Michael McCollum

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  • Bibliography:
    15 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    June 1983
  • Latest Book:
    November 2020
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Full Series List in Order

Antares

Antares Passage (Nov-1987)
Antares Dawn (1990)

The Maker

Life Probe (Jun-1983)
Procyon's Promise (Jul-1985)

Book List in Order: 15 titles

  • Life Probe

    The Maker

    A FRIEND IN NEED Before Man's ancestors began to walk upright, the Maker civilization was already ancient. When Man first used fire, the Makers had been searching slowly through space for millennia. Then, after a 10,000-year journey, a Maker Li...

  • Procyon's Promise

    The Maker

    For millennia, the Makers’ Life Probes explored the farthest reaches of space in search of the secret behind faster-than-light speed. In the 22nd century, the people of Earth made a pact with this far-flung civilization -- all of the Makers’ inte...

  • Antares Passage

    Antares

    After more than a century of isolation, the paths between stars are again open and the people of Alta in contact with their sister colony on Sandar. And yet, the opening of the foldlines has not been the pure blessing the Altans had supposed. The ree...

  • A Greater Infinity

    Duncan MacElroy went out for a six-pack of beer one night and never came back. Instead, he found himself embroiled in a war for the dominance of Paratime, as well as defending our own particular version of Earth from predators on both sides. For he q...

  • Antares Dawn

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    Antares

    When the supergiant star Antares exploded in 2512, the human colony on Alta found their pathway to the stars gone, isolating them from the rest of human space for more than a century.When a powerful warship materializes in the system without warning,...

  • Clouds of Saturn

    When the sun flared out of control and boiled Earth's oceans, humanity took refuge in a place that few would have predicted. In the greatest migration in history, the entire human race took up residence among the towering clouds and deep clear-air ca...

  • Sails of Tau Ceti

    Starhopper was humanity's first interstellar probe. It was designed to search for intelligent life beyond the solar system. Before it could be launched, however, intelligent life found Earth. The discovery of an alien light sail inbound at the edge o...

  • Thunderstrike!

    The new comet found near Jupiter was an incredible treasure trove of water-ice and rock. Immediately, the water-starved Luna Republic and Sierra Corporation, a leader in asteroid mining, were squabbling over rights to the new resource. But all though...

  • Antares Victory

    After a century of warfare, humanity finally discovered the Achilles heel of the Ryall, their xenophobic reptilian foe. Spica â€" Alpha Virginis â€" is the key star system in enemy space. It is the hub through which all Ryall starships must pass, and...



  • Gibraltar Earth

    It is the 24th Century. Humanity is only just beginning to gain a toehold out among the stars. While exploring the New Eden system, the crew aboard Stellar Survey Starship Magellan encounters a pair of alien spacecraft. A skirmish ensues and both sid...

  • Gibraltar Stars

    The great debate is over. The human race has rejected the idea of retreating to Earth and that the Broa will continue to overlook them -- at least for a few more generations. Instead, the World Parliament, by a 60-40 vote, has decided to throw the di...

  • Gibraltar Sun

    The crew aboard the Stellar Survey Starship Magellan returns to Earth with bad news from their expedition to the Crab Nebula. Out among the stars, a million systems have fallen under the weight of Broan force -- a fate awaiting Earth should the Broa ...

  • Gridlock, and Other Stories

    DUTY, HONOR, PLANET -- A story of love, honor, courage, and the Strategic Defense Initiative . . .SCOOP -- For Those Who Think Chernobyl and Three Mile Island Were Big Deals, in the Words of the Immortal Al Jolson: "You ain't seen nothin' yet!" BEER ...

  • Euclid's Wall

    A World Asunder A century after civilization fell in a day and a night of tectonic cataclysm, scattered communities have regained a fraction of what humanity lost on that Day of Destruction. One such is the Duchy of Hampshire on the southern tip of E...

  • Lost Earth

    A Galaxy Reborn It is the 43rd century and humanity occupies a substantial chunk of the Orion Spur, the small galactic arm in which Sol is located. Homo sapiens Terra has become Homo sapiens Galactica. Following the invention of faster-than-light t...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Michael McCollum has published 15 books.

Michael McCollum does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Lost Earth, was published in November 2020.

The first book by Michael McCollum, Life Probe, was published in June 1983.

Yes. Michael McCollum has 2 series.
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