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Confluence Books in Order
Below you'll find the complete list of Confluence books in publication order. This is generally the recommended reading order for the series.
Reading order verified: March 2026
Quick Answer
What order should I read the Confluence series? Start with "Child of the River" (1997) and follow publication order through all 67 books.
The complete Confluence reading order is listed below in publication sequence.
Publication Order
Child of the River
1997
Ancients of Days
1999
Shrine of Stars
1999
Confluence (By: Paul McAuley)
2000
Confluence - The Trilogy (By: Paul McAuley)
2000
The Mammoth Book of Vampires
1992
In Dreams
1993
The Mammoth Book of Frankenstein
1994
Best New Horror 6
1995
Dark Terrors 2
1996
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 7
1996
The Mammoth Book of Dracula
1997
Eleventh Annual Collection
1998
The Furthest Horizon
2000
Vanishing Acts
2000
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, #11
2000
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, #12
2001
Futures
2001
Space Soldiers
2001
Supermen
2002
Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 13
2002
The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 15
2002
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 14
2003
The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 16
2003
The Hard SF Renaissance
2003
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, Vol. 15
2004
The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels
2005
Year's Best SF 11
2006
The Space Opera Renaissance
2006
Future Weapons of War
2007
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection
2007
The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2009
2008
The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 22
2008
Fast Forward 2
2008
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection
2010
The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 2
2010
The Living Dead 2
2010
Zombie Apocalypse!
2010
The Recent Weird
2011
New Cthulhu: The Recent Weird
2011
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection
2012
The Mammoth Book of SF Wars
2012
Arc 1.2: Post Human Conditions
2012
The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 4
2012
Lightspeed Magazine, January 2015
2012
Aliens: Recent Encounters
2013
The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 5
2013
Best New SF 26
2013
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection
2014
The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume One
2016
In the Shadow of Frankenstein
2016
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection
2016
Galactic Empires
2017
The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 9
2017
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection
2017
The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories
2017
The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2017
2017
In the Footsteps of Dracula
2017
2001: An Odyssey in Words
2018
Twelve Tomorrows
2018
Clarkesworld Year Ten: Volume One
2019
The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 3
2019
The 2020 Look at Mars Fiction Book
2020
The 2020 Look at Space Opera Book
2020
Burning Brightly
2021
Asimov's Science Fiction July 2002
2002
The Year's Best Science Fiction on Earth 2
2024
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