Anthologies
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Something for the Journey - A Charity Anthology | 2013 | Buy |
| From the Indie Side | 2014 | Buy |
| The Telepath Chronicles | 2014 | Buy |
| The Alien Chronicles | 2015 | Buy |
| Explorations: First Contact | 2017 | Buy |
| For a Few Credits More | 2017 | Buy |
First Contact Reading Order
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Anomaly | 2011 | Buy |
| A Gigantic Leap | 2023 | N/A |
| Galactic Exploration | 2012 | Buy |
| Xenophobia | 2013 | Buy |
| Little Green Men | 2013 | Buy |
| Feedback | 2014 | Buy |
| My Sweet Satan | 2014 | Buy |
| Alien Space Tentacle Porn | 2015 | Buy |
| Starship Mine | 2016 | Buy |
| Welcome to the Occupied States of America | 2016 | Buy |
| Maelstrom | 2017 | Buy |
| Losing Mars | 2018 | Buy |
| Hello World | 2019 | Buy |
| 3zekiel | 2019 | Buy |
| But The Stars | 2020 | Buy |
| Wherever Seeds May Fall | 2021 | Buy |
| Déjà Vu | 2021 | Buy |
| Jury Duty | 2021 | Buy |
| Dispatches from the War | 2021 | Buy |
| Cold Eyes | 2021 | Buy |
| Generation of Vipers | 2022 | Buy |
| Clowns | 2022 | Buy |
| The Tempest | 2022 | Buy |
| Apothecary | 2023 | Buy |
| The Art of War | 2023 | Buy |
| Ghosts | 2023 | Buy |
| The Artifact | 2023 | Buy |
| The Anatomy of Courage | 2024 | Buy |
| The Simulacrum | 2024 | Buy |
| Love, Sex and the Alien Apocalypse | 2024 | Buy |
| The Minotaur | 2025 | Buy |
| Dark Beauty | 2025 | Buy |
| Gold Rush | 2025 | Buy |
| The Darkness Between the Stars | 2025 | Buy |
| The Oracle | 2025 | Buy |
Galactic Exploration
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Trixie & Me | 2012 | Buy |
Mars Endeavour Reading Order
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Retrograde | 2016 | Buy |
| Reentry | 2019 | Buy |
Short Stories/Novellas
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| The Curious Case of the Hounds of Hell | 2018 | Buy |
| Equilibrium | 2025 | Buy |
Silo Saga Universe Reading Order
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Angels of the Earth | 2013 | Buy |
| Underground | 2013 | N/A |
| They Kill | 2013 | N/A |
| Missing | 2013 | N/A |
| Shadows | 2013 | Buy |
| They Feed | 2018 | Buy |
| Chosen, Stranded, Destined | 2018 | Buy |
| Hidden | 2018 | Buy |
| Forgotten Hero | 2021 | Buy |
| Unity | 2025 | Buy |
Standalone Novels
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| The Road to Hell | 2011 | Buy |
| Monsters | 2012 | Buy |
| Mister Fluffy Bunny | 2018 | Buy |
Tales from the Canyons of the Damned Reading Order
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Tales from the Canyons of the Damned: No. 1 | 2015 | Buy |
| Tales from the Canyons of the Damned: No. 2 | 2015 | Buy |
| Tales from the Canyons of the Damned: No. 3 | 2016 | Buy |
| Tales from the Canyons of the Damned: No. 4 | 2016 | Buy |
| Tales from the Canyons of the Damned: No. 5 | 2016 | Buy |
| Tales from the Canyons of the Damned: No. 6 | 2016 | Buy |
| Tales from the Canyons of the Damned: No. 7 | 2016 | Buy |
| Tales from the Canyons of the Damned: No. 8 | 2016 | Buy |
| Tales from the Canyons of the Damned: No. 9 | 2016 | Buy |
| Tales from the Canyons of the Damned: No. 10 | 2016 | Buy |
| Tales from the Canyons of the Damned: No. 11 | 2016 | Buy |
| Tales from the Canyons of the Damned: No. 12 | 2017 | Buy |
| Tales from the Canyons of the Damned No. 13 | 2017 | Buy |
| Tales from the Canyons of the Damned: No. 14 | 2017 | Buy |
| Tales from the Canyons of the Damned: No. 15 | 2017 | Buy |
| Tales from the Canyons of the Damned: No. 16 | 2017 | Buy |
| Tales from the Canyons of the Damned: No. 17 | 2017 | Buy |
| Tales from the Canyons of the Damned: No. 18 | 2017 | Buy |
| Tales from the Canyons of the Damned: No. 19 | 2017 | Buy |
| Tales from the Canyons of the Damned: No. 20 | 2017 | Buy |
| Tales from the Canyons of the Damned: No. 21 | 2018 | Buy |
| Tales from the Canyons of the Damned: No. 22 | 2018 | Buy |
| Tales from the Canyons of the Damned: No. 23 | 2018 | Buy |
| Tales from the Canyons of the Damned: No. 24 | 2018 | Buy |
| Tales from the Canyons of the Damned: No. 25 | 2018 | Buy |
| Tales from the Canyons of the Damned: No. 26 | 2018 | Buy |
| Tales from the Canyons of the Damned: No. 27 | 2018 | Buy |
| Tales from the Canyons of the Damned: No. 28 | 2018 | Buy |
| Tales from the Canyons of the Damned: No. 29 | 2018 | Buy |
| Tales from the Canyons of the Damned: No. 30 | 2019 | Buy |
| Tales from the Canyons of the Damned: No. 31 | 2019 | Buy |
| Tales from the Canyons of the Damned: No. 32 | 2019 | Buy |
| Tales from the Canyons of the Damned: No. 33 | 2019 | Buy |
| Tales from the Canyons of the Damned: No. 34 | 2019 | Buy |
| Tales from the Canyons of the Damned: No. 35 | 2019 | Buy |
| Tales from the Canyons of the Damned: No. 36 | 2019 | Buy |
| Tales from the Canyons of the Damned: No. 37 | 2020 | Buy |
| Tales from the Canyons of the Damned: No. 38 | 2020 | Buy |
| Tales from the Canyons of the Damned: No. 39 | 2021 | Buy |
| Tales from the Canyons of the Damned: No. 40 | 2021 | Buy |
| Tales from the Canyons of the Damned: No. 41 | 2022 | Buy |
| Tales from the Canyons of the Damned: No. 42 | 2023 | Buy |
| Tales from the Canyons of the Damned: No. 43 | 2023 | Buy |
World Of Kurt Vonnegut Reading Order
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| The Bell Curse | 2013 | N/A |
| The World of Kurt Vonnegut | 2013 | Buy |
| Peace in Amber | 2014 | Buy |
| As Much Protein as an Egg | 2014 | Buy |
| Children’s Crusade | 2014 | N/A |
| Newt and Zinka’s Wild, Wild Week OR How the K.G.B. Got Ice-Nine | 2014 | N/A |
Z is for Zombie Reading Order
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Free Fall | 2015 | Buy |
| What We Left Behind | 2017 | Buy |
| All Our Tomorrows | 2015 | Buy |
van Helsing’s Diaries Reading Order
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Vampire | 2015 | N/A |
| Nosferatu | 2017 | Buy |
Peter Cawdron is one of the most prolific independent science fiction authors working today, with over 100 books published since 2011. His First Contact series is the backbone of his catalog, with 35 standalone novels each imagining a different way humanity might meet alien life. The books range from Anomaly (2011) through recent entries like The Oracle (2025), and each tells a self-contained story while exploring the scientific and philosophical implications of contact.
Beyond First Contact, Cawdron has written in Hugh Howey’s Silo Saga Universe (10 books), contributed to 43 issues of the Tales from the Canyons of the Damned science fiction zine, and explored the World of Kurt Vonnegut in a series of six tribute novels. His Mars Endeavour duet (Retrograde and Reentry) deals with a Mars colony cut off from Earth, and the Z is for Zombie trilogy covers apocalyptic survival.
Cawdron’s writing emphasizes plausible science and ideas over action set pieces. His readers tend to be fans of hard SF who appreciate thought experiments wrapped in readable storytelling.