Edward W Robertson Books in Order
Explore Edward W Robertson books in order, with short summaries, series guides, and simple where-to-start advice for Breakers, Arawn, Galand, and more.
Last updated: July 2, 2026
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Publication Order
39 books
When We Were Mutants & Other Stories
by Edward W Robertson
2010
This early collection shows Robertson working short, weird, and sharp. Expect science fiction and horror pieces built on strange premises, dark humor, and the sense that normal life can tip sideways very fast.
Lightless
by Edward W Robertson
2011
In a world where day and night last for years, a king's missing daughter has vanished into the Lightless. Tracker Vickory Carroway and wizard Tom Raquepaw head into that monstrous darkness before she is lost for good.
The Battle for Moscow, Idaho & Other Stories
by Edward W Robertson
2011
A compact collection of six stories that swings between science fiction, horror, and oddball humor. Highlights include alien-aided rebellion in small-town Idaho, a plague hunt in the backcountry, and a steampunk-flavored Greek caper.
The White Tree
by Edward W Robertson
2011
When the holy book of the outlawed nethermancers falls into young Dante's hands, he becomes a target overnight. With brash fighter Blays beside him, he is dragged into a secret war edging toward civil collapse.
The Zombies of Hobbiton
by Edward W Robertson
2011
A short horror-comedy novella that mashes together zombies, science fiction, and Robertson's taste for fast, pulpy chaos. It is goofy, violent, and quick on its feet, more B-movie sprint than slow-burn nightmare.
Titans
by Edward W Robertson
2011
Rob Dunbar has been alive for 3,000 years, which makes him useful to the wrong people. When an AI offers answers about his strange life, Rob gets pulled into corporate conflict, rebellion, and big questions about humanity's future in space.
Breakers
by Edward W Robertson
2012
A fast-spreading plague wipes out civilization, leaving survivors in New York and Los Angeles to improvise new lives. Then the story widens into something even worse, an alien-made catastrophe with Earth itself up for grabs.
Breathe For Me
by Edward W Robertson
2012
Dormun, a poor wizard trapped in a jungle labor camp, survives by making illusions for the workers around him. When sickness starts to spread, he has to risk everything to save them and carve out a chance at freedom.
Melt Down
by Edward W Robertson
2012
Ness in Idaho and Tristan in California are trying to survive the first days of collapse when the invaders finally show themselves. Separated from family and pushed into captivity and war, both are forced to grow up fast.
The Great Rift
by Edward W Robertson
2012
Dante and Blays move from local survival to open rebellion as they help the norren fight the Gaskan Empire. A legendary weapon, slave raids, and the threat of war push the series into bigger and bloodier territory.
Knifepoint
by Edward W Robertson
2013
Orphaned by the plague, Raina survives alone until a fisherman and his wife take her in. When violence tears that life apart, she is pulled into a harsh fight for revenge, loyalty, and survival in the ruins.
Outcome
by Edward W Robertson
2013
Ellie Colson is one of the few officials who believes a new virus could end the world. To save her ex-fiance and his daughter from quarantine before it is too late, she has to outrun both the plague and her own agency.
Reapers
by Edward W Robertson
2013
Years after the plague, Ellie Colson and her daughter Dee have carved out a life in the Adirondacks. Then stalking strangers and a disappearance drag them into a tense hunt through the dangerous backcountry of post-collapse New York.
The Cutting Room
by Edward W Robertson
2013
In a future of parallel Earths, elite agent Blake Din tracks criminals who use time travel to raid other worlds. A child's murder pulls him into a conspiracy aimed not at some distant timeline, but his own home.
Captives
by Edward W Robertson
2014
Walt Lawson thought his fighting days were over, until his girlfriend is abducted. To get her back, he has to leave safety behind and push deep into a brutal world where both humans and aliens are still calling the shots.
Cut Off
by Edward W Robertson
2014
Tristan has built a fragile life on Maui with her brother Alden, until she uncovers an alien installation in the mountains. Local conflict, bombing raids, and a widening conspiracy turn their island refuge into another war zone.
Outlaw
by Edward W Robertson
2014
Mazzy Webber is a debt-ridden janitor who grabs the chance to become a space pirate. One bad raid lands him in the middle of a conspiracy that could change humanity's future among the planets.
Rebel
by Edward W Robertson
2014
On a frozen moon of Neptune, miner Rada Pence helps uncover a long-lost alien ship buried under the ice. The find promises riches, but it also draws murder, secrets, and the first sparks of a much bigger war.
Relapse
by Edward W Robertson
2014
Driven from the mainland, Raina wages guerrilla war from Catalina Island while pressure builds inside her own camp. At the same time, Ness and Sebastian uncover a threat that makes even her hard-fought rebellion look small.
The Black Star
by Edward W Robertson
2014
Dante and Blays are split by grief and anger just as a forgotten threat begins to stir in the east. Personal betrayal and looming catastrophe push the trilogy toward a much larger war.
Blackout
by Edward W Robertson
2015
The scattered survivors finally converge for one last strike against the alien invaders. Robertson turns the finale into an all-in ensemble battle, with old grudges, impossible missions, and humanity's future hanging by a thread.
The Red Sea
by Edward W Robertson
2015
Dante learns his missing father is alive on a forbidden island and dying of a strange plague. The rescue turns into a fight against raiders, civil war, and old magic that may be the only cure.
The Silver Thief
by Edward W Robertson
2015
After escaping the plagued islands, Dante heads straight toward a harder job, assassinating the priest Gladdic. The target is clever, powerful, and tied to a much larger plan that could bring kingdoms down.
Traitor
by Edward W Robertson
2015
FinnTech has joined forces with the aliens, and Rada and Webber need help fast. Their search for allies leads them to a pirate station above Uranus, where conspiracy and survival are tangled together.
Ronin
by Edward W Robertson
2016
Rada and the Hive have survived one showdown with FinnTech, but at a brutal cost. As they scramble for allies and leverage, they learn the long-distant alien threat may be about to move again.
The Wound of the World
by Edward W Robertson
2016
Fresh off victory, Dante and Blays discover that Collen's troubles are only beginning. As hunger, politics, and fresh invasion threats close in, Gladdic reaches for darker secrets that could change the balance of power forever.
The Light of Life
by Edward W Robertson
2017
Dante and Blays have beaten one enemy only to unleash something far worse, the ancient White Lich. Their only chance may be a desperate search for the lich's mortal body before he can devour whole nations.
Freefall
by Edward W Robertson
2018
Thor Finn's bid for power has been stopped, but the victory only reveals a worse problem, an alien invasion fleet is already on the way. The Solar System's broken factions must build a defense before time runs out.
Stardust
by Edward W Robertson
2018
The invaders have finally arrived, and the last battle for humanity is about to begin. Pirates, rebels, and exhausted survivors have one chance left to stand together before the war ends for good.
The Spear of Stars
by Edward W Robertson
2018
With the White Lich ready to swallow the world, Dante tries to unite bitter enemies who barely trust one another. Even that may not be enough unless he can recover the legendary weapon named in the title.
The Sealed Citadel
by Edward W Robertson
2019
Young Cally trains in a rare order of sorcerers forbidden to kill, a rule that becomes hard to keep once betrayal and invasion arrive. This prequel follows his early years before he becomes a figure of legend.
What Lies Beyond
by Edward W Robertson
2019
The White Lich is marching north, and Dante's only real hope lies with the lost Spear of Stars. To reassemble it, he and Blays must deal with the gods themselves in a strange realm where they have no allies.
Students of the Order
by Edward W Robertson
2020
Newly promoted wizard Wit expects a dull inspection trip, not a frontier conspiracy with war on the horizon. Paired with a dangerous dwarven prisoner, he has to untangle fraud, politics, and an orc threat that is getting organized.
The Black Book
by Edward W Robertson
2020
Cast out from the Order that raised him, Cally hunts for a legendary text that might restore proper rule to Narashtovik. Instead he lands in the Inquisition's grip and stumbles into another dangerous conspiracy.
The Twelve Plagues
by Edward W Robertson
2021
After the White Lich falls, Dante barely has time to breathe before a godly threat turns the world itself against him. Plague, famine, monsters, and collapsing lands push the series into full-scale apocalypse.
The 13th God
by Edward W Robertson
2022
Rale is being broken by plagues, disasters, and demon armies, and Dante's last plan has failed. His final chance may require destroying another world first, then living with the cost if he succeeds.
The Last Tomb
by Edward W Robertson
2022
Peace in the Collen Basin proves short-lived when young Cally uncovers a new plot against it. With hostages taken and war closing in, he is sent on a strange desert quest that may decide the basin's future.
The Shattered Path
by Edward W Robertson
2024
Destroying the portals trapped Nolost in Rale, but it did not stop him. Dante, Blays, and Gladdic head east in search of a secret order and a new kind of sorcery that might finally kill the entity.
The Third Scour
by Edward W Robertson
2025
Cally's long struggle reaches its climax as war, prophecy, and forbidden magic close in from every side. This finale pushes the young sorcerer toward the hardest choices of his life, and the legacy he will leave behind.
Where should I start?
If you want epic fantasy from the beginning: The White Tree → The Great Rift → The Black Star
If you want the bigger follow-up fantasy arc: The Red Sea → The Silver Thief → The Wound of the World
If you want post-apocalyptic science fiction: Breakers → Melt Down → Knifepoint
If you want space opera and starship action: Outlaw → Traitor → Ronin
Author bio
Edward W. Robertson writes the kinds of stories that move fast and think big. His books jump between epic fantasy, post-apocalyptic science fiction, space opera, and shorter speculative fiction, but they tend to circle the same pleasures: clever plans, dangerous magic or technology, big external stakes, and characters who keep going even when the world has plainly gone off the rails.
Robertson studied fiction at NYU, and before his longer series took off, he published short stories in a couple dozen magazines and anthologies. That early short-form work still shows in his novels. Even when the books get long, scenes are built to land cleanly, chapters end with a turn, and he rarely forgets to keep the plot moving.
He has also lived in a few different places.
Robertson has described himself as a former New Yorker and Idaho guy, and he now lives in the Los Angeles area. That mix feels useful when you read him. Some books have the restless energy of urban survival stories, while others open out into big landscapes, long roads, ruined frontiers, and hard travel.
His first novel, The White Tree, introduced Dante Galand and Blays, the bickering, battle-tested heart of The Cycle of Arawn. That trilogy starts with outlawed dark magic and local conflict, then grows into war, politics, and old powers waking up again. Readers who like fantasy with a lot of momentum tend to stick around for the friendship at the center as much as the magic system.
Then came Breakers, the series that helped make his name. It starts as an end-of-the-world survival story and swerves into alien invasion science fiction without losing sight of the people caught in the middle. Robertson has said that Breakers gave him his career, and it is easy to see why. The books are built for readers who want high stakes, sharp turns, and an ensemble cast spread across a collapsing world.
He did not stay in one lane for long.
With Outlaw and the rest of Rebel Stars, he moved into space opera, writing about pirates, conspiracies, old alien threats, and a human future still boxed inside the Solar System. With The Red Sea and the long run of The Cycle of Galand, he returned to Dante and Blays for an even bigger fantasy arc, one that expands from plague and civil war to liches, gods, portals, and the possible end of the world. If you like fantasy that keeps scaling up without dropping the banter, that is one of his calling cards.
He has also written outside his big flagship worlds. Titans mixes artificial intelligence, corporate power, and an immortal history professor. The Cutting Room plays with parallel Earths and time-travel crime. Novellas like Lightless and shorter collections such as When We Were Mutants & Other Stories show the same interest in strange premises, but in a quicker, leaner form.
Commercially, Robertson has built a real audience as an independent author. He is a USA Today bestseller, he has been nominated for an Audie Award for Best Fantasy Novel, and he has said his books have sold around 1.5 million copies. That kind of reach makes sense for a writer who seems happiest when he is building series readers can really live in for a while.
Across all the subgenres, his work comes back to a few familiar ingredients: deep friendships, battered survivors, dangerous systems of power, and people trying to do one decent thing after several terrible things have already happened. Whether the threat is a plague, an empire, a lich, or an alien fleet, Robertson likes pressure. He also likes watching capable, stubborn people talk their way through it, right before everything gets worse.
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