Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-4139960-20130410195554/@comment-88790-20130412155718

It somewhat depends.

You can work out what in what order a book was assigned to be released. That is by using the ISBN, using the last three numbers before the final hyphen. These represent the book's title (according to Wikipedia).

This isn't the be all and end all, but does help to suggest some order. Not all the novels have any sort of ISBN order.

However if we look at:
 * Apollo 23 - ISBN 978-1-84607-200-0
 * Night of the Humans - ISBN 978-1-84607-969-6
 * The Forgotten Army - ISBN 978-1-84607-987-0
 * The Glamour Chase - ISBN 978-1-84607-988-7
 * Nuclear Time - ISBN 978-1-84607-989-4
 * The King's Dragon - ISBN 978-1-84607-990-0
 * Hunter's Moon - ISBN 978-1-84990-236-6
 * The Way Through the Woods - ISBN 978-1-84990-237-3
 * Dead of Winter - ISBN 978-1-84990-238-0

You can see a pattern emerging here. But it's not a firm pattern as Apollo 23 and Night of the Humans don't fit into the pattern.

With regard to the Torchwood novels, don't they have a images on the spine that add up to make a large picture? The order in which they fit would suggest which novels were released first. Or more accurately the release order of the novels.