The Tisaian Chronicles Books in Order

The Tisaian Chronicles come from the start of Nicholas Sansbury Smith's career, but the bones of his later fiction are already here. The series is set after a nuclear holocaust in a world where survival did not lead to freedom so much as a new kind of control. What rises from the ashes is Tisaia, a society shaped by scarce power, strict order, and the people willing to fight over both.

It is a dystopian future first.

The world seems to split between the official power structure, including the Knights, and the rebels forced to live outside that system. That tension drives both the main novel, The Biomass Revolution, and the short prequels Squad 19 and A Royal Knight. The smaller stories help sketch the edges of the setting, the wastelands, the patrols, the people trying to survive at ground level, and the loyalties that hold when the larger system stops deserving them.

This is not as sprawling as Hell Divers or Extinction Cycle, but it has the same interests.

Power matters. Infrastructure matters. Scarcity changes people. So does authority. The series seems especially interested in what happens when a rebuilt civilization starts deciding who gets protection, who gets resources, and who gets pushed outside the walls. If you want to see the foundation under Smith's bigger series, this is a good place to look.