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Stargate Atlantis
(2004 — 2009)
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STARGATE ATLANTIS
60 Minute Drama
Science Fiction

ORIGINAL TRANSMISSION
2004 — 2009

BROADCASTER
Sci-Fi

SEASONS / EPISODES
5 Seasons / 100 Episodes

A spin-off from the highly successful Stargate SG-1, in which Stargate Command sends a colonisation force through the stargate to the distant Pegasus galaxy and the fabled city of Atlantis — build by the Ancients, the creators of the stargate network. From this base, they quickly awaken the deadly Wraith from their hibernation, heating the lives of everyone in the entire galaxy as they start feeding on them.
Novelisations
Stargate Atlantis: Rising

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by Sally Malcolm
  • United States
  • Paperback
  • Fandemonium Books
  • 2005
Novelised Episodes
Rising, Part 1 / Rising, Part 2
Back Cover Blurb
Atlantis will rise again...

Following the discovery of an Ancient outpost buried deep in the Antarctic ice sheet, Stargate Command sends a new team of explorers through the Stargate to the distant Pegasus galaxy.

Emerging in an abandoned Ancient city, the team quickly confirms that they have found the Lost City of Atlantis. But, submerged beneath the sea on an alien planet, the city is in danger of catastrophic flooding unless it is raised to the surface. Things go from bad to worse when the team must confront a new enemy known as the Wraith who are bent on destroying Atlantis.
Notes
  • A novelisation of the two-part opening episode to Season 1.
Original Novels
Stargate Atlantis: Reliquary

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by Martha Wells
  • UK
  • Paperback
  • Fandemonium Books
  • 2006
Back Cover Blurb
Knowledge is power...

While exploring the unused sections of the Ancient city of Atlantis, Major John Sheppard and Dr. Rodney McKay stumble on a recording device that reveals a mysterious new Stargate address. Believing that the address may lead them to a vast repository of Ancient knowledge, the team embarks on a mission to this uncharted world.

There they discover a ruined city, full of whispered secrets and dark shadows. As tempers fray and trust breaks down, the team uncovers the truth at the heart of the city. A truth that spells their destruction.

With half their people compromised, it falls to Major John Sheppard and Dr. Rodney McKay to risk everything in a deadly game of bluff with the enemy. To fail would mean the fall of Atlantis itself — and, for Sheppard, the annihilation of his very humanity...
Stargate Atlantis: The Chosen

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by Sonny Whitelaw & Elizabeth Christensen
  • UK
  • Paperback
  • Fandemonium Books
  • 2006
Back Cover Blurb
Born to rule...

With Ancient technology scattered across the Pegasus galaxy, the Atlantis team is not surprised to find it in use on a world once defended by Dalera, an Ancient who was cast out of her society for falling in love with a human.

But in the millennia since Dalera's departure much has changed. Her strict rules have been broken, leaving her people open to Wraith attack. Only a few of the Chosen remain to operate Ancient technology vital to their defense and tensions are running high. Revolution simmers close to the surface.

When Major Sheppard and Rodney McKay are revealed as members of the Chosen, Daleran society convulses into chaos. Wanting to help resolve the crisis and yet refusing to prop up an autocratic regime, Sheppard is forced to act when Teyla and Lieutenant Ford are taken hostage by the rebels...
Stargate Atlantis: Halcyon

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by James Swallow
  • UK
  • Paperback
  • Fandemonium Books
  • 2006
Other Editions
Stargate Atlantis: Halcyon
Kindle eBook / Fandemonium / October 2011
Back Cover Blurb
Might makes right...

In their ongoing quest for new allies, Atlantis's flagship team travel to Halcyon, a grim industrial world where the Wraith are no longer feared — they are hunted. Horrified by the brutality of Halcyon's warlike people, Lieutenant Colonel John Sheppard soon becomes caught in the political machinations of Halcyon's aristocracy. In a feudal society where strength means power, he realizes the nobles will stop at nothing to ensure victory over their rivals.

Meanwhile, Dr. Rodney McKay enlists the aid of the ruler's daughter to investigate a powerful Ancient structure, but McKay's scientific brilliance has aroused the interest of the planet's most powerful man — a man with a problem he desperately needs McKay to solve.

As Halcyon plunges into a catastrophe of its own making the team must join forces with the warlords — or die at the hands of their bitterest enemy...
Stargate Atlantis: Exogenesis

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by Sonny Whitelaw & Elizabeth Christensen
  • UK
  • Paperback
  • Fandemonium Books
  • 2006
Other Editions
Stargate Atlantis: Exogenesis
Kindle eBook / Fandemonium / October 2011
Back Cover Blurb
The eye of the beholder...

When Dr. Carson Beckett disturbs the rest of two long-dead Ancients, he unleashes devastating consequences of global proportions.

With the very existence of Lantea at risk, Colonel John Sheppard leads his team on a desperate search for the long lost Ancient device that could save Atlantis. While Teyla Emmagan and Dr. Elizabeth Weir battle the ecological meltdown consuming their world, Colonel Sheppard, Dr. Rodney McKay and Dr. Zelenka travel to a world created by the Ancients themselves. There they discover a human experiment that could mean their salvation...
But the truth is never as simple as it seems, and the team's prejudices lead them to make a fatal error — an error that could slaughter thousands, including their own Dr. McKay.
Stargate Atlantis: Entanglement

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by Martha Wells
  • UK
  • Paperback
  • Fandemonium Books
  • 2007
Back Cover Blurb
Leap of faith...

When Dr. Rodney McKay unlocks an Ancient mystery on a distant moon, he discovers a terrifying threat to the Pegasus galaxy.

Determined to disable the device before it's discovered by the Wraith, Colonel John Sheppard and his team navigate the treacherous ruins of an Ancient outpost. But attempts to destroy the technology are complicated by the arrival of a stranger — a stranger who can't be trusted, a stranger who needs the Ancient device to return home. Cut off from backup, under attack from the Wraith, and with the future of the universe hanging in the balance, Sheppard's team must put aside their doubts and step into the unknown.

However, when your mortal enemy is your only ally, betrayal is just a heartbeat away...
Stargate Atlantis: Casualties of War

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by Elizabeth Christensen
  • UK
  • Paperback
  • Fandemonium Books
  • 2007
Back Cover Blurb
Burden of command...

It's a dark time for Atlantis. Following the first Asuran clashes, Colonel Sheppard is buckling under the strain of command. When his team discovers Ancient technology which can defeat the Asuran menace, he is determined that Atlantis must possess it — at all costs.

But the involvement of Atlantis heightens local suspicions and brings two peoples to the point of war. Elizabeth Weir believes only her negotiating skills can hope to prevent the carnage, but when her diplomatic mission is attacked — and two of Sheppard's team are lost — both Weir and Sheppard must question their decisions. And their abilities to command.

As the first shots are fired, the Atlantis team must find a way to end the conflict — or live with the blood of innocents on their hands...
Stargate Atlantis: Blood Ties

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by Sonny Whitelaw & Elizabeth Christensen
  • UK
  • Paperback
  • Fandemonium Books
  • 2007
Back Cover Blurb
Creatures of the night...

When a series of gruesome murders are uncovered around the world, the trail leads back to the SGC — and far beyond...

Recalled to Stargate Command, Dr. Elizabeth Weir, Colonel John Sheppard, and Dr. Rodney McKay are shown shocking video footage — a Wraith attack, taking place on Earth. While McKay, Teyla, and Ronon investigate the disturbing possibility that humans may harbor Wraith DNA, Colonel Sheppard is teamed with SG-1's Dr. Daniel Jackson. Together, they follow the murderers' trail from Colorado Springs to the war-torn streets of Iraq, and there, uncover a terrifying truth...

As an ancient cult prepares to unleash its deadly plot against humankind, Sheppard's survival depends on his questioning of everything believed about the Wraith...
Stargate Atlantis: Mirror Mirror

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by Sabine C Bauer
  • UK
  • Paperback
  • Fandemonium Books
  • 2008
Back Cover Blurb
Too good to be true...

When an Ancient prodigy gives the Atlantis expedition Charybdis — a device capable of eliminating the Wraith — it's an offer they can't refuse. But the experiment fails disastrously, threatening to unravel the fabric of the Pegasus Galaxy — and the entire universe beyond.

Doctor Weir's team find themselves trapped and alone in very different versions of Atlantis, each fighting for their lives and their sanity in a galaxy falling apart at the seams. And as the terrible truth begins to sink in, they realize that they must undo the damage Charybdis has wrought while they still can.

Embarking on a desperate attempt to escape the maddening tangle of realities, each tries to return to their own Atlantis before it's too late. But the one thing standing in their way is themselves...
Stargate Atlantis: Nightfall

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by James Swallow
  • UK
  • Paperback
  • Fandemonium Books
  • 2009
Back Cover Blurb
The rock of Aegis...

Deception and lies abound on the planet of Heruun, protected from the Wraith for generations by their mysterious guardian — the 'Aegis'.

But with the planet falling victim to an incurable wasting sickness, and two of Colonel Sheppard's team going missing, the secrets of the Aegis must be revealed. The shocking truth threatens to tear Herunn society apart, bringing down upon them the scourge of the Wraith. Yet even with a Hive ship poised to attack there is much more at stake than the fate of one small planet.

For the Aegis conceals a threat so catastrophic that the Atlantis team must risk everything to eliminate it from the Pegasus galaxy...
Stargate Atlantis: Angelus

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by Peter J Evans
  • UK
  • Paperback
  • Fandemonium Books
  • 2009
Back Cover Blurb
Fear to tread...

With their core directive restored, the Asurans have begun to attack the Wraith on multiple fronts. Under the command of Colonel Ellis, the Apollo is dispatched to observe the battlefront, but Ellis's orders not to intervene are quickly breached when an Ancient ship drops out of hyperspace.

Inside is Angelus, fleeing the destruction of a world he has spent millennia protecting from the Wraith. Charming and likable, Angelus quickly connects with each member of the Atlantis team in a unique way and, more than that, offers them a weapon that could put an end to their war with both the Wraith and the Asurans.

But all is not what it seems, and even Angelus is unaware of his true nature — a nature that threatens the very survival of Atlantis itself...
Stargate Atlantis: Dead End

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by Chris Wraight
  • UK
  • Paperback
  • Fandemonium Books
  • June 2010
Back Cover Blurb
Deep freeze

Trapped on a planet being consumed by a runaway ice age, Colonel Sheppard and his team discover a people — and a mystery — long disregarded by the Ancients.

With the Stargate inoperable and their Puddle Jumper damaged, there is no way for Sheppard's team to escape the killing cold. Death seems inevitable until they are rescued by the Forgotten, a people abandoned by those who once protected them — and now condemned to witness the slow death of their world.

But something terrifying haunts their tunnel homes. When Teyla disappears and Ronon goes missing on the deadly ice plains, Sheppard and McKay risk losing their only chance of getting home in a desperate bid to find their friends and save the Forgotten from extinction...
Stargate Atlantis: Hunt and Run

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by Aaron Rosenberg
  • UK
  • Paperback
  • Fandemonium Books
  • June 2010
Other Editions
Stargate Atlantis: Hunt and Run
Kindle eBook / Fandemonium / 2011
Back Cover Blurb
When the hunted become hunters...

Ronon Dex is a mystery. His past is a closed book and he likes it that way. But when the Atlantis team triggers a trap that leaves them stranded on a hostile world, only Ronon's past can save them — if it doesn't kill them first.

As the gripping tale unfolds, we return to Ronon's earliest days as a Runner and meet the charismatic leader who transformed him into a hunter of Wraith. But grief and rage can change the best of men and it soon becomes clear that those who Ronon once considered brothers-in-arms are now on the hunt — and that the Atlantis team are their prey.

Unless Ronon can out hunt the hunters, Colonel Sheppard's team will fall victim to the vengeance of the V'rdai.
Stargate Atlantis: Death Game

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by Jo Graham
  • UK
  • Paperback
  • Fandemonium Books
  • October 2010
Other Editions
Stargate Atlantis: Death Game
Kindle eBook / Fandemonium / 2011
Back Cover Blurb
Colonel John Sheppard knows it's going to be a bad day when he wakes up in a downed Jumper with a head wound and no memory of how he got there.

Things don't get any better.

Concussed, far from the Stargate, and with his only remaining team mate, Teyla, injured, Sheppard soon finds himself a prisoner of the local population. And as he gradually pieces the situation together he realises that his team is scattered across a tropical archipelago, unable to communicate with each other or return to the Stargate. And to make matters worse, there's a Wraith cruiser in the skies above...
Meanwhile, Ronon and Doctor Zelenka find themselves in an unlikely partnership as they seek a way off their island and back to the Stargate. And Doctor McKay? He just wants to get the Stargate working...
Stargate Atlantis: Brimstone

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by David Niall Wilson and Patricia Lee Macomber
  • UK
  • Paperback
  • Fandemonium Books
  • October 2010
Other Editions
Stargate Atlantis: Brimstone
Kindle eBook / Fandemonium / 2011
Back Cover Blurb
Doctor Rodney McKay can't believe his eyes when he discovers a moon leaving planetary orbit for a collision course with its own sun. Keen to investigate, he finds something astonishing on the moon's surface — an Ancient city, the mirror of Atlantis...
But the city is not as abandoned as he thinks and Colonel Sheppard's team soon encounter a strange sect of Ancients living beneath the surface, a sect devoted to decadence and debauchery, for whom novelty is the only entertainment. And in the team from Atlantis they find the ultimate novelty to enliven their bloody gladiatorial games...
Trapped on a world heading for destruction, the team must fight their way back to the Stargate or share the fate of the doomed city of Admah...
Stargate Atlantis: Homecoming

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by Jo Graham and Melissa Scott
  • UK
  • Paperback
  • Fandemonium Books
  • December 2010
Other Editions
Stargate Atlantis: Homecoming
Kindle eBook / Fandemonium / 2011
Back Cover Blurb
Atlantis has returned to Earth. The team members have dispersed and are beginning new lives far from the dangers of the Pegasus galaxy. They think the adventure is over.

They're wrong.

With the help of General Jack O'Neill, Atlantis rises once more — and the former members of the expedition must decide whether to return with her to Pegasus or to remain safely on Earth in the new lives they enjoy...

Picking up where the show's final season ended, STARGATE ATLANTIS Homecoming is the first in the exciting new STARGATE ATLANTIS Legacy series. These all new adventures take the Atlantis team back to the Pegasus galaxy where a terrible new enemy has emerged, an enemy that threatens their lives, their friendships — and the future of Earth itself.
Stargate Atlantis: The Lost

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by Jo Graham and Amy Griswold
  • UK
  • Paperback
  • Fandemonium Books
  • 2011
Other Editions
Stargate Atlantis: The Lost
Kindle eBook / Fandemonium / 2011
Back Cover Blurb
The Legacy story so far...

Atlantis has returned to Earth. The team members have dispersed and are beginning new lives far from the dangers of the Pegasus galaxy. They think the adventure is over.

They're wrong.

Finders keepers...
Reeling from the terrible events of STARGATE ATLANTIS Homecoming, the expedition team members are doing whatever it takes to fi nd Doctor Rodney McKay — even if it means turning to their enemies for help.

While Colonel Sheppard and Teyla seek information from Ladon Radim of the Genii — and pay a high price to secure his reluctant cooperation — Ronon and Doctor Keller reopen tense negotiations with their sometime-ally, Todd.

But as the balance of power begins to shift among the Wraith, Ronon and Keller struggle to ensure that they remain Todd's allies and don't become his hostages.

Meanwhile, far away, McKay is facing a fate more terrifying than anyone on Atlantis could possibly imagine...
Original Audiobooks
Stargate Atlantis: A Necessary Evil

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Writer: Sharon Gosling
Narrators: Torri Higginson and Timothy Watson
  • UK
  • 1 × CD
  • Big Finish Productions
  • May 2008
  • Release Number: 1.2
Back Cover Blurb
"This planet that you love so much... If you were not hidden, it would not exist, or at least not like this."

When Sheppard's team encounter a culture with phase shift technology that keeps their entire population invisible — and immaterial — to the outside world, it looks like Atlantis might have found the perfect protection from the Wraith. Eager to make a trade for the technology, Doctor Weir embarks on a diplomatic mission to negotiate with the people of Lannavulin. But once there, it becomes apparent that not everyone is happy with the planet's status quo...
Notes
  • The first in a series of original Stargate Atlantis audiobooks from Big Finish Productions — best known for their long-running series of full-cast audio dramas based on Doctor Who. As with their Companion Chronicles series of original Doctor Who audiobooks, each of the Stargate Atlantis stories is read by a member of the television cast. Releases alternate with stories based on Stargate SG-1.
Stargate Atlantis: Perchance to Dream

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Writer: Sally Malcolm
Narrator Paul McGillion
  • UK
  • 1 × CD
  • Big Finish Productions
  • July 2008
  • Release Number: 1.4
Back Cover Blurb
"I thought there'd be more pain. My patients have always complained of more pain..."

Doctor Carson Beckett finds himself in an uncomfortable situation when he becomes a patient in his own infirmary. After a disastrous mission, Beckett is brought back to Atlantis with a broken leg — and a bad case of amnesia.

But that's the least of his troubles. Cared for by Doctor Gilbert, Beckett watches as a strange affliction overcomes his friends and colleagues. One by one, members of the Atlantis crew are brought in, unconscious and unresponsive yet with no sign of trauma. What's causing this peculiar illness? And why doesn't anyone want to hear what Carson has to say about it?
Notes
  • Perchance to Dream is set during Season 2 of the television series.
Stargate Atlantis: Zero Point

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Writer: James Swallow
Narrator: David Nykl
  • UK
  • 1 × CD
  • Big Finish Productions
  • September 2008
  • Release Number: 1.6
Back Cover Blurb
"Then the energy shockwave hit us, and the Apollo was thrown about as if it were a rowboat in a storm."

Zelenka reluctantly finds himself aboard the Starship Apollo as part of Colonel Carter's drive to survey the area of space surrounding Atlantis' new planet. It's a sensible idea, he understands that — but it's also very dull. Dull, that is, until the ship discovers an entirely new life form
Notes
  • Perchance to Dream is set during Season 4 of the television series, between Reunion and Midway.
Stargate Atlantis: Impressions

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Writer: Scott Andrews
Narrators: Kavan Smith and Nicholas Briggs
  • UK
  • 1 × CD
  • Big Finish Productions
  • June 2009
  • Release Number: 2.2
Back Cover Blurb
"I've painted this city from every angle — inside, outside, day, night. I suppose you could say I'm trying to tell its story."

Plagued by blackouts, painting strange pictures in his sleep, Major Evan Lorne begins to fear that he's losing his mind. Has the stress of life in the Pegasus galaxy pushed him over the edge? Then, when Atlantis itself begins to behave strangely, the Major wonders if something else entirely is going on. But with his behaviour becoming increasingly erratic, who can he trust? And can the soldier convince his colleagues that the answer lies in his paintings?
Stargate Atlantis: The Kindness of Strangers

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Writer: Sharon Gosling
Narrators: Paul McGillion and Neil Roberts
  • UK
  • 1 × CD
  • Big Finish Productions
  • August 2009
  • Release Number: 2.4
Back Cover Blurb
"Illness I can handle — the bloody volcanoes, that's what I'm worried about!"

Dr Beckett and the Atlantis team embark on a mercy mission to save a community from an imminent volcanic eruption. Once infamous for harbouring a terrible disease, the small community has been ostracised, though they swear they are now free from sickness. But as the evacuation begins, it seems that the people may have been hiding a horrifying truth...
Stargate Atlantis: Meltdown

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Writer: David A McIntee
Narrator: David Nykl
  • UK
  • 1 × CD
  • Big Finish Productions
  • October 2009
  • Release Number: 2.6
Back Cover Blurb
"I am a scientist, not a soldier. I always wanted to make things, and discover things, and find out important stuff about the universe and our place in it. I never wanted to end things. I especially never wanted to end the lives of people."

An off-world mission goes awry for Dr Radek Zelenka when he finds himself trapped in a decrepit Genii power station. Cut off from the rest of his team and from communication with Atlantis, his only hope for survival is opening a dialogue with the enemy. But will he be able to do that before a catastrophic nuclear meltdown?