Hindsights
collection · First published 2025
Author guide
Eric Brown Books in Order
Eric Brown (1960–2023) was a British science-fiction, crime, horror, and children's writer from Yorkshire. His first published work was the children's radio play Noel's Ark in 1982. He wrote novels, novellas, short-story collections, children's fiction, plays, and collaborative works, and also worked as a critic for The Guardian.
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Eric Brown's Newest Book
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Start with one of these
Meridian Days
Brown's first novel and an accessible introduction to his science fiction.
New York Nights
The first volume of the Virex Trilogy.
Murder by the Book
The first Langham and Dupré mystery.
Starship Summer
The first Starship Seasons novella.
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Books by series
shared-world · complete
The Web
A shared-world series in which Brown contributed two children's novels.
- 1 The Web: Untouchable
Book 1 · children's-novel · 1997
- 2 The Web: Walkabout
Book 2 · children's-novel · 1999
trilogy · complete
Virex Trilogy
A near-future noir trilogy set in a polluted, virtual-reality-dominated New York.
- 1 New York Nights
Book 1 · novel · 2000
- 2 New York Blues
Book 2 · novel · 2002
- 3 New York Dreams
Book 3 · novel · 2004
series · complete
Bengal Station / Jeff Vaughn
A science-fiction noir sequence featuring telepath Jeff Vaughan and the Bengal Station setting.
- 1 Bengal Station
Book 1 · novel · 2004
- 2 Necropath
Book 2 · novel · 2008
Bengal Station: an exotic spaceport that dominates the ocean between India and Burma. Jaded telepath, Jeff Vaughan, is employed by the spaceport authorities to monitor incoming craft for refugees from other worlds. When he discovers a…
- 3 Xenopath
Book 3 · novel · 2009
Working for a telepathic detective agency, Vaughan investigates a series of murders linked to the colony world of Mallory, and the slaughter of innocent aliens who live there by a colonial organization.
- 4 Cosmopath
Book 4 · novel · 2009
Telepath Jeff Vaughan is approached by billionaire tycoon Rabindranath Chandrasakar, who wants him to read the mind of a spacer on an unexplored world on the edge of known space. There's only one problem – the spacer is dead. On Delta…
series · complete
Starship Seasons
A sequence of linked novellas about David Conway and his friends on the colony world Chalcedony.
- 1 Starship Summer
Book 1 · novella · 2007
- 2 Starship Fall
Book 2 · novella · 2009
- 3 Starship Winter
Book 3 · novella · 2012
- 4 Starship Spring
Book 4 · novella · 2012
- 5 Starship Coda
Book 5 · novella · 2016 Optional
duology · complete
Helix
A science-fiction series about humanity's struggle to survive aboard and beyond a vast colony starship.
- 1 Helix
Book 1 · novel · 2007
When the colony ship Aurora crashlands on a desolate, ice-bound planet in the Helix, part of a spiral of worlds orbiting around a central sun, leaving most of the colonists in coldsleep, the surviving crew members search the spiral for a…
- 2 Helix Wars
Book 2 · novel · 2012
series · complete
Weird Space
A space-opera series about humanity's confrontation with the alien Weird.
- 1 The Devil's Nebula
Book 1 · novel · 2012
A first installment in a wacky new space-opera series introduces the world of Weird Space, where human smugglers, veterans, ne'erdowells and the adversarial Vetch Empire are targeted by an evil race from another dimension.
- 2 Satan's Reach
Book 2 · novel · 2013
Telepath Den Harper did the dirty work for the authoritarian Expansion, reading the minds of criminals, spies and undesirables, for years. Unable to take the strain, he stole a starship and headed into the void, a sector of lawless space…
- 3 The Baba Yaga
Book 3 · novel · 2015
The growing threat of the Weird has driven the Expansion to paranoia and oppression. Mandatory testing for infection is introduced, and the colony Braun's World - following reports of a new portal opening - is purged from orbit, at an…
quartet · complete
Telemass Quartet
A sequence following Matt Hendrick's search across worlds connected by telemass technology.
- 1 Famadihana on Fomalhaut IV
Book 1 · novella · 2014
- 2 Sacrifice on Spica III
Book 2 · novella · 2014
- 3 Reunion on Alpha Reticuli II
Book 3 · novella · 2016
- 4 Exalted on Bellatrix I
Book 4 · novella · 2017
- 5 Telemass Coda
Book 5 · novella · 2019 Optional
duology · complete
Multiplicity
A steampunk adventure series featuring Jani Chatterjee in an alternate 1925.
- 1 Jani and the Greater Game
Book 1 · novel · 2014
- 2 Jani and the Great Pursuit
Book 2 · novel · 2016
duology · complete
Binary/System
A two-part science-fiction work separately published as Binary and System, later combined in the omnibus Binary System.
quartet · complete
Kon-Tiki Quartet
A collaborative novella sequence by Eric Brown and Keith Brooke about humanity's first extrasolar colony expedition.
- 1 Dislocations
Book 1 · novella · 2018
- 2 Parasites
Book 2 · novella · 2018
- 3 Insights
Book 3 · novella · 2019
- 4 Iterations
Book 4 · novella · 2020
- 5 Kon-Tiki Coda
Book 5 · novella · 2022 Optional
quartet · ongoing
Enigma Quartet
A collaborative novella series by Eric Brown and Keith Brooke about a planet under alien rule.
- 1 Enigma Season
Book 1 · novella · 2022
- 2 Enigma Exposed
Book 2 · novella · 2024
series · complete
Langham and Dupré Mysteries
A historical mystery series featuring crime writer and private investigator Donald Langham and Maria Dupré.
- 1 Murder by the Book
Book 1 · novel · 2013
- 2 Murder at the Chase
Book 2 · novel · 2014
- 3 Murder at the Loch
Book 3 · novel · 2016
- 4 Murder Take Three
Book 4 · novel · 2017
- 5 Murder Takes a Turn
Book 5 · novel · 2018
When Langham's literary agent receives a cryptic letter inviting him to spend the weekend at the grand Cornish home of successful novelist Denbigh Connaught, Charles Elder seems reluctant to attend. What really happened between Elder and…
- 6 Murder Served Cold
Book 6 · novel · 2018
- 7 Murder by Numbers
Book 7 · novel · 2020
- 8 Murder at Standing Stone Manor
Book 8 · novel · 2021
- 9 Murder Most Vile
Book 9 · novel · 2022
Outside the series
Bibliography by category
Novels (19)
- Meridian Days
novel · 1992
- Engineman
novel · 1994
- Penumbra
novel · 1999
- A Writer's Life
novella · 2001
- Approaching Omega
novella · 2005
- The Extraordinary Voyage of Jules Verne
novella · 2005
- Revenge
novella · 2007
Premiership footballer Dan Radford has it all - a big house, fast cars and cash - and a drink problem. When he drunkenly confronts a burglar, Radford is dragged into a nightmare of gangland violence, kidnap, brutality and blackmail. It…
- Kéthani
novel · 2008
- Gilbert and Edgar on Mars
novella · 2009
- Guardians of the Phoenix
novel · 2010
- The Kings of Eternity
novel · 2011
On the threshold of a new millennium, novelist Daniel Langham lives a reclusive life on an idyllic Greek island, hiding away from humanity and the events of the past. All that changes when he meets artist Caroline Platt and finds himself…
- The Serene Invasion
novel · 2013
- Salvage
novel · 2013
- Buying Time
novel · 2018
- The Martian Simulacra
novella · 2018
- Ace Doubles
novella · 2021
- On Arcturus VII
novella · 2021
- Wormhole
novel · 2022
Children's books (9)
- Twocking
children's-novel · 2002
YA. Suspense fiction. For 12+ Readers with a Reading age of 8+. An adrenaline-fulled adventure story sure to get reluctant boys reading now with a brand new jacket! All Joey's evenings are pretty much the same hanging out and pretending…
- Firebug
children's-novel · 2003
- British Front
children's-novel · 2005
- Space Ace
children's-novel · 2005
Billy dreams of flying in space, so he cant wait to take a trip around the Earth with his grandad. But then the ship's computer takes over and they zoom off on a tour of the solar system! Will they ever make it home.
- Crazy Love
children's-novel · 2006
- An Alien Ate Me for Breakfast
children's-novel · 2007
- A Dinosaur Ate My Socks
children's-novel · 2009
- Guilty
children's-novel · 2009
- A Monster Ate My Marmite
children's-novel · 2011
"Mouse, Millie and their alien friend Umba-Wumba travel back to the year 1400 to research knights and dragons for their homework. But their trip doesn't go as smoothly as planned when they get roped into saving the villagers from an evil…
Plays (2)
- Noel's Ark
play · 1982
- George and the Red Giant
play · 2000
Other (15)
- The Time-Lapsed Man and Other Stories
collection · 1990
- Blue Shifting
collection · 1995
- Parallax View
collection · 2000
- Deep Future
collection · 2001
- The Fall of Tartarus
collection · 2005
- Threshold Shift
collection · 2006
- The Angels of Life and Death
collection · 2010
- Ghostwriting
collection · 2012
Over the course of a career spanning twenty five years, Eric Brown has written just a handful of horror and ghost stories – and all of them are collected here. They range from the gentle, psychological chiller “The House” to the more…
- Strange Visitors
collection · 2014
- Rites of Passage
collection · 2014
- Microcosms
collection · 2017
- The Spacetime Pit Plus Two
collection · 2018
- The Ice Garden and Other Stories
collection · 2019
- The Disciples of Apollo: The Best Short Stories of Eric Brown
collection · 2019
- Hindsights
collection · 2025
Frequently asked questions about Eric Brown
Who was Eric Brown?
Eric Brown (1960–2023) was a British science-fiction writer who also wrote crime and children’s fiction and reviewed science fiction for The Guardian.
Sources: theguardian.com (opens in a new tab)simonandschuster.com (opens in a new tab)
Where and when was Eric Brown born, and when did he die?
He was born in Haworth, West Yorkshire, on 24 May 1960, and died in Edinburgh on 21 March 2023.
How did Eric Brown begin his writing career?
He began publishing with the children’s play Noel’s Ark in 1982, then entered science-fiction publishing with a story in Interzone in 1987.
What influenced Eric Brown’s science fiction?
His work engaged with traditions such as space opera, cyberpunk, and planetary romance, while critics have noted echoes of writers including Cordwainer Smith, G. K. Chesterton, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and Robert Holdstock.
What awards did Eric Brown win, and how is he remembered?
He won the BSFA Award for Best Short Fiction for “Hunting the Slarque” in 1999 and “The Children of Winter” in 2001. He is remembered as a prolific, humane writer whose work crossed science fiction, crime, and children’s literature.
Sources: bsfa.co.uk (opens in a new tab)theguardian.com (opens in a new tab)