Karen Traviss

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  • Bibliography:
    38 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    February 2004
  • Latest Book:
    March 2023
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Full Series List in Order

Imperial Commando

501st (Nov-2009)

Republic Commando

1 - Hard Contact (Oct-2004)
2 - Triple Zero (Mar-2006)
3 - True Colors (Aug-2007)
4 - Order 66 (Sep-2008)

Wess'Har Wars

1 - City of Pearl (Feb-2004)
2 - Crossing the Line (Nov-2004)
3 - The World Before (Oct-2005)
4 - Matriarch (Oct-2006)
5 - Ally (Apr-2007)
6 - Judge (Mar-2008)

Multi-Author Series List

DC Comics: Batman

Batman: Arkham Unhinged Vol. 4 (Feb-2015)

Famous Characters: Batman

Batman: Arkham Unhinged Vol. 4 (Feb-2015)

Gears of War

1 - Aspho Fields (Nov-2008)
2 - Jacinto's Remnant (Aug-2009)
3 - Anvil Gate (Sep-2010)
4 - Coalition's End (Aug-2011)
5 - The Slab (May-2012)

Halo

Halo: Evolutions: Essential Tales of the Halo Universe, Volume II (Dec-2009)
Glasslands (Nov-2011)
Halo: The Thursday War (Oct-2012)
Halo: Mortal Dictata (Jan-2014)

Star Wars

Hard Contact (Oct-2004)
Triple Zero (Mar-2006)
Boba Fett: A Practical Man (Aug-2006)
Bloodlines (Sep-2006)
Sacrifice (Jun-2007)
True Colors (Aug-2007)
Revelation (Mar-2008)
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (Aug-2008)
Order 66 (Sep-2008)
No Prisoners (May-2009)
501st (Nov-2009)

Star Wars: Legacy of the Force

2 - Bloodlines (Sep-2006)
5 - Sacrifice (Jun-2007)
8 - Revelation (Mar-2008)

Star Wars: The Clone Wars

Star Wars: The Clone Wars (Aug-2008)
No Prisoners (May-2009)

Book List in Order: 38 titles

  • City of Pearl

    Wess'Har Wars - 1

    Three separate alien societies have claims on Cavanagh's Star. But the new arrivals -- the gethes from Earth -- now threaten the tenuous balance of a coveted world. Environmental Hazard Enforcement officer Shan Frankland agreed to lead a mission ...

  • Hard Contact

    Republic Commando - 1
    Star Wars

    As the Clone Wars rage, victory or defeat lies in the hands of elite squads that take on the toughest assignments in the galaxy--stone-cold soldiers who go where no one else would, to do what no one else could. . . . On assion to sabotage a nanovi...

  • Crossing the Line

    Wess'Har Wars - 2

    Shan Frankland forever abandoned the world she knew to come to the rescue of a lost colony on a distant and dangerous planet -- a hostile world coveted by two alien races and fiercely protected by a third. But in the course of her mission, she overst...

  • The World Before

    Wess'Har Wars - 3

    Three strikingly different alien races greeted the military mission from Earth when it reached the planet called Bezer'ej. Now one of the sentient species has been exterminated -- and two others are poised on the brink of war. The fragile bezer...

  • Triple Zero

    Republic Commando - 2
    Star Wars

    Following the eruption of the bloody Clone Wars at the battle of Geonosis, both sides remain deadlocked in a stalemate that can be broken only by elite warrior teams like Omega Squad, clone commandos with terrifying combat skills and a lethal arsenal...

  • Boba Fett: A Practical Man

    Star Wars

    BONUS: This original novella includes an excerpt from Star Wars: Republic Commando: Hard Contact and an interview with the author. On the surface, it seems like just another routine contract for Boba Fett and his Mandalorian comman...

  • Bloodlines

    Star Wars
    Star Wars: Legacy of the Force - 2

    Civil war looms as the fledgling Galactic Alliance confronts a growing number of rebellious worlds--and the approaching war is tearing the Skywalker and Solo families apart. Han and Leia return to Han's homeworld, Corellia, the heart of the resistanc...

  • Matriarch

    Wess'Har Wars - 4

    In thirty years, the invincible Eqbas will arrive at Earth to forcibly return the planet to what it once was-as retribution, in part, for the gethes' thoughtless near-extermination of an alien ocean-dwelling species. First, however, another world req...

  • Ally

    Wess'Har Wars - 5

    The worlds orbiting Cavanagh's Star are in turmoil. Civil war on Umeh--ignited by outsiders--threatens to annihilate the teeming masses of a grossly overpopulated planet. On Bezer'ej, the handful of native aquatic creatures who survived extermina...



  • Sacrifice

    Star Wars
    Star Wars: Legacy of the Force - 5

    Also includes the novella "Star Wars: Boba Fett: A Practical Man" To bring peace and order to a galaxy at war, Jacen Solo will sacrifice anything--or anyone. Now the moment of choice is at hand. Suspected of treason, Han and Leia Solo are on t...

  • True Colors

    Republic Commando - 3
    Star Wars

    As the savage Clone Wars rage unchecked, the Republic's deadliest warriors face the grim truth that the Separatists aren't their only enemy -- or even their worst. In the Grand Army's desperate fight to crush the Separatists, the secret special op...

  • Judge

    Wess'Har Wars - 6

    The Eqbas have come, bringing justice, change, hope to some . . . and death to many. Seeking to punish the human gethes who caused the near destruction of an ocean-dwelling race in the distant Cavanagh's Star system, the Eqbas have finally landed...

  • Revelation

    Star Wars
    Star Wars: Legacy of the Force - 8

    During this savage civil war, all efforts to end Jacen Solo's tyranny of the Galactic Alliance have failed. Now with Jacen approaching the height of his dark powers, no one -- not even the Solos and the Skywalkers -- knows if anything can stop the Si...

  • Star Wars: The Clone Wars

    Star Wars
    Star Wars: The Clone Wars

    Across the galaxy, the Clone Wars are raging. The Separatists, led by Count Dooku, the onetime Jedi and now secret Sith Lord, continue to press forward, and more and more worlds are either falling, or seceding and joining the cause. Under the leaders...

  • Order 66

    Republic Commando - 4
    Star Wars

    The Clone Wars rage to their bloody climax. Treachery reigns. Treason takes courage. Commandos, Jedi, and the entire Galactic Republic must face the end of life as they know it…and the dreaded dawn of a new empire. Even as the Clone Wars are abo...

  • Aspho Fields

    Gears of War - 1

    For the first time, fans of the blockbuster Gears of War video games get an in-depth look at Delta Squad's toughest fighters -- soldier's soldier Marcus Fenix and rock-solid Dominic Santiago -- as well as a detailed account of the pivotal battle of t...

  • No Prisoners

    Star Wars
    Star Wars: The Clone Wars

    The Clone Wars rage on. As insurgent Separatists fight furiously to wrest control of the galaxy from the Republic, Supreme Chancellor Palpatine cunningly manipulates both sides for his own sinister purposes. Torrent Company's Captain Rex agrees t...

  • Jacinto's Remnant

    Gears of War - 2

    Based on the blockbuster Xbox game, this is the stunning story of the men and women who stood between a planet and total destruction -- and now have to face the consequences of their actions. After a brutal fifteen-year war for survival, the Coali...

  • 501st

    Imperial Commando
    Star Wars

    The Clone Wars are over, but for those with reason to run from the new galactic Empire, the battle to survive has only just begun.... The Jedi have been decimated in the Great Purge, and the Republic has fallen. Now the former Republic Commandos-the...



  • Halo: Evolutions: Essential Tales of the Halo Universe, Volume II

    Halo

    When humanity expanded beyond the safety of Earth to new stars and horizons, they never dreamed what dangers they would encounter there. When the alien juggernaut known as the Covenant declared holy war upon the fragile human empire, millions of live...

  • Anvil Gate

    Gears of War - 3

    With the Locust Horde apparently destroyed, Jacinto's survivors have begun to rebuild human society on the Locusts' stronghold. Raiding pirate gangs take a toll--but it's nothing that Marcus Fenix and the Gears can't handle. Then the nightmare that t...

  • Coalition's End

    Gears of War - 4

    Understand what a world had to do to survive. When the Locust Horde burst from the ground fifteen years ago to slaughter the human population of Sera, mankind began a desperate war against extinction. Now after a decade and a half of bloody fighti...

  • Glasslands

    Halo

    The Covenant has collapsed after a long, brutal war that saw billions slaughtered on Earth and her colonies. For the first time in decades, however, peace finally seems possible. But though the fighting's stopped, the war is far from over: it's just ...

  • The Slab

    Gears of War - 5

    MARCUS FENIX. WAR HERO. LOYAL SON. TRAITOR. Ten years after Emergence Day, as the Locust Horde advances on humanity's last defended area -- Ephyra -- in a bloody war that has seen billions die, Marcus Fenix does the unthinkable: he defies orders a...

  • Halo: The Thursday War

    Halo

    Welcome to humanity’s new war: silent, high stakes, and unseen. This is a life-or-death mission for ONI’s black-ops team, Kilo-Five, which is tasked with preventing the ruthless Elites, once the military leaders of the Covenant, from regrouping a...

  • Gears of War Book Three: Dirty Little Secrets

    Following the sinking of the Jacinto at the conclusion of Volume 2, the Gears have fled to the island of Vectes where they struggle to defend the last remnants of humankind from The Stranded and a new menace, The Lambent -- a deadly, mutating lifefor...

  • Going Gray

    Who do you think you are? Ian Dunlap doesn’t know. When he looks in the mirror, he’s never sure if he’ll see a stranger. After years of isolation, thinking he’s crazy, he discovers he’s the product of an illegal fringe experiment in biotech...

  • Halo: Mortal Dictata

    Halo

    Wars end. But hatred, guilt, and devotion can endure beyond the grave. With the Covenant War over, the Office of Naval Intelligence faces old grievances rising again to threaten Earth. The angry, bitter colonies, still with scores to settle from t...

  • View of a Remote Country

    A second-rate doctor finds redemption among hostile aliens. A bereaved mother controls the life of a murderer. An ageing demon struggles to adjust to retirement, and Eurydice wants to set the record straight: she couldn't stand Orpheus. A collection ...



  • Batman: Arkham Unhinged Vol. 4

    DC Comics: Batman
    Famous Characters: Batman

    The prequel series to the best-selling video game BATMAN: ARKHAM CITY! The mysterious new villain known as the Bookbinder has corrupted Gotham City's food supply leaving the Dark Knight in a race against time to find out the true motive and identi...

  • G.I. JOE: The Fall of G.I. JOE, Volume 1

    • DOES THE WORLD NEED G.I. JOE? Cobra has become an international peacekeeping force... and the future of G.I. JOE looks bleak. Scarlett leads what’s left of America’s ultimate fighting force -- but will she be able to keep the team toge...

  • G.I. JOE: The Fall of G.I. JOE, Volume 2

    • What can the G.I. JOE team do to combat a COBRA the world views as heroes? As Scarlett leads the team, former G.I. JOE agent Duke searches for answers. Political intrigue collides head-on with military action as the darkest chapter in G.I. J...

  • Black Run

    The past doesn't forgive. The past doesn't forget. And it knows where to find you. Rob Rennie's life hasn't got any quieter since he left the Royal Marines and teamed up with an American vet, Mike Brayne. Mike â€" eccentric, idealistic, and enormousl...

  • G.I. JOE: The Fall of G.I. JOE

    When villains have become the new heroes, to what lengths must the former heroes go to save a world that doesn't even want their help?

    Does the world really need G.I. JOE? Their greatest enemy, Cobra, has become an international peacekeeping f...

  • The Best of Us

    Half the world is a wasteland: the other half is on borrowed time.

    The West has been devastated by epidemics, bio-terrorism, war, and famine. Asia has shut its borders to keep the threats at bay, and some with power and influence have alr...

  • G.I. Joe (2014-), Vol. 2

    What can the G.I. JOE team do to combat a COBRA the world views as heroes? Political intrigue collides head-on with military action as the darkest chapter in G.I. JOE history unfolds! Collects issues #5-8....

  • Mother Death

    Solomon has passed judgement.The AI has chosen his ideal humans for Project Nomad, mankind's first extrasolar colony on Opis, forty light years from an Earth ravaged by more than a century of disease, famine, and war. Now his band of soldiers, farmer...

  • Here We Stand

    Their old world's in chaos. Their new world's in danger. And they don't trust each other.Opis is now home to a reluctant band of evacuees in mankind's most distant and secret outpost, Nomad Base. There's no going back to an Earth brought to its knees...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Karen Traviss has published 38 books.

Karen Traviss does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Here We Stand, was published in March 2023.

The first book by Karen Traviss, City of Pearl, was published in February 2004.

Yes. Karen Traviss has 3 series.
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