Christopher Hopper Books in Order
Browse Christopher Hopper's books in order, with quick summaries, series background, and where to start across his sci-fi, fantasy, and steampunk worlds.
Last updated: July 5, 2026
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Publication Order
37 books
Rise of the Dibor
by Christopher Hopper
2006
Luik lives in Dionia, a world untouched by evil, until an ancient enemy begins to corrupt paradise from within. Called to join the Dibor, he must grow from innocent youth into warrior before the kingdom falls.
The Lion Vrie
by Christopher Hopper
2007
Dionia is in ruins, the kings have fallen, and Morgui's power keeps spreading. As hope thins, the hidden Order of the White Lion steps forward and Luik's war becomes darker, stranger, and far more costly.
Curse of the Spider King
by Christopher Hopper
2009
Seven hidden elven heirs have grown up on Earth believing they were ordinary kids. As their powers begin to wake, sentinels and assassins race to find them first, and two worlds move toward collision.
Venom and Song
by Christopher Hopper
2010
Now in Allyra, the Seven begin brutal training while the Spider King's agents close in. To have any chance at all, they must master their gifts, solve old prophecies, and survive a mission into enemy ground.
Athera's Dawn
by Christopher Hopper
2011
Dionia is near breaking. As storms, fire, loss, and Morgui's designs close in, the surviving Dibor fight not just to retake ground, but to keep hope alive long enough for victory to mean anything.
The Tide of Unmaking
by Christopher Hopper
2012
The Seven young lords are pushed toward the endgame as prophecy, war, and divided loyalties tighten around Allyra. The final Berinfell book drives the series toward a full-scale reckoning with the Spider King.
The Sky Riders
by Christopher Hopper
2013
In the floating world of Aria-Prime, apprentice rider Junar wants to earn his place in the skies. Instead, he stumbles into family strain, sky pirates, political conspiracy, and a threat to the world he thought he understood.
Black Labyrinth
by Christopher Hopper
2019
Magnus and Awen are reeling from loss when new revelations force them into their hardest mission yet. To strike back, they will have to reach the notorious super-dreadnaught Black Labyrinth and survive getting aboard.
Galactic Breach / Honor Bound
by Christopher Hopper
2019
Magnus survives the first disaster only to find the galaxy growing more dangerous and more divided around him. This combined edition pushes the war outward as loyalties harden and the mission changes shape again.
Gateway to War / Last of the Luma
by Christopher Hopper
2019
Charged with treason by his own side, Magnus tries to get Piper safely to the Luma homeworld before her abilities attract even worse enemies. The trip opens into a larger fight for freedom across alien worlds.
Resonant Abyss
by Christopher Hopper
2019
Flint Reed is pulled deeper into the artifact mystery and the larger conflict circling it. The second book widens the universe while keeping the danger close, fast, and personal.
Resonant Son
by Christopher Hopper
2019
Ex-cop Flint Reed is the only thing between a terrorist cell and its hostages. Then the siege opens into a much larger hunt for ancient alien artifacts, and the day gets far worse from there.
Ruins of the Galaxy / The Eve of War
by Christopher Hopper
2019
This combined edition launches the series with Lt. Magnus on what should be a routine escort mission to a peace summit. One explosion later, he is trapped, hunted, and carrying intel powerful enough to start a wider war.
Void Horizon
by Christopher Hopper
2019
After a hard-won victory, Magnus learns the enemy's reach goes deeper than he feared. To stop what is coming next, he must cross the void horizon and search for answers before his resistance is crushed.
Gods and Men
by Christopher Hopper
2020
Humans are being harvested, and the people who might save them are already off-world. Wic and Phantom Team take the fight into enemy territory, where every move could expose Earth to even worse destruction.
Imminent Failure
by Christopher Hopper
2020
Magnus and the Gladio Umbra are running on losses, pressure, and plans that keep slipping apart. As the wider conflict worsens, they have to hold the team together long enough to survive the next impossible turn.
Quantum Assault
by Christopher Hopper
2020
The Republic has fallen, rival powers are scrambling to reshape the galaxy, and Magnus is caught between them. To keep the future from sliding into tyranny, the Gladio Umbra must fight on more than one front at once.
Rise of the Gladias
by Christopher Hopper
2020
In the aftermath of Moldark's fall, Magnus and his allies chase a new and even stranger enemy toward a final showdown. The series closes on all-out war, desperate hope, and the fate of the galaxy itself.
Ruins of the Earth
by Christopher Hopper
2020
Marine Raider Patrick "Wic" Finnegan is sent to Antarctica to guard researchers digging into an ancient mystery. When what they uncover tears open a portal and unleashes an invasion, Earth starts falling apart fast.
Terminal Fallout
by Christopher Hopper
2020
A dying world is packed with refugees, and Magnus cannot save everyone. While evacuation efforts strain the team to the breaking point, a dangerous Luma leader gathers power for the next stage of the war.
Decayed Legacy
by Christopher Hopper
2021
With humans still stranded off-world, Phantom Team pushes deeper into enemy territory to bring them home. Rescue quickly turns into another high-risk operation where every gain exposes a bigger and uglier truth.
Fire and Fury
by Christopher Hopper
2021
The war reaches a brutal tipping point as Wic and Phantom Team face heavier fire, harder choices, and the cost of every earlier victory. This is the kind of Ruins book where survival alone no longer feels like enough.
Oblivion Awaits
by Christopher Hopper
2021
On humanity's greatest orbital habitat, an explosion, a murder, and a possible alien signal collide in one terrible night. Jericho Fox and Evelyn Park race to uncover the truth before Astraea Station comes apart around them.
Phantom Deadfall
by Christopher Hopper
2021
After their strike on Karkin Four, Wic and Phantom Team learn the enemy is preparing a brutal assault on New York City. To stop it, they will need a desperate counterattack and hard choices that could cost them everything.
Valley of the Dead
by Christopher Hopper
2021
There is no easy way back to Earth. Stranded and under pressure, Wic and his team join forces with unlikely allies and head into even deadlier ground, where survival means fighting through the enemy's world instead of escaping it.
Kogarashi's Run
by Christopher Hopper
2022
The final Infinita book brings Jericho, Evelyn, and the larger mystery to a head. Human ambition, political pressure, and the truth behind the signal all converge in a last run with no easy landing.
Parallax Rising
by Christopher Hopper
2022
Jericho Fox gets his career back just in time for a mission that could move humanity toward a new world. At the same time, Evelyn Park digs deeper into a surviving alien transmission, where discovery and danger are tightly tangled.
Volume I
by Christopher Hopper
2022
A disgraced former stratusaire and a sheltered royal heir are pulled toward the same dangerous fault line in a four-thousand-year-old empire. What begins as personal survival quickly starts to look like the opening crack in something much bigger.
Volume II
by Christopher Hopper
2022
Hale is close to reclaiming his old life when Orelia asks for help that sends both of them into fresh danger. Their separate missions pull them deeper into the Imperium's cruelty and closer to open defiance.
Volume III
by Christopher Hopper
2023
Hale's rescue plan is finally moving, but betrayal sits inside the operation itself. While palace plots unfold elsewhere, thousands of lives hang on whether he can spot the trap in time.
Volume IV
by Christopher Hopper
2023
The survivors have escaped one nightmare, but safety on Cirra proves fragile. While Hale looks for a way to save more people, Orelia faces painful choices and old enemies close in again.
Volume V
by Christopher Hopper
2023
With Sedarious Kull in custody, victory looks close for a moment, then turns complicated fast. Hale and Orelia are forced into new bargains, new missions, and a larger rebellion that is only getting harder to hold together.
Beyond Dreams
by Christopher Hopper
2024
College freshman Riley Moore stumbles into a fantasy world that feels far too real to be only a dream. With a sarcastic talking rabbit and danger everywhere, he has one job: wake up before dying there kills him here too.
Dark Harvest Rebellion
by Christopher Hopper
2024
Gabriel Stone and Chloe Lidell wake inside a deadly alien game where each rising wall reveals another monster and another round to survive. The only way out is forward, toward the minds that built the trap.
Rim of Chaos
by Christopher Hopper
2024
Rim Fellows steps into the spotlight for a black-market adventure set in the Chaosic Regions. It is a rougher, more rogue-driven corner of the Imperium universe, built on risky deals and bad odds.
Ashes of Halcyon
by Christopher Hopper
2026
The Ruins saga keeps moving through the wreckage left by war, with fresh danger rising from what earlier victories failed to settle. It is another entry built on fallout, endurance, and costly forward motion.
Legacy of the Fallen
by Christopher Hopper
2026
A later Ruins of the Earth installment that follows the survivors into the next phase of the conflict. Old losses, unfinished battles, and the long shadow of earlier choices still shape every move.
Where should I start?
If you want fast military sci-fi: Ruins of the Earth → Gods and Men → Phantom Deadfall
If you want a sweeping space opera: Volume I → Volume II → Volume III
If you prefer harder sci-fi and mystery: Oblivion Awaits → Parallax Rising → Kogarashi's Run
If you want younger-reader fantasy: Curse of the Spider King → Venom and Song → The Tide of Unmaking
If you want one standalone-feeling adventure first: The Sky Riders
Author bio
Christopher Hopper was born in Ithaca, New York, in 1979, and he grew up in a world shaped by music, performance, and church life. Long before he became known for military science fiction and fantasy, he was around recording studios, instruments, and the kind of creative work that teaches you rhythm, pacing, and how to hold an audience.
Reading did not come easily at first.
Hopper has spoken openly about being labeled a slow reader in school, even while teachers noticed he could write. The big change came when he was around eighteen and discovered Stephen R. Lawhead's Song of Albion books. That experience helped turn reading from a chore into an obsession, and it also gave him a model for the kind of immersive world-building he would later chase in his own fiction.
Before writing became his full-time path, he spent years balancing several lives at once. He worked in music, spoke publicly, served in ministry, and kept writing on the side. Early books like Rise of the Dibor and later Curse of the Spider King, written with Wayne Thomas Batson, show a writer building his craft through fantasy, spiritual conflict, and big moral stakes.
Then he made the jump.
In 2019, after many years of writing alongside other work, Hopper left paid church work and committed himself fully to fiction. That decision changed the scale of his career. His collaborations with J.N. Chaney on Ruins of the Galaxy and Ruins of the Earth reached a much wider audience and helped establish him as a familiar name for readers who like fast-moving sci-fi, military teams under pressure, and large fictional universes that keep expanding.
Those books are a good guide to what Hopper does well. Ruins of the Galaxy begins with a routine mission gone bad and grows into a long-running space war full of squad tension, shifting loyalties, and galaxy-sized stakes. Ruins of the Earth starts with Patrick "Wic" Finnegan guarding researchers in Antarctica, then turns into an alien invasion story with collapsing governments, hard choices, and a lot of momentum. Imperium Descent widens the frame into empire politics, rebellion, and identity, while Oblivion Awaits shows his interest in harder science fiction, with an orbital habitat, sabotage, and an alien signal hanging over everything.
His fantasy work runs on a different engine, but the concerns are often similar. The Berinfell Prophecies follows young heirs discovering powers and responsibilities they did not ask for. The Sky Riders mixes steampunk, apprenticeship, racing, and conspiracy in a floating world above the clouds. The White Lion Chronicles leans more openly into allegory and spiritual warfare, asking what innocence, corruption, courage, and sacrifice look like in an invented world.
Across genres, Hopper tends to come back to the same kind of person: the soldier, the apprentice, the outcast, the reluctant leader. His characters are usually pushed into situations that are bigger than they expected, then judged by what they do next. Even when the settings get wild, with portals, empires, ancient artifacts, or sky pirates, the emotional center stays close to loyalty, family, duty, and endurance.
He is also a voice actor and performer, which makes sense for a writer who clearly enjoys the sound of story as much as the structure of it. His books have hit bestseller lists in science fiction categories, and several have picked up award nominations and other recognition, but the simpler truth is that he built his audience book by book and kept going.
Christopher Hopper now lives in New York with his wife, Jennifer, and their four children. He still seems drawn to big, energetic hobbies too, including music, travel, endurance cycling, and RC aircraft, which feels very on brand for a writer whose stories rarely stand still.
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