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  • Bibliography:
    17 Books
  • First Book:
    December 1986
  • Latest Book:
    September 2021
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Book List in Order: 17 titles



  • A galactic search for the truth fires this magnificent epic of war and discovery on both a human and cosmic scale.The Wild: a chaotic place where ten elite lightship pilots dared to venture. A place where one of those pilots, Danlo wi Soli Ringess, w...



  • In a cosmos of prolific evolutionary diversity and complexity, Mallory Ringess, headstrong novice of the Order of Pilots, sets out to penetrate the Soild State Entity and to track down the secret of immortality...



  • On the winter world of Icefall, young Danlo has grown up among a tribe of humans genetically altered to lead a primitive existence. When his tribe is ravaged by plague, he is forced to give up this simple, spiritual life to journey across the frozen ...



  • RETURN OF THE PRODIGAL SON

    Danlo wi Soli Ringess has returned from the Vild, the first lightship pilot to escape that hellish region of fractured space and deadly supernovas where giant computer-gods make war on each other.

    But the Civi...



  • It is a dark time of chaos and war in Ea. Morjin, fallen angel and Lord of Lies, seeks to enslave the entire world. The only thing that may destroy him is the legendary Lightstone, a powerful object lost in the mist of time. A call is sent out by th...



  • Morjin, immortal fallen angel and Lord of Lies. seeks to enslave the war-torn island continent of Ea. His dreaded assassins are everywhere, and land after land falls under his evil power: The one thing that has the potential to destroy him is the glo...





  • Valashu Elahad, the seventh and youngest prince of the royal house of Mesh, was thrust into a quest to seek ,a mythical object, the Lightstone, in order to stop the dreaded Dark Angel Morjin from enslaving all the nations of Ea. Val and his stalwart ...



  • Quite simply the best book about a whale since Moby Dick. The Idiot Gods is an epic tale told by an orca. David Zindell returns to the grand themes of Neverness in this uniquely moving book. An epic tale of a quest for a new way of life on earth, tol...






  • A born warrior who cannot bear to go to war, a master of the sword who cannot kill his enemies without feeling the pain of death himself . . . .Valashu Elahad, seventh son of a king and a descendent of the Valari Star People who settled the world of ...



  • A born warrior who cannot bear to go to war, a master of the sword who cannot kill his enemies without feeling the pain of death himself . . . .Valashu Elahad, seventh son of a king and a descendent of the Valari Star People who settled the world of ...



  • How many terrible things can a man do in pursuit of good before he falls into a black hole of the soul from which there is no escape?

    Valashu Elahad rescued the Lightstone from the dark hell of Morjin’s underground city of Agarttha only to...



  • Can loving the enemy you hate be the only way to defeat him?Valashu Elahad, son of an ancient line of kings, must claim the throne of Mesh if he is to have any hope of defeating Morjin, the fallen Elijin, the great Red Dragon. It seems impossible th...



  • What is the most human thing a human being can do?

    The question of what it means to be human lies at the heart of these stories of inner and outer adventures of the human spirit. In Shanidar, a restless, overly civilized man tires of the opp...



  • What is the most human thing a human being can do?The question of what it means to be human lies at the heart of these stories of inner and outer adventures of the human spirit. In Shanidar, a restless, overly civilized man tires of the oppressive ex...



  • If you were a thirty-foot long orca blessed (and cursed?) with superhuman intelligence, what would you say to the human beings who were slaughtering your people?In this epic quest for a new way of life on earth, told by an orca, Arjuna of the Blue Ar...



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

David Zindell has published 17 books.

David Zindell does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Remembrancer's Tale, was published in September 2021.

The first book by David Zindell, The Wild, was published in December 1986.

No. David Zindell does not write books in series.