Dave Duncan Books in Order

In the hidden city of Mera, people rescued from many times and places are sent back out to save others. Jerry and his fierce companion must protect Ariadne and her children as danger closes in.

On a colony world that has slipped back into feudal ways, divided loyalties turn private choices into political danger. Duncan mixes science-fiction roots with the feel of a dark, grounded fantasy.

Wallie is pulled deeper into the Goddess's design as rival swordsmen, politics, and prophecy tighten around him. Wit matters as much as steel when the world expects mastery he does not yet have.

Wallie nears the truth behind the Goddess's plan as war, deadly masters, and long-running schemes converge. The trilogy's finale raises the stakes from personal survival to the fate of a world.

Dying engineer Wallie Smith wakes in another world inside the body of a famous swordsman. The Goddess has plans for him, and none of them sound safe.

On a distant world where day and night each last a century, a herdsman named Knobil grows from childhood into a much larger understanding of his planet. The setting is the book's great marvel.

Stableboy Rap wants only to serve Princess Inos in the tiny kingdom of Krasnegar, but magic and invasion tear their quiet world apart. It is the start of one of Duncan's best-loved epics.

A breakthrough based on superstring theory opens temporary windows to other worlds, and powerful people rush to control the next colonization chance. Science, politics, and manipulation tighten around an unready young man.

Inos is stranded in a desert land under the power of a dangerous sorceress, while Rap lands far away in Faerie. To find each other again, they have to survive very different nightmares.

Vaun claws his way up from the mud flats of Ult to become a Space Patrol officer just as a mysterious enemy begins crushing whole worlds. Heroism comes fast, and so does the next impossible threat.

Separated heroes keep moving through a wider and stranger Pandemia, with oceans, politics, and magic all working against them. The rescue quest grows into something much bigger.

Rap and Inos's long, separate journeys finally drive toward the center of imperial power. Court intrigue, prophecy, and magic all converge in the finale of their first great adventure.

Fifteen years after *A Man of His Word*, Rap and Inos are ruling peacefully until the wider Impire starts to crack. A new magical and political threat drags them back into danger.

Omar the trader of tales travels a dangerous road where stories are traded as currency and misdirection. The frame is playful, but real schemes and real risks keep closing in.

War spreads across Pandemia as scattered allies race to hold the Impire together. The fight is no longer just personal. It has become a struggle over the shape of the whole world.

Shandie escapes his enemies, but a magical substitute sits on the throne while Zinixo tightens his grip. Rap and his allies must gather resistance before the Impire is lost completely.

The resistance closes in on Zinixo as false rule, divine-scale magic, and old alliances all come to a head. Saving the Impire means surviving one final, brutal escalation.

Young Toby Strangerson wants a life of his own, but a spell and a harsher world turn him into the outlaw Longdirk. Demonic power, rough history, and rebellion drive the saga from the first pages.

In 1914, Edward Exeter lands in hospital under suspicion of murdering his friend just as war begins. At the same time, prophecy in another world marks him as a player in something much larger.

On war-torn Muol, survivors of star sickness are left with wild and unpredictable magical powers. Duncan turns that curse into an epic story of fate, fear, and hard choices.

Trapped by a blizzard in a remote inn, Omar joins a storytelling contest where the prize is survival itself. The tales are entertaining, but they also reveal the danger in the room.

Back on Earth and haunted by what he knows of Nextdoor, Edward tries to prove the impossible while war closes in. Belief, prophecy, and divided loyalties make every choice more dangerous.

Toby Longdirk crosses a war-torn Europe while hunting the evil behind a demon-haunted throne. Every road leads deeper into politics, madness, and the fight to restore rightful rule.

Edward Exeter finally steps fully into the struggle against the god Zath in Nextdoor. Friends, betrayals, and divine power all sharpen as the trilogy heads toward its last reckoning.

This retelling of the Trojan War follows Briseis, queen, captive, and seer, as her fate becomes tied to Achilles. It turns legend into an intimate story of war, love, and ruin.

Longdirk reaches the final stage of his fight against the fiend behind Europe's chaos. War, politics, and one last desperate stand bring the trilogy to its conclusion.

Sir Durendal dreams of serving the king, but the binding oath ties him instead to an infuriating noble fop. Treason, treasure, and a deadly mission turn that insult into a grand adventure.

A Blade bound to a difficult royal ward is sent into the dangerous Fire Lands, where court politics meet older and stranger threats. Duty and survival pull in different directions.

Before they could be full Blades, young fighters had to survive training, danger, and a kingdom already under threat. This opener gives Chivial's magical bodyguard world a younger, brisker angle.

Succession politics turn deadly as a young woman is trapped between nobles, enemies, and the terrifying loyalties of the Blades. Reading people becomes as important as wielding steel.

Stalwart and Emerald travel to an ancient stronghold where odd events point toward a larger plot. Their second adventure mixes mystery, travel, and the hard work of becoming protectors.

An assassin stalks the throne, and the young heroes of the Daggers books have to grow up quickly. The final installment leans into secrecy, danger, and the costs of serving the crown.

Stable hand and fencing tutor Ned Cookson is drawn into the mystery of a missing Blade and a larger threat to Chivial. It is a witty, fast-moving investigation in the Blades world.

Three inexperienced would-be Blades are sent to protect the deposed Grand Duke Rubin and help win back his throne. Dark magic, divided loyalties, and an army of the dead stand in the way.

A new Chivial adventure sends its hero into a distant land shaped by unfamiliar customs, dangerous politics, and fierce warriors. Honor is still the issue, but the ground beneath it keeps shifting.

On a world shaped like a dodecahedron, four royal siblings are taken hostage after their city is conquered. Fifteen years later, politics demands one return home while the others become targets.

This omnibus collects the full *King's Daggers* trilogy. It follows younger heroes in the world of Chivial as training, royal danger, and sorcerous threats push them toward Blade-level courage.

The lost heirs of Celebre are finally moving in the same direction, but family reunion does not make them safe. Pursuit, politics, and religion tighten around them as Dodec's crisis deepens.

Young nobleman Alfeo Zeno studies under Maestro Nostradamus in an alternate Venice of alchemy and intrigue. When a poisoning points toward his master, Alfeo has to solve the crime fast.

In a society where noble men fight psychic arena contests and women rule through mind powers, Quirt enters under a false name with revenge on his mind. The deeper mystery is older and darker than it first looks.

A new mystery pulls Alfeo and Maestro Nostradamus into the shifting politics of alternate Venice. Prophecy helps, but wit and nerve matter more when powerful people want dangerous truths buried.

Maestro Nostradamus and Alfeo Zeno are drawn into another Venetian tangle of secrets, ambition, and danger. Even age, illness, and rank are not enough to keep murder and politics at bay.

Five people with very different agendas travel to a quarantined colony world accused of alien contamination. Politics, faith, deceit, and survival all collide once they arrive.

When Wulfgang Magnus uses forbidden Speaking to help his brother Anton, the whole family is pulled toward war and high politics. Magic can save them, but it may also ruin them.

The Magnus brothers try to hold family, fortress, and country together while war and miracle-working threaten to tear them apart. Their greatest problems come from both armies and the Church.

In Albi, followers of an older matriarchal faith are hunted as heretics and witches. Magic, persecution, and religious power collide in a story about surviving under a brutal orthodoxy.

Years after the original trilogy, Wallie Smith is pulled back into a world he thought he had left behind. News of Nnanji's death sparks another round of divine intrigue and swordplay.

A risky expedition heads to an unexplored world in search of alien medicines and enormous profit. The promise of riches soon turns into a tense struggle over what the planet is really worth.

Rigel's search for his parentage leads him from Earth into the Starlands, where his magical bracelet marks him as an unbeatable swordsman. Monsters, assassins, and a princess make the discovery far from simple.

Young Ivor sets out on an urgent Highland errand and quickly learns that adults' secrets can be more dangerous than rough roads. It is a brisk, grounded coming-of-age adventure.

The Magnus brothers face another round of political and magical danger as saints, soldiers, and rival powers pull their world apart. Family loyalty remains the one thing they cannot afford to lose.

Rigel stays in the Starlands for love of Queen Talitha, even after learning the realm may kill him. Assassins, prophecy, and a fresh conspiracy make that choice even more dangerous.

A seemingly simple mission turns into a stranger and riskier journey for Ivor. Highland custom, rumor, and a brush with folklore make this last outing especially tricky.

Another errand sends Ivor into a knot of piety, rank, and hidden motives. He is still just a runner, but quick wits matter a lot when important adults stop telling the truth.

A fisherman's daughter is unexpectedly chosen to join the Seventy who rule her world in the goddess's name. From there, Irona rises into power, politics, and family danger on an imperial scale.

This omnibus gathers Ivor's three fast-moving Highland adventures into one volume. The young runner carries messages, navigates feudal trouble, and learns how far honesty and nerve can take him.

A group of strangers gathers in a ruined temple to tell their stories and unravel the fate of a vanished divine jewel. Their separate tales slowly lock into one larger mystery.

A troubled investigator takes refuge at a research station fifty million years in the past. Even there, scandal, secrets, and human ambition catch up with him.

In 1164, a lame Saxon boy with a rare gift for magic is sent from school to investigate a foretold murder. His search leads straight into Norman power and a threat to the king.

Three retired Blades join the older Sir Spender on the trail of a long-buried treasure. The hunt brings back old loyalties, old dangers, and one more swashbuckling trip through Chivial.

An alternate nineteenth-century China braces for the opening of a legendary portal said to remake dynasties. Rebellion, thieves, court politics, and dark magic all collide as the empire starts to shake.

Durwin, a gifted young Saxon enchanter, uncovers a treasonous plot with demonic edges. To stop it, he has to survive politics, prejudice, and a world where magic can damn as easily as save.

Now a seasoned enchanter, Durwin is drawn into a plot against the king in magic-haunted medieval England. Court intrigue, divided loyalties, and dangerous spells make this a sharp final turn for the series.

Niall tries to become a Blade without losing the strict sense of honor his father taught him. In Chivial, conscience can be as dangerous as any enemy when court intrigue starts moving.

A bizarre zone in Africa appears as darkness by day and light by night, drawing an expedition with very mixed motives. Curiosity, danger, and revenge all travel with them into the unknown.

Retired village schoolteacher Agatha is dragged through a long-closed portal into a magical and violent foreign land. To survive rival factions and a strange new bond, she has to stay stubbornly herself.

After his father's suspicious death, fifteen-year-old Doig Gray is sent away to school and watched for signs he may share the family's dangerous ideas. On a failing colony world, truth itself is subversive.