Cairo Smith Books In Order

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas

Publication Order of Short Story Collections

Publication Order of Futurist Letters Books

Cairo Smith is an accomplished American author.

He is also a director and a screenwriter as well as a playwright. He has written several novellas, novels, and short story collections. He likes to write adventurous stories that feature esoteric worlds. Personally he says that he dreams of a vital and dynamic future.

Cairo’s first feature film was titled Screwdriver and premiered at Dances With Films in LA in 2022. The New York premier of the film was held at the SoHo International Film Festival in 2023. Meanwhile, Red Team, a tech thriller short film, premiered in 2025 at SoHo. Smith is the founder and head of Askari Productions. Askari Production co-produced Screwdriver with No Sudden Moves and is producing novels, films, and narrative fiction podcasts with different partners.

Cairo’s game Claudia Braun and the Disappearing Sable is an illustrated text adventure that is available to play free online. He also founded Futurist Letters, which is a web publication of essays and short fiction that can be subscribed to free on its site and can be submitted to for essays and fiction. His poem the Fallujiad about the Iraq War is serialized online and he is the creator of Anachrona, which is a free anachronism detector tool to be used on historical writing.

Cairo won the PAGE Award in screenwriting, which is one of the most prestigious prizes for unproduced scripts in Hollywood. He has done plenty of adaptation writing and has written an English adaptation script for several shows featured on Netflix, Disney, Amazon and Paramount. Cairo has also contributed essays and fiction writing to places such as Motherboard, VICE, Omni, UnHerd, and more. He has also built story and marketing content for Niantic Labs and Cowri Labs. His work has won awards from the Kennedy Center and Fresh Voices.

Komodo is a 2024 novel by Cairo Smith. If you have been looking for some fresh fiction to check out, you are in the right place. Whether you want a light read for summer or something to recommend to friends, this is a great interplanetary epic story from science fiction author Cairo Smith that will have you turning the pages from start to finish to find out how this story ends.

She has two hundred planets in her grasp, but will it end up being enough? Main character Basra Camden isn’t going to stop now. She’s a 29 year old customs enforcer who is on the outskirts of a solar republic that is in the middle of a stagnation period and she is adrift between worlds and customs.

She gets blacklisted when a raid goes wrong and when she does, she decides that it is time to double down and build up her own private peacekeeping force. Basra rises from the outer territories and starts making her own way to glory, determined to claw her way there. As her cult of personality starts to solidify and grain traction, there is also war to deal with– hanging out in the shadows of the democratic order as it crumbles and setting the stage for a collapse that could end up meaning that billions of lives are hanging in the balance.

Full of intrigue and never short on the action, this is a science fiction adventure that you won’t want to miss. Full of conflict, find out what happens by getting your hands on a copy of Komodo today and seeing what goes down on the way to its exciting conclusion!

Calinitia Dreaming is a 2025 novel by Cairo Smith. If you like a story that features a noir overtone, beaches, high rises, and dark ritual forces, then this might be the book for you.

A girl ends up disappearing from a club uptown, and most people aren’t that concerned. The cops don’t care at all and the cathedral is not going to do anything. But this might just be an important sign– a sign that the end of the world is on its way.

Adon Halicar traces along with dark magic as the military washout follows the trail left by his old friend through the alleys and mansions of Calinitia in the mid-century. The sun makes the asphalt hot while the sea is shining blue. All the time, a conspiracy is out there in the bloodstained shadows of the city.

This neo-noir fantasy adventure novel is one that fans of the genre won’t want to miss. Be aware that this book does have an R content rating for drugs, language, violence, suggestive content and more. There is something for every reader in this book, you just have to peer past the ethnic strife, the politics, and the mandates from the state church.

There’s something ready to crack open beneath this balmy exterior. It turns out that one guy with a muscle car might be what it takes to blow this whole thing open. Calinitia Dreaming is a must read book by Cairo Smith, so check it out and see what you think– grab a copy today!