Coyote Novels

Coyote

In the year 2070, America is in the grip of a right-wing dictatorship. A group of rebels steal a prototype starship, which reaches Coyote, orbiting 47 Ursa Majoris. The crew and colonists are revived and begin life on their new home.
At over 400 paperback pages, Coyote is a wide-ranging tale told from differing viewpoints.

"Stealing Alabama" is Part One of Book One of Coyote and first appeared in the January 2001 issue of Asimov's Science Fiction.

"The Days Between" is Part Two of Book One of Coyote and first appeared in the March 2001 issue of Asimov's Science Fiction.

"The War of Dogs and Boids"

This Amazon Short is a stand-alone story from the first year of the colonization of Coyote featuring a dog who "belongs" to one of the colonists. (Note: This is not a Kindle edition.)

Coyote Rising

Only six years after the first colonists who fled an American dictatorship land on Coyote, they are faced with the landings from two more ships from Earth. They're from the Western Hemisphere Union, which means to establish sovereignty over the colony. The people of Coyote have other ideas about that.

Coyote Frontier

Coyote's story continues as the colonists struggle with the wearing out of high-tech devices imported from Earth. But scientists have cracked the problem with the starbridge which opens up a wormhole between Coyote and Earth. This creates both opportunities and challenges for people on both worlds.

Spindrift

An expedition to an alien artifact discovered near a distant star is presumed lost when communication fails. Later, three survivors and an alien turn up at Coyote. Spindrift is the story of how those survivors came through.

Galaxy Blues

Kicked out of the Western Hemisphere Union Astronautica space fleet, young Jules Truffant stows away aboard the Robert E. Lee, headed for Coyote, planning to defect. He takes a job as a shuttle pilot aboard the Pride of Cucomonga, where he manages to botch the Pride's mission and tick off aliens in the process. This leads to him taking part in a mission across the galaxy to place a probe in the path of a black hole as it plows through an inhabited star system.

Near Space Novels

Orbital Decay

Beamjacks are the assemblers of satellites in the near future. A group of them uncover a plot by the US National Security Agency to take wiretapping into space.

Clarke County, Space

Humankind's first orbiting space colony attracts a diverse population from tourists to members of the Church of Elvis. And its citizens want independence.

Lunar Descent

Faced with rising production quotas, sinking bonuses, a sellout union, and a washed-up alcoholic for a station manager, the moondogs, the men and women who do the hard work at Descartes Station, are mad and they're not going to take it any more.

Labyrinth of Night

Discovery and intrigue await an expedition to the Cydonia region of Mars, location of the "Face" and the "City" first seen by the Viking probe in 1976.

A King of Infinite Space

Death for William Alec Tucker III was a gateway to a new life involving runaway nanotechnology, an asteroid named for Jerry Garcia, a castle, and a mop.

Other Novels

The Jericho Iteration

Ravaged by an earthquake, St. Louis in 2013 is still under martial law nearly a year after the disaster. Reporter Gerry Rosen at first thinks he's on to a story about corporate malfeasance, but it turns out to be more than that - a threat to the very freedom of the country.

The Weight

This short novel was only published separately in England and is hard to find on its own, and may not always be in stock at Amazon. It is included in the collection Sex and Violence in Zero G.

The Tranquility Alternative

In Steele's alternate history, manned space flight began near the end of World War II. Fifty years later, with the US space program in decline, a crew heads to a missile base on the Moon to prepare it to be turned over to a German company. Six missiles are to be launched into the Sun, but an impostor and personal agendas threaten to change things for the worse.

Oceanspace

Steele takes us below the waves, an environment less known to scientists and science fiction fans alike than the Moon. The plot involves exploring a newly-discovered smoker - a hot vent in the ocean floor - and a sea monster.

Chronospace

This is an expansion of the Hugo-winner "...Where Angels Fear to Tread" in which the Hindenburg, instead of exploding, lands safely. It speculates that UFOs are from Earth, but Earth of another time, and that science fiction can have unexpected effects on scientific progress.

Collections of Stories and Essays

Rude Astronauts

A collection of Steele's early stories, this includes "Goddard's People," which originally appeared in "Worcester Monthly" in 1987 as "Operation Blue Horizon" and introduced me to Steele. In his stories, near space is presented as a gritty, often unglamorous working environment.

All-American Alien Boy

While "Rude Astronauts" was set mostly in space, his second collection is set mainly on Earth. Each story includes an introduction by Steele.

Sex and Violence in Zero-G

This is a complete collection of Steele's Near Space stories. It includes "The Weight" (published separately only in England) and his Hugo Award winning novella "The Death of Captain Future."

American Beauty

This eclectic collection pays tributes to Tom Swift, Philip Jose Farmer, Isaac Asimov, Lost in Space, and includes love, music, and humor in the mix.

Primary Ignition: Essays 1997-2001

A collection of non-fiction articles and essays.

The Best Alternate History Stories of the 20th Century
edited by Harry Turtledove with Martin Greenberg

This collection includes Allen Steele's Hugo winner "The Death of Captain Future." Steele is in good company with Poul Anderson, Greg Bear, Gregory Benford, Larry Niven, Kim Stanley Robinson, Bruce Sterling, and editor Harry Turtledove.

Amazon Kindle Editions of Shorter Works by Allen Steele

In addition to "Stealing Alabama" and "The Days Between" listed above with Coyote, the following Kindle editions are available.