Laura Anne Gilman

Laura Anne Gilman is an editor, a teacher and a writer with more than twenty novels. She is originating from New Jersey (USA), born and raised in the late 1960’s in the suburban parts of the city. Living in that same place, she has only endured moderate trauma, but some good times as well, before going to Skidmore College.

The best place to start is the Quantum Leap series, the earliest of Laura Anne Gilman's multi-book series: it opens with The Novel / Carny Knowledge (1992) and runs to 22 books across 1992–2000, ending with Mirror's Edge (2000). Laura Anne Gilman's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Laura Anne Gilman has 203 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1992 and 2024. 168 of them belong to 17 named series — the largest being the Quantum Leap series with 22 books — and 35 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. Laura Anne Gilman's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Quantum Leap (1992–2000, 22 books), Unsolved Mysteries: The Secret Files Non-Fiction (2001, 1 book) and Retrievers (2004–2010, 7 books), plus 11 more.

This guide splits Laura Anne Gilman's 203 books into 17 named series and 35 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Quantum Leap (22 books, 1992–2000); Retrievers (7 books, 2004–2010); Sylvan Investigations (6 books, 2013–2017); The Devil's West (5 books, 2015–2019); Paranormal Scene Investigations (4 books, 2010–2012), plus 12 further series.