Series

Aliens Universe

S. D. Perry, Steve Perry, Tim Lebbon, Alan Dean Foster, Bryan Thomas Schmidt, David Bischoff, Jonathan Maberry, Yvonne Navarro, Dean Wesley Smith, James A. Moore, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Scott Sigler, Weston Ochse, Christopher Golden, Diane Carey, John Shirley, Alex White, Lawrence Watt-Evans, Michael Jan Friedman, Robert Sheckley, Seanan McGuire, Brian Evenson, David Barnett, Keith R. A. DeCandido, Larry Correia, Mark Morris, Philippa Ballantine, Robert Greenberger, Tim Waggoner, V. Castro, A. C. Crispin, Ammar Habib, Andrew Mayne, A. R. Redington, Brendan Deneen, Brian Keene, Chris Ryall, Curtis C. Chen, Dan Abnett, Dave Wolverton, David Boop, Dayton Ward, Delilah S. Dawson, E. C. Myers, Gavin G. Smith, Gini Koch, Heather Graham, Holly Roberds, Jeff VanderMeer, Jennifer Brozek, Jeremy Robinson, Jess Landry, Joshua Pruett, Kevin J. Anderson, Kim May, Linda D. Addison, Louis Ozawa, Marc Cerasini, Marina J. Lostetter, Mary SanGiovanni, Matt Forbeck, Maurice Broaddus, Michael Kogge, Mike Resnick, Pat Cadigan, Paul Kupperberg, Paul Monette, Peter Briggs, Peter J. Wacks, Rachel Caine, Ray Garton, Roshni 'Rush' Bhatia, Shaun Hamill, Simon Hawke, Stanislaw Mayakovsky, Stephen Graham Jones, Stephen R. Bissette, Steven L. Sears, Susanne L. Lambdin, Terry Bisson, T. R. Napper, Wendy N. Wagner & William Gibson · 63 novels · 19 novelettes · 47 short stories · 4 anthologies · 1979–2025

Reading order

The order the books came out.

Omnibus editions(17 editions)

Map

Aliens Universe at the centre, 9 subseries around it, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.

Stats

By decade

1970s1
1980s2
1990s21
2000s11
2010s51
2020s47

Shape

63 novels · 19 novelettes · 47 short stories · 4 anthologies

83 authors

reads like:science fiction aliens other star systems far future tense adult

Mood

Grim and intense: 96% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.

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this series · the catalog · brighter = more books70 of 133 works carry a tone