Andre Norton's Sci Fi Timeline

Timeline Date	Book Title	Book Publication Date	Comments
c. 8000 B.C.	Time Traders	1958	(10,0000 years in the past) Spacecraft from an alien empire (the “Baldies”) crash lands on Earth.
1970 A.D.	Sea Siege	1957	(25 years after Hiroshima) Talks break down between east and west and nuclear war breaks out. Intelligent mutant octopi begin to attack ships and coastal areas of the West Indies.
prior to 2025 A.D.	Time Traders	1958	Soviet Union had collapsed and Greater Russia aggressively gobbled up its neighbors, ruling out cooperation in space with the US. Neither the US nor Russia had ventured further into space after the moon landings.
2025 A.D.	Time Traders	1958	US and Russia compete in sending Time Agents to the past to scavenge technology from a crashed spaceship. The alien owners of the spaceship, the “Baldies”, follow the Russians back to the present time and destroy their entire base in the Baltic.
c. 2025? A.D.	The Stars Are Ours!	1954	Free Scientists are blamed for using space stations to destroy major cities. Pax dictatorship rules Earth. Remaining scientists and supporters flee Earth in spaceship and eventually arrive on the planet Astra.
c. 2025 A.D.	Star Man's Son 2250 A. D.	1952	(Between 200 and 300 years before Star Man's Son) a nuclear war devastates much of Earth.
c. 2200? A.D.	No Night Without Stars	1975	Sander and Fanyi discover Maxil who claims to be nearly 200 years old and survived the nuclear wars which destroyed large areas of Earth.
2250 A.D.	Star Man's Son 2250 A. D.	1952	Sections of Earth abandoned after nuclear war, radiation causes mutations. Much of Earth's population evacuated to colony planets. Dogs have died out (in the region where Fors lives).
c. 2500? A.D.	Star Born	1957	Between 400-500 years after the fall of the Pax dictatorship and nuclear wars (-which happened shortly after The Stars Are Ours! according to Star Man's Son 2250 A.D.) humans have rebuilt civilization on Earth. Every 5 years they've launched an experimental space ship to explore the nearest star systems until the RS 10 reaches Astra.
?2771 A.D.	Secret of the Lost Race	1957	First contact with alien race with superior tech (the "Others"/Ffallian). Earth authorities, shocked by the nature of their request for aid, cut off all contact. (50 years before the events of Secret of the Lost Race.)
?2796 A.D.	Secret of the Lost Race	1959	Joktar is born to H. Marson (12 years before 2808).
?2801 A.D. (20 years earlier)	Secret of the Lost Race	1959	H. Marson returns to human held space to plea on behalf of the Others/Ffallian and is murdered
(28?)'08 A.D.	Secret of the Lost Race	1959	V. T. Ksanga returns to human held space with Marson's wife and son and is murdered. Joktar is brought to Kern's SunSpot by his mother who dies shortly after from a Terran disease. He is about 12 years old but appears to be only around 6. They were attempting to bring the "Other's"/Ffallian's plea for assistance and discover the fate of H. Marson.
?2817 A.D.	Secret of the Lost Race	1959	Hogan returns to human held space to find help for the Others/Ffallian race and ends up on Fenris.
?2820 A.D. 3 years before (?2823)	Secret of the Lost Race	1959	investigation is launched into initial report of alien contact with "Others"/Ffallian.
?2823 A.D.	Secret of the Lost Race	1959	15 years after '08, Joktar is hunted by one branch of Earth authorities to cover up contact with the "Others"/Ffallian while another branch searches for him to uncover the truth of their contact.
c. 3015 A.D.	Sargasso of Space	1955	'It's been exactly 10 years since the Crater War—' 'Terrans fought, viciously, devastatingly. The Crater War on Mars had been only the tail end of a long struggle between home planet and colonist across the void. The Federation kept an uneasy peace, the men of Trade worked frantically to make that permanent before another and more deadly conflict might wreck the whole Service and perhaps end their own precarious civilization. (See: Sargasso of Space)
c. 3025 A.D.?	Sargasso of Space	1955	Dane Thorson is assigned as cargo-apprentice to the Free Trader ship Solar Queen. 500 years after humans developed hyperdrive to travel outside the Solar system, 1000 years after first human colonies established outside the Solar system. First contact with 8 primitive, non-human species of intelligent aliens. Rigellians already in space before humans. Crew of the Solar Queen discover a working Forerunner installation on Limbo but criminals have been using it to crash ships on Limbo and loot them.
?	Plague Ship	1956	Trading rights acquired by crew of the Solar Queen shortly after first contact with alien Salariki of Sargol. Solar Queen lands on Earth where large areas are still radioactive, to prove they are not plague carriers.
?	Voodoo Planet	1959	Crewmen of the Solar Queen help stabilize the government on the planet Khatka.
?	Postmarked the Stars	1969	Crewmen of the Solar Queen expose illegal, deadly animal experiments.
?	Redline the Stars	1993	-
?	Derelict for Trade	1997	-
?	A Mind for Trade	1997	-
c. 3300 A.D.	The Sioux Spaceman	1960	Humans encounter Styor, a more technologically advanced alien race who have enslaved less technologically advanced races within their star empire. (almost 200 years before The Sioux Spaceman)
c. 3450 A.D.	The Sioux Spaceman	1960	Human Traders treated poorly by Styor, an advanced alien empire occupying neighbouring space. Humans have been undermining Styor enslavement of less advanced alien races within their empire for nearly 200 years.
c. 3670 A.D.	Star Guard	1955	"Almost" 300 years previous (to the events in Star Guard), Humans made contact with Central Control. [likely after causing the collapse of the Styor empire sometime after The Sioux Spaceman which probably earned humans their war-like reputation in Star Guard.]
3956 A.D.	Star Guard	1955	Humans are forced to be mercenary forces by Central Control. They seek to be treated as equals and allowed to establish Trading with other races and colonies on other planets.
4130 A.D.	Star Guard	1955	Star Guard framing story: A class of students at the Galactic University of Zacan study human history (the events of Star Guard).
?	Star Hunter	1961	a scheme by criminals to get their hands on the Kogan-Bord-Wazalitz fortune goes awry.
?	The Beast Master	1959	Earth recently bombed out by the alien Xik. (Possibly [Psychocrats] propaganda?) This event galvanized humans to win the war.
?	Lord of Thunder	1962	Trading established with Astra (see: Star Born). [Possibly a member of Confederation by this point?]
?	Beast Master's Ark	2002	-
?	Beast Master's Circus	2004	-
?	Beast Master's Quest	2006	-
?	Dark Piper	1968	Confederation mentioned, Four Sectors War.
1404 (A.F.?)	Ice Crown	1970	Overturn of the Psychocrats domination of the Confederation.
c. 1650 (A.F.?)	Ice Crown	1970	(200-300 years after Overturn of the Psychocrats.) A horrifying massive sociological experiment created by the Psychocrats is discovered still running on the planet Clio.
2195 A.F.	Android at Arms	1971	Elys was cloned.
2200 A.F.	Android at Arms	1971	Yolyos was cloned.
2230 A.F.	Android at Arms	1971	Andas was cloned.
2246 A.F.	Android at Arms	1971	Tsiwon was cloned.
2265 A.F.	Android at Arms	1971	Turpyn was cloned.
2273 A.F.	Android at Arms	1971	Grasty was cloned.
2275 A.F.	Android at Arms	1971	Androids (clones) of important people awaken and escape a Mengians ("heirs" of the Psychocrats) facility.
2301 A.F. (After Flight)	Dread Companion	1970	First-in Scout Jorth Kosgro lands on the planet later named Dylan and vanishes. Mystery isn't solved until he returns in 2483.
2405 A.F.	Dread Companion	1970	Kilda c'Rhyn born on Chalox.
2422 A.F.	Dread Companion	1970	17 year old Kilda becomes governess of Bartare and Oomark on Dylan and all three disappear without a trace. Mystery isn't solved until they return in 2483.
2483 A.F.	Dread Companion		Kilda and Jorth leave Dylan. Earth considered "legendary".
?	Eye of the Monster	1962	Human & Salariki settlements on Iskur evacuated when the aggressive reptilian natives rebel. (after Plague Ship- Salariki)
?	Storm over Warlock	1960	Humans fighting the insectile alien Throgs for "more than a century". First contact with the Wyverns of Warlock. (before The Zero Stone)
?	Ordeal in Otherwhere	1964	(sequel to Storm over Warlock, before The Zero Stone)
?	Catseye	1961	Experiments on boosting Terran animal intelligence taken to the next level: psionics. The Dipple on Kowar appears.
?	The X-Factor	1965	-
?	Forerunner Foray	1973	Probably shortly before the events of The Zero Stone/Uncharted Stars (Waystar, Wyvern males) and roughly 25 years after Ordeal in Otherwhere (Ris Lantee's age). Story begins on Kowar, the Dipple mentioned.
3949 (A.F.?)	Uncharted Stars	1969	"Thax Thorman had trading rights on Rohan back in 3949."
c. 395-?	The Zero Stone	1968	sometime after 3949 (and after Storm over Warlock/Ordeal in Otherwhere- Wyvern males).
395-?	Uncharted Stars	1969	a year after The Zero Stone. (Waystar, Wyvern males, probably shortly after Forerunner Foray.)
4450 ASF (After Space Flight?)	Judgment on Janus	1963	Pate Sissions, First-In Scout of Survey arrived on Janus and became the Ift Jarvas the Mirrormaster.
4570 ASF	Judgment on Janus	1963	Rahuld Urswin, stat-comp reader for the Combine, arrived on Janus.
4571 ASF	Judgment on Janus	1963	Rahuld Urswin became Myrik the Ift.
4635 ASF	Judgment on Janus	1963	Niall Renfro left the Dipple on Korwar, arrived on Janus and became Ayyar the Ift.
4636? ASF	Victory on Janus	1966	The spring after Judgment on Janus (which took place before winter).
?	Night of Masks	1964	The Dipple on Kowar mentioned.
?	Moon of 3 Rings	1966
?	Exiles of the Stars	1971
?	Flight in Yiktor	1986
?	Dare to Go A-Hunting	1990
?	The Legend of the Fairy Stone		http://andre-norton-books.com/index.php/worlds-of-andre/witch-world-saga/78-andre-s-book-of-shadows/801-the-legend-of-the-fairie-stone
?	Breed to Come	1972	An exploratory team of humans re-discover Earth but find it too alien to stay. Animals have evolved into intelligent species due to radiation from wars (and possibly the covert, illegal experiments of the Guild revealed in Catseye?).
?	Perilous Dreams	1976
?	Voorloper	1980
?	Forerunner	1981	Earth considered legendary
?	Forerunner- The Second Venture	1986
?	Moon Called	1982
?	Serpent's Tooth	1987
?	Brother to Shadows	1993
?	Procession to Var	2000
?	Set in Stone	2000
?	Three-Inch Trouble	2001
8050 A.D.	Star Rangers	1953	Collapse of Central Control. Terra (Earth) forgotten and only just rediscovered here. Planet recovered from nuclear devastation (by the Xik. see: The Beast Master).
7052 A.F.	Yurth Burden	1978	The Star ship Farhome, in the colony service of the Empire crash lands on the planet of the Raski people.