David Wingrove

Born in North Battersea (London) in September 1954, David Wingrove spent his formative years playing among the bomb-sites of World War Two, and coming to know the insides of deserted houses and the smells of brick-dust and damp wallpaper every bit as well as Proust knew his soggy biscuits. A local C of E primary school – St Mary's, now converted to expensive flats! – disgorged him into the tender mercies of a less local Grammar School, where he spent his teenage years mainly in the art block listening to early Floyd, Hendrix and anything LOUD. Academically he did well enough, but –…

The best place to start is the David Wingrove Non Fiction series, the earliest of David Wingrove's multi-book series: it opens with The Immortals of Science Fiction (1980) and runs to 4 books across 1980–1986, ending with Trillion Year Spree (1986). David Wingrove's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

David Wingrove has 30 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1980 and 2020. Every one of them sits in one of 5 named series — the largest being the Chung Kuo Recasting series with 12 books.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. David Wingrove's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are David Wingrove Non Fiction (1980–1986, 4 books), Chung Kuo (1989–1997, 8 books) and Myst (1995–1997, 3 books), plus 2 more.

This guide splits David Wingrove's 30 books into 5 named series, with no standalone titles: Chung Kuo Recasting (12 books, 2011–2020); Chung Kuo (8 books, 1989–1997); David Wingrove Non Fiction (4 books, 1980–1986); Myst (3 books, 1995–1997); Roads to Moscow (3 books, 2014–2016).