Linda Nagata

About Linda Nagata An American author, Linda Nagata is highly regarded for her insightful and intelligent science-fiction brand that captures the reader's imagination. With an immediate style that instantly grabs the audience's attention, she understands what she wants from each of her stories. She also has something to say and offer, providing exciting and creative fiction that keeps the reader glued.

The best place to start is The Nanotech Succession series, the earliest of Linda Nagata's multi-book series: it opens with The Bohr Maker (1995) and runs to 4 books across 1995–1998, ending with Vast (1998). Linda Nagata's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Linda Nagata has 59 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1995 and 2026. 35 of them belong to 6 named series — the largest being the Inverted Frontier series with 4 books — and 24 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. Linda Nagata's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are The Nanotech Succession (1995–1998, 4 books), Stories of the Puzzle Lands (2011–2012, 2 books) and The Red (2013–2015, 3 books), plus 2 more.

This guide splits Linda Nagata's 59 books into 6 named series and 24 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Inverted Frontier (4 books, 2019–2024); The Nanotech Succession (4 books, 1995–1998); The Red (3 books, 2013–2015); The Wild Trilogy (3 books, 2021); Stories of the Puzzle Lands (2 books, 2011–2012), plus 1 further series.