Chris Bunch Books in Order

On the factory world Vulcan, Sten grows up under Company rule until a family tragedy drives him into open rebellion. His escape from that life is only the start of a much larger war inside the Empire.

When piracy and fanaticism choke the route to a valuable system, the Emperor turns to Sten and Mantis Team. Their mission to pacify the Wolf Worlds turns into a nasty mix of covert war and fragile alliances.

Sten has clawed his way up to command the Eternal Emperor's bodyguard, only to learn that court politics can be deadlier than the battlefield. A bombing exposes the rot behind the polished surface.

Set during the Tet Offensive, this novel follows soldiers and officers caught in one of the Vietnam War's most punishing moments. It is a war story about command failure, endurance, and the cost of illusion.

A diplomatic attack shatters relations between the Empire and the Tahn and pushes both sides toward war. Just in time for the worst of it, Sten gets dumped into flight training and space combat.

Sten expects to die fighting the Empire's greatest enemy and wakes instead in a brutal POW camp. Even there he refuses to sit out the war, and his survival becomes part of the Empire's last chance.

With the Eternal Emperor believed dead, the Privy Council grabs power and hunts for the secret source of Anti-Matter Two. Sten is one of the few men alive who knows enough to threaten them all.

Sent to the Altaic Cluster to steady a civil war, Sten is forced into the role of diplomat whether he likes it or not. Before long he suspects someone in deep cover is working to turn the crisis into catastrophe.

A historical Shannon novel set against revolutionary upheaval, where private loyalties are tested by public war. Family, politics, and survival are tangled from the start.

Sten goes hunting for the hidden source of the Eternal Emperor's power and finds a secret that shakes the whole Empire. The closer he gets to the truth, the more he has to question everything he served.

Sheltered young trader Amalric Antero is drawn into a reckless quest with the soldier-mage Janos Greycloak. The promise of fabulous wealth opens into a journey through wonder, danger, and forbidden magic.

Captain Rali Emilie Antero is sent on what looks like a suicidal mission across the sea, chasing an evil master wizard and a spell that could wreck civilization. It is swashbuckling fantasy with a hard military edge.

The Antero saga pushes farther into dark magic, long journeys, and the dangerous reaches beyond ordinary maps. Family legacy and old threats collide as the adventure grows stranger and more perilous.

Joshua Wolfe has been many things, bounty hunter, agent, and prisoner, and now he is digging through the wreckage left by the Great War. The secrets he finds may be more dangerous than the fighting itself.

Ten years after the Great War, mankind thinks it beat the Al'ar for good. Joshua Wolfe knows better, and when the old enemy stirs again, he has to live up to the name Shadow Warrior.

Joshua Wolfe is squeezed from every side, by cultists, a baron, the Federation, and an invasive alien force. His one chance may lie in a legendary crystal already in the hands of a dangerous gangster.

Numantia is collapsing, and only the wizard Tenedos and cavalry officer Damastes seem ready to fight for it. Their campaign against usurpers and necromancers begins as rescue and heads somewhere darker.

Ten years after helping Tenedos take power, General Damastes sees that the promised peace has curdled into slaughter and expansion. Stopping the coming war means learning what dark bargain built the Seer King's empire.

The Confederation empire is decaying, and on its farthest edge the Last Legion is left to hold chaos back. A remote world becomes the testing ground for whether duty can survive when the center is already failing.

The Seer King's empire has become a nightmare, and the wizard Tenedos now commands demons in his grab for absolute power. Exiled Damastes must gather an army and face his old ally in a final war for Numantia.

Cleanup after civil war should be hard enough, but the Musth are already pushing for control. Cut off from real guidance, the Last Legion has to answer with guerrilla war and raw stubbornness.

On the outer edge of the Confederation empire, the Last Legion tries to stop a ruthless dictator from swallowing more worlds. With loyalties shifting on every side, keeping the peace may be harder than winning a battle.

A legendary stone lost with the city of Thyone may have resurfaced, promising power to whoever holds it. Peirol of the Moorlands is pulled into a sweeping adventure of strange lands, old mysteries, and dangerous ambition.

Captain Gareth Radnor takes command of the *Steadfast* with revenge on his mind after slavers murdered his family. Then he discovers the enemy he is chasing may be stranger and more dangerous than he thought.

After reclaiming the Cumbre system, the Last Legion goes looking for answers from the silent Confederation empire it still serves. What it finds is a new threat, and a blow from a source nobody expected.

Stuck in a dead-end military posting, M'chel Riss gets a shot at something riskier and freer with Star Risk, Ltd. Her first job, breaking a super-soldier out of a maximum-security prison, sets the tone fast.

Hal Kailas is a runaway pauper haunted by one unforgettable meeting with a dragon. When war comes, his obsession with flying may turn him into one of the deadliest riders in the sky.

Now a proven dragon flier, Hal Kailas leads an assault deep into enemy territory. When the campaign turns and he is captured, he has to survive prison and find a way back into the war.

A brutal interstellar sport called skyball is becoming a political problem, and Star Risk, Ltd. is hired to keep the peace. As usual, the team gets dragged into something deadlier than the contract promised.

M'chel Riss and the Star Risk crew take a bizarre job involving a staged bank robbery where the money has to go back. Then the assignment spirals into a wider conflict over a dangerous new product.

The war is over, but peace brings Hal Kailas no comfort. As dragonmasters and their beasts are cast aside, old enemies return and force Hal into one final fight for both his people and the dragons.

What should be a routine escort job for Star Risk, Ltd. goes bad when kidnappings and murders start. The team is stuck protecting spoiled passengers while trying to figure out who is hunting them.

A collection of Chris Bunch's short science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories, anchored by the title piece. It is a good sampler of his voice outside the longer series.

Three young soldiers meet on a flight home from Vietnam and swear to spend their mustering-out money on one last wild run in San Francisco. What begins like a party turns into a reckoning with the war they carried home.

A broad historical saga about the Shannon family, shaped again and again by war. It links family loyalty to bigger political upheavals and keeps the focus on the people caught inside the fighting.

The first Sten omnibus collects *Sten*, *The Wolf Worlds*, and *The Court of a Thousand Suns*. It is the quickest way to watch a factory-world survivor become a soldier, operative, and imperial troubleshooter.

A werewolf is preying on homeless kids, and Eric tracks the killings to a shopping mall. The trail leads to a homeless girl, and the truth behind the attacks lands with a nasty sting.

After an elderly woman sees him in wolf form and is locked away as delusional, Eric takes a job inside the institution to protect her. It is a quieter setup than usual, but the danger is no less real.

A dying Southern politician kidnaps Eric Cord for one desperate reason: he wants the werewolf curse for himself. Eric has to stay alive long enough to stop a powerful man from turning immortality into another kind of corruption.

Eric hops a freight train while chasing Janos Skorzeny and falls in with a band of suspicious hobos. When one of them is murdered in the night, Eric has to find the killer before the group turns on him.

Eric seeks refuge in a remote monastery, hoping for one quiet night. Instead he finds that the monks are hiding an old werewolf secret, and the sanctuary may be more dangerous than the road.

Passing through a small town, Eric is shot and buried by a fake cop who is really a serial killer. If he wants to survive, he has to outlast both the grave and the man wearing the badge.

Eric Cord ends up trapped aboard an abandoned freighter with one of Janos Skorzeny's followers. With time running out and nowhere to hide, he has to escape before the Werewolf King closes in.

Exhausted and on the run, Eric Cord accepts shelter in a lonely house in the woods and grows close to a local woman. But a string of savage murders makes him fear the monster everyone is hunting may be himself.

Eric finally kills Janos Skorzeny, only to learn that the curse is not finished with him. The hunt opens into something larger when he meets Nicholas Remy, the ancient source of his bloodline.

Eric comes face to face with Nicholas Remy, and the truth is worse than he expected. If he wants any hope of ending the curse, he has to confront an enemy far more dangerous than Skorzeny.

Eric befriends a she-wolf whose rage is tied to a rancher's cruelty. When the man turns his hunt on Eric as well, the story becomes a harsh fight over vengeance, sympathy, and survival.

In bombed-out Berlin in 1944, a thief named Max cuts a desperate deal with a Nazi bishop to steal a satanic cross from Hermann Goering's collection. To escape the collapsing Reich with Brigitte, he has to move faster than greed, war, and evil.

An omnibus that collects *Vortex* and *Empire's End*, the final stretch of the original Sten saga. Sten is forced into diplomacy, rebellion, and the darkest truths behind the Empire he helped defend.

This Sten omnibus gathers *Fleet of the Damned*, *Revenge of the Damned*, and *Return of the Emperor*. It covers interstellar war, prison-camp survival, and the violent power struggle that follows the Emperor's apparent death.

A screenplay that imagines Huck Finn after the familiar ending, sending him into fresh trouble and new wandering. It plays with an iconic American voice while opening the door to another adventure.

A standalone screenplay by Chris Bunch and Allan Cole, presented in book form. It reads as a dramatic piece apart from their better-known series fiction.

A standalone screenplay by Chris Bunch and Allan Cole, later published in book form. It sits outside their major series and offers a shorter dramatic read.