So you can see they’re a bit all over the place. For example, publication order of the first books with Macmillan was: Gridlinked (Cormac book 1), The Skinner (Spatterjay book 1), The Line of Polity (Cormac book 2), Cowl (stand-alone time-travel), Brass Man (Cormac book 3) and The Voyage of the Sable Keech (Spatterjay book 2). Others, who read my books from the beginning, prefer publication order, but publication order is not series, or the chronological order of this future. Quite often they will have picked up something in the middle of a series and, enjoying that, moved on to the rest to discover the order of the books. My fans often tell me of which books introduced them to my work. The only books where you will find these futures are mixed together, is in some short story collections. These are The Owner Trilogy – a dystopian near future – a one-off time-travel book called Cowl, and a few novellas published before I was taken on by Macmillan. I have also written books outside of the Polity set in other futures, but there are not so many of them. Books about this future form the main body of my work, which consists of series, trilogies and ones that stand alone. This is a future in which AIs control the ‘Human Polity’ – a vast civilization taking up a large portion of the galaxy.
And it is to those long-time fans I turn to for anecdotal guidance.īut first let me give you some idea of what these books (also novellas and short stories), are all about. More and more frequently now people ask me, of my books, ‘Where do I start?’ I guess it can be a daunting prospect now I’ve published getting on for thirty of the buggers, but understand why many want to start when they see the enthusiasm of those who have been reading for some time.
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