GRAND TOUR CHRONOLOGY 
    Many readers have asked about the chronology of the Grand Tour novels. What is the time sequence of the various stories? Such a chronology is difficult to compose, because many of the novels overlap one another in time. Mars and Moonrise, for example, overlap considerably. Given that caveat, here is an approximate time sequence for the Grand Tour novels, with the actual year of publication given in parentheses. Remember, however, that any of these novels can be read completely independently of the others. 
    There is no absolute need to read the novels in any particular order. 
1.   POWERSAT (Tor Books 2005)   
2.   EMPIRE BUILDERS (Tor Books, 1993)   
3.   MARS (Bantam Books, 1992)  
4.   MOONRISE (Avon Books, 1996)   
5.   MOONWAR (Avon Books, 1998)   
6.   RETURN TO MARS (Avon Books, 1999)   
7.   THE PRECIPICE (Tor Books, 2001)   
8.   JUPITER (Tor Books, 2001)   
9.   THE ROCK RATS (Tor Books, 2002)   
10. THE SILENT WAR (Tor Books, 2004)
11. SATURN (Tor Books, 2003)   
12. TITAN (Tor Books, 2006)   
13. THE AFTERMATH (Tor Books, 2007)     
14. MERCURY (Tor Books, 2005)   
15. MARS LIFE (Tor Books, 2008) *NEW! ! !
16. VENUS (Tor Books, 2000)   
and... TALES OF THE GRAND TOUR (Tor Books, 2004) contains stories that span much of the timeline of the Grand Tour. 

Of course, there will be more to come. 

 
The Asteroid Wars novels, 
in the proper order, are: 
    • THE PRECIPICE
    • THE ROCK RATS 
    • THE SILENT WAR
    • THE AFTERMATH