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    76 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1988
  • Latest Book:
    July 2023
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Full Series List in Order

Adventures in the Liaden Universe

1 - Two Tales of Korval (Apr-2011)
2 - Fellow Travelers (Apr-2011)
3 - Duty Bound (May-2011)
4 - Certain Symmetry (May-2011)
5 - Trading in Futures (May-2011)
6 - Changeling (May-2011)
7 - Loose Cannon (May-2011)
8 - Shadows and Shades (May-2011)
9 - Quiet Knives (May-2011)
10 - With Stars Underfoot (Apr-2011)
11 - Necessary Evils (Apr-2011)
12 - Allies (Apr-2011)
13 - Dragon Tide (May-2011)
14 - Eidolon (Apr-2011)
15 - Misfits (Apr-2011)
16 - Halfling Moon (Apr-2011)
17 - Skyblaze (Apr-2011)
18 - Courier Run (Dec-2011)
19 - Legacy Systems (Feb-2012)
20 - Moon's Honor (Aug-2013)
21 - Technical Details (Aug-2013)
22 - Sleeping with the Enemy (Jul-2016)
23 - Change Management (Feb-2017)
24 - Due Diligence (Jul-2017)
25 - Cultivar (Dec-2017)
26 - Heirs to Trouble (Dec-2017)
27 - Degrees of Separation (Jan-2018)
28 - Fortune's Favors (Apr-2019)
29 - Shout of Honor (May-2019)
30 - The Gate that Locks the Tree (Feb-2020)
31 - Ambient Conditions (Nov-2020)
32 - Change State (Mar-2021)
33 - Bad Actors (Jul-2021)
34 - Bread Alone (Nov-2021)
35 - From Every Storm (Nov-2022)

Beneath Strange Skies

1 - Sword of Orion (Oct-2005)

Duainfey

1 - Duainfey (Sep-2008)
2 - Longeye (Apr-2009)

The Liaden Universe

1 - Local Custom (Feb-2002)
2 - Mouse and Dragon (Jun-2010)
3 - Scout's Progress (Apr-2002)
4 - Conflict of Honors (May-1988)
5 - Agent of Change (Jan-1988)
6 - Carpe Diem (Oct-1989)
7 - Plan B (Feb-1999)
8 - I Dare (Feb-2002)
9 - Balance of Trade (Feb-2004)
10 - Crystal Soldier (Nov-2005)
11 - Crystal Dragon (Dec-2007)
12 - Fledgling (Sep-2009)
13 - Saltation (Apr-2010)
14 - Ghost Ship (Aug-2011)
15 - Dragon Ship (Sep-2012)
16 - Necessity's Child (Feb-2013)
17 - Trade Secret (Nov-2013)
18 - Dragon in Exile (Jun-2015)
19 - Alliance of Equals (Jul-2016)
20 - The Gathering Edge (May-2017)
21 - Neogenesis (Jan-2018)
22 - Accepting the Lance (Dec-2019)
23 - Trader's Leap (Dec-2020)
24 - Fair Trade (May-2022)
25 - Salvage Right (Jul-2023)
Pilots Choice (Feb-2001)

Book List in Order: 76 titles

  • Agent of Change

    The Liaden Universe - 5

    Fleeing the scene of his latest mission, Val Con yos''Phelium finds himself saving the life of ex-mercenary Miri Robertson, a young Tarren on the run from interplanetary assassins. Thrown together by circumstances, Val Con and Miri struggle to elu...

  • Conflict of Honors

    The Liaden Universe - 4

    ORPHAN OF THE STORM Priscilla Delacroix y Mendoza was an outcast, disowned by her family and her world. Ever since, she had made her way from spaceship to spaceship, taking whatever jobs were available and studying for a pilot's license whenever the...

  • Shooting Star

  • Carpe Diem

    The Liaden Universe - 6

    HIDE AND SEEK Bloodthirsty alien pirates were the least of Val Con and Miri's troubles. The besieged couple topped the unofficial wanted list of a ruthless interstellar crime cartel, and they didn't dare show their faces in known space. So they we...

  • Plan B

    The Liaden Universe - 7

    Dragon's Luck Pursued across space by the ultra-secret Department of the Interior, hunted by the galaxy-wide Juntavas syndicate, former Agent of Change Val Con yos' Phelium and his ex-soldier lifemate Miri Robertson have commandeered the only spaces...

  • Pilots Choice

    The Liaden Universe

    Lee and Miller mix a compelling fictional society governed by a strict code of honor with romantic, funny, touchingly real characters and great storytelling in "Pilots Choice". Its two tales are prequels to "Partners in Necessity", the long-awaited r...

  • I Dare

    The Liaden Universe - 8

    Lee and Miller's eagerly awaited conclusion to the Agent of Change sequence of their Liaden Universe series. This long-awaited culmination of the Locus best-selling Agent of Change sequence of Sharon Lee and Steve Miller's internationally acclaimed ...

  • Local Custom

    The Liaden Universe - 1

    The first of the seven books set in the Liaden Universe tells a rich and sweeping story of warring families and star-crossed lovers in a fantastic, other-world galaxy.

    "I was mesmerized, awed, and totally entertained. I am hooked by the Liad...

  • Scout's Progress

    The Liaden Universe - 3

    All of her life, Relliana Ceylon has hued by the rules of her overbearing brother, the head of the Ceylon family. Though she is a brilliant mathematician, he has convinced her that she has no worth beyond what value she might have in an arranged marr...



  • Tomorrow Log

    The #1 Science Fiction Trade Paperback in America, March 2003! -Locus Magazine Meanwhile, on another side of the universe... Freelance thief Gem ser'Edreth makes the calculated mistake of turning down a commission from the local crime boss. Gem's hid...

  • Balance of Trade

    The Liaden Universe - 9

    Set in the early space-trading days of the Liaden Universe, the story of how an ordinary Terran became the pivot point in galactic clash of culture and how the more tried to be just like his father, the less the universe seemed inclined to help. More...

  • Sword of Orion

    Beneath Strange Skies - 1

    Throughout the Free Galaxy, remnants of the fascistic Oligarchy are working to bring mankind back under their cruel and repressive rule. Sixteen-year-old Jerel Telemon holds the key to the weapon that can tilt the balance toward good or evil. The fir...

  • Crystal Soldier

    The Liaden Universe - 10

    Centuries in the past, mankind fought a seemingly unbeatable adversary from sector to sector across the Spiral Arm until the war ground to a standstill and the Enemy withdrew. Believing that they had won, the citizens of the galaxy rebuilt. The Inner...

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  • Crystal Dragon

    The Liaden Universe - 11

    Ever since her home world was destroyed by the merciless Enemy, ace pilot Cantra yos'Phelium has operated on her own, outside the law, along the ravaged Rim worlds. Now she has joined forces with rogue soldier M. Jela Granthor's Guard. Cantra isn't ...

  • Liaden Universe Companion Volume One

  • Duainfey

    Duainfey - 1

    Faliance is a world where there is traffic and trade between humans and Fey, elflike beings who control powerful magic. Lord Altimere is powerful, both in influence and in magic. The former because he is the Queen's most trusted advisor--and, if his ...

  • Longeye

    Duainfey - 2

    Hidden from the human-inhabited world by the inimical magical device known as the keleigh, the Vaitura has become a subtle battleground where the once all-powerful Elder Fey strive against each other and the upstart Queen to regain ascendancy. Of all...

  • Fledgling

    The Liaden Universe - 12

    LEARNING TO FLY Delgado is a Safe World. That means that the population is monitored -- for its own good -- and behavior dangerous to society is quickly corrected. On Safe Delgado, then, Theo Waitley, daughter of Professor Kamele Waitley, latest in ...



  • Saltation

    The Liaden Universe - 13

    Theo Waitley is a Nexus of Violence Thrust mid-year into a school for pilots far from the safe haven of her birth home on scholarly Delgado, young Theo Waitley excels in hands-on flying while finding that she's behind the curve in social intricaci...

  • Mouse and Dragon

    The Liaden Universe - 2

    Aelliana Caylon has endured much, and finally, she appears to have won all: a spaceship, comrades, friends -- and the love of a pilot she adores. Even better that her lover -- the man who was destined for her, a man as much a loner as she -- is al...

  • Calamity's Child

    Children are the glue ... that holds a society together... ...but not all children are born to fortunate times.And not all children bring joy. Calamity's Child introduces two children of mischance and explores the ways in which they changed the world...

  • The Cat's Job

    What is the Cat's Job?Some say a cat's job is to be decorative. Some say it is to slay vermin. Some say a cat ought to earn his or her keep, and some think cats are mere pets. Some folks are dog people, but we don't need to talk too much about them h...

  • Master Walk

    Pirates, politics, police, and plots! Meet William Drew Faro the 4th, a human from Khareton's TriGrace Academy, and Trikura Dai, a rock-chewing, space-faring Chenri who is definitely not of this world! Now imagine a star-spanning civilization where i...

  • Allies

    Adventures in the Liaden Universe - 12

    "In the matter of allies only two things are important. First, can he shoot? Second, will he aim at your enemy?" Allies, Adventures in the Liaden Universe® #12 celebrates Cantra's often repeated quote with two prime examples. First, Fighting Chance...

  • Eidolon

    Adventures in the Liaden Universe - 14

    Adventures in the Liaden Universe(R) #14When Ceola's bar-partner sister find interest in the business waning, even leaving for days on end without warning, the tavernista needs help and she needs it fast. But along with the bar her sister has abandon...

  • Fellow Travelers

    Adventures in the Liaden Universe - 2

    Adventures in the Liaden Universe® Number TwoMoonhawk is a priestess of the Goddess, traveling on quest. Lute is an itinerant magician, specializing in sleight-of-hand and ventriloquism. The two of them meet on the road, and continue on together, do...

  • Halfling Moon

    Adventures in the Liaden Universe - 16

    Two Stories of a Tumultuous TimeThe Department of the Interior's bloody plot against planet Liad has failed, at least for now, but Clan Korval's firing upon Solcintra, Liad's capital city, to save it from the release o...

  • Misfits

    Adventures in the Liaden Universe - 15

    Adventures in the Liaden Universe® Number 15Before Miri Robertson met Val Con yos'Phelium she was an acclaimed mercenary soldier. Before she was an acclaimed mercenary soldier with the Gyrfalks, she was "Redhead," a young recruit in Lizardi's Lunati...



  • Necessary Evils

    Adventures in the Liaden Universe - 11

    Adventures in the Liaden Universe® Number ElevenSometimes you don’t have much of a choice when it comes to who you do business with. Sometimes you discover that the evil you know is a necessary evil. Hal Clement award-winning authors Sharon Lee an...

  • Skyblaze

    Adventures in the Liaden Universe - 17

    Vertu dea'San, Delm of Clan Wylan, has her hands full with daughter, son, and taxi business, when she's offered an opportunity to solve several pressing problems in one fell swoop.  All she needs to do is ferry a few people to a "picnic ground" to d...

  • Two Tales of Korval

    Adventures in the Liaden Universe - 1

    Adventures in the Liaden Universe® Number One.  Originally published by SRM Publisher in 1995.  Includes the two classic Liaden stories, "To Cut an Edge," and "A Day at the Races." "To Cut an Edge" details a Scout trainee's meeting with an alien; ...

  • With Stars Underfoot

    Adventures in the Liaden Universe - 10

    Adventures in the Liaden Universe® Number 10When space pilots dance, they move.... . .readers asked the questions:What happens when Korval moves to Surebleak?What happens when Pat Rin and Val Con get together?What happens when Aunt Kareen tries to b...

  • The Naming of Kinzel

    Three stories of power, innocence, and magic.Kinzel the Foolish:  Meet Kinzel, 'prentice to Mad Siljan the herb lady.  Not quite the village fool.  Not quite.  And does it take a fool, or a wise child, to bargain with a unicorn?Kinzel the Innocen...

  • Quiet Magic

    A Yours, Mine and Ours collection of short stories from Liaden Universe® authors Sharon Lee and Steve Miller.In Steve Miller's "And Hawks for Heralds," we meet Rove Captain Slate, who doesn't believe in magic, and who only wants to cross a bridge an...

  • Certain Symmetry

    Adventures in the Liaden Universe - 4

    Adventures in the Liaden Universe® Number 4"The Wine of Memory" brings Lute and his new apprentice, Moonhawk, to one of Lute's favorite places, only to discover that a tragedy has altered everything. Lute can get into a locked the house, but can he ...

  • Changeling

    Adventures in the Liaden Universe - 6

    Adventures in the Liaden Universe® Number 6"Changeling" features the collision of two off-world Liaden Clans -- one rich and influential, one borderline respectable -- after the contract marriage between two young and promising pilots results in an ...

  • Dragon Tide

    Adventures in the Liaden Universe - 13

    Adventures in the Liaden Universe(R) Number 13Kareen yos'Phelium Clan Korval has always done everything that was proper, rising by study and by example to become the foremost scholar of the Liaden Code of Proper Conduct on Liad - and perhaps in the g...

  • Duty Bound

    Adventures in the Liaden Universe - 3

    Adventures in the Liaden Universe® Number Three"Pilot of Korval" finds Er Thom yos'Galan and Daav yos'Phelium, raised together as brothers, separated and beginning to learn their adult roles of trader and scout.In "Breath's Duty," a grown-up Daav mu...



  • Loose Cannon

    Adventures in the Liaden Universe - 7

    Adventures in the Liaden Universe® Number 7In "A Matter of Dreams" the oft-disappointed crew of an itinerant spaceship find that magic and dreams can come face to face with the reality of money and power -- and that power abhors an honest confrontat...

  • Quiet Knives

    Adventures in the Liaden Universe - 9

    Adventures in the Liaden Universe® Number 9Included in this volume is "Veil of the Dancer," in which a scholar with three daughters properly marries off the two eldest, while teaching the youngest, Inas, how to read -- and thereby endangering them a...

  • Shadows and Shades

    Adventures in the Liaden Universe - 8

    Adventures in the Liaden Universe® Number Eight"Naratha's Shadow" pits a Scout and a priestess against a wandering artifact of the Old War -- a planet eater that hasn't, quite, run out of power.In "Heirloom," Pat Rin yos'Phelium and his young cousin...

  • Trading in Futures

    Adventures in the Liaden Universe - 5

    Adventures in the Liaden Universe® Number 5The short story "Balance of Trade" introduces Jethri Gobelyn, an aspiring Terran apprentice Trader who comes to the attention of a Liaden Master Trader. In "A Choice of Weapons," Daav yos'Phelium must Balan...

  • Ghost Ship

    The Liaden Universe - 14

    Theo Waitley is an ace starship pilot -- and pure maverick. Her mom is a renown Terran scholar and her birth father is an interstellar aristocrat in hiding. Whatever, thinks Theo. She still feels like a socially-challenged misfit. But after bein...

  • Courier Run

    Adventures in the Liaden Universe - 18

    Two new Liaden Universe® adventures! Novelette "Kin Ties" explores the ties that bind beloved kin -- and desperate enemies. Short story "Guaranteed Delivery" is a tale of love, leadership, and insurance fraud. Both stories appeared in slightly al...

  • Legacy Systems

    Adventures in the Liaden Universe - 19

    Intelligent DesignWhen a spaceship's inquisitive cabin boy finds a surplus crate of spare parts at a warehouse, all he knows is that he wants it very much. His older cousin's willing to see him buy it, but not quite so understanding when it comes tim...

  • Reflections on Tinsori Light

    For those who wish to see how a short story goes from outline to short story, this echapbook presents the outline for, and the completed short Liaden story, "The Space at Tinsori Light," with an explanatory foreword by Sharon Lee....

  • Dragon Ship

    The Liaden Universe - 15

    Stirring space adventure from master storytellers Sharon Lee and Steve Miller -- #15 in the award-winning Liaden Universe® saga. Space ships, action, adventure -- all tied together with a strong dollop of romance and intrigue -- make this a compelli...

  • Necessity's Child

    The Liaden Universe - 16

    A man without a past caught between powerful Clan Korval and secretive kompani. Space ships, action, adventure -- all tied together with a strong dollop of romance and clan intrigue -- make this a compelling series for a wide range of readers, fro...



  • Technical Details

    Adventures in the Liaden Universe - 21

    Two stories about the folks who keep the social and technical machinery running. "Landed Alien" finds Kara ven'Arith on a space station maintenance crew when a series of inexplicable events overtake support functions. In "Eleutherios," the friars a...

  • Moon's Honor

    Adventures in the Liaden Universe - 20

    A faction of renegade priestesses is seeking to circumvent the Dyan City High Priestess to outlaw "hedge magicians." Their reason is that such "bogus magic" confuses the simple, and diverts awe and respect that ought to be reserved for the true magi...

  • Trade Secret

    The Liaden Universe - 17

    The Liaden Universe ® Saga Continues! Star-spanning galactic trader Jethri Gobelyn adventures are the focus in book 17 by master storytellers Sharon Lee and Steve Miller. Star-spanning galactic trader Jethri Gobelyn’s story continues in the se...

  • Dragon in Exile

    The Liaden Universe - 18

    Clan Korval rebuilds its fortunes on the gritty, semi-anarchic planet of Surebleak. Over a quarter million Liaden Universe® books are in print with an audience that keeps growing! Star-trading Clan Korval -- known to Terrans as the Tree-and-Drago...

  • Alliance of Equals

    The Liaden Universe - 19

    A new novel in the popular and exciting science fiction Liaden Universe® series. Over a half million Liaden Universe® books sold with an audience that keeps growing! Beset by the angry remnants of the Department of the Interior, challenged at e...

  • Sleeping with the Enemy

    Adventures in the Liaden Universe - 22

    Two novelettes set on Surebleak after it has been invaded and conquered by Pat Rin yos'Phelium Clan Korval.Each story features a young person coming to terms with the new conditions, and navigating treacherous cultural waters."Chimera" was first publ...

  • Change Management

    Adventures in the Liaden Universe - 23

    Times are perilous, violence rife, and the future uncertain. Success and the survival of all you hold dear may hinge on how you manage change. Some people advise that we “Embrace Change!†Other people realize that change has edges, and if you em...

  • The Gathering Edge

    The Liaden Universe - 20

    The luck runs rough around Theo Waitley. Not only are people trying to kill her and capture the self-aware intelligent ship Bechimo to whom Theo is bonded, they’re also trying to arrest her crew members, and throw the dignity of an important passen...

  • Due Diligence

    Adventures in the Liaden Universe - 24

    When Clan Korval knows your name. . .Abandoned on a strange port by a scam gone bad, his license to pilot rescinded, and his pockets very much to let, Fer Gun pen'Uldra was teetering between trouble, more trouble, and bad trouble. Cornered in a chea...

  • Cultivar

    Adventures in the Liaden Universe - 25

    This chapbook contains two tales from the Liaden Universe®: short story "Out of True," and novelette "The Rifle's First Wife." "Out of True" is a first contact story that takes place around the time of Balance of Trade and Trade Secrets. "The Rifle'...

  • Heirs to Trouble

    Adventures in the Liaden Universe - 26

    Contains two novelettes in the Liaden Universe®: "Roving Gambler," and "Code of Honor," both set in the turbulent time following Clan Korval's relocation to Surebleak."Roving Gambler," finds Quin yos'Phelium, Boss Conrad's son, and Pat Rin yos'Phel...

  • Degrees of Separation

    Adventures in the Liaden Universe - 27

    Life. Luck. Love. Lowport.Life, so the wags tell us, is what happens while we're making other plans.Luck. . .or, as some have it, chance. . .Luck is what makes Life interesting; introducing spicy bits of chaos â€" good, bad, and neutral. Without ...

  • Neogenesis

    The Liaden Universe - 21

    Menace from Back Space Looming out of the Dust of Time The Complex Logic Laws were the result of a war waged hundreds of years in the past, when two human powers threw massive AI navies at each other and nearly annihilated themselves. Being human...

  • Fortune's Favors

    Adventures in the Liaden Universe - 28

  • Shout of Honor

    Adventures in the Liaden Universe - 29

    Commander Vepal is a Hero. He is also the Yxtrang ambassador to the greater universe.These two facts do not make Vepal's life easy. But they do make it interesting.It was Commander Vepal who discovered the continuing orders from Headquarters, far b...

  • Accepting the Lance

    The Liaden Universe - 22

    KORVAL IN THE CROSSHAIRS Exiled from Liad after bombing a city to save it from The Department of the Interior’s infernal weapons and plans, Clan Korval has gone to ground on the back water planet Surebleak, whose people are as untamed as its we...

  • The Gate that Locks the Tree

    Adventures in the Liaden Universe - 30

    A cat may look at a tree This is especially true when the winds of change blow through the universe, leaving eddies of luck, uncertainty, and necessity in the strangest places â€" and surely Surebleak qualifies as a strange place, as Korval's Tree qu...

  • Splinter Universe Presents

    Splinter Universe Presents!Something a little bit different What this collection is--it's Something A Little Bit Different. We will explain. We'll try to be brief.  And we'll start with what it isn't. It isn't a Liaden Universe® no...

  • Ambient Conditions

    Adventures in the Liaden Universe - 31

    Contains two shorter works set in Lee and Miller's Liaden Universe(R). Short story A Visit to the Galaxy Ballroom, which first appeared on the Baen Books website; original novelette Ambient Conditions; and an authors' foreword. Galaxy Ballroom explor...

  • The Wrong Lance

    In early 2018, the writing team of Lee and Miller threw away the first 70,000 words of a Liaden novel.  They weren't bad words; merely, they weren't the right words.  The book that rose from the ashes of this failed draft, Accepting the Lan...

  • Trader's Leap

    The Liaden Universe - 23

    NEW ENTRY IN THE LANDMARK LIADEN UNIVERSE® SERIESThe only bridge between past and future is a leap of faith. Pursued by enemies, exiled Liaden clan Korval is settling into a new base on backworld Surebleak. Moving is expensive, as is w...

  • Change State

    Adventures in the Liaden Universe - 32

    Includes two stories set in far corners of the Liaden Universe®. Short story Command Decision, which first appeared in the anthology Release the Virgins, features Bjarni, a man with a nose for 'shroom, improbably standing at the intersection...

  • Bad Actors

    Adventures in the Liaden Universe - 33

    Together again for the first time! Three stories set in the Liaden Universe(R), featuring characters who may not embrace honor fully. Included are: Excerpt from Two Lives, Dark Secrets, and Revolutionists.All three stories have been previously publis...

  • Bread Alone

    Adventures in the Liaden Universe - 34

    To survive, humans need air, water, a place to stand, a place to sleep, and sustenance. Bread is a good start for sustenance. Don Eyr and Serana were survivors who came to Low Port – it gave them air, water, a place to stand and a place to...

  • Fair Trade

    The Liaden Universe - 24

    THE LIADEN UNIVERSE® SERIES CONTINUESJethri Gobelyn has risen far: from despised youngest on a Terran family Loop ship to second trader on premier Liaden tradeship Elthoria under the guidance of his unlikely foster-mother Norn ven'Deelin ...

  • From Every Storm

    Adventures in the Liaden Universe - 35

    From Every Storm is a chapbook compilation of three Liaden Universe(R) stories, one of them never before published. The storms of the title spring not so much from the desert or the deep blue sea but from the minds and hearts of humanity, where greed...

  • Salvage Right

    The Liaden Universe - 25

    A NEW NOVEL IN THE NATIONALLY BEST-SELLING LIADEN UNIVERSE® SERIESA door never closes, but a window opens . . . With origins in the Old Universe, the malevolent, acquisitive intelligence of Tinsori Light sought to infect others with itself, and ...

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2002 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Science Fiction Novel
2002 RWA PRISM Award -- Futuristic


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