Reading Order
If you are new to my work, or ready to dive into something else after finishing one of my novels, here’s a guide to all my published works and my suggested reading order for each genre.
I’ve ordered this by genre as the urban fantasy works are very different to my science fiction novels. It isn’t any comment on which genre you should read first!
Science Fiction
All of these novels are set in the Planetfall universe, and all are standalone novels. They are interlinked, most in minor ways, with the occasional recurring character. They are available in paperback, ebook and audio book formats.
They could be read in any order, however, I recommend you read After Atlas BEFORE you read Atlas Alone, as the latter is set about 6 months after the end of After Atlas and follows the same characters.
Recommended reading order:
Before Mars
Atlas Alone
This reading order is also viable, simply giving you a different experience:
Atlas Alone
Before Mars
URBAN FANTASY
I have written two separate urban fantasy series and each one does need to be read in a specific order. The Split Worlds series is contemporary urban fantasy with evil fairies, feuding dynastic families, mad sorcerers and lashings and lashings of feminism. And cake. Lots of tea and cake. They are available in paperback, ebook and audio book formats.
The Industrial Magic series is strictly speaking ‘gaslamp fantasy’, as it is set in an alternative 1850’s England in which advances in the understanding of magic, rather than science, have brought about the Industrial Revolution. Two novellas have been published so far, and I plan to continue the series in the future.
The Split Worlds series reading order – they really do need to be read in this order, trust me!
The Industrial Magic series
Weaver’s Lament
Other published works
From Dark Places. My first ever published work, a short story collection which is still available in ebook and POD paperback.
I have had short stories and novelettes published in a variety of anthologies. I would recommend the following:
A Woman’s Place, featured in 221 Baker Streets published by Abaddon Books. (Won the BFS Best Short Story Award in 2015)
How To Turn A Girl To Stone, featured in the Wild Cards collection Knaves Over Queens
Made Monstrous, featured in Creatures, The Legacy of Frankenstein published by Abaddon Books
Your Death, Your Way, 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Featured in 2001 An Odyssey In Words, published by Newcon Press.