One of science fiction’s best writers creates a surprisingly coherent timeline. – I mean, given that he doesn’t appear to be doing so on purpose. Unless specified in the notes below each entry, the relationships between these volumes are conjectural only.
30,000 BCE (approximately)
- Shaman
- Published 2013.
1405-2088 CE
- The Years of Rice and Salt
- Published 2002.
Takes place in an alternate timeline to all the other stories listed on this page (with the possible exception of Shaman), but is too good not to read.
1609-1642 CE
- Galileo’s Dream
- Published 2009.
Early 21st Century CE
- Antarctica
- Published 1997.
Wade Norton and Phil Chase from this novel also appear in the three volumes of the Science in the Capital series; Ta Shu also appears in Red Moon.
- Forty Signs of Rain (Science in the Capital, volume one).
- Published 2004.
Wade Norton and Phil Chase from this novel also appear in the other volumes of the Science in the Capital series as well as Antarctica.
- Fifty Degrees Below (Science in the Capital, volume two).
- Published 2005.
Wade Norton and Phil Chase from this novel also appear in the other volumes of the Science in the Capital series as well as Antarctica.
- Sixty Days and Counting (Science in the Capital, volume three).
- Published 2007.
Wade Norton and Phil Chase from this novel also appear in the other volumes of the Science in the Capital series as well as Antarctica.
2047
- Red Moon
- Published 2018.
Ta Shu also appears in Antarctica.
2140
- New York 2140
- Published 2017.
2705
- Aurora
- Published 2015.
