Elizabeth Moon

• Jul-2025
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New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Moon's beloved world of Paksenarrion shines in this collection of short stories perfect for new readers or longtime fans.With introductory notes from the author and four original stories written just for th...

• Jul-2023
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Go back to before the beginning, with New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Moon's brand new collection of short stories set in the world of Paksenarrion, featuring beloved Paksworld characters alongside unknown future favorites, as they naviga...

• Sep-2019
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• Feb-2018
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In this new military sci-fi thriller, space fleet commander Kylara Vatta uncovers deadly secrets on her latest mission--shedding light on her own family's past. As Admiral Kylara Vatta learned after she and a shipfull of strangers were marooned on...

• Dec-2017
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High heroic adventure from New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Moon, author of The Deed of Paksenarrion Although the king's illegitimate son had promised he would never seek the throne, he breaks his oath and gets himself into so much trou...

• Apr-2017
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Nebula Award-winning author Elizabeth Moon makes a triumphant return to science fiction with a thrilling series featuring Kylara Vatta, the daring hero of her acclaimed Vatta's War sequence. After nearly a decade away, Nebula Award-winning author ...

• Dec-2014
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Elizabeth Moon, the New York Times bestselling author of the celebrated Deed of Paksenarrion and Paladin's Legacy epic fantasy series, presents Deeds of Honor, a brand new collection of short stories set in the world of Paksenarrion.  ...

• Jun-2014
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Acclaimed author Elizabeth Moon spins gripping, richly imagined epic fantasy novels that have earned comparisons to the work of such authors as Robin Hobb and Lois McMaster Bujold. In this volume, Moon's brilliant masterwork reaches its triumphant co...

• Jun-2013
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Elizabeth Moon is back with the fourth adventure in her bestselling fantasy epic. Moon brilliantly weaves a colorful tapestry of action, betrayal, love, and magic set in a richly imagined world that stands alongside those of such fantasy masters as G...

• Feb-2012
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The action continues fast and furious in this third installment of Elizabeth Moon's celebrated return to the fantasy world of the paladin Paksenarrion Dorthansdotter. This award-winning author has firsthand military experience and an imagination that...

• Apr-2011
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Elizabeth Moon returns to the fantasy world of the paladin Paksenarrion Dorthansdotter -- Paks for short -- in this second volume of a new series filled with all the bold imaginative flights, meticulous world-building, realistic military action, and ...

• Mar-2010
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Thanks to Paks's courage and sacrifice, the long-vanished heir to the half-elven kingdom of Lyonya has been revealed as Kieri Phelan, a formidable mercenary captain who earned a title--and enemies--in the neighboring kingdom of Tsaia. Now, as Kieri a...

• Oct-2008
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Defend the Fleet!Esmay is a young woman caught between the patriarchal culture of her home world, where she is the scion of a powerful family-yet still a second-class citizen-and her chosen profession as an officer of the Fleet, where only ability co...

• Feb-2008
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Elizabeth Moon's thrilling Vatta's War series, featuring the no-holds-barred space-faring heroine Kylara Vatta, has secured her reputation as a master of first-rate military science fiction. Now Commander Vatta is back -- locked and loaded and ready ...

• Mar-2007
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With the Vatta's War series, award-winning author Elizabeth Moon has claimed a place alongside such preeminent writers of military science fiction as David Weber and Lois McMaster Bujold. Now Moon is back -- and so is her butt-kicking, take-no-prison...

• Jan-2007
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Over the past two decades, few authors have garnered the critical acclaim and fan following of Elizabeth Moon, Nebula Award-winning author of The Speed of Dark, The Deed of Paksenarrion, and Remnant Population. Moon Flights, the definitive Elizabeth...

• Apr-2006
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The brilliantly unorthodox Kylara Vatta, black-sheep scion of Vatta Transport Ltd., one of the galaxy's wealthiest merchant houses, is a heroine like no other, blessed with a killer instinct for business and for battle. Now, in the aftermath of cold-...

• Sep-2004
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Though the exciting military career she hoped for never materialized, Ky Vatta still sees plenty of combat. An unknown adversary has launched a full-throttle offensive against Vatta Transport Ltd., Ky's father's interstellar shipping empire -- killin...

• Oct-2003
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Kylara Vatta is the only daughter in a family full of sons, a young woman who has chosen a military career instead of joining the family's shipping business. It's adventure, not commerce, that stirs her soul. But after a single error in judgment, she...

• Jan-2003
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Thoughtful, poignant, and unforgettable, The Speed of Dark is a gripping exploration into the world of Lou Arrendale, an autistic man who is offered a chance to try an experimental "cure" for his condition. Now Lou must decide if he should submit to ...

• Dec-2000
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WHEN YOUR WORLD IMPLODES .. . The worst has happened: Fleet is tearing itself apart. Some of the mutineers see injustice in the unequal spread of the rejuvenation drugs that offer virtual immortality to the rich; others are simply thirsty for powe...

• Dec-2000
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WELCOME TO A SWEET DELIGHT Heris Serrano was an officer from a family with a long tradition of distinguished service in the Fleet. So when a treacherous superior set her up and forced her to resign her commission, she thought life had lost all meani...

• Dec-1999
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THEIR UNIVERSE IS FALLING APART! Rejuvenants fear the backlash caused by bad drugs; they want to ensure that nothing interferes with their pursuit of long life--or the profit that comes from promising it to others. Neighbor states fear the aggress...

• Dec-1998
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NATURAL ALLIES ... Esmay Suiza and Brun Meager should be friends--they're both bright, brave, likable and adventurous. But true friendship doesn't run any smoother than true love. Brun thinks Esmay's a stuck-up prig, and Esmay thinks Brun's a spoi...

• Jul-1998
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LEADERSHIP MAKES ALL THE DIFFERENCE At Gaugemela the Macedonians had Alexander and the Persians had--Darius. Result: world conquest. But what if the Persians had--Erwin Rommel. Or what if George S. Patton had commanded Southern forces at Bull Run,...

• Feb-1998
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Those Chicks in Chainmail are baaaack -- and They Are Not Amused! A Brief Word from the Characters: We seem to have a Failure to Communicate here. Hey, it's okay with us that Chicks in Chainmail was so popular, and reached #3 on the Locus bestsell...

• Dec-1997
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THERE'S NOTHING INCONSTANT ABOUT THIS MOON No new author has burst upon the scene with such instant success as Elizabeth Moon, whose debut was the epic fantasy trilogy The Deed of Paksenarrion. But Moon, like such diverse talents as Anderson, Dick...

• Mar-1997
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TRUE GRIT Esmay Suiza wasn't a member of a great Navy family like the Serranos. She'd had to make her way on grit alone, which meant it wasn't likely she'd ever make admiral and "hoist her own flag." Well, that was fine with her: all Esmay wanted ...

• Sep-1996
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BY THE AUTHOR OF THE DEED OF PAKSENARRIONPaksenarrion was the finest paladin her world would ever see. But Paksenarrion could never have become a fighter at all had it not been for he who had come before: Gird, the liberator, who taught his people th...

• May-1996
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ALONE AT LAST People had always told Ofelia what to do; for once she was going to do what she wanted. She refused to get on the cryo ships, refused to leave the only world she could call home. And when they finally came for her, she hid--not that ...

• Aug-1995
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"The difficult we do immediately. The impossible may take a little longer:..." Booted from the fleet as her reward for saving a villainous superior from catastrophe, Heris Serrano has been marking time captaining a rich lady's interstellar yacht. ...

• Aug-1995
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Here they come, and they're out for blood. For too long, they say, have hot blooded babes in brass bras and chain-link bikinis been held up to scorn as the embodiment of male fantasy wish-fulfillment and non-functionality. You think their swords won'...

• Sep-1994
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A ROYAL PAIN When last heard from, Captain Heris Serrano, cashiered Captain of the Fleet, now captain of a rich lady's yacht, and her employer, Lady Cecelia, had just triumphed over a heinous cabal, a "Hunting Club" that used human beings as prey....

• Jul-1993
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UNDER A CLOUD Heris Serrano was an officer born of a long line of officers. Being forced by a treacherous superior to resign her commission under a cloud was not just the end of a career path; it was the end of every-thing that gave her life meani...

• May-1992
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Some Oaths Were Made To Be Broken... When Gird led his peasant people against their Mage-Born rulers, he knew his right hand and sworn follower was the King's bastard. But though Luap had promised to seek no throne, and had renounced his heritage,...

• Jun-1990
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In the three books of The Deed of Paksenarrion Elizabeth Moon swept us away to an extraordinary fantasy world where we met a Sheepfarmer's Daughter and watched her become first a warrior among warriors, and then a paladin beyond compare. But Paks co...

• Apr-1990
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• Jan-1989
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Paksenarrion -- Paks for short -- was somebody special. Never could she have followed her father's orders and married the pig farmer down the road. Better a soldier's life than a pig farmer's wife, and so, though she knew that she could never go home...

• Oct-1988
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Once a sheepfarmer's daughter, now a seasoned veteran, Paksenarrion has proven herself a fighter. Years with Duke Phelan's Company taught her weaponry, discipline, and how to react as part of a military unit. Now, though, Paks feels spurred to a s...

• Jun-1988
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Paksenarrion Dorthansdotter may be the daughter of a humble sheep farmer in the far north end of the kingdom, but she dreams of so much more. After refusing her father's orders to do the sensible thing and marry the pig farmer down the road, Paks, ru...

The worst has happened: Fleet is tearing itself apart. Some of the mutineers see injustice in the unequal spread of the rejuvenation drugs that offer virtual immortality to the rich; others are simply thirsty for power, or for blood. The Loyalists, m...

Rejuvenants fear the backlash caused by bad drugs: they want nothing to interfere with their pursuit of long life--or the profit that comes from promising it to others. Neighbor states fear the aggressive expansion of the Familias Regnant, fueled by ...

Esmay Suiza wasn't a member of a great Navy family like the Serranos. She'd had to make her way on grit alone, which meant it wasn't likely she'd ever make admiral and ""hoist her own flag."" Well, that was fine with her: all Esmay wanted was a secur...

Restored to her former state of health (and determination) Lady Cecelia goes in search of fresh bloodstockshe's had enough of politics. But once again she manages to put herselfand Heris Serranoat the point where lightning will strike. This time it's...