Suzanne Palmer Books In Order

Publication Order of Finder Chronicles Books

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas

Publication Order of Anthologies

Suzanne Palmer is best known as a science fiction novelist who has been the winner of a Hugo Award. She is also employed at the Clark Science Center at Smith where she works as a Data and Systems Administrator. Earlier, she went to the University of Massachusetts at Amherst where she got a Fine Arts in sculpture bachelor’s degree. Even though she still does art for fun, she now focuses more on her writing. She won the Hugo Award in 2018 for The Secret Lives of Bots and has been nominated for several other awards since. She currently makes her home in western Massachusetts, where she lives with several four and two-legged creatures.

While in college, her artwork was known for its strong narrative elements, and her thesis exhibition took artifacts from a fictional world to fill an entire museum. Some of the artifacts in her exhibitions included furniture, coins, clothing, an eight-inch tall, two-legged creature complete with teeth, fur, and horns, and manuscripts in a newly created language. She sometimes jokes that her switch to writing may have had to do with the fact that sculpture needed too much space. However, the real reason for the switch is that she got into writing as a way of dealing with the loss of several coworkers on 9/11/. During this time, Suzanne Palmer was working as a Linux System administrator, which is a very involving job that sometimes required her to work on the weekends. For this reason, much of her writing is done on the weekends when she gets a little time. She does much of the plotting and planning while doing errands such as grocery shopping and driving around.

Suzanne Palmer began writing in 2001 if you do not take into account the many stories she wrote as a child and teenager. Initially, she never intended to make it into a regular thing, but going to Viable Paradise in 2005 changed everything. Palmer had always loved reading fantasy and science fiction, and when she was 15, her best friend had dragged her into her first Boskone, and she was hooked. For much of her life since then, the science fiction and fantasy world, including the communities, media, and literature, has become part and parcel of who she is. When it came to the writing of her debut novel, Finder, it all came from visualizing cable cars in space into which she threw in several random people, and the story was born. Suzanne published Finder, the first of the Finder Chronicles series of novels, in 2019 and has never looked back since. She now has at least four titles in the series.

Suzanne Palmer’s debut novel, Finder, is an action-packed work that stars interstellar professional finder and repossession man Fergus Ferguson. His latest assignment is to locate Venetia Sword, the spacecraft, and get it back from former nobleman turned power-hungry trader Arum ilger. He is supposed to slip in and decode the ship’s security systems and then get it out. He successfully manages to find the ship and Gilger in the furthest reaches of space in a colony called Cernee. However, just at the moment he arrives, there is a cable explosion that results in a brutal civil war. Fergus will need to work with Gilger’s enemies to navigate a small army of hostile mercenaries and space mines. What was to be a simple assignment soon turns into a power struggle, even as Fergus becomes inconveniently and increasingly invested in the lives of the colonists. What is even worse is that he is being followed by ominous triangle ships full of dangerous alien species once believed mythical. If he is to get out alive and save the colony from destruction, he will need all the help he can get.

Suzanne Palmer yet again continues to follow the life and times of Fergus Ferguson, the professional finder, in the second novel of the series, Driving the Deep. He is now recovering from his experiences in Cernee alongside the Shipmakers of Pluto, who are his friends. The latter have convinced him to deal with some unfinished business on Earth, which he has been avoiding ever since he was fifteen. Back then, he had stolen his cousin’s motorbike and fled, but he knew that it was time to finally go back to face his family and return the stolen motorbike. Unfortunately, someone has stolen the motorbike, and before he can find out what happened and track it down, the shipyard, now full of stolen, priceless art, comes under attack. After the attack is over, his friends are nowhere to be found, and he believes they have been kidnapped. Working with a detective who believes Fergus is guilty and one friend who escaped the kidnapping, they follow a trail that leads to the moon. Beneath the thick ice sheet on the moon, there are research stations, which he intends to use to find his friends and the stolen motorbike. But every move they make is watched, and getting under the surface is monitored and highly dangerous. Even if he finds proof that his fiend may be held underneath the ice sheet, getting out is going to be very difficult.

In 2021, Suzanne Palmer published the third novel of the Finder Chronicles series, The Scavenger Door. Back on Earth, Fergus is attempting to live a normal life even though it is clear the universe has very different plans. When his cousin gives him an assignment to help out a friend, he accidentally comes upon an ancient artifact, which makes some very influential individuals believe that the entire solar system could be in danger. But since he is the one who found the alien artifact, they are convinced that he is the one best able to deal with the problem. Working with friends both new and old, his newfound sister, and a few enemies, Fergus will have to locate the rest of the artifact and destroy them before anyone can reassemble the entirety of it. If someone found all the pieces and reassembled it, it could open a portal between Earth and an implacable alien horde of devourers. His biggest problem is that he is not the only one searching, and the pieces could be anywhere on the planet.