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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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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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