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  • Bibliography:
    78 Books (13 Series)
  • First Book:
    July 1983
  • Latest Book:
    December 2024
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Full Series List in Order

The Blackcollar

1 - The Blackcollar (Jul-1983)
2 - The Backlash Mission (Oct-1988)
3 - The Judas Solution (Jun-2006)

Cobra

1 - Cobra (1985)
2 - Cobra Strike (1986)
3 - Cobra Bargain (1988)
4 - Cobra Alliance (Dec-2009)
5 - Cobra Guardian (Jan-2011)
6 - Cobra Gamble (Jan-2012)
7 - Cobra Slave (Jun-2013)
8 - Cobra Outlaw (Feb-2015)
9 - Cobra Traitor (Jan-2018)

Cobra Rebellion

1 - Cobra Slave (Jun-2013)
2 - Cobra Outlaw (Feb-2015)
3 - Cobra Traitor (Jan-2018)

Cobra War

1 - Cobra Alliance (Dec-2009)
2 - Cobra Guardian (Jan-2011)
3 - Cobra Gamble (Jan-2012)

Conquerors Saga

1 - Conquerors' Pride (Sep-1994)
2 - Conquerors' Heritage (Aug-1995)
3 - Conquerors' Legacy (Jul-1996)

Dragonback Adventure

1 - Dragon and Thief (Feb-2003)
2 - Dragon and Soldier (Jun-2004)
3 - Dragon and Slave (Jun-2005)
4 - Dragon and Herdsman (Jun-2006)
5 - Dragon and Judge (Jun-2008)
6 - Dragon and Liberator (Jun-2008)

Frank Compton

1 - Night Train to Rigel (Oct-2005)
2 - The Third Lynx (Nov-2007)
3 - Odd Girl Out (Nov-2008)
4 - The Domino Pattern (Jan-2010)
5 - Judgment at Proteus (Jun-2012)

The Hand of Thrawn

1 - Specter of the Past (Dec-1997)
2 - Vision of the Future (Sep-1998)

Icarus

1 - The Icarus Plot (Jul-2022)
2 - The Icarus Twin (Dec-2023)
3 - The Icarus Job (Mar-2024)
4 - The Icarus Changeling (Jul-2024)

Sibyl's War

1 - Pawn (May-2017)
2 - Knight (Apr-2019)
3 - Queen (Apr-2020)

Thrawn

1 - Thrawn (Apr-2017)
2 - Alliances (Jul-2018)
3 - Treason (Jul-2019)

The Thrawn Trilogy

1 - Heir to the Empire (Jun-1991)
2 - Dark Force Rising (Jun-1992)
3 - The Last Command (May-1993)

Thrawn: The Ascendancy Trilogy

1 - Chaos Rising (Sep-2020)
2 - Greater Good (May-2021)
3 - Lesser Evil (Nov-2021)

Multi-Author Series List

Star Trek

The Last Command (May-1993)

Star Wars

Heir to the Empire (Jun-1991)
Dark Force Rising (Jun-1992)
The Last Command (May-1993)
Specter of the Past (Dec-1997)
Vision of the Future (Sep-1998)
Interlude at Darkknell (Dec-1999)
Jade Solitaire (Dec-1999)
Survivor's Quest (Mar-2004)
Outbound Flight (Feb-2006)
Allegiance (Feb-2007)
Choices of One (Jul-2011)
Winner Lose All (Dec-2012)
Scoundrels (Jan-2013)
Star Wars Legends Epic Collection: The New Republic Vol. 1 (Jun-2015)
Thrawn (Apr-2017)
Alliances (Jul-2018)
Treason (Jul-2019)
Chaos Rising (Sep-2020)
Lesser Evil (Nov-2021)

Starcraft

Evolution (Nov-2016)

Terminator: Salvation

Terminator Salvation (Mar-2009)

Book List in Order: 78 titles



  • A genetically enhanced fighting force may be humanity’s only hope in this novel by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Star Wars: Heir to the Empire.

    Decades after a successful invasion of Earth and the...



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    Jonny Moreau becomes one of the Cobras--an invincible soldier with surgically implanted weapons--in order to help defeat the alien Troft, and years later, works for both human and Troth when a new menace arises. Original....



  • The children of Tigris have extraordinary telekinetic gifts—but are these special powers a blessing or a curse?On Tigris, children develop telekinesis beginning at the age of five. By the time they’re pre-teens, though, their special abil...



  • A “brisk and entertaining” novel of a barren, mysterious planet that may save humanity—or destroy it—by the author of Star Wars: Heir to the Empire (Publishers Weekly).  Chasing a new frontier, humankind sends a manned st...



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    Jonny Moreau becomes one of the Cobras--an invincible soldier with surgically implanted weapons--in order to help defeat the alien Troft, and years later, works for both human and Troth when a new menace arises. Original....



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    The colony world Adirondack and Silvern fell to the Troft forces almost without a struggle. Outnumbered and on the defensive, Earth made a desperate decision. It would attack the aliens not from space, but on the ground—with forces the Troft...




  • The second book in the Blackcollar series finds an elite fighting force at the forefront of an epic alien war once againDenver, Earth. The twenty-fifth century. After a devastating alien invasion, the Terra Democratic Empire is occupied by the Ryqril...






  • The aliens were pacifists -- but all living things were their friends... When humanity first ventured out among the stars, it seemed that we were alone in the universe, the only tool-users in the galaxy--and thus were free to mold the very cosmos ...



  • When a young researcher ventures through a mysterious planetary system, dangerous secrets come to light in this novel from a Hugo Award–winning author.  Grad student Danae Panya’s dream assignment has been approved. She’ll stud...



  • It's five years after Return of the Jedi: the Rebel Alliance has destroyed the Death Star, defeated Darth Vader and the Emperor, and driven out the remnants of the old Imperial Starfleet to a distant corner of the galaxy. Princess Leia and Han Solo a...



  • The dying Empire's most cunning and ruthless warlord--Grand Admiral Thrawn--has taken command of the remnants of the Imperial fleet and launched a massive campaign aimed at the New Republic's destruction. With the aid of unimaginable weapons long hid...



  • Death-row inmates are used for a lethal mining operation—but one is innocent—in this science fiction novel by a #1 New York Times–bestselling author. Only the recently dead can helm the “deadman switch” to pilot a ship t...



  • Why do telepaths fall in love? Telepath Dale Ravenhall was in love with fellow telepath Colleen Isaac. Unfortunately, the same ability that permitted them to read each other's thoughts when they were a thousand miles apart would kill them both if ...



  • The conclusion to the epic adventure begun in the number one New York Times bestselling Heir to the.Empire and continued in Dark Force Rising, this final volume spans a galaxy in flames, as the Empire threatens to engulf the New Republic and its brav...



  • A long era of peace and prosperity in the interstellar Commonwealth has suddenly come to an end. Four alien starships of unknown origin have attacked, without provocation, an eight-ship Peacekeeper task force, utterly destroying it in six savage minu...



  • In Conquerors' Pride, Timothy Zahn, Hugo Award -- winning author of the New York Times bestselling Star Wars trilogy, unfurled an epic tale of drama and courage as the interstellar Commonwealth faced savage invasion by alien starships of unknown orig...



  • The Zhirrzh are preparing a massive attack against Earth. Meanwhile, Lord Stewart Cavanagh desperately searches for a defense against their devastating arsenal. As both humans and Zhirrzh gird for all-out war, a handful of individuals from both races...






  • The Empire stands at the brink of total collapse. But they have saved their most heinous plan for last. First a plot is hatched that could destroy the New Republic in a bloodbath of genocide and civil war. Then comes the shocking news that Grand Admi...



  • The Empire's master plan is under way. The New Republic is on the verge of civil war and the rumor that the legendary Admiral Thrawn has returned from the dead is rallying the Imperial forces. Now Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Princess Leia, and their al...



  • Jordan McKell is a renegade star-freighter pilot struggling to survive in a galaxy where trade is monopolized by the oppressive Patth. But when he takes a job flying a broken-down antique ship and its "special cargo" to Earth, neither Jordan nor his ...



  • Written by some of today's leading science fiction writers, these tales sweep us into a world where the only laws are cunning, force, and power -- and only the bravest, craziest, and deadliest dare to tread. Here mercs and smugglers, gangsters and wa...



  • WAR OVER ANGELMASS Angelmass, a black hole deep in space, emits "angels", small particles that render humans calm, reasonable, and virtually incapable of lying. The Empyrean, human colonies in the far reaches of the galaxy, has discovered the ange...



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    DESTINY'S STEPCHILD Matt Raimey had his whole life ahead of him when fate got in the One moment he was skiing down a tricky slope, the next he was fl on his back, paralyzed. His girlfriend left him, and his anger at the unfairness of it all dr ...



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    Such masters of the Science Fiction genre as Tad Williams, Brian Aldiss, Frederik Pohl, Kate Elliot, C.J. Cherryh, and Julie E. Czerneda contribute all new, original pieces of short fiction to this commemorative volume honoring DAW Books thirtieth ye...



  • From the gripping title novella to the short story that packs a twist you'll never see coming, here are six stories from an author who has rightfully taken his place at the forefront of the science fiction field today....



  • Fourteen-year-old orphan Jack Morgan is hiding out. In a spaceship. Falsely accused of a crime, he pilots his Uncle Virgil's spaceship to a remote and uninhabited planet hoping to escape capture. When another ship crashes after a fierce battle,...



  • This novella includes an excerpt from the novel STAR WARS: SURVIVOR'S QUEST by Timothy Zahn and an interview with the author. THE EMPIRE STRIKES A DEAL The history of the planet Kariek has been one of seemingly endless violence -- thanks to the c...






  • A dangerous, mission to salvage a piece of Jedi past threatens to make Luke and Mara Jade Skywalker history.... After fifty years, the remains of Outbound Flight--a pioneering Jedi expedition viciously destroyed by the alien warlord Thrawn--have ...



  • Draycos, a golden-scaled draconic K'da poet-warrior, was on a scout fleet ship when it was attacked, with him the lone survivor. Forced to find a new symbiotic humanoid host, he found Jack Morgan. Jack has been on his own, making his way by shipping ...



  • Strangers Among Us For years the Greens and the Grays have lived quietly among us in the shadows of New York, alien refugees from a war of attrition that utterly destroyed the rest of their kind. Passing as everyday citizens, each group has long beli...



  • Two outcasts are bound together by more than loyalty in the third Dragonback adventure from the #1 New York Times"bestselling author of Star Wars: Thrawn.   Fugitive Jack Morgan and dragonlike alien Draycos have become literally inseparable. A...



  • A secret agent aboard a galactic railroad must derail a sinister conspiracy in this “rip-roaring” thriller by the author of Star Wars: Thrawn (Publishers Weekly). The universe is a dangerous place, a fact violently brought home to Frank Compton f...



  • It began as the ultimate voyage of discovery, only to become a dark chapter in Jedi history. Now acclaimed author Timothy Zahn returns to tell the whole extraordinary story of the remarkable--and doomed--Outbound Flight Project. The Clone Wars hav...



  • Jack Morgan has had it rough. He was orphaned at three, then lost his Uncle Virgil ten years later. But the plucky fourteen-year-old didn't know what rough was until he met Draycos, sole survivor of an advance force of alien refugees that had been br...



  • LEGENDARY WARRIORS--THE ONLY HOPE OF A CONQUERED EARTH Damon Lathe and his blackcollar combat team face their most serious challenge. On one of the conquered human colony worlds is a Ryqril tactical center through which flows an entire sector's wo...



  • Never before has the incendiary mix of action, politics, and intrigue that has become Timothy Zahn's trademark, been mmore evident that in this new Star Wars epic. On the heels of the stunning events chronicled in Star Wars: A New Hope, the newly min...



  • Former government agent Frank Compton foiled a plot to enslave the galaxy in Night Train to Rigel. But the Modhri, an ancient telepathically linked intelligence, has walkers, unwilling hosts that can be anywhere, anything...and anyone. And Compton is...






  • Orphaned at the age of three, brought up by his con man Uncle Virgil, Jack Morgan has done things that even in the future in space are unusual. But when he rescued Draycos, a dragon-like symbiont, from certain death, his life became a series of br...



  • In this exciting space adventure, fourteen-year-old Jack Morgan and Draycos, a poet/warrior K'da dragon who can hide himself as a tattoo on Jack's back, have their backs to the wall. Brought together by a twist of fate, these two have been through a ...



  • Ex-government agent Frank Compton must keep an extraordinary little girl safe from the malevolent group intelligence seeking to enslave the universe in the explosive third installment of Hugo Award"winning author Timothy Zahn’s Quadrail series. F...



  • From The Ashes, written by Hugo Award-winning author Timothy Zahn, sets the scene for the events chronicled in the movie Terminator Salvation, revealing the full story behind John Connor, the man fated to lead the human resistance against Skynet and ...



  • When the colony worlds Adirondack and Silvern fell to the Troft forces almost without a struggle. Outnumbered and on the defensive, Earth made a desperate decision. It would attach the aliens not from space, but on the ground-with forces the Trofts ...



  • Frank Compton used to be an agent for the security forces of Earth, but that was a piece of cake compared to what he's had to deal with working for the aliens who run the Quadrail, an interstellar transportation system connecting a dozen civilization...



  • From The Ashes, written by Hugo Award-winning author Timothy Zahn, sets the scene for the events chronicled in the movie Terminator Salvation, revealing the full story behind John Connor, the man fated to lead the human resistance against Skynet and ...



  • When the colony worlds Adirondack and Silvern fell to the Troft forces almost without a struggle. Outnumbered and on the defensive, Earth made a desperate decision. It would attack the aliens not from space, but on the ground -- with forces the Troft...



  • Following the dramatic events of Terminator Salvation, a recovering John Connor grants Barnes permission to return to the destroyed VLA lab and bury his brother, killed in the explosive opening of the movie. At the ruins Barnes and Blair William...



  • From #1 New York Times bestselling author Timothy Zahn comes a brand-new Star Wars adventure, set in the time between A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back and featuring the young Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Princess Leia Organa, and the beloved Mara ...






  • Cobras warriors, genetically enhanced and implanted with an arsenal of covert weaponry, are the most dangerous guerilla fighters humanity has ever produced. For Jin Moreau Broom, the war is the culmination of a lifetime of Cobra service. But it is al...



  • The climactic novel of the star-spanning Quadrail space opera In Timothy Zahn's Judgment at Proteus, the Quadrail that connects the twelve civilizations of our galaxy has been the flashpoint of a battle for dominance fought mostly unnoticed by hum...



  • Timothy Zahn's upcoming novel "Scoundrels," starring Han Solo, Chewbacca, and Lando Calrissian, returns to the excitement of the classic "Star Wars" films. In this thrilling prequel eBook novella, "Winner Lose All," Lando and a pair of unlikely allie...



  • To make his biggest score, Han’s ready to take even bigger risks. But even he can’t do this job solo. Han Solo should be basking in his moment of glory. After all, the cocky smuggler and captain of the Millennium Falcon just played a key rol...



  • Cobras: technologically-enhanced warriors bred to fight an alien menace no ordinary human can withstand. At the center of action on Cobra world Aventine: the legendary Moreau clan. In times of war, the Cobras are necessary, yet in times of peace they...



  • In this new book by the author of Blackcollar and the #1 New York Times-bestselling Heir to the Empire, Timothy Zahn imagines a technology that could alter our perception of life and death forever For Dr. Adrian Sommers, a split second of driving ...



  • “There’s no other way?” “If there was, we wouldn’t even be discussing this,” the general said, sternly throttling back a wave of impatience. “Our only other choice is to sit back, do nothing, and watch one man bring down the nation. To ...



  • Cobra warriors: technologically enhanced and implanted with an arsenal of covert weaponry fight against alien foes and evil humans. Cobra warriors: technologically enhanced human warriors designed to combat an implacable alien menace. Now, and not...



  • When the Empire falls, a New Republic rises! After Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi, Emperor Palpatine is dead ó but can his faithful Hand, Mara Jade, complete her final mission of revenge? Replica droid assassin Guri has also lost her maste...



  • Timothy Zahn shows an unparalleled mastership of science fiction in the fifteen tales gathered here.   “The Price of Survival” features an alien ship that arrives in our solar system without hostile intentions but with a desperate need whose f...



  • An action-packed novel that ushers in a new age of adventure in the critically acclaimed StarCraft series from Blizzard Entertainment Award-winning author Timothy Zahn pens the latest chapter in the stunning StarCraft saga, building on the game’...



  • In this definitive novel, readers will follow Thrawn’s rise to power -- uncovering the events that created one of the most iconic villains in Star Wars history. One of the most cunning and ruthless warriors in the history of the Galactic Empire,...



  • Nicole Lee’s life is going nowhere. No family, no money, and stuck in a relationship with a thug named Bungie. But, after one of Bungie’s “deals” goes south, he and Nicole are whisked away by a mysterious moth-like humanoid to a strange ship ...



  • CONCLUSION TO THE COBRA REBELLION TRILOGY Cobras: technologically enhanced warriors bred to fight an alien menace no ordinary human can withstand. Once the Cobras fought the implacable alien invaders, the Trofts, to an uneasy stalemate. But in...



  • Grand Admiral Thrawn and Darth Vader team up against a threat to the Empire in this thrilling novel from bestselling author Timothy Zahn. “I have sensed a disturbance in the Force.” Ominous words under any circumstances, but all the more ...



  • A legend of Space Opera is back with Knight, the second book in Timothy Zahn's Sibyl’s War series Nicole Hammond was just trying to survive on the streets of Philadelphia, then she and her partner Bungie were abducted by a race of mysterious...



  • Grand Admiral Thrawn faces the ultimate test of his loyalty to the Empire in this epic Star Wars novel from bestselling author Timothy Zahn. “If I were to serve the Empire, you would command my allegiance.” Such was the promise Grand Admir...



  • Queen is the climactic conclusiong to New York Times bestselling author Timothy Zahn's thrilling space adventure series, The Sybil's War. “Tim Zahn is a master of tactics and puts his own edge on complex hard-SF thrillers.” ―Kevin J....



  • Beyond the edge of the galaxy lies the Unknown Regions: chaotic, uncharted, and near impassable, with hidden secrets and dangers in equal measure. And nestled within its swirling chaos is the Ascendancy, home to the enigmatic Chiss and the Nine Rulin...



  • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Thrawn and his allies race to save the Chiss Ascendancy from an unseen enemy in the second book in the epic Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy trilogy from bestselling author Timothy Zahn.Thrawn’s latest triumph still rests ...



  • The fate of the Chiss Ascendancy hangs in the balance in the epic finale of the Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy trilogy from bestselling author Timothy Zahn. For thousands of years the Chiss Ascendancy has been an island of calm, a center of power, ...



  • NEW SCIENCE FICTION SERIES FROM THE CREATOR OF THE COBRA SERIES AND STAR WARS' ADMIRAL THRAWNThere wasn’t much money to be made as a Trailblazer, searching out new worlds for possible development. Still, it was safer than the bounty hunter ...



  • Collects Silver Surfer Rebirth (2022) #1-5. Ron Marz and Ron Lim return to the Sentinel of the Spaceways with a new tale of cosmic adventure set during their classic 1990s SILVER SURFER run! When the Reality Gem is stolen from safekeeping by an unkno...



  • A NEW NOVEL IN THE ICARUS SERIES FROM NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF THE ADMIRAL THRAWN STAR WARS NOVELS TIMOTHY ZAHNFor years Gregory Roarke and his Kadolian partner Selene worked as crocketts, combing through the atmospheres of uninhabited w...



  • Hoping to take possession of a new alien star-hopping portal, Roarke and Selene are tasked with transporting an assassin, who is herself being targeted.For years Gregory Roarke and his Kadolian partner Selene worked as crocketts, combing through the ...



  • From Timothy Zahn, Hugo Award winner and # New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Heir to the Empire, comes this pulse-pounding political thriller.A tactical nuclear weapon is stolen from an Indian research facility, setting off a chain ...



  • Gregory Roarke — agent for the ultra-secret Icarus Group – has received a new assignment: locate a teleportation portal on a backwater colony world. But what should be a an easy assignment leads to a string of murders, and a race agai...



  • Return to the saga of Grand Admiral Thrawn with the comic-book adaptation of the hit novel THRAWN: ALLIANCES!As rivals for the favor of the Emperor, Grand Admiral Thrawn and Darth Vader may seem like unlikely partners for a crucial mission! Yet t...



  • NEW ENTRY IN THE ICARUS SAGA FROM NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHOR TIMOTHY ZAHN.Ten thousand years ago, a mysterious people known as the Icari vanished from the Spiral, leaving behind a network of portals that can instantaneously transport passenge...


Award-Winning Books by Timothy Zahn

Alliances
2019 Dragon Award -- Media Tie-In Novel
Cascade Point
1984 Hugo Award -- Novella
Lesser Evil
2022 Dragon Award -- Media Tie-In Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Timothy Zahn has published 78 books.

The next book by Timothy Zahn, The Icarus Needle, will be published in December 2024.

The first book by Timothy Zahn, The Blackcollar, was published in July 1983.

Yes. Timothy Zahn has 13 series.