Simon Hawke

Simon Hawke is an American author who writes mainly science fiction and fantasy, but also historical fiction. He was born in 1951, in New York City, USA as Nicholas Valentin Yermakov. Hawke attended Hofstra University and Western New Mexico University, and has had many jobs aside from being an author.

The best place to start is The Shade Trilogy series, the earliest of Simon Hawke's multi-book series: it opens with Last Communion (1981) and runs to 3 books across 1981–1984, ending with Jehad (1984). Simon Hawke's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Simon Hawke has 226 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1981 and 2025. 215 of them belong to 16 named series — the largest being the TimeWars series with 12 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. Simon Hawke's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are The Shade Trilogy (1981–1984, 3 books), Friday the 13th (1982–1988, 5 books) and TimeWars (1984–1991, 12 books), plus 10 more.

This guide splits Simon Hawke's 226 books into 16 named series and 11 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: TimeWars (12 books, 1984–1991); Wizard (11 books, 1987–2025); Steele (8 books, 1989–1991); Birthright (5 books, 1995–1996); Friday the 13th (5 books, 1982–1988), plus 11 further series.