires a journey across the magical wasteland where they're...



  • Collects Star Wars: X-Wing Rogue Squadron #9-20, Star Wars: X-Wing Rogue Squadron Special #1. As the Empire withers away and the New Republic grows, one team of ace starfighters takes on the most critical mission to ensure freedom in a galaxy long o...



  • THE LATEST ACTION-PACKED ADVENTURE... As Clan Wolf launches a daring campaign of reprisal against The Republic, three warriors will find their destinies intertwined on the field of battle, and in the fight for their futures. Alaric is a legen...



  • Collects Star Wars: X-Wing Rogue Squadron #21-35. The galaxy's greatest starfighters take flight once more in a mission to reclaim the galactic capital Coruscant from the Empire! Whether this becomes the New Republic's finest hour or its darkest def...






  • Time is running out. Nalenyr is besieged on all sides by those who would save the fabled land--and those who would enslave it. Soon the realm will be ravaged by the scourge of magical warfare--overrun by terrifying forces created by an ancient enemy,...




  • WARRIORS ALL The Great Star League general, Aleksandr Kerensky. - Colonel Archer Christifori, a man with a score to settle. - Nelson Geist, on Christmas patrol. - Clan Jade Falcons MechWarrior Joanna. - The Northwind Highlanders. - A Sandoval scio...



  • All-new from the top names in mystery and fantasy? including a never-beforepublished Sookie Stackhouse story from Charlaine Harris! This follow-up to Powers of Detection showcases bestselling and award-winning names from Simon Green to Laurie King...



  • 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. ...



  • In Hero Years... I'm Dead is New York Times bestselling author Michael A. Stackpole's first Digital-Original novel.Twenty years ago someone stole him away from Capital City. Having been released from captivity he returns to find everything changed. T...



  • Tricknomancy collects all seven of the Trick Molloy stories into the novel-length story they were always meant to be. This collection includes If Vanity Doesn't Kill Me and The Devil Within which have not been previously released or collected with th...



  • Murderous Magick is a collection of New York Times Bestselling author Michael A. Stackpole's short stories which weave together magick and murder. The stories in the collection are:Shepherd: A story set in the world of his novel Talion: RevenantThe A...



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    THIEF. PIRATE. BARBARIAN. HERO ... Born in the fires of battle, Conan of Cimmeria was raised to face the cold, merciless world with every ounce of strength and courage he possessed. And when the cruel warlord Khalar Zym slaughtered his father and hi...



  • Crime Tech is a collection of New York Times Bestselling author Michael A. Stackpole’s short stories which weave together technology and crime, often in unconventional ways. The stories in the collection are:Kid Binary and the Two-Bit Gang: A tale ...



  • From New York Times bestselling author Michael A. Stackpole comes the first in a brand new series of stories set in a world very close to our own, and yet so very different. In the world of Homeland Security Services, the 1993 attack on the Twin Towe...



  • 1767. In the three years since defeating the Tharyngians at Anvil Lake, The Crown Colonies of Mystria have prospered. Colonists, whether hunting for new land or the Promised Land of prophecy, have pushed beyond the bounds of charters granted by the Q...



  • Televangelist T. Thomas Thickett is better at raising money and causing trouble than he is at saving souls. One of his disciples, a high school teacher, fails a paper by Sara Piper, a self-avowed witch.This tanks her chances of being the class Valedi...



  • What does a sidekick do after retirement? What does a super villain do when he meets an evil greater than himself? Is it power that defines a hero, or something else? All of these questions and more are answered in A Hero By Any Other Name, a collect...



  • A brand-new novel set in the universe of the record-breaking, internationally bestselling video game "World of Warcraft" WAR IS COMING. Vol'jin, courageous leader of the Darkspear tribe. His strength and cunning are unmatched even among the Hor...



  • Time Traveled Tales is an exciting journey through stories of time travel, possible futures, and supernatural and alien beings from authors like Aaron Allston, Maxwell Alexander Drake, R.T. Kaelin, Janine Spendlove, Michael A. Stackpole, Bryan Young,...



  • What happens when you come back from the dead?Or when a girl falls for the monster under her bed?What is it that makes a monster terrifying? In Soothe the Savage Beast you’ll learn the answer to these questions and many others, in stories by some o...



  • Time Traveled Tales is an exciting journey through stories of time travel, possible futures, and supernatural and alien beings. Each story is beautifully illustrated by artist Matt Slay.The Adventure of the Tsarist Treasure, Michael A. StackpoleHypot...



    • When the aristocratic Vishov family is banished from their native Ustalav due to underhanded politics, they're faced with a choice: fade slowly into obscurity, or strike out for the nearby River Kingdoms and establish a new holding on the un...



  • Uncharted Worlds -- an exciting new speculative fiction series featuring bestselling and award-winning authors.These ten mind-boggling adventures include tales of ancient aliens, other worlds, and imagined futures.Join authors Michael A. Stackpole, M...



  • Collects Star Wars: X-Wing Rogue Squadron #17-35. Wedge Antilles leads the Rogue Squadron into action and adventure! It begins with what should be a straightforward mission -but will a simple search-and-rescue end with a requiem for a Rogue? Then, me...



  • A CLASH OF WARRIORS...As Clan Wolf launches a daring campaign of reprisal against the splintering Republic, three warriors will find their destinies intertwined on the field of battle and in the fight for their futures...Alaric is a living legend amo...



  • From Book 1: They are coming!

    From beyond the periphery comes a threat. A military force of unkown origin.

    Nothin we have can stop them. Their power, speed and ferocity are unparalleled. Some of the finest warriors and ablest units ...



  • A DANGEROUS MIX OF POLITICS AND PERIL…Morgan and Patrick Kell, founders of the Kell Hounds mercenary unit, are riding high. First, they deposed the crime lord that had been ruling the mercenary world of Galatea, then they saved that planet again fr...



  • DANGER FROM AN UNLIKELY SOURCE…MechWarrior brothers Morgan and Patrick Kell have successfully faced their first challenge in forming their new mercenary unit The Kell Hounds, toppling a criminal kingpin from atop his illegal empire on Galatea.But w...



  • NEVER BET AGAINST THE KELL BROTHERS…The Kell Hounds are one of the most storied mercenary units in the Inner Sphere. Now, New York Times-bestselling author and Kell Hounds creator Michael A. Stackpole goes back to the Hounds’ beginnings in these ...



  • JUMP BACK INTO THE COCKPIT!Picking up the battle standard for BattleTech fiction, Shrapnel: The Official BattleTech Magazine continues the tradition of hard-hitting stories set in the war-torn interstellar future of the 31st century and beyond. F...



  • THE WAR RAGES ON!Shrapnel: The Official BattleTech Magazine returns with more explosive BattleMech action from the 31st century! Experience tales of hard-won survival from the gaming world of Solaris VII, the wilds of the Deep Periphery, and the anna...



  • THE DAY THE STAR LEAGUE DIED! Shrapnel: The Official BattleTech Magazine brings you more BattleMech action from the war-torn 31st century and beyond! Celebrate Star League Day with tales of a long-abandoned 'Mech rediscovered and pressed into service...




  • An original Gears of War novel, exclusively detailing the aftermath of the Locust War written by New York Times bestselling author Michael A. Stackpole.THE END OF THE LOCUST WAR WAS JUST THE BEGINNING OF THE BATTLE FOR SERA’S FUTURE The Locust...



  • The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art; and (2) sedition.- Edward AbbeyWhether or not an artist intends to do so when creating their work, art—and especially writing—has a profound impact on our history, our c...




  • A nameless undead awakens in an ancient crypt, and thus does the journey begin. Drawn mysteriously toward the horizon, he ventures into a land of perils beyond death. A once shining kingdom has been fractured, and mindless Hollows prowl the dark corn...



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Michael A. Stackpole has published 84 books.

Michael A. Stackpole does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Star Wars X-Wing Series - The Bacta War, was published in November 2022.

The first book by Michael A. Stackpole, Grimtooth's Traps Too, was published in December 1982.

Yes. Michael A. Stackpole has 9 series.