Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Enchanted Duplicator | 1954 | Bob Shaw | Buy |
| 2 | Night Walk | 1967 | Bob Shaw | Buy |
| 3 | The Two Timers | 1968 | Bob Shaw | Buy |
| 4 | The Palace of Eternity | 1969 | Bob Shaw | Buy |
| 5 | One Million Tomorrows | 1970 | Bob Shaw | Buy |
| 6 | The Shadow Of Heaven | 1970 | Bob Shaw | Buy |
| 7 | Ground Zero Man/The Peace Machine | 1971 | Bob Shaw | Buy |
| 8 | Other Days, Other Eyes | 1972 | Bob Shaw | Buy |
| 9 | A Wreath of Stars | 1976 | Bob Shaw | Buy |
| 10 | Medusa’s Children | 1977 | Bob Shaw | Buy |
| 11 | Ship of Strangers | 1978 | Bob Shaw | Buy |
| 12 | Vertigo/Terminal Velocity | 1978 | Bob Shaw | Buy |
| 13 | Dagger Of The Mind | 1979 | Bob Shaw | Buy |
| 14 | The Ceres Solution | 1981 | Bob Shaw | Buy |
| 15 | Fire Pattern | 1984 | Bob Shaw | Buy |
| 16 | Killer Planet | 1992 | Bob Shaw | Buy |
Bob Shaw’s standalone novels cover an impressive range of science fiction. His earliest, The Enchanted Duplicator (1954, co-written with Walt Willis), is a satirical allegory about fan publishing. Night Walk (1967), his first solo novel, follows a man blinded and imprisoned on an alien world who discovers he can see through the eyes of nearby creatures.
Other Days, Other Eyes (1972) expanded his celebrated “slow glass” concept into novel length, exploring how glass that delays light by years would reshape privacy, grief, and commerce. A Wreath of Stars (1976) imagines an anti-neutrino world overlapping with our own, while Ground Zero Man (1971) tackles nuclear disarmament through one engineer’s desperate plan.
Later works like Fire Pattern (1984) and The Ceres Solution (1981) continued Shaw’s habit of building entire novels around a single striking scientific premise, always grounded in character and told with clear, economical prose.