Stephanie Osborn

About Stephanie Osborn The American author Stephanie Osborn is well regarded due to her intelligent and imaginative science-fiction. Taking her readers on a journey, she really does have a sense of scope and scale, allowing her audience to lose themselves in her work. Highly immersive, her writing resonates with readers worldwide with her unmistakable style and approach to the craft.

The best place to start is the Cresperian series, the earliest of Stephanie Osborn's multi-book series: it opens with Human by Choice (2008) and runs to 3 books across 2008–2010, ending with The Cresperian Alliance (2010). Stephanie Osborn's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Stephanie Osborn has 75 books catalogued in this guide, published between 2008 and 2025. 61 of them belong to 9 named series — the largest being the Division One series with 14 books — and 14 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. Stephanie Osborn's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Cresperian (2008–2010, 3 books), Burnout (2009–2012, 2 books) and Displaced Detective (2011–2016, 6 books), plus 4 more.

This guide splits Stephanie Osborn's 75 books into 9 named series and 14 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Division One (14 books, 2017–2021); Displaced Detective (6 books, 2011–2016); Childers Universe (6 books, 2017–2019); Cresperian (3 books, 2008–2010); Burnout (2 books, 2009–2012), plus 4 further series.