Wil McCarthy

Before he became a bestselling author, he worked for Lockheed Martin as a flight controller and then at Omnitech Robotics as an engineering manager. He now works for RavenBrick LLC as Chief Technology Officer and president and makes his home in Colorado. His new business would end up consuming most of his days for the better part of fifteen years and he never got an opportunity to write during this time.

The best place to start is The Waisters series, the earliest of Wil McCarthy's multi-book series: it opens with Aggressor Six (1994) and runs to 3 books across 1994–1996, ending with The Fall of Sirius (1996). Wil McCarthy's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Wil McCarthy has 33 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1991 and 2026. 11 of them belong to 3 named series — the largest being The Queendom of Sol series with 4 books — and 22 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. Wil McCarthy's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are The Waisters (1994–1996, 3 books), The Queendom of Sol (2000–2005, 4 books) and Rich Man's Sky (2021–2026, 4 books).

This guide splits Wil McCarthy's 33 books into 3 named series and 22 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: The Queendom of Sol (4 books, 2000–2005); Rich Man's Sky (4 books, 2021–2026); The Waisters (3 books, 1994–1996).