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Find the Hood series by Lilith Saintcrow in order, with concise season summaries, science-fiction background, and straightforward starting guidance.

Last updated: July 14, 2026

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Hood books in publication order

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Hood: Season One

by Lilith Saintcrow

2021

War veteran Robbhan Locke returns to Sharud and finds his home crushed by distant rule and local scarcity. Drawn into rebellion, he becomes the center of a Robin Hood legend taking shape across a troubled planet.

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Hood: Season Three

by Lilith Saintcrow

2021

Robbhan is imprisoned in the Panoptikon while Sharud suffers under embargo. Marah and the resistance must challenge a collapsing political order, rescue the man behind the legend, and decide what kind of rule should replace it.

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Hood: Season Two

by Lilith Saintcrow

2021

The Hood legend grows as explosions, riots, and hunger shake Sharud. Robbhan struggles with the role forced upon him, while Regent Jun's arrival puts Marah in danger and gives the rebellion a more powerful enemy.

Hood books in chronological order

  1. Book cover for "Hood: Season One"

    Hood: Season One

    by Lilith Saintcrow

    2021Hood, Book 1
  2. Book cover for "Hood: Season Two"

    Hood: Season Two

    by Lilith Saintcrow

    2021Hood, Book 2
  3. Book cover for "Hood: Season Three"

    Hood: Season Three

    by Lilith Saintcrow

    2021Hood, Book 3

Series background & context

Hood is a three-season science-fiction retelling of the Robin Hood legend, moved far beyond Earth and into the aftermath of a galactic war. The action centers on Anglene, especially the city and territory of Sharud, where wealth, authority, and food are controlled by powers that survived the conflict. Veteran Robbhan Locke returns home carrying the damage of war and finds that peace has not made his people free.

A legend grows before the man is ready.

In Hood: Season One, Robbhan is drawn into resistance against the rule imposed on Sharud. The names and patterns of the old legend are present, but the setting changes their meaning. Forest outlawry becomes urban and planetary rebellion. Noble authority is tied to interstellar politics, military force, and the Regent's reach. Robbhan's personal anger slowly becomes public responsibility as others begin to see him as a symbol.

The season structure gives the story an episodic pulse. Raids, escapes, alliances, and political moves build toward a larger struggle rather than resolving in a single adventure. Marah plays a central role in the resistance and in Robbhan's life, while Sharl Notheim and the Regent's machinery represent more than one simple villain. People inside the system have divided loyalties, and rebellion creates costs for civilians as well as fighters.

Hood: Season Two finds Sharud facing explosions, riots, scarcity, and a growing myth around Hood. Robbhan is not always able to carry the role others need him to play. The Regent Jun's arrival increases the pressure and puts Marah in danger, while the rebellion must decide whether its actions are freeing the city or helping tear it apart.

In Hood: Season Three, Robbhan is trapped inside the Panoptikon and Sharud is isolated under embargo. Marah and the remaining resistance have to act while the political order fractures around them. The final movement brings questions of legitimate rule, public hope, and personal rescue together. It matters who sits in power, but it also matters what kind of society the rebels are building.

Read all three seasons in order. The plot is continuous, and the language of television seasons reflects how each installment carries multiple linked episodes. Expect space opera, political rebellion, prison systems, strained romance, and a familiar outlaw story reshaped around veterans and citizens trying to reclaim a damaged home. The familiar legend offers a map, not a script. Characters may echo Robin, Marian, and their enemies, but the pressures of empire, technology, and postwar scarcity force the story toward its own answers.

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