Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Game of Worlds | 1999 | Allen M. Steele | Buy |
| 2 | Snowdance | 2025 | Allen M. Steele | Buy |
David Brin’s Out Of Time is a shared-world science fiction series where multiple authors write stories set in a universe created by David Brin. Allen M. Steele contributed The Game of Worlds in 1999, early in the project, and returned to the series with Snowdance in 2025, more than two decades later.
The long gap between Steele’s contributions suggests the shared-world project has continued intermittently over the years. Both books allow Steele to work within someone else’s universe, a different challenge from his own original series.