Kameron Hurley Books in Order

Set before God's War, this prequel follows a farmer whose past reaches into Nasheen's institutions and power struggles. It offers a compact, pointed look at the world and political pressures that will later shape Nyx's story.

Former assassin Nyx makes her living as a bounty hunter on a contaminated world locked in holy war. A botched deal involving an alien gene pirate sends her after a head that could change the war's course.

Nyx is hired to stop her former assassin sisters after their coup threatens to ignite civil war. Following them into a wealthy, unprepared country, she must survive politicians, shape-shifters, giant bugs, and old loyalties.

This short companion story opens another window on the war-torn world of God's War. It is a compact visit to Umayma's harsh politics and hard lives, for readers who want more beyond Nyx's main missions.

With a long holy war ending, Nasheen is flooded with angry former soldiers and teeters toward civil war. Nyx returns to the bel dames to find a kidnapped politician before a fragile peace turns into a bloody takeover.

A rare celestial event opens the way for alternate worlds to collide, leaving nations in ruins. Across Raisa, an orphan, a ruler, a fighter, and a general must navigate invasion, betrayal, and magic tied to the skies.

Body mercenary Nev can move into the corpses of the newly dead, until one waterlogged purchase brings unexpected trouble. With his assistant Tera and a tiny elephant involved, survival becomes a question of what still makes someone human.

As the dark star Oma brings destruction and doubles from another world, Dhai comes under siege. An unstable magic user, an embattled ruler, and two enslaved scholars hold pieces of a secret that could break the invading empire.

Hurley gathers essays on feminism, science fiction and fantasy, publishing, online culture, and the realities of building a creative life. Personal stories and pointed arguments sit alongside her Hugo-winning essay on women in conflict.

Zan wakes without memories inside the Legion, a decaying mass of world-ships locked in generations of war. To escape, she must reach the Mokshi and decide whom to trust in a struggle over the fleet's future.

These stories return to Nyx, the hard-living bounty hunter of the Bel Dame Apocrypha. Across contaminated deserts, bug-powered technology, and endless war, she and her crew take jobs that may change their already dangerous future.

This collection brings together stories of body-hopping mercenaries, sentient starships, reality-bending machines, and plague-haunted swamps. The futures are dangerous and strange, but Hurley's characters keep fighting for connection, survival, and a little hope.

Corporate recruit Dietz is turned into light and sent to fight Mars, but her combat drops begin happening out of sequence. As her memories stop matching the official story, she must discover what the war is really for.

Dhai has shattered under invasion from a parallel world, and Kirana of the Tai Mora seeks a way to close the passage between realities. As Oma rises, the connected worlds face a final, devastating choice about which one survives.

Eighteen stories explore the future of war, resistance, biotechnology, and political cruelty. From biological weapons to time-traveling soldiers, the collection follows people trying to act with purpose when their worlds have become brutal and unstable.