Coyote Books in Order
See the Coyote books by Allen M Steele in order, with short summaries, series background, and tips on where to begin this interstellar colony saga.
Last updated: July 5, 2026
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Publication Order
8 books
Coyote
by Allen M Steele
2002
In an authoritarian future America, dissidents hijack the interstellar starship Alabama and flee to a distant habitable moon. What follows is part colony tale, part political breakaway story, and part frontier survival novel.
Coyote Rising
by Allen M Steele
2004
The first settlers of Coyote wanted freedom, but fresh arrivals from a new Earth regime bring control, hierarchy, and conflict. Revolution grows out of frontier life as the colony fights to choose its own future.
Coyote Frontier
by Allen M Steele
2005
Coyote has become a functioning colony, but survival still depends on a difficult relationship with Earth. Trade, migration, and political pressure force both worlds to decide whether cooperation is possible.
Spindrift
by Allen M Steele
2007
A prisoner gets one shot at redemption when he joins a mission to investigate a baffling alien world drifting between the stars. The trip becomes a first-contact story full of wonder, suspicion, and hard choices.
Galaxy Blues
by Allen M Steele
2008
Disgraced pilot Jules Truffaut lands on Coyote with nowhere to go and little luck. A shady job sends him toward alien worlds, black-hole danger, and the kind of trouble that can finally force him to grow up.
Coyote Horizon
by Allen M Steele
2009
Hawk Thompson returns from the wilderness with secrets about Coyote's native intelligence and a new sense of how strange the planet really is. His search for answers opens the series toward first contact and deeper history.
Coyote Destiny
by Allen M Steele
2010
As Coyote steps onto a larger interstellar stage, its settlers face new alliances, old wounds, and discoveries that could change their world again. The final Coyote novel ties colony politics to the wider fate of human civilization.
Hex
by Allen M Steele
2011
Captain Andromeda Carson and her estranged son travel to inspect a supposedly habitable world offered by alien allies. What they find instead is a staggering engineered mystery that could reshape humanity's place in the stars.
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