Charles E. Gannon

Charles E. Gannon is an American author. He is also a Professor English and worked as a Graduate English director at St. Bonaventure University. He enjoys writing and took on writing full-time as of 2007.

The best place to start is the War World series, the earliest of Charles E. Gannon's multi-book series: it opens with The Burning Eye (1988) and runs to 20 books across 1988–2023, ending with The Falkenberg Protectorate (2023). Charles E. Gannon's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Charles E. Gannon has 229 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1988 and 2026. 218 of them belong to 16 named series — the largest being the Ring of Fire series with 36 books — and 11 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Charles E. Gannon's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are War World (1988–2023, 20 books), Starfire (1990–2018, 8 books) and Dark Conspiracy (1991, 1 book), plus 8 more.

This guide splits Charles E. Gannon's 229 books into 16 named series and 11 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Ring of Fire (36 books, 2000–2026); War World (20 books, 1988–2023); Black Tide Rising (15 books, 2013–2025); Ring of Fire Anthology (12 books, 2004–2021); Caine Riordan (8 books, 2013–2026), plus 11 further series.