James P. Hogan Books In Order

Giants Books In Publication Order

  1. Inherit the Stars (1977)
  2. The Gentle Giants of Ganymede (1978)
  3. Giants’ Star (1981)
  4. Entoverse (1991)
  5. Mission to Minerva (2005)

Code of the Lifemaker Books In Publication Order

  1. Code of the Lifemaker (1983)
  2. The Immortality Option (1995)

Cradle of Saturn Books In Publication Order

  1. Cradle of Saturn (1999)
  2. The Anguished Dawn (2003)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. The Genesis Machine (1978)
  2. The Two Faces of Tomorrow (1979)
  3. Thrice Upon a Time (1980)
  4. Voyage From Yesteryear (1982)
  5. The Proteus Operation (1985)
  6. Endgame Enigma (1987)
  7. The Mirror Maze (1989)
  8. Infinity Gambit (1991)
  9. The Multiplex Man (1992)
  10. Realtime Interrupt (1995)
  11. Paths To Otherwhere (1996)
  12. Bug Park (1997)
  13. The Legend That Was Earth (2000)
  14. Echoes of an Alien Sky (2007)
  15. Moon Flower (2008)
  16. Migration (2010)

Short Story Collections In Publication Order

  1. Minds, Machines & Evolution (1988)
  2. Star Child (1998)
  3. Rockets, Redheads & Revolution (1999)
  4. Martian Knightlife (2001)
  5. Catastrophes, Chaos & Convolutions (2005)

Chapbooks In Publication Order

  1. Out of Time (1993)

Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. Mind Matters (1998)
  2. Kicking the Sacred Cow (2004)

Jupiter Books In Publication Order

  1. Higher Education (By:Jerry Pournelle) (1996)
  2. Putting Up Roots (By:) (1997)
  3. The Billion Dollar Boy (By:) (1997)
  4. The Billion Dollar Boy (By:) (1997)
  5. The Billion Dollar Boy (By:) (1997)
  6. The Cyborg From Earth (By:) (1998)
  7. The Cyborg From Earth (By:) (1998)
  8. The Cyborg from Earth (By:) (1998)
  9. Starswarm (By:Jerry Pournelle) (1998)
  10. Outward Bound (1999)

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James P. Hogan Books Overview

Inherit the Stars

The man on the moon was dead. They called him Charlie. He had big eyes, abundant body hair and fairly long nostrils. His skeletal body was found clad in a bright red spacesuit, hidden in a rocky grave. They didn’t know who he was, how he got there, or what had killed him. All they knew was that his corpse was 50,000 years old and that meant that this man had somehow lived long before he ever could have existed!

Giants’ Star

In the 21st century, scientists Victor Hunt and Chris Danchekker, doing research on Ganymede, attract a small band of friendly aliens lost in time, who begin to reveal something of the origin of mankind. Finally, man thought he comprehended his place in the Universe…
until he learned of the Watchers in the stars!

Mission to Minerva

When explorers on the Moon found a skeleton in a space suit of strange design, a baffling mystery began. The skeleton was undeniably human, but carbon dating showed it was older than the human race itself. The mystery deepened with the discovery of a wrecked ship on a moon of Jupiter, showing that another race had once inhabited the Solar System, originating on the now shattered planet whose remains form the asteroid belt. Then a ship manned by the humanoid ‘giants’ returned, bringing with it answers to the riddle of humanity’s origins. But it brought great danger, as Earth found itself caught in a battle between a benevolent alien empire, and another offshoot of the human race who regarded the Earth as their property and were bent on taking it over. That was in the recent past, and the future now looked bright for Earth, as trade and knowledge flowed back and forth between Earth and Thuria, the world the Giants colonized when they left the Solar System aeons ago. Then Dr. Victor Hunt received a phone call and the face in the phone’s video screen was an older version of himself, calling from a parallel world. That was the first step in bridging the gap between the parallel universes of the ‘multiverse.’ Unfortunately, it also meant that the enemies who had been decisively defeated in one universe might still be alive and dangerous in another, and could arrive in force at any time. And the possibility soon became a frightening reality…
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Code of the Lifemaker

Approximately on million B.C., an automated factory ship from an alien civilization pas*ses too near a star unexpectedly gone nova. Suffering extensive damage to its electronic circuitry, it continues blindly for millennia before crashing into the snows of an uncharted world. In the second decade of the twenty first century, a probe from Earth orbits Saturn’s moon Titan and launches a lander. Unfortunately, the lander malfunctions before transmitting pictures from the surface at least that is the official story. A colony ship supposedly destined for Mars is surreptitiously rerouted to Titan…
and only the leaders of the Military Industrial Complex know why. Aboard the interplanetary transport in addition to the usual mix of flight crews and scientists are parapsychology researchers, linguists, psychologists, representatives of industry, an ambassador…
and elite military units from several Western nations. Clearly something is up. But no one is talking!

The Immortality Option

‘ Hogan once again demonstrates his mastery’ Publisher’s Weekly ‘…
on the cutting edge of technology…
Hogan’s talent carries the reader from peak to peak in the story’ Booklist ‘In the grand tradition of the classic super science stories, but with more exciting science and with better writing too. What more can anyone want?’ Isaac Asimov In this spectacular sequel to the acclaimed Code of the Lifemaker, James Hogan returns to the strange world of Titan, inhabited by bizarre self conscious robots. Little is known about the civilization that gave birth to these machine intelligences until scientists discover blocks of embedded computer code that appear to be strangely out of place. Reactivating the computer codes results in the re awakening of ancient alien beings, creators of the strange robot culture, totally alien and immensely powerful. And they are unhappy at being restrained within the narrow confines of the machines they find themselves in. They would much rather be the masters of all. But while the scientists are helpless against these mighty beings, Karl Zambendord, the media star ‘Psychic’ and his support team prepares to meet the challenge. The alien intelligences might be intellectually superior and super rational, but this also makes them hyper materialistic and mechanistic in their outlook and hence, totally unprepared for such ‘higher’ concepts as the spiritual, the mystical, and the transcendental. And selling such notions is precisely Zambendorf’s stock in trade

Cradle of Saturn

‘THAT PLANET HAS NO RIGHT TO BE THERE!’

Among the Saturnian moons, farsighted individuals, working without help or permission from any government, have established a colony. They call themselves the Kronians, after the Greek name for Saturn. Operating without the hidebound restrictions of bureaucratic Earth, the colony is a magnet, attracting the best and brightest of the home world, and has been making important new discoveries. But one of their claims that they have found proof that the Solar System has undergone repeated cataclysms, and as recently as a few thousand years ago flies in the face of the reigning dogma, and is under attack by the scientific establishment.

Then the planet Jupiter emits a white hot protoplanet as large as the Earth, which is hurtling sunwards like a gigantic comet that will obliterate civilization…
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The Anguished Dawn

Earth was devastated by a white hot protoplanet and the Kronian colony near Saturn is the sole preserver of its technology and human culture. LandenKeene is a key figure in Kronian efforts to rebuild civilisation on Earth but he must struggle against other survivors who have their own agenda.

The Genesis Machine

Brad Clifford’s theory was just applied mathematics but its implications were too hot for the frozen minds of his superiors. So they buried it and him under wraps of secrecy. Then Aubrey Philipsz, iconoclast and fellow genius, appeared on the scene to build The Genesis Machine Clifford’s theory made possible. Suddenly, all weapons seemed useless before the previously unimagined power of The Genesis Machine. It could wreck a world or save it and the men who ruled that world on a path of disaster now fought to gain control of this new force. But Clifford and Philipsz had another goal, another dream. They were reaching for the stars!’In the grand tradition of the classic super science stories, but with more exciting science and with better writing, too. What more can anyone want?’ Isaac Asimov

The Two Faces of Tomorrow

Midway through the 21st century, an integrated global computer network manages much of the world’s affairs. A proposed major software upgrade an artificial intelligence will give the system an unprecedented degree of independent decision making, but serious questions are raised in regard to how much control can safely be given to a non human intelligence. In order to more fully as*sess the system, a new space station habitat a world in miniature is developed for deployment of the fully operational system, named Spartacus. This mini world can then be ‘attacked’ in a series of escalating tests to as*sess the system’s responses and capabilities. If Spartacus gets out of hand, the system can be shut down and the station destroyed…
unless Spartacus decides to take matters into its own hands and take the fight to Earth.

Thrice Upon a Time

When Murdoch was summoned to his grandfather’s isolated Scottish castle, he had no idea of the old man’s latest discovery nor where it would lead him. Sir Charles, a genius in far out physics, had found a flew in the law of conservation of energy; in any process, an incredibly tiny increment of energy escaped back through time! Using this ‘tau’ radiation, he could send messages into the past. But Murdoch discovered records of messages he knew he had never sent. Were many futures possible? Could a message from Future X alter the past and thus wipe out Future X? But who would be foolish enough to send a message that could eliminate his own existence?Then disaster struck. An advanced fusion reactor threatened to destroy all Earth. Grimly, Murdoch sat down to send back the words that would destroy everything he had learned to love.

The Proteus Operation

When malcontents from a utopian twenty first century use their time gate to transform Hitler into an invincible conqueror, a band of freedom fighting Americans launches the Proteus project and builds a second time gate.

Endgame Enigma

Rumors surrounding the peaceful utopian space city of Valentina Tereshkova built with the dwindling resources of twenty first century Russia suggest it is actually a weapon designed by the last heirs of the Soviet dictators.’

The Multiplex Man

Richard Jarrow, a mild and unassuming teacher, wakes up in a hotel room in a strange city with no memory. Everyone he knows treats him as a stranger. The government and secret police think he knows the whereabouts of a missing scientist named Ashling who was planning to defect to the Offworld colonies. Finding Ashling will be the key to Jarrow finding out what happened to himself.

Realtime Interrupt

Awakening in a hospital with no memory of his past, Joe Corrigan learns that he is the creator and test subject for the failed Oz computer project, which has trapped Joe in an irreversible and terrifying life simulation program.

Paths To Otherwhere

In the face of planet wide economic disaster, two totalitarian empires rise in China and Japan, threatening the world with a devastating war, and the police states of the U.S. and Europe place their hopes in a team of DNA scientists.

Bug Park

Kevin Heber had it good. He had his own lab, a colleague he could trust, and an idea that could make him millions. Using his father’s breakthrough technology in direct neural interfacing, he and his friend Taki have created a new entertainment media live action adventure in micro mechanical scale. Bug Park: The ultimate out of body experience. And Taki’s uncle wants to take it public. Two problems: 1 Kevin and Taki are teenagers. 2 Somebody wants to squash Bug Park dead, and Kevin’s father along with it.

The Legend That Was Earth

EARTH FIRST! TERRA FOR TERRANS! They’ve eased our problems. They’ve raised our standards of living. Their science has shown us that everything we thought we knew about the universe was wrong. And now the alien Hyadeans’ high tech gifts and their flair for social order promise to make a paradise of planet Earth. To us, the Hyadeans seem a model of efficiency and clear thinking. But in Hyadean eyes, Earth’s culture wallows in imagination and dreams, artforms and concepts which would never have occurred to a citizen of their world. To some of the aliens, this demonstrates Earth’s backwardness; others are increasingly fascinated by us. But when a political assassination plunges his life into chaos, wealthy socialite and ‘fixer’ Roland Cade discovers the dark underbelly of the alien presence. Our government obeys them. Our economy serves their wealthy masters. And the CounterAction ‘terrorists’ on the news are truly fighting for freedom for Terrans and Hyadeans alike and one of them is his ex wife. Soon Cade is caught up in a terrifying adventure that will take him around the globe, and a conflict that will threaten to destroy the world as it turns American against American and Hyadean against Hyadean. Cade will find friends in unexpected places, among the agents of CounterAction, and among the aliens themselves. But he will also face deadly enemies closer than he ever could have feared…
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Echoes of an Alien Sky

Eighteen years have passed since the first manned mission to Earth arrived from Venus. With the first colonists already establishing themselves across the bright, sunny world of clear blue skies and wonderlands of towering mountains and ice deserts, Kyal Reen arrives to join the Venusian scientific and archeological teams that are working to reconstruct the story of the mysterious and enigmatic extinct Terran race that once flourished there. Studies of Terran geology, scientific works, and ancient records show that Earth’s early peoples witnessed terrifying cataclysmic cosmic events in skies very different from those seen today. In his travels among the Terran ruins, Kyal meets a biologist called Lorili, who is attempting to explain certain baffling similarities between some Terran and Venusian life forms that are irreconcilable with the established fact that Venus is a far younger planet than Earth. Formerly aligned with the Progressive activists back on Venus, Lorili admires the qualities of tenacity and determination written through Terran history. She constructs a theory of Venusians being descended from Terran ancestors. However, even allowing for the greatly exaggerated time scales that Terran science assigned to the processes of biological and planetary evolution, further research shows that there could have been no overlap. The Terrans were extinct long before life emerged on Venus. But there is a different, unexpected answer to the riddle. Lorili and Kyal will have to fight for their theory and their lives.

Moon Flower

Something strange is happening on the planet Cyrene, which is in the early phases of being ‘developed’ by the mammoth Interworld Restructuring Corporation. Terrans from the base there have been disappearing. Myles Callen, a ruthlessly efficient ‘Facilitator,’ is sent to investigate. Also with the mission is Marc Shearer, a young, idealistic quantum physicist, disillusioned with the world, who’s on his way to join a former colleague, Evan Wade. On arrival he finds that Wade too has vanished and doesn’t want to be found by the Terran authorities. Wade has arranged contact via the Cyreneans, however, and accompanied by two companions that he has befriended, Shearer embarks on a journey to find his friend that will change Cyrene and Earth itself.

Migration

The world of the past eventually died in the conflagration toward which it had been doggedly heading. A more fragmented and diversified order has emerged from the ruins and . technology has reappeared to a greater or lesser degree in some places and not at all in others.

Unique among them is the nation state of Sofi, with an exceptional population that has rediscovered advanced science. However, as the old patterns that led to ruin before begin to reassert themselves across the rest of the world, a scientific political movement within Sofi embarks on a years long project to build a generation starship that will enable them to create their own world elsewhere.

The circumstances and thinking of future generations growing up in the totally unknown situation of a space environment cannot be known. Accordingly, the mission will include different groups of idealists, reformers, misfits, and dissidents who are not satisfied with the world in miniature that constitutes the original mother ship, to go out and build whatever they want. Hence, what arrives at the distant star generations hence will be a flotilla of variously run city states, frontier towns, religious monasteries, pleasure resorts, urban crushes, rural spreads, academic retreats, and who knows what else.

The trouble began, of course, when all the old patterns that they thought they were getting away from started reappearing…

Star Child

Accepting without question her indoor life with metal companion Kort, twelve year old Taya begins to wonder about the world for the first time when her world undergoes a dramatic change.’

Martian Knightlife

If you read his curriculum vitae, you might think this private eye of the future is a Saint, and swear that he’s honest, paying for what he gets, getting what he’s paid for, with somehow a little extra for everybody to go around. Take the case of the teleported scientist who suddenly has a hole in his memory and a bigger hole in his bank account, emptied by someone answering to his own description. Then there’s the just discovered Martian ruin which a greedy corporation wants to bulldoze over. Not to mention gangsters who have an old grudge against the Knight and make the mistake of trying to get even. But whenever the Knight is in action, somehow the Bad Guys never know what hits them…

Kicking the Sacred Cow

Galileo may have been forced to deny that the Earth moves around the Sun; but in the end, science triumphed. Nowadays, science fearlessly pursues truth, shining the pure light of reason on the mysteries of the universe. Or does it? As bestselling author, James P. Hogan demonstrates in this fact filled and thoroughly documented study, science has its own roster of hidebound pronouncements which are Not to be Questioned. Among the dogma laden subjects he examines are Darwinism, global warming, the big bang, problems with relativity, radon and radiation, holes in the ozone layer, the cause of AIDS, and the controversy over Velikovsky. Hogan explains the basics of each controversy with his clear, informative style, in a book that will be fascinating for anyone with an interest in the frontiers of modern science.

Higher Education (By:Jerry Pournelle)

When a misfired practical joke gets him kicked out of school, Rick Luban thinks he has nowhere to go but down. Instead, he gets a second chance and a whole new life when he signs up for a career in asteroid mining. But life in space proves more challenging than Rick expected. Competition is intense and the harsh realties of space allow no room for error. On his way to a brighter future, Rick faces ever more demanding tests, as well as the very real dangers of sabotage and murder.

Putting Up Roots (By:)

When Josh and his autistic cousin Dawn are sent to the planet Solferino, they join a group of kids already working for an interplanetary conglomerate stationed there. Assured by the bosses that no intelligent life exists on Solferino, Josh and Dawn come to suspect otherwise. Especially when Dawn makes contact with one of the creatures, a creature with whom she shares a mysterious ability to communicate. With the corporation pressuring them, Josh and Dawn are drawn into a battle to save the creatures. And, it turns out, to save themselves.

The Billion Dollar Boy (By:)

New York Public Library ‘Best Books for the Teen Age’ selectionShelby Cheever V is a spoiled brat. He is also the richest kid in the country. Actually, make that the universe. Bored with his all the amuseme*nts money can buy life, he decides on a bit of interstellar action, Shelby style. But it turns out life on a starship is not all fun and games. As part of a crew, Shelby has a few things to learn. Like, how to follow orders instead of simply giving orders. Can Shelby learn how to cooperate with his crewmates?He may not have a choice. When Shelby becomes the target of a hostage for ransom scheme, he’ll need all the help he can get.

The Billion Dollar Boy (By:)

New York Public Library ‘Best Books for the Teen Age’ selectionShelby Cheever V is a spoiled brat. He is also the richest kid in the country. Actually, make that the universe. Bored with his all the amuseme*nts money can buy life, he decides on a bit of interstellar action, Shelby style. But it turns out life on a starship is not all fun and games. As part of a crew, Shelby has a few things to learn. Like, how to follow orders instead of simply giving orders. Can Shelby learn how to cooperate with his crewmates?He may not have a choice. When Shelby becomes the target of a hostage for ransom scheme, he’ll need all the help he can get.

The Billion Dollar Boy (By:)

New York Public Library ‘Best Books for the Teen Age’ selectionShelby Cheever V is a spoiled brat. He is also the richest kid in the country. Actually, make that the universe. Bored with his all the amuseme*nts money can buy life, he decides on a bit of interstellar action, Shelby style. But it turns out life on a starship is not all fun and games. As part of a crew, Shelby has a few things to learn. Like, how to follow orders instead of simply giving orders. Can Shelby learn how to cooperate with his crewmates?He may not have a choice. When Shelby becomes the target of a hostage for ransom scheme, he’ll need all the help he can get.

The Cyborg From Earth (By:)

Called ‘the new Arthur C. Clarke’ by The Washington Post Book World and ‘a scientist with a fine literary sense’ by The Denver Post, Charles Sheffield has crafted a an exciting adventure about a frustrated teen who just can’t seem to do anything right. Jeff Kopal is heir to a powerful military family. He’s got everything going for him. Except one thing: Jeff is a total screw ups. His family has had it. So when Jeff blows off his naval entrance exams he figures his future is basically kaput. Instead, he is being sent by the navy into deep space to deal with rebellious cyborgs. How did that happen?Jeff will have to find out before it’s too late. Otherwise, He may become the pawn in someone else’s dangerous and very deadly game.

The Cyborg From Earth (By:)

Called ‘the new Arthur C. Clarke’ by The Washington Post Book World and ‘a scientist with a fine literary sense’ by The Denver Post, Charles Sheffield has crafted a an exciting adventure about a frustrated teen who just can’t seem to do anything right. Jeff Kopal is heir to a powerful military family. He’s got everything going for him. Except one thing: Jeff is a total screw ups. His family has had it. So when Jeff blows off his naval entrance exams he figures his future is basically kaput. Instead, he is being sent by the navy into deep space to deal with rebellious cyborgs. How did that happen?Jeff will have to find out before it’s too late. Otherwise, He may become the pawn in someone else’s dangerous and very deadly game.

The Cyborg from Earth (By:)

Called ‘the new Arthur C. Clarke’ by The Washington Post Book World and ‘a scientist with a fine literary sense’ by The Denver Post, Charles Sheffield has crafted a an exciting adventure about a frustrated teen who just can’t seem to do anything right. Jeff Kopal is heir to a powerful military family. He’s got everything going for him. Except one thing: Jeff is a total screw ups. His family has had it. So when Jeff blows off his naval entrance exams he figures his future is basically kaput. Instead, he is being sent by the navy into deep space to deal with rebellious cyborgs. How did that happen?Jeff will have to find out before it’s too late. Otherwise, He may become the pawn in someone else’s dangerous and very deadly game.

Starswarm (By:Jerry Pournelle)

This is the Audiobook Cassette Library Edition in vinyl case. Kip has a secret. A young boy who lives with his uncle at Starswarm Station research outpost on planet Paradise, he has heard a voice in his head for as long as he can remember. The voice guides him in all his decisions, helping him through situations with useful information and helpful insight. One day, finally daring to ask the voice some tough questions, Kip discovers that his computer scientist parents implanted an artificial intelligence chip in his skull, which connects with a powerful mainframe computer via satellite. He also learns that his parents died under suspicious circumstances. And that his very existence is a well kept secret that will soon come to light, putting his own life and the whole of outpost Starswarm in grave danger. Luckily, he has friends Marty and Lara to help. But are three kids enough to save an entire planet?

Outward Bound

Fifteen year old Linc Marani is from the wrong side of twenty second century L.A.’s tracks. Everyone he knows is addicted to dope, booze, and the violence that masquerades as bravado in life on the streets. When a chance at some cold hard cash is offered to him by a slick associate in a fancy Cadillac, Linc jumps at the bait only to find himself sentenced to a juvenile labor camp when the heist goes sour. Labor camp: To Linc it means an aching, dawn to dusk grind Marine bootcamp style discipline with no hope of escape or parole. He is about to give up and accept this precisely regimented and miserable future when a mysterious psychologist offers him the chance of a lifetime. Can Linc overcome one of the worst neighborhoods on Earth by proving his worth on a mission beyond the stars? Outward Bound is the sixth book in the Jupiter series, one of the most enjoyable series being written in the genre today. Patterned after the inspiring coming of age novels that Robert Heinlein and Isaac Asimov used to write, the Jupiter series has laid claim to the same imaginative drive and skillful storytelling that have delighted generations of science fiction readers worldwide.