Charles Stross bibliography


This is a list of books by British hard science fiction, Lovecraftian horror, and space opera author Charles Stross.

Stand-alone novels

Scratch Monkey Accelerando Glasshouse Palimpsest The Rapture of the Nerds,

''Eschaton'' series

Singularity Sky Iron Sunrise
Stross has announced that he is unlikely to write a third book in this series.

''The Laundry Files''

A series of science fiction spy thrillers about Bob Howard, a one-time I.T. consultant, now field agent working for British government agency "the Laundry", which deals with occult threats. Influenced by Lovecraft's visions of the future, and set in a world where a computer and the right mathematical equations is just as useful a tool-set for calling up horrors from other dimensions as a spell-book and a pentagram on the floor.
  1. The Atrocity Archives
  2. * Also contains the extra story The Concrete Jungle, set about a year after the main story. Best Novella winner, 2005 Hugo Awards
  3. The Jennifer Morgue
  4. * Also contains the extra story Pimpf, set within a year of the main story
  5. The Fuller Memorandum
  6. The Apocalypse Codex
  7. The Rhesus Chart,
  8. The Annihilation Score
  9. The Nightmare Stacks
  10. The Delirium Brief
  11. The Labyrinth Index
  12. The Regicide Report, final book in the series, planned for release in January 2026.

Novellas

Down on the Farm, archived from Overtime Equoid Escape from Yokai Land A Conventional Boy. The book also contains Down on the Farm and Overtime.

''Tales of the New Management''

Tales of the New Management is a spin-off from the main series, set after CASE NIGHTMARE GREEN.
  1. Dead Lies Dreaming
  2. Quantum of Nightmares
  3. ''Season of Skulls''

Game

Stross also authorised, but did not write, an official role-playing game, The Laundry and a number of supplements based on the "Bob Howard – Laundry" series. The system uses an adaptation of the Call of Cthulhu RPG rules.

''The Merchant Princes'' series

The Merchant Princes is a series in which some humans have an ability to travel between parallel Earths, which have differing levels of technology. This series is science fiction, even though it was originally marketed by the publisher as fantasy. It was originally intended to be a trilogy, but at the end the writing of the first novel, the publisher requested that it be split for shorter length, and this length carried over to the other novels.
The first three books were collectively nominated for and won the Sidewise Award for Alternate History in 2007.
  1. The Family Trade
  2. The Hidden Family
  3. The Clan Corporate
  4. The Merchants' War
  5. The Revolution Business
  6. The Trade of Queens
  7. Empire Games
  8. Dark State
  9. Invisible Sun
The first six books were later re-edited back into the originally intended form as three longer novels. The new books were released in the UK beginning in April 2013, and in DRM-free format in the United States in January 2014.
  1. The Bloodline Feud
  2. The Traders' War
  3. ''The Revolution Trade''

''Halting State'' series

Science-fiction/crime novels set 'fifteen minutes in the future' which concentrate on life in the early 21st century, which are centered in Edinburgh in an independent Scotland, and how innovations in policing, surveillance, economics, computer games, the internet, memes and other inventions may change our lives in the future. Both novels are told in second-person viewpoint. The series was originally planned to be a trilogy but Stross claimed his current plot idea were mooted by the Snowden revelations and he was no longer planning a third book.Halting State Rule 34
  • ''The Lambda Functionary''

''Saturn's Children'' series

Stross's space opera series, featuring the android society that develops after the extinction of humanity. Stross has referred to the setting for these stories as the "Freyaverse."Saturn's Children

Omnibus titles

The Science Fiction Book Club has published omnibus editions in the US that combine two books, without new material.Timelike Diplomacy
  • ''On Her Majesty's Occult Service''

Collections

Toast: And Other Rusted Futures, containing
  • * "Toast: A Con Report”
  • * “Extracts from the Club Diary”
  • * “Ship of Fools”
  • * “Dechlorinating the Moderator”
  • * “Yellow Snow”
  • * “Lobsters” ; Best Novelette nominee, 2002 Hugo Awards
  • * "Antibodies"
  • * "Bear Trap"
  • * "A Colder War" Wireless: The Essential Charles Stross, containing
  • * "Rogue Farm"
  • * "Unwirer" with Cory Doctorow
  • * "MAXOS"
  • * "Missile Gap"
  • * "Snowball's Chance"
  • * "Trunk and Disorderly"
  • * "Down on the Farm"
  • * "Palimpsest"; Best Novella winner, 2010 Hugo Awards

Short fiction

Halo Missile Gap

Non-fiction

  • ''The Web Architect's Handbook''