Tim Pratt

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  • Bibliography:
    42 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    November 2005
  • Latest Book:
    July 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Axiom

1 - The Wrong Stars (Nov-2017)
2 - The Dreaming Stars (Sep-2018)
3 - The Forbidden Stars (Oct-2019)

Multi-Author Series List

Dungeons & Dragons

Venom in Her Veins (Mar-2012)

Forgotten Realms

Venom in Her Veins (Mar-2012)

Pathfinder Tales

8 - City of the Fallen Sky (Jun-2012)
13 - Liar's Blade (Mar-2013)
22 - Reign of Stars (Sep-2014)
28 - Liar's Island (Aug-2015)
33 - Liar's Bargain (Jun-2016)

Book List in Order: 42 titles

  • The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl

    In this debut novel, acclaimed short-story author Tim Pratt delivers an exciting heroine with a hidden talent -- and a secret duty. Witty and suspenseful, here is a contemporary love song to the West that was won and the myths that shape us.... As...

  • Little Gods

    • Tim Pratt's debut collection brings together fifteen stories, including the Nebula-nominated "Little Gods" and a previously unpublished novelette, "Pale Dog." Within these pages you will encounter a train to the underworld, a feral bicycle, ...

  • Hart & Boot & Other Stories

    Tim Pratt’s (Little Gods, The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl) Hart & Boot is a stunning collection of thirteen stories of the fantastic. Hart & Boot & Other Stories collects thirteen stories of love, death and monsters, including new story "Komod...

  • Sympathy for the Devil

    The Devil is known by many names: Serpent, Tempter, Beast, Adversary, Wanderer, Dragon, Rebel. His traps and machinations are the stuff of legends. His faces are legion. No matter what face the devil wears, Sympathy for the Devil....

  • The Nex

    Teenager Miranda Candle finds a mysterious necklace and is suddenly transported to The Nex, the bizarre city at the center of all possible universes, where she falls in with a pair of would-be revolutionaries -- the skinshifter Howlaa and the bodiles...

  • Silver Linings

    Even ordinarily, cloudmining can be dangerous -- those silver linings are heavy and potentially lethal -- but it's nothing compared being a cloudminer on the run....

  • Cup and Table

    This short story concerns an ancient, secret organization called the Table, and their quest for an artifact of awesome power. An elite but dysfunctional team -- including a methamphetamine addict who can see into the past, a murderous witch, a man wh...

  • Impossible Dreams

    In this Hugo Award-winning story, movie buff Pete discovers a video store stocked with DVDs of films that were never made: a director's cut of The Magnificent Ambersons; Harlan Ellison's version of I, Robot; The Death of Superman directed by Tim Burt...

  • The Witch's Bicycle

    "Even her bicycle was evil." So begins "The Witch's Bicycle," award-winning author Tim Pratt's first professionally published story. This contemporary fantasy novelette is a classic tale of boy meets girl... and psychopathic bully... and witch. First...



  • Annabelle's Alphabet

    "A is for Annabelle, who turned ten today." So begins this fantasy coming-of-age story about a little girl discovering her true identity, in the form of an abecedary: 26 singular moments in her life, one for each letter of the alphabet. First publish...

  • Artifice and Intelligence

    "Artifice and Intelligence" is the story of the world's first self-aware computer system, an artificial intelligence that calls herself Saraswati. When a powerful organization called The Consortium threatens the peace and security of the world, Saras...

  • Life in Stone

    Mr. Zealand is an elite assassin facing his most difficult assignment ever: to kill an immortal sorcerer. His client? The sorcerer himself, who can't remember where he put his soul for safekeeping. This story was first published in Lenox Avenue in 20...

  • Living with the Harpy

    "Living with the harpy presented certain difficulties. Her feathers clogged the shower drain, and the smell of unsavory meats cooked over chemical fires drifted from her room. She screamed profanity sometimes, as if afflicted with Tourette's, but wit...

  • Romanticore

    Novelette Romanticore may be award-winning author Tim Pratt's most ambitious and personal story: a deadly love triangle that includes a young writer, a monster pretending to be human, and a human who may be more monstrous than any beast of myth and l...

  • Briarpatch

    Darrin's life has been going downhill ever since his girlfriend Bridget walked out on him without a word of explanation six months ago. Soon after losing her, he lost his job, and his car, and eventually his enthusiasm for life. He can't imagine thin...

  • The Christmas Mummy

    Written by Heather Shaw and her husband, Hugo Award-winner Tim Pratt, short story "The Christmas Mummy" is the heartwarming tale of a family holiday. Also mummies. Also also ninjas. Meet the Christmas Mummy. He'll lurch into your heart....

  • Rangifer Volans

    Rangifer Volans is a tale of Christmas... and cryptids. A young cryptozoologist, not content with proving the existence of Bigfoot, the Mongolian Death Worm, and the Loch Ness Monster, sets his sights on a cryptid so unlikely that not even his collea...

  • Venom in Her Veins

    Dungeons & Dragons
    Forgotten Realms

    Child of prophecy? Harbinger of Doom Zaltys is a girl like any other to grow up ranging thejungles of the Southern Lluirwood. She's a crack shot with a bow and no stranger to the dangers that lurk beneath the deep forest canopy. On expedition...

  • City of the Fallen Sky

    Pathfinder Tales - 8

    Once a student of alchemy with the dark scholars of the Technic League, Alaeron fled their arcane order when his conscience got the better of him, taking with him a few strange devices of unknown function. Now in hiding in a distant city, he's ha...



  • Antiquities and Tangibles and Other Stories

    The third collection by Hugo Award-winning author Tim Pratt -- whose previous collection Hart & Boot and Other Stories was a World Fantasy Award finalist -- gathers 23 of his best recent works of SF and Fantasy. Stories include Theodore Sturgeon Memo...

  • Liar's Blade

    Pathfinder Tales - 13

    • With strength, wit, rakish charm, and a talking sword named Hrym, Rodrick has all the makings of a classic hero ― except for the conscience. Instead, he and Hrym live a high life as scoundrels, pulling cons and parting the weak from their ...

  • The Cold Corner

  • The Stormglass Protocol

    Fourteen-year-old Jake had ignored the letters stamped "Highly Confidential" for too long, so they sent him a message he couldn't miss.

    With his parents at work and his friends at camp, Jake's summer is stretching into a letdown of legendary...

  • Heirs of Grace

    Recent art school graduate Bekah thought she’d hit the jackpot: an unknown relative died, and she inherited a small fortune and a huge house in the mountains of North Carolina. Trey Howard, the lawyer who handled the estate, is a handsome man i...

  • Reign of Stars

    Pathfinder Tales - 22

    • When the leader of the ruthless Technic League calls in a favor, the mild-mannered alchemist Alaeron has no choice but to face a life he thought he’d left behind long ago. Accompanied by his only friend, a street-savvy thief named Skiver, ...

  • Liar's Island

    Pathfinder Tales - 28

    Rodrick is a con man as charming as he is cunning. Hrym is a talking sword of magical ice, with the soul and spells of an ancient dragon. Together, the two travel the world, parting the gullible from their gold and freezing their enemies in their tra...

  • Liar's Bargain

    Pathfinder Tales - 33

    Paizo Publishing is the award-winning publisher of fantasy roleplaying games, accessories, and board games. Pathfinder Tales: Liar's Bargain is the latest in their popular novel series. The sequel to Hugo Award Winner Tim Pratt’s Liar’s Island...

  • The Wrong Stars

    Axiom - 1

    Philip K. Dick Award FinalistA “ridiculously fun” series debut “with a well-thought-out space opera setting and lots of fancy reveals” -- from a Hugo Award winner (Charlie Jane Anders, author of All the Birds in the Sky). A ragtag space crew...

  • The Dreaming Stars

    Axiom - 2

    The crew of the White Raven returns to save the galaxy, in this brilliant space opera sequel to The Wrong Stars Ancient aliens, the Axiom, will kill us all -- when they wake up. In deep space, a swarm of nanoparticles threatens the colonies, trans...



  • Miracles & Marvels: Stories

    A sexually transmitted volcano. Polyamorists facing off against a malevolent fairy. The vicious cave bear that appears to everyone at the moment of their death. Time-traveling lesbians who fight crime. A woman who summons the ghosts of extinct megafa...

  • The Forbidden Stars

    Axiom - 3

    This “witty, heartfelt sci-fi romp” is the dazzling third installment in a diverse space opera series for fans of The Expanse and John Scalzi’s The Collapsing Empire -- from a Hugo Award"winning author (Tor.com) The ancient alien gods are w...

  • The Fractured Void

    A brave starship crew are drawn into the schemes of interplanetary powers competing for galactic domination, in this epic space opera from the best-selling strategic boardgame, Twilight ImperiumCaptain Felix Duval and the crew of the Temerarious...

  • Doors of Sleep

    Doctor Who meets Jorge Luis Borges’ “The Garden of Forking Paths” in this time travel sci-fi adventure from a Hugo Award winning author What would you do if you woke up and found yourself in a parallel universe under an alien sky? This is the...

  • The Alien Stars

    The first novella collection set in the world of Pratt's popular Axiom space opera trilogy.In this collection of previously unpublished novellas, Hugo Award-winner Tim Pratt returns to the acclaimed sci-fi universe of his Axiom trilogy.Each of these ...

  • The Necropolis Empire

    The key to controlling the galaxy is hidden on a distant planet, and interplanetary powers will do anything to unlock its secrets, in this epic space opera from the best-selling game, Twilight ImperiumBianca Xing has spent a lifetime on a provin...

  • Prisoners of Sleep

    After escaping the ruthless Lector, Zax Delatree has a new enemy to fight in the sequel to Doors of Sleep.Every time Zaxony Delatree falls asleep he wakes up on a new world. His life has turned into an endless series of brief encounters. But at least...

  • The Veiled Masters

    The galaxy stands on the brink of war, yet hope remains that the vast web of schemes can be exposed before it’s too late, in this astounding space opera from the acclaimed game, Twilight ImperiumThe balance of power is shifting, with bold new ...

  • The Ravening Deep

    A nightmarish power unleashed from the depths infiltrates Arkham in this nautical-horror pulp adventure from the acclaimed Arkham Horror game worldWhen dissolute fisherman Abel Davenport discovers an ancient temple in the deep ocean, he und...

  • Nigh Space



  • The Knife and the Serpent

    From Hugo Award winning author Tim Pratt comes a new, high-concept space opera, exploring technology, family and the price we pay to follow our destiny, perfect for fans of Peter F. Hamilton and Adrian Tchaikovsky.After her grandmother is m...

  • Herald of Ruin

    The enigmatic Carl Sanford is the master of all things occult in Arkham, until a charismatic newcomer threatens to take everything away from him in this dark mystery set in the world of Arkham Horror.Carl Sanford's mastery of the Silver Twilight Lodg...

  • Closing Doors

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    After a checkered career as a magical mercenary, ruler of a city, occult detective, freelance monster-hunter, and part-time demigod, Marla Mason has ascended fully to godhood, and now rules the underworld alone. Before she can retire to an eternity o...

Award-Winning Books by Tim Pratt

The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl
2005 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Modern-Day Fantasy Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Tim Pratt has published 42 books.

The next book by Tim Pratt, Herald of Ruin, will be published in July 2024.

The first book by Tim Pratt, The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl, was published in November 2005.

Yes. Tim Pratt has 1 series.
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