Paul J. McAuley Books In Order
Book links take you to Amazon. As an Amazon Associate I earn money from qualifying purchases.Publication Order of Four Hundred Billion Stars Books
Four Hundred Billion Stars | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Secret Harmonies / Of the Fall | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Eternal Light | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Confluence Books
Child of the River | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ancients of Days | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Shrine of Stars | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of The Quiet War Books
The Quiet War | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Quiet War | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Gardens of the Sun | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Gardens of the Sun | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Stories from the Quiet War | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
In the Mouth of the Whale | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
In the Mouth of the Whale | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Evening's Empires | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Life After Wartime | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Something Coming Books
Something Coming Through | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Into Everywhere | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Something Happened Here, But We’re Not Quite Sure What It Was | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Doctor Who Books
Doctor Who: Companion Piece | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Dalek Factor | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Script Doctor: The Inside Story of Doctor Who, 1986-89 | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Through Time: An Unauthorised and Unofficial History of Doctor Who | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
Red Dust | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Pasquale's Angel | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fairyland | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Making History | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Secret of Life | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Whole Wide World | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
White Devils | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mind's Eye | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cowboy Angels | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Players | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Austral | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
War of the Maps | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Secret Harmonies | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Beyond the Burn Line | (2023) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
The Temptation of Dr Stein | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Naming the Dead | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
City of the Dead | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Prisoners of the Action | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dr Pretorius and the Lost Temple | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
The King of the Hill | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Invisible Country | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Little Machines | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
Publication Order of Doctor Who Short Stories/Novellas
Time and Relative | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Citadel of Dreams | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Foreign Devils | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Eye of the Tyger | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nightdreamers | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ghost Ship | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Rip Tide | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Wonderland | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Shell Shock | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Cabinet of Light | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Frayed | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fallen Gods | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Companion Piece | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Blood and Hope | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Beast of Babylon | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Zombie Apocalypse! Books
Zombie Apocalypse! Horror Hospital | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Zombie Apocalypse! Washington Deceased | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Zombie Apocalypse! End Game | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Zombie Apocalypse! Acapulcalypse Now | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Jackaroo Books
A Very British History | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Into Everywhere | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories Books
Publication Order of The Year's Best Science Fiction Books
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Second Annual Collection | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Anthology series.Numerous authors. |
Publication Order of The Mammoth Book of... Books
The Mammoth Book of 20th Century Science Fiction | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of 20th Century Science Fiction, Volume I | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Anthology series. |
Publication Order of Anthologies
The Mammoth Book of Vampires | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
In Dreams | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Frankenstein | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 6 | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dark Terrors 2 | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 7 | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Dracula | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Eleventh Annual Collection | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Furthest Horizon | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Vanishing Acts | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, #11 | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, #12 | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Futures | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Space Soldiers | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Supermen | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 13 | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 15 | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 14 | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 16 | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Hard SF Renaissance | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, Vol. 15 | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Space Opera Renaissance | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Future Weapons of War | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 22 | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fast Forward 2 | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2009 | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 2 | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Living Dead 2 | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Zombie Apocalypse! | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Recent Weird | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of SF Wars | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 4 | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lightspeed Magazine, January 2015 | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Aliens: Recent Encounters | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 5 | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New SF 26 | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume One | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
In the Shadow of Frankenstein | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Galactic Empires | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 9 | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories, Volume 1 | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2017 | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
In the Footsteps of Dracula | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Twelve Tomorrows | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Clarkesworld Year Ten: Volume One | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 3 | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The 2020 Look at Mars Fiction Book | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The 2020 Look at Space Opera Book | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Burning Brightly | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Paul J. McAuley is an English author of fiction. He was born in 1955 and is the writer of over twenty novels in a variety of genres from crime and mystery to suspense thriller and even science fiction.
He has penned several short story collections as well as a novella for the British science fiction television show Doctor Who as well as a popular music anthology of stories and more. McAuley has produced several thrillers based off of science fiction themes since 2001 that include Whole Wide World, The Secret of Life, and more.
His work in fiction has won numerous awards. He is a huge fan of everything that has to do with science and has even been listed as one of 140 top most interesting Twitter users (Tweeters) on the behalf of Time magazine in 2013. He has won the Arthur C. Clarke award for his novel Fairyland in 1996 and also had the distinct honor of being able to receive a prestigious award for the best science fiction novel in 1997 with a highly coveted John W. Campbell Memorial Award.
Before writing novels full-time, he was a research biologist. McAuley worked as U.C.L.A. and Oxford for several years as well as St. Andrews University, where he was a botany lecturer for a period of six years. When he worked in science his interest was research into symbiotic relationships between coelenterates and unicellular algae. This involved corals, sea anenomes, and green hydra.
Paul J. McAuley currently lives in London in the north area. He has not yet walked down every street there, but he is attempting to. He continues to write fiction and compose stories full-time. He has integrated plenty of his knowledge and interest in topics and real-life ideas of science into his works of science fiction. Some of his themes include alternate realities, alternate histories, space travel, and biotechnology as well as nanotechnology and more. A lot of his sci-fi novels could be classified into the ‘hard science fiction’ genre.
The Four Hundred Billion Stars series is an exciting science fiction series that kicked off with the first book in the series of the same name coming out in 1988. The novel would go on to win the Philip K. Dick award that very same year. Secret Harmonies was the sequel, and it was released just a year later. It is also known by the alternate title, Of the Fall. Eternal Light came out in 1991 and made this exciting series a trilogy.
Four Hundred Billion Stars is the debut novel in the series of the same name by Paul McAuley. In this book, the main character is named Dorothy Yoshida. She is not like everyone else as she is a telepath. This means that she can communicate using her mind and she is very good at doing so.
Not only is Yoshida a telepath, she also is a scientist. So when a planet starts to show some strange signs, Dorothy is the one that is sent to investigate it. When she arrives, she has no idea that the small planet will turn out to be much more than it initially seems. She comes to the planet with a group of scientists that share her mission. When they begin to look closer at the planet, some of them start to think that the planet has been altered in some way.
Their working theory is that something about the planet has been artificially tampered with. Even though they are suspicious, the only place that they can find life ends up being on the surface. Even that has not really gone that much further than animals. Even though the human race wants to find something about the planet that might be able to help them fight other species or make a weapon, there appears to be nothing like that there.
The scientists are not sure what to do. The planet is not that big– could it have been artificially created in some way? Could the surface have been tampered with? Perhaps it was altered to be more suitable to a civilization’s needs in some way. The scientists are happy to have Dorothy come to help them, but perhaps they shouldn’t be. Once she comes on board the research project, things start to move quickly.
Can Dorothy Yoshida be the one to help them finally make some discoveries that will lead them to a breakthrough? You definitely need to check out the debut novel in this engaging science fiction series from bestselling author Paul J. McAuley to find out for yourself!
Secret Harmonies is the engaging second book in McAuley’s thrilling Four Billion series of fiction! If you loved the first book, you are sure to be interested by the second book in this inventive science fiction trilogy.
In the opening of the first book, we found out about a planet that was puzzling the scientists assigned to study it. Now we zoom in on the planet of Elysium. This place has been settled for a long time. However, not everything is perfect. Even though this place is said to be a paradise unrivaled by any other, not everyone would agree with that description.
Even though human beings have been able to settle Elysium, not everything is equal in this place. Any paradise has to have the flip side of perfection, otherwise it would be a utopia. It is true that citizens belonging to the Port of Plenty have been living high on the hog on this planet for some time now.
While the Port of Plenty reaps the rewards of new and astounding technology, not everyone gets a piece of the pie. Across the planet, other settlers are left to survive on their own. What will happen? Will the settlers make a move to get the same technology? Can Elysium maintain the balance that it requires to keep a society stable?
You’re going to have to read it for yourself to find out! Pick up Paul J. McAuley’s Secret Harmonies to find out whether the planet will tip out of chaos into calm or if there are more waves to come in this second installment of the Billions series.
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