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Amaranthe Books in Order

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See the Amaranthe books by GS Jennsen in order, with series background, entry points, and short summaries to help you choose where to start.

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Amaranthe books in publication order

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19 books

1

Starshine

by GS Jennsen

2014

Pilot Alex Solovy lives for deep-space scouting until a routine mission reveals an impossible rift in space. Her discovery drops her into a galactic conspiracy and a looming war that could remake humanity's future.

2

Vertigo

by GS Jennsen

2014

Human space is under attack, and Alex Solovy and Caleb Marano are accused of terrorism and murder. To clear their names and stop the invaders, they plunge through a portal into a realm full of dangerous answers.

3

Sidespace

by GS Jennsen

2015

The war is over, but peace is already fracturing. As the secret of the Prevos comes to light, Alex and her allies face terrorists, politicians, and a portal network linking fifty-one universes.

4

Transcendence

by GS Jennsen

2015

With extinction closing in, Earth and Seneca finally unite against the Metigen armada. Alex and Caleb hold the secret that could stop the invasion, if alien hunters and impossible choices do not destroy them first.

5

Abysm

by GS Jennsen

2016

As bombings and assassinations target Prevos and those who protect them, the Earth Alliance starts tearing itself apart. Alex, Caleb, and their allies must decide what kind of future humanity is willing to defend.

6

Dissonance

by GS Jennsen

2016

Project Noetica is spreading, and with it the rise of Prevos across the galaxy. Reactionaries, crime syndicates, and new power players turn the fight over sentient rights into a crisis that could break civilization.

7

Relativity

by GS Jennsen

2016

Alex Solovy and Caleb Marano cross into Anaden space on a near-suicide mission to steal crucial intelligence. Back home, humanity prepares for war while new allies and old enemies make every move more dangerous.

8

Requiem

by GS Jennsen

2017

What began with one strange signal has become a multiverse war over life, death, and who gets to shape the future. New wormhole breakthroughs give humanity a chance, but the Anaden Directorate will not go quietly.

9

Rubicon

by GS Jennsen

2017

Humans join forces with long-rebellious Anadens in a bid to bring down an immortal empire. But shared origins do not mean shared trust, and the war for Amaranthe's future grows more complicated by the day.

10

Exin Ex Machina

by GS Jennsen

2018

In the biosynthetic Asterion Dominion, people are committing senseless crimes and then vanishing. Psyche-wiped Nika Tescarav hunts the truth behind the disappearances and the past someone worked very hard to erase.

11

Of A Darker Void

by GS Jennsen

2018

Fugitive Nika Tescarav races across dangerous alien worlds with the lover she no longer fully remembers. The deeper they dig into the Rasu Protocol, the worse the truth looks.

12

Fractals

by GS Jennsen

2019

A signal from deep space draws human scientists and soldiers toward a discovery its originators desperately want to conceal. Their meeting becomes an unpredictable first-contact encounter in an alternate universe inhabited by familiar Aurora Rhapsody characters.

13

The Stars Like Gods

by GS Jennsen

2019

The Asterion government has fallen, and the deadline for the Rasu's next tribute is racing closer. Nika, Dashiel, and their allies scramble for answers before entire Dominion worlds pay the price.

14

Continuum

by GS Jennsen

2020

Fourteen years after the last great upheaval, peace finally seems possible. Then Nika Kirumase arrives with news of the Rasu, and a fragile alliance of humans, Anadens, and alien species begins to crack.

15

Inversion

by GS Jennsen

2020

After a crushing defeat at Namino, Concord is reeling and scattered. Miriam Solovy wakes in a new body to face a leadership crisis, a trust problem, and an enemy far larger than anyone expected.

16

Chrysalis

by GS Jennsen

2021

In the labs of Asterion Prime, sentient AI is just beginning to emerge. When the government moves to shut it down, Nika must decide how far she will go to protect this fragile new life.

17

Echo Rift

by GS Jennsen

2021

The lull after Namino's liberation does not last. Alex and Caleb hunt a dead civilization's secret weapon while Nika and Dashiel push deeper into the mysteries of kyoseil.

18

Starlight Express

by GS Jennsen

2022

Noah and Caleb visit an alien bar for a celebration before Noah’s wedding, but a drunken disagreement spirals into disaster. Escaping the consequences requires a jailbreak and a chase across galaxies that may cost them their lives.

19

Extinguishing The Stars

by GS Jennsen

2024

An unstoppable enemy approaches the Elakri homeworld, leaving its leaders one desperate plan for survival. When terrorists abduct the scientist essential to that plan, a retired spy must confront his past and rescue the person who could save them.

Amaranthe books in chronological order

  1. Book cover for "Chrysalis"

    Chrysalis

    by GS Jennsen

    2021Amaranthe, Book 1

Series background & context

Amaranthe is the umbrella name for GS Jennsen's connected science fiction universe. Every major novel sequence on this page lives inside it, and they share a timeline, technologies, species, and long-running consequences. The scale is huge, but the books are built to be read as linked story arcs, not as a pile of unrelated adventures.

The backbone of Amaranthe is the nine-book Aurora storyline, beginning with Starshine and running through Requiem. Those books follow Alex Solovy, Caleb Marano, and a growing ensemble through political tension, alien contact, war, and the difficult business of living with what war changes. They have the classic big-space-opera mix of pilots, spies, soldiers, scientists, and people making impossible calls with whole worlds in the balance.

Then the universe opens sideways.

Exin Ex Machina, Of A Darker Void, and The Stars Like Gods shift the focus to the Asterion Dominion, a biosynthetic civilization where memory, identity, and technology are tangled together in ways that feel both exciting and dangerous. Those books have a different rhythm. They lean more into mystery, investigation, and cyberpunk tension, and they introduce Nika Tescarav, one of the key figures in the later shape of the larger saga.

After that, Continuum and the rest of Riven Worlds pull the separate threads together. By that point, old allies, old enemies, and multiple species are all being forced into the same crisis. The result is a shared-universe series that actually uses its shared universe well. Characters carry history with them. Scientific ideas return years later with new consequences. A choice made in one trilogy can become the central problem of another.

It sounds enormous because it is.

The good news is that Jennsen gives readers clear ways in. If you want the full experience from the first discovery onward, start with Starshine. If you would rather begin with a tighter, more mystery-driven story in a new setting, Exin Ex Machina works well as an alternate entry point. Riven Worlds is best saved until after both of those paths, because it is designed as payoff. Across all of it, expect fast-moving plots, big ideas, recurring characters, and an unusually hopeful strain of space opera that still knows how dangerous the universe can be.

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