I’ve been asked how my SF stories (short stories, novelettes which are longer than short stories, short novels, and full-sized novels) fit together. So here’s the big picture.
| Title
And when it was first published |
Timeframe
When it takes place in my SF future |
Series and/or Collection | Connections
How it ties into everything else |
| *** | *** | *** | *** |
| “Wanderers”
(short story) Analog Science Fiction Magazine 1990 |
Early 21st century | Ascendance† | Earliest published and earliest in the future of all my science fiction stories. |
| “The Listening-Glass”
(novelette) Analog 1991 |
Early 21st century | Ascendance† | Sequel to “Wanderers.” The hero of these stories is the grandfather of Catherine Gault in Hurricane Moon. |
| “Trinity Bay”
(novelette) Analog 2003 |
Mid 21st Century | Ascendance†
The Shape of Wings to Come§ and in freestanding form for Kindle |
|
| A Pillar of Stars by Night
(short novel) Analog 1992 Analog 1996 Analog 1997 |
Late 21st century to hundreds of years later | Ascendance†
and in freestanding form for Kindle |
Three Analog stories followed two main characters from Earth to the other side of the stars.
The character Ev is the grandson of the hero in “Trinity Bay.” |
| Hurricane Moon
NOVEL Pyr (an imprint of Prometheus Books) 2007 |
Late 21st Century to 3200 AD | AEON’S LEGACY
VOL. 1 |
Another Earthship, like the one in Pillar of Stars, makes a long frozen journey across the stars to a very different new world. |
| Downfall Tide
NOVEL Avendis Press 2017 |
About 3250 AD | AEON’S LEGACY
VOL.2 |
|
| Star Crossing
NOVEL Avendis Press 2017 |
About AD 5000 | AEON’S LEGACY
VOL. 3 |
The hero, Nathaniel, and some of his companions are children of characters in Hurricane Moon and Downfall Tide, but they’ve come a centuries-long frozen starflight from there. |
| “Spike”
(novelette) Pets in Space® 2016 |
About 5000 AD | AEON’S LEGACY and
Tomorrow’s Mascots* and in freestanding form for Kindle |
The heroine, Steed, and some of her companions are children of characters in Hurricane Moon and Downfall Tide |
| Helldive
NOVEL Avendis Press 2018 |
About 5000 | AEON’S LEGACY
VOL.4 |
The heroine, Zilka, and some of her companions are the children of characters in Hurricane Moon and Downfall Tide. |
| Cloud Sky City
(novelette) Analog 2000 |
About 6000 AD | Ascendance†
and in freestanding form for Kindle |
It takes place in a part of the stars referred to in Witherspin as the Dead Zone. |
| Glorystar
(novelette) Analog 1990 |
About 7000 AD | Ascendance†
and in freestanding form for Kindle |
Some of the characters in this story meets some of the characters in Starmaze years later.
The character Plerion is a direct descendant of Zilka in Helldive. |
| Pastfinders
(short novel) Pets in Space® 2020 |
About 7000 AD | STARWAYS and
Tomorrow’s Mascots* |
Involves an archaeological discovery that figures into Starmaze. |
| Winter’s Prince
(novelette) Pets in Space® 2019 |
About 7000 AD | STARWAYS and
Tomorrow’s Mascots* |
Some of the characters will reappear in Adversary with an even bigger fight on their hands. |
| Witherspin
NOVEL Avendis Press 2019 |
About 7000 AD | STARWAYS
VOL. 1 |
Takes place in the spinning city seen at the end of Star Crossing and Helldive. |
| Mascot
(short novel) Pets in Space® 2017 |
About 7000 AD | STARWAYS and
Tomorrow’s Mascots* and in freestanding form for Kindle and other e-book readers |
Unfolds in the same nebula as Helldive. |
| Starmaze
NOVEL Avendis Press 2021 |
About 7000 AD | STARWAYS
VOL. 2 |
Part of the story unfolds in the same nebula as Helldive. |
| Starway
(novelette) Pets in Space® 2018 |
About 7000 AD | STARWAYS and
Tomorrow’s Mascots* |
Happens in the same interstellar way station as part of the story in Starmaze. |
| Adversary *
NOVEL Avendis Press 2023 |
About 7000 AD | STARWAYS
VOL. 3 |
Happens in the spinning space city Wendis, where Witherspin is set, as events at the end of Starmaze overtake Wendis. |
†My story collection Ascendance is available for Kindle and other E-book readers and as a print edition from Amazon.
§ My story collection The Shape of Wings to Come is available as an e-book for Kindle and other E-book readers and as a print edition from Amazon.
* COLLECTED IN TOMORROW’S MASCOTS (APRIL 2023)