Martin Caidin

Martin Caidin was a renowned American writer of science fiction, military fiction, mystery, thriller, historical fiction, and fantasy novels. He is known to have authored over 80 books of fiction and non-fiction and more than one thousand magazine articles. Caidin began his writing career in 1957 and is particularly well known for writing the book called Cyborg.

The best place to start is the Buck Rogers series, the earliest of Martin Caidin's multi-book series: it opens with Armageddon 2419 A.D. (1928) and runs to 11 books across 1928–2022, ending with The Airlords of Han (2022). Martin Caidin's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Martin Caidin has 143 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1928 and 2022. 75 of them belong to 5 named series — the largest being the Ballantine's Illustrated History of World War II / the Violent Century: Weapons Book series with 34 books — and 68 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. Martin Caidin's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Buck Rogers (1928–2022, 11 books), Ballantine's Illustrated History of World War II / the Violent Century: Weapons Book (1968–2000, 34 books) and Six Million Dollar Man (1970–1977, 10 books), plus 2 more.

This guide splits Martin Caidin's 143 books into 5 named series and 68 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Ballantine's Illustrated History of World War II / the Violent Century: Weapons Book (34 books, 1968–2000); Indiana Jones Universe (18 books, 1981–2009); Buck Rogers (11 books, 1928–2022); Six Million Dollar Man (10 books, 1970–1977); Doug Stavers (2 books, 1986–1990).