Mur Lafferty

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  • Bibliography:
    27 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    July 2008
  • Latest Book:
    April 2025
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Full Series List in Order

The Afterlife

1 - Heaven (May-2011)
2 - Hell (Jun-2011)
3 - Earth (Jun-2011)
4 - Wasteland (Jun-2011)
5 - War (Jun-2011)

The Midsolar Murders

1 - Station Eternity (Oct-2022)

Shambling Guides

1 - The Shambling Guide to New York City (Jun-2013)
2 - Ghost Train to New Orleans (Mar-2014)

Multi-Author Series List

Minecraft

Minecraft: The Lost Journals (Jul-2019)

Star Wars

Solo: A Star Wars Story (Apr-2019)

Book List in Order: 27 titles

  • Playing For Keeps

    The shining metropolis of Seventh City is the birthplace of super powers. The First Wave heroes are jerks, but they have the best gifts: flight, super strength, telepathy, genius, fire. The Third Wavers are stuck with the leftovers: the ability to in...

  • Marco and the Red Granny

    From the 2012 John W. Campbell Award Nominee and Two Time Parsec Award Winner"Lafferty's most memorable and exciting creation to date." ~Goodreads.com"...a really fun read. I love the setting (an alien settlement on the moon becomes "Mollywood", the ...

  • Heaven

    The Afterlife - 1

    Nominee of the 2007 Parsec Award for Best Novella, from the 2013 John W. Campbell Award Winner."Lafferty is a funny writer, with a clear obsession for afterlife mythos and an admirable hand at drawing likable characters... one of the most promising w...

  • Earth

    The Afterlife - 3

    From the 2013 John W. Campbell Award Winner and Two Time Parsec Award WinnerPraise for the Afterlife Series"It’s like a Unifying Theory for all religions and mythologies, binding together diverse cosmologies into a coherent, end-of-the-world tale i...

  • Hell

    The Afterlife - 2

    From the 2013 John W. Campbell Award Winner and Two Time Parsec Award WinnerPraise for the Afterlife Series"It’s like a Unifying Theory for all religions and mythologies, binding together diverse cosmologies into a coherent, end-of-the-world tale i...

  • War

    The Afterlife - 5

    From the 2013 John W. Campbell Award Winner and Two Time Parsec Award WinnerPraise for the Afterlife Series"It’s like a Unifying Theory for all religions and mythologies, binding together diverse cosmologies into a coherent, end-of-the-world tale i...

  • Wasteland

    The Afterlife - 4

    Winner of the 2008 Parsec Award for Best Novella PodcastPraise for the Afterlife Series"It’s like a Unifying Theory for all religions and mythologies, binding together diverse cosmologies into a coherent, end-of-the-world tale in which the deepest ...

  • You Must Be My Lucky Star

  • Pawn, Deception, and Sacrifice - Valdia's Tale

    When the half-vampire protector of the village of Shoel races to rescue a child stolen away by ghouls, she discovers their more dastardly intent. Can she overcome the odds stacked against her or will she succumb to her darker side? What is her vampir...



  • The Shambling Guide to New York City

    Shambling Guides - 1

    A travel writer takes a job with a shady publishing company in New York, only to find that she must write a guide to the city - for the undead! Because of the disaster that was her last job, Zoe is searching for a fresh start as a travel book edit...

  • Ghost Train to New Orleans

    Shambling Guides - 2

    COULD YOU FIND A MUSEUM FOR A MONSTER? OR A JAZZ BAR FOR A JABBERWOCK? Zoe Norris writes travel guides for the undead. And she's good at it too -- her new-found ability to talk to cities seems to help. After the success of The Sbambling Guide to ...

  • Stones

  • A Sorcerer's Apprentice

    Good intentions in Glasgow lead to disastrous results. Sal and Asanti leave the rest of the Team in the lurch when they jet off to Scotland to attend the funeral of the archivists’ mentor. Something is amiss in the Dear Green Place, however, as th...

  • Under My Skin

    When it comes to tattoos in the City of Sin, what happens in Vegas doesn’t stay in Vegas.The Team must travel to Las Vegas when the human canvases of a tattoo competition show start dying. The list of potential magical murders is colorful and well ...

  • Shore Leave

    Grace gets a day off and time threatens to swallow Rome. It’s Grace’s one day off a year and nothing will stop her from enjoying every last second of it: not Sal’s troubling sleepwalking, not the mysterious tour guide Aaron and his aggressive c...

  • Keeping Friends Close

    Episode 13 of Bookburners, the urban fantasy episodic series from Serial Box, will be unlucky for someone -- but whom? After Sal, possessed by the Hand, turns on her friends and teammates, Team Three has to decide whether she is a victim or a tar...

  • Debtor's Prison

    A Bookburner always pays her debts in the fifth episode of Bookburners, the gritty Urban Fantasy presented by Serial Box, now in its second season. Asanti’s murky past gets a bit clearer when an old friend visits her to reminisce . . . and collect...

  • Six Wakes

    On a space ship far from earth, someone is murdering the crew. And the crew's newly awakened clones will have to find their killer--before he strikes again! Maria Arena awakens in a cloning vat streaked with drying blood. She has no memory of how ...

  • Time Capsule

    This is the 5th episode in the third season of Bookburners, a 13-episode serial from Serial Box Publishing. This episode written by Mur Lafferty. Magic is real . . . and hungry. Sal and Perry try to entertain their parents in Rome . . . without revea...



  • Making Amends

    This is the 8th episode in the third season of Bookburners, a 13-episode serial from Serial Box Publishing. This episode written by Mur Lafferty. Magic is real…and hungry. Ever since he was rescued from demonic possession in Prague, Liam has spent ...

  • Solo: A Star Wars Story

    Star Wars

    Don’t miss the exclusive content in this thrilling adaptation of Solo: A Star Wars Story, with scenes from alternate versions of the script including Han Solo’s time in the Imperial Navy, Qi’ra’s past, the beginnings of the rebellion, and mor...

  • Minecraft: The Lost Journals

    Minecraft

    The brand-new official Minecraft novel is a journey into the unknown! Max and Alison are proof that differences don’t stand in the way of friendship. Max is always on the lookout for a new adventure -- even if it means getting into trouble -- w...

  • The Lost Journals

    This official Minecraft novel is a journey into the unknown! Max and Alison are proof that differences don’t stand in the way of friendship. Max is always on the lookout for a new adventure—even if it means getting into trouble&mdash...

  • Station Eternity

    The Midsolar Murders - 1

    Amateur detective Mallory Viridian’s talent for solving murders ruined her life on Earth and drove her to live on an alien space station, but her problems still follow her in this witty, self-aware novel that puts a speculative spin on murder myste...

  • The Ophelia Network

    In an authoritarian America, personal freedoms are at risk, information is being controlled, and legal citizens suddenly find themselves being deported. A growing resistance movement is active, angry, and looking to strike back. And a TV show for kid...

  • Chaos Terminal

    Mallory Viridian would rather not be an amateur detective, and fled to outer space to avoid it…but when one of the new human arrivals on a space shuttle is murdered, she’s back in the game.Mallory Viridian would rather not be an amateur detective...

  • Infinite Archive

    Amateur sleuth Mallory Viridian has just about got her bearings aboard the space station she calls home, but now the physical embodiment of the Internet is on its way, and it's bringing murder with it.Mallory Viridian has had a quiet few months. Even...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Mur Lafferty has published 27 books.

The next book by Mur Lafferty, Infinite Archive, will be published in April 2025.

The first book by Mur Lafferty, Playing For Keeps, was published in July 2008.

Yes. Mur Lafferty has 3 series.
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