Hunters (Marion Zimmer Bradley) Books in Order

The Hunters books are science-fiction adventures written by Marion Zimmer Bradley with her brother, Paul Edwin Zimmer. They begin with Hunters of the Red Moon and continue in The Survivors, following human characters pushed into unfamiliar worlds where survival depends on learning rules they did not make.

The first book starts with abduction.

In Hunters of the Red Moon, a group of people are taken from Earth and transported to an alien world. Their captors expect them to hunt and fight for someone else's amusement, turning survival into a spectacle. The people caught in that system have to work out whom they can trust while resisting the roles assigned to them.

The Survivors broadens the scope. The remaining humans are sent to another world, one shaped by a complicated history and divided intelligent species. The story becomes less about the immediate hunt and more about understanding an alien culture, exposing hidden assumptions, and deciding what outsiders owe the people whose world they have entered.

These are adventure stories with a social edge.

Start with Hunters of the Red Moon, then continue to The Survivors. This page keeps the short series in order and offers context for readers who want a change from Bradley's fantasy worlds without losing her interest in outsiders, power imbalances, and characters tested by strange environments.