Author guide
Charles Stross Books in Order
Charles David George Stross is a British writer of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and technology nonfiction. Born in Leeds in 1964, he worked as a pharmacist, journalist, and computer programmer before becoming a full-time author. His fiction frequently explores technological change, artificial intelligence, parallel worlds, occult bureaucracy, and posthuman societies.
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Not sure where to begin?
Start with one of these
The Atrocity Archives
The standard starting point for the core Laundry Files sequence.
Dead Lies Dreaming
The starting point for the New Management subseries.
Singularity Sky
The first Eschaton novel.
The Family Trade
The first Merchant Princes novel.
Halting State
The first Halting State novel.
Saturn's Children
The first Freyaverse novel.
Accelerando
A major standalone work and accessible introduction to Stross's posthuman science fiction.
Glasshouse
A self-contained standalone novel focused on identity, gender, and technology.
Read in order
Books by series
series · completed
Eschaton
Space opera novels set in a civilization governed by a powerful artificial intelligence and constrained by causality.
series · completed
The Merchant Princes
Parallel-world science fiction about trade, politics, technology, and power across alternate Earths.
series · completed
Empire Games
A continuation of The Merchant Princes set seventeen years after the original sequence.
series · completed
The Laundry Files
Occult spy fiction about a secret British agency defending humanity against supernatural and extradimensional threats.
- 1 The Atrocity ArchivesAmazon ↗
Book 1 · collection · 2004
- 2
The Jennifer MorgueAmazon ↗Book 2 · collection · 2006
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Down on the FarmAmazon ↗Book 3 · novelette · 2008 Optional
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OvertimeAmazon ↗Book 4 · novelette · 2009 Optional
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The Fuller MemorandumAmazon ↗Book 5 · novel · 2010
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The Apocalypse CodexAmazon ↗Book 6 · novel · 2012
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Equoid: A Laundry NovellaAmazon ↗Book 7 · novella · 2013 Optional
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The Rhesus ChartAmazon ↗Book 8 · novel · 2014
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The Annihilation ScoreAmazon ↗Book 9 · novel · 2015
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The Nightmare StacksAmazon ↗Book 10 · novel · 2016
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The Delirium BriefAmazon ↗Book 11 · novel · 2017
- 12
The Labyrinth IndexAmazon ↗Book 12 · novel · 2018
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Escape from Yokai LandAmazon ↗Book 13 · novella · 2022 Optional
- 14 The Regicide ReportAmazon ↗
Book 14 · novel · 2026
series · ongoing
The Laundry Files: New Management
A Laundry Files subseries about civilians confronting a world transformed by occult catastrophe.
series · completed
Halting State
Near-future Scottish police procedurals told through second-person viewpoints.
series · completed
Saturn's Children
Freyaverse space opera about robot civilization after the extinction of humanity.
Outside the series
Bibliography by category
Novels (8)
- The Web Architect's HandbookAmazon ↗
nonfiction · 1996
- AccelerandoAmazon ↗
novel · 2005
- GlasshouseAmazon ↗
novel · 2006
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Missile GapAmazon ↗novella · 2006
- Japan 2007Amazon ↗
nonfiction · 2007
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PalimpsestAmazon ↗novella · 2009
- Scratch Monkey: A Novel and Two EssaysAmazon ↗
novel · 2010
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The Rapture of the NerdsAmazon ↗novel · 2012
